surgery went well, I am home now with surprisingly minimal pain
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:09 (nine months ago) link
hoping for a speedy and full recovery, sleeve.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:13 (nine months ago) link
glad to hear it went well!
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:18 (nine months ago) link
Excellent news, sleeve!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:16 (nine months ago) link
kick ass! (not literally)
― StanM, Saturday, 12 August 2023 13:22 (nine months ago) link
it did actually feel like somebody had kicked me in the ass! like, that kind of pain, not sharp.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 12 August 2023 15:27 (nine months ago) link
jeez you guys!
great to hear it went smoothly sleeve.
joan crawf please give us an update on your ass when you get a chance.
kate i do want to know about "boofing" please spill.
"so anyway i started getting fucked up the ass and i'm more or less better now" new board description obv
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:53 (nine months ago) link
so yeah, thanks Tracer -- and congrats sleeve! update is, there was so much wrong w/my keister, I did a 4 hour train ride on the heels of a plane ride, and the seat on the train sucked I could tell the second I sat down it was gonna be trouble but I didn't know it was the level-up seat, and I guess alll this was the perfect storm to aggravate already-present internal problems and complicate them with giant weeping welts on my inner cheeks, for lack of a less poetic way of putting it. my condition got super bad on day 2 of a 6 day out-of-town-on-biz jaunt, and as soon as it got bad...I had to fly coast to coast early a.m. that really kicked everything into overdrive, resulting in a west coast hotel room pain peak, really incredible. I'm fortunate in that I can get a doctor to come to me if need be so I did, and got stuff that helped a little, but he's a GP and could really only help in the very emergent sense. once home, I got straight to urgent care & got antibiotics & lotions & powders & a consult number for probable surgery. doctors don't really grasp that when I say "I have to schedule all this around work because work doesn't wait and there are people depending on me," I really mean it, but I'm home long enough now that if I can get a consult booked tomorrow & then under the scalpel quick enough I might be able to pull it off and hit the road month after next in better shape. probably still using the donut pillow wherever I go either way but yeesh. feeling about 80% now with the help of the antibiotics, I'm no longer crying out in pain from the bathroom and my cowboy walk is barely noticeable.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:55 (nine months ago) link
omg my dude
I am basically fine now, stiff and sore back there but have accomplished the post-op pee and poo milestones, also only took two oxycodones on the day of surgery and then tylenol/ibuprofen which I consider a victory
so sorry to hear of yr experience, and yes when I flew east in June I immediately put my neck pillow under my butt, it saved my ass (literally)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 13 August 2023 22:28 (nine months ago) link
jeez JCLC, get better soon please!
sleeve, glad you’re doing well. did you actually get a diagnosis? pilonidal cyst?
― k3vin k., Monday, 14 August 2023 00:16 (nine months ago) link
it was an anal fistula, ty for asking!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 14 August 2023 00:23 (nine months ago) link
I am on lifting-weight limits for 2 weeks and then a followup
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 14 August 2023 00:24 (nine months ago) link
Raise Your Skinny Fistulae Like Antennas to Heaven
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 14 August 2023 00:37 (nine months ago) link
JCLC hoping you start to get some relief soon. nothing's worse than feeling pain during the one activity (sitting) that nobody can avoid.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 August 2023 04:45 (nine months ago) link
just to update y'all, because the situation was both an infection & my usually "it's fucked up back there" problems, I'm feeling MUCH better -- the general inflammation that had basically expanded to the buttocks & perineum is being treated by antibiotics & responding well, and I'm trying to book surgery for the rest, although my schedule doesn't really allow me to accept extended periods of bedrest so we'll see.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 16:38 (nine months ago) link
support on this thread meant a fuckin lot over the past few days, btw, thanks v much to y'all!
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 16:39 (nine months ago) link
fuck that sounds to have been miserable and good to hear its easing
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 16:39 (nine months ago) link
glad things have improved. is there a diagnosis for this madness yet?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
fissure & 'roids that I've had forever, aggravated by extended sedentary time on trains & planes, added cellulitis, that was what really mangled the whole area
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
ow ow ow
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
much empathy, JCLC. sounds punishing
to the thread topic, I swear I’d mentioned this here before, but nearly 15 years ago (!!) I had a peri-anal abscess. I notice a weird swelling that isn’t painful, go to the walk-in clinic the next day, they give me antibiotics and set up a consult for Monday
I go into the surgeon’s office. I presume he’s a lower digestive doc, but I think of him as the ass doctor. He is very curt but professional, says we need to drain it, and explains it’s probably a clogged anal gland (am I a dog? I have these things?! wtf!) and before I have time to really consider what’s going on, I’m sideways on one of those reclining medical chairs, he’s injected a numbing agent into my rear area (stabbing my area!!) and then moments later is using a scalpel. It feels like a mild tugging but he’s also pushing, and unexpectedly it’s some terrible viral content (man has how much fluid in this swollen area? let’s find out!).
it’s a bad scene. I’m mildly traumatized, and he gives me a 50/50 it heals up on its own, but I later realize this is optimistic. I go about my life, it heals over, doesn’t heal over, etc.no blood, but it’s a “channel” and is just kind of… moist? on the surface. I only realize it’s not healed while on vacation. There’s also other life drama going on, which is tangential, but I am finally coming to terms with the fact I need to call the office while I’m on vacation
so long story short I had surgery and they made me… a bigger asshole!
sorry. it was close enough to the orifice they just lay it open and let it heal that way. everything goes fine, I make one call to the office while healing to make sure I didn’t tear out stitches (there were none) and apparently I had some minor other business in the area (healed fissure, maybe hemorrhoids) that he just cleaned up because sure, why not
I feel for people with crohns because this is ongoing nonsense to deal with. I was lucky, everything is normal, and I am only a huge asshole in the social way and not physically
― mh, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 00:51 (nine months ago) link
"Wonder what a chair thinks about all day . . . well, here comes another asshole."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:16 (nine months ago) link
(sleeve) is a 57-year-old white male who is done well from hisposterior anal fistulotomy and hemorrhoidectomy. The seropurulentdrainage that plagued him prior to the surgery and perianal pain hasresolved completely. Physical examination today reveals completehealing of his posterior fistulotomy wound. At this point time I will seethe patient back on a as needed basis.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 22 October 2023 03:45 (six months ago) link
that's what she said
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 October 2023 03:46 (six months ago) link
congrats sleeve!
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:20 (six months ago) link
lol mookie,
Congrats on as needed bum!
― Peach’s burner account (H.P), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:22 (six months ago) link
My bum is also on an “as needed” basis currently fwiw
― Peach’s burner account (H.P), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:23 (six months ago) link
congrats on the good news, sleeve.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:29 (six months ago) link
Great news!
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 October 2023 01:52 (six months ago) link
this seems to be returning, doubt I can get a doc appt before January but I need to get another checkup
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:15 (five months ago) link
Oh no :(
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:36 (five months ago) link
I need to be taking more sitz baths, that's the thing that really seems to help, but they are somewhat time-consuming (20+ minutes)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 02:21 (five months ago) link
Sorry to hear this, sleeve. Hope you can get checked out soon.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 11:15 (five months ago) link
sleeve this sucks, hope it can be healed properly ASAP xx
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 13:07 (five months ago) link
Those medicos have to get to the bottom of this.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:15 (five months ago) link
Ugh, ENBB made that joke eons ago.
lol it's OK, plenty more where that came from!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:49 (five months ago) link
Sitz baths can be really annoying (esp if you have back problems too like me) but they're really important if you're experiencing inflammation. A shower can also work in a pinch if your shower allows for the right angle, though sitz baths are better IME. Hope you're able to get an appointment soon!
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:17 (five months ago) link
getting an adjustable standing desk has helped a lot for me, for both my fistula and my back
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:18 (five months ago) link
yeah I think I need to do something about my work/chair/desk situation, I love my current desk but a different chair might help
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:23 (five months ago) link
Standing desks are great.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
This morning I got to observe a fistula repair, a hemorrhoidectomy, and the beginning of a bowel resection done by a robot. It was AWESOME.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 11:56 (four months ago) link
Those poor patients though. The surgeon told me in the US the hemorrhoidectomy guy would have been sent home with Vicodin whereas here they only give Tylenol. The thing that gets me with surgery is how brutal and rough it is at times. Also - the patient screamed under anaesthesia. Well, yelped. Didn't expect that.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 12:00 (four months ago) link
wow!!
I am still trying to heal mine up completely and taking lots of sitz baths, but it's probably time to get the doc to take another look
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 14:37 (four months ago) link
Yeah one of the surgeons was saying that the healing time is pretty long for a lot of these surgeries. Things I was surprised to find out - butt surgery is done in stirrups! It makes sense but I didn't know that. Also didn't know they make butt speculums but lo and behold.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:32 (four months ago) link
lol, that is all excellent info, thx
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:37 (four months ago) link
I've been waiting for an update on this.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 00:32 (four months ago) link