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Doctor reckons I have the beginnings of one of these

http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2003/...dal-Sinus.html

Has anyone here had one and had it removed, and have you seen many Salu? My dad had one, my brother had one a year ago and now it looks as though I've got one and both had to go under the knife to have it removed and was in pain for ages after :(

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My nephew had one and was wrongly diagnosed for ages so suffered in agony the whole time. He is well now though.

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Good luck, Zeph - that looks......... "uncomfortable".

Best wishes.

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I just had to look whilst eating my lunch....

Looks like a right pain the a...








/gets coat...
:tiptoe:



BTW - Good luck - hope it works out ok...

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Oh yes, many....:)

Have you had any antibiotics yet? That's the first line of treatment. Flucloxacilllin usually. However as most men tend leave it until they can ignore it no longer then antibiotic treatment may not be enough. Although a full excision is the last line of treatment though so surgery may not be a done deed yet. It can initially be curetted and injected with phenol.

Reoccurance is said to be as high as 50% so if anyone is starting to develop one of these then the importatnt thing is to seek treatment early.....!

By the way you can always PM me rather than announce to the world about your bottom.... ;)

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Spoilsport :D

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There again something like this as you say is best caught early so the more chaps who know the better.

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Perhaps I should start a "Bottom Health" thread....

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Ouch!
I even get to see these........'cos it's a pain in the back area, innit? :dunce: :D

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I _really_ didn't need to see those pictures....

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Why on earth not? The guys in the office thought that they were cracking...

:disturbd: :sick:

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We should talk openly about embarrassing conditions - women do it all the time so why not us blokes?

....And besides - you lot are the other side of a net connection so you can see red feces...sorry - faces.

Perhaps we should start a new thread worm....sorry thread about embarrassing medical conditions -only they have to be real and have happened to you?!

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Why do you have to be such an ar*e all the time??? :D :p:

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Dunno - I think it's an abcession :shrug:

:disturbd:

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Abcession....that takes on a hole new meaning now. All these puns Nugget, they are terrible, especially as ar*e are better than yours....I should have known you'd rear your ugly head in the face of a wise crack....Butt, Turday of all days...

:)

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colon all punsters - brown alert!!!!

Could be a scene from Gladiator - Russell Crowe as Gluteus Maximus, saying "Unleash Hell!!!".

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I was lucky with mine, It vented cleanly and healed itself without further problems.
Antibiotics for a week after all the students had a look and daily visits from a very nice nurse to change dressings.
I have had no further problems though.

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By all means let's air all the unusual,painful and embarrasing ailments of CF persons.Why be ashamed of that which you are not responsible but are a chance of nature.


Just wish it hadn't been after I'd just had my evening meal though.;)

The thing that occurs to me Salu is how in hell can anyone ignore such a condition?Surely it must be so painful even the most hardened machismo has to do something about it much earlier?

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Salu to the rescue,

you're a STAR :erm::D

ik

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Thanks Salu, its not serious enough to do anything to at the moment apparently but if it gets any worse i'm to go back apparently. :shrug:

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That's good. :)

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I read "naval cleft" and was thinking "belly button" and was confused - until I reached the pictures and all was clear. Looks very nasty. A sort of hairy boil type thing. And yes - us men need to talk more about our health.

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Good luck Zeph.

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Natal cleft actually just to put my pedantic head on.....:)

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Ah. Well it was a good job I misread it then - would have been thinking Zeph was expecting :D

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So what exactly are the symptoms? That link isn't clear, apart from the disgusting pics.

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Its basically a boil at the top of your bum crack, simple as that :)

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Bit over-complex though eh? If it produces those mingin pics you're best having it treated soon as though, IMO :)

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And the award for sensitive post of the year goes to... NFFC

:D

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Seeing the mention of hair and it being a male thing (mostly): Is having a hairy bum a risk factor for this?

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LoL haha, seems to run in the family, as both my Dad and brother have had it, and my Cousin had something very similar

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Yeah, but so do hairy bums ;)

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Well, given the location, it's more likely to be a hairy coccyx. Strange that it should run in the family :erm:

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:LOL: :rolleyes: I'll stop arsin around now.

