About 3 months ago I had an abcsess lanced and left open to drain. It was right inside the sphincter. My surgeon made a cut from inside my rectal cuff all the way to the outside which is pretty much creating a man made fissure for the abcsess to drain. Well 3 months later I am still getting blood and pain from this area and it doesn't seem to be healing up. I am thinking that bowel movements keep this man made fissure from closing. The pain also causes spasms and throbbing in the muscles down there and creates a vicious cycle I think because the spasms just keep the incision open. Is it normal for something like this to take so long to heal? It almost makes me feel like I have UC again in the rectal cuff because it get so sore from the spasms and the wound. It's mentally and physically draining me! I take sitz baths which help temporarily but I can only do those early morning and night since I work in the oilfield. Is there anything else I could do to help calm things down or is this something that I should be concerned about? I am also finding it hard to hold in my bowel movement for very long as it is so painful and feels urgent.
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