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oh my...I've had my "cyst" drained