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Paah, quitting when things get hairy eh? :)

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Thanks for the support guys :p:

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Just helping things along, as it were :)

Seriously: Good on you for posting about it. It's good to be aware, particularly for us males who have difficulty distinguishing between a broken leg and a sprained ankle :tu:

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Simple diagnostic tool - if a jagged piece of bone is sticking through the skin of your leg, it's not a sprained ankle.;)

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Yes. Hairy men with dark hair are more at risk. The other risk groups are farmers.....

Before anyone drops the obvious pun.....they are more at risk from getting a pilonidal sinus on their hands in the webspace between their fingers.....Nothing to do with positioning of sheep.....:rolleyes:

Hair dressers get them there too.

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Well, surely if they got it on their bum, they'd got the positioning seriously wrong anyway :disturbd:

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Well, Nug, not everyone is active in these matters :D

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Unless you've been getting it wrong all these years?.............:)

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Incog gets out the deckchair and the popcorn...

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How have you got on with this?

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Thanks for Enquiring Salu, I missed this. Well it got angry a few days ago and it finally burst today (grr), I was going to goto my GP tomorrow but it kept on venting all of the fluid. I was at work on my own so I phoned my boss and he took over remotely and I drove down to the hospital and went into A&E.

The Nurse who saw me first said she thought I'd be admitted as its quite hard and apparently Anti-Biotics doesn't normally effect it as much, there was only one doctor seeing patients in the A&E so they decided to take blood so that they would have it ready just in case, apparently I have no veins, it was about the 6th attempt before she managed to draw blood so I felt a bit like a pin cushion!

Anyway, eventually got to see a doctor who had a look at it, said it had done all of its draining and said he thought it would be best to put me on Anti-Biotics but went to seek a second opinion, another doctor came along who came to the same conclusion.

Apparently if the Anti-Biotics doesn't take effect within the dosage time (5 days, 1 capsule 4 times per day) then I might have to get it lanced. Whatever happens I'm going to eventually need it permanently excised. But I've taken my first tablet, keep your fingers crossed for me :)

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Good luck, Zeph (fingers crossed for you)

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That sounds like good advice. Keep us posted.

Are you dark haired by any chance?

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Fairly, yes

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Interesting. It seems more prevalent in dark haired people..

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When I was younger I was blonder than blonde itself but as I've gotten old my hair has darkened considerably to a sort of mousey brown.

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Bottoms (perhaps an apt phrase) - I was feeling quite secure when Salu mentioned dark hair, until your answer, which matches my hair progress exactly :(

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Ah, you'll probably get a different kind of bottom problem at your age....

:)

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Doesnt tend to affect over 40s very much so I'd say you were in the clear :)

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Laryngitis, I'd have thought, 'cos he talks out of it enough ;) :D

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Best get your gloves on, then. :Yikes:

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Unlike your muffled voice, with your head up your (Midsummer Night's Dream character) :D

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Who? Oberon? :confused:

:disturbd:

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Titania, if you're lucky :D

Unless you'd rather have a Puck? (no fairy jokes)

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[fearful sound of latex slapping against palm]

Lie on your left side please facing the wall......:upyours: (closest I could find....)

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:rofl: :D

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Why do they get you to face the wall (or, for that matter, what if the wall's on the other side of the room) :confused:

Surely, if that was about to happen, you'd want to see if coming...










































...if you'll pardon the expression :disturbd:

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So they don't get to see the expression on my face....

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I'll think you'll find that's a different sort of prostate stimulation :dozey:

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I could comment on the subject of prostate stimulation but I'd be banned :D But thinking about it, doctors do always ask you to lay on your left-hand side :erm:

I have an "I" shaped hair that grows out my chin, every so oft. It's a whisker, for sure. It can't be shaved - shaver doesn't touch it. I have to pluck it - doesn't hurt. It just sort of comes out like a splinter. Tis freaky. Hair huh :)

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... anyways.

The doctor in the end has (now it's gone down with the antibiotics) decided that it's not a Pillonidal Sinus (it's actually off to the right), it's still a Cyst, but the chance of recurrence is much less. So he gave it a Squeeze and jabbed it with a needle to see if he could get any more of the gunk out, (he got some) and so it's looking more positive, when it's gone down totally, he's gonna have another look and see if he thinks it'll need surgery.

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Congrats, Zeph.

That'll be a weight off your mind ;) - good luck on the "next look".