I thought I would share this with you since you are some of the few people in my world that could understand--for me it explains why there was so much inflammation in the area for the past few days. I am sorer than usual now, but better than yesterday.
My butt pain had gotten significantly worse over the past few days to the point where i thought I might have another abscess. so yesterday after the TCM appt. I took a look at my rear. At first I couldn't see anything, but I pressed around a little and felt something pricky. I thought I had given myself another roid and that it had thrombosed majorly. Then I pulled back the skin as far as it would go and saw the tip of a twiggy thing sticking out of the area. I removed it and felt somewhat better, though I am still sore now. Apparently, I have a bit of a keyhole deformity in the posterior position because of the surgery. since the drs opoend down to the mucle, there is no fatty layer btw the skin and the muscle at that point. so that is the first place to open and apparently, the first place where something could get stuck.
2 yrs ago, before this all happened, I would never have even imagined that such things were possible.