Hi everyone, new here, just wondering about some things. I had rectal bleeding for a year or two which stopped and started and came and went on its own, no other symptoms other than a vague tightness/fullness from the lower anus in the area of the bleeding. It went away for a long time, but then reappeared last fall. Saw a colorectal surgeon, who determined through a colonoscopy that I had a tiny benign inflammatory polyp. He removed this but saw drainage underneath, which made him think there might have been an abscess. I waited 4 weeks after my colonoscopy and saw him again, and he said there was still purulent drainage there, and said I needed an Exam Under Anasthesia to determine what was going on. I had that soon after, and he told me he went in, looked for a fistula, (there was none, thank god!) and said he simply removed the small problem area and put one stitch in. I went home the same day. No post-op problems at all, did sitz baths for 4 weeks. Saw him again, said it seemed to be healing fine, wanted to start me on metamucil. I asked him what the small thing he removed was, and he said the biopsy was benign, and that it was like a small zit one would get on their face with puss in it, only in the anus. He said he really hadn't ever seen anything like it before, but didn't think it was a big deal. I asked him about recurrence, and he said one never knows, but didn't seem to think it likely. He never really called it an abscess, and since I never had major pain or drainage with it, and no need for a seton, and since there was no fistula, I guess it was just a random thing?
So here's my main question. Has anyone heard of anything like a small pus-filled zit in the lower anus. I was really relieved that he didn't think it was an abscess, and that there was no fistula. Also, he said it would take 3 months to heal totally. I'm guessing he used one of those absorbable stitches? Because he never said I'd have to come back unless I had other symptoms again. He said he thought what I had had taken a long time to develop, and if I take care of myself and don't have anal sex anymore, I will be a lot safer.
I used to lift two 10-pound weights every day twice a day before my surgery. But I stopped so I could recover and heal up. So now that it has almost been three months, should I be totally healed up now? Can I start lifting weights again? Or should I wait longer to be safe? I really want to get back into exercising and lifting weights again but I want to be sure I'm healed first. What would be a safe time to wait before I do it again? Thanks for any and all helpful comments!