I writing to you from my hospital bed in the ER. So the last six months I have been suffering dealing with an abcess that created 3 fistulas. I've had a bunch of different procedures to have them each drained and closed up and am on the last one now that has been taking an awful long time. I was waiting to see my surgeon to set up the last procedure to close everything up. Well the last couple days I have been getting right lower flank pain around my kidney and then goes down towards my groin area. I ended up taking an ambulance to the hospital because the pain just continued to get worse. I was thinking something was wrong with my kidneys. The ran a bunch of test and a CT Scan. Come to find out I now have an abcess inside pressing on my small instenstin and urethra making it difficult for urine and stool to pass through. The fun never ends I tell you. Sometimes I think I wasn't meant to get better. Have any of you had a similar experience? Is the other abcess I've been battling related to or the cause of this? Thanks for reading.
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I am so sorry Mark,
No, no experience with that but I know what it feels like to have non-stop complications that seem to never end...until they finally do. One day.
I am somewhat out of the frying pan...the fire remains but it is slow burning so I can manage it.
I hope that you finally find and end to all of these complications and can get back to a "normal" life whatever that is for you.
Good luck and get well soon...
Sharon
Mark, I'm so sorry you are going through all this pain and complications. Sounds similiar to what my son Jeffrey is going through. Have them check you for kidney stones. My husband just had one surgically removed. They don't show up on CT scans as far as I know, and IBD patients are much more prone to them. And they hurt like hell. I've heard women say, giving birth was less painful. Just a thought.
please feel better soon.
dianne