Let me start this message by saying I feel very good! Now, with that out of the way. Last week or so I developed some very good perianal pain, enough so that sitting or laying down was very uncomfortable. The pain was just along side the butt hole, to the left.

This pain seemed very much like the tailbone pain I had (the reason I am seeing Dr. Shen for sinusotomies)but just a different location. My surgeon diagnosed this as an abscess. The pain was high enough to warrant pain pills for me.

Off to the hospital last Friday for abscess drainage and very happy he also did a pouchoscopy while I was under. I woke up with a "twin" hole in my bottom where the abscess was drained. However, this was merely sore and no need to take pain meds -- quite a relief. However, the surgeon explained about possible fistula, etc. He indicated that my pouch looked "good."

I have a follow-up with him tomorrow morning and another pouchoscopy/sinus work visit with Dr. Shen at the end of this month. The pouch is feeling pretty good three days after surgery and I hope it continues!

I am curious, could the abscess simply be remnants of a prior leak that Dr. Shen had repaired? Do I understand that the abcess is not really a part of the pouch?