hi there.
This is my 1st post, so id like to introduce myself!
I'm Louise, I'm 31 and I've got an anal fistular! Ok there's a lot more to me than that, but at the moment, I feel like that's all I have going on.
My journey started June 2013 with an abscess that is less than inch from my rectum that went septic. I had it drained. (Op 1)
I then started getting a bit of pain from that area, and was leaking fluid, so in January went back to my GP who referred me to a colo-rectal doc. I had private healthcare by this stage, so used it. I had an MRI scan that showed that I had a high fistular (over the top of my left sphincter muscle), so was warned it was going to be a long road to recovery I had an op to insert a seton so we're now on op 2). A few weeks later I was in lots of pain, so had another op to see what was going on (op 3). It was a pocket of infection, so had that drained.
We then spoke about how we'd sort it, so booked in for surgery for end of September (op 4). I had a plug put in, which my surgeon told me was the best option, but even that only had 40% chance of working. 3 days later, I was immense pain so got rushed into A&E, and as it turns out, the plug hadn't worked, I had a huge infection and they had to remove the plug (op 5) and put another seton back in.
So this was last Monday! I'm now recovering and thinking 'what the hell else can I put my poor bum through?'
What's next??
Any words of encouragement that one day I may have a normal life, that my bum will feel normal again, that I'll eventually stop leaking pus out of my bum, and just go back to normality???