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This may be a stupid question, but is it possible that it could be an ingrown hair? My daughter and sister has had pretty big and painful bumps (in that area) that turned out to be ingrown hairs.

Maybe put a call in to the office or email the nurse just to run the question by the dr? Bty, my daughter had many problems, a few years ago, in between Christmas and New Years and even though her dr. wasn't there they did have an attending. (same practice your dr is in)

Sitz baths & hot compresses....for now...if it is an abscess or cyst it should help...until you see your doctor.
I have had them on the labia as well as in that zone...Both times they were small sebatious cysts.
They can be painful but they are not dangerous.
Sharon

liz. might be best to go see a doctor sooner than later. Better to be safe than sorry. Your surgeries were not that long ago. So just in the extremely slim chance that it is an abscess, it surely would be best to get it drained verse it finding its own pathway and possibly creating a fistula. (I do know someone this happened to.) In addition getting this off your brain for the holidays would be good.

Thanks all. I have an appt with the on call GI for Monday and sent an email to my regular GI, though she's not great about emailing, hopefully she responds...

I'm a little worried the GI will shrug and say it's not his area of expertise or something, can an abscess be diagnosed without imaging? Could it be an abscess if there's no pain?

Sigh...

yea I would say its a surgeon thing. Or at worst case a gyne thing. definitely not a gi thing.
good luck

That's how my fistula began and my surgeons dumb nurse told me to go see to urgent care and she said they don't cover that and turned our being a fistula. Better safe than sorry.

were your ears burning danielle???

Went a lot better than I expected! The on call GI examined me and said he thought it was probably folliculitis but he wasn't confident enough to send me away so his office called the surgeons' office and got them to squeeze me in with the CR surgeon on call immediately.

The surgeon was a total butt about having to see me (the first thing he said when he walked in was "Your GI made it sound like this was some kind of EMERGENCY" and then he made a snide remark about how I should have gone to my own surgeon (who is on vacation this week)) but he agreed that it was folliculitis and everything else seemed fine. Apparently I do have a small anal fissure (I had felt burning last week and thought it was from eating something spicy or maybe mild cuffitis) but he said to leave it alone.

In any case I feel better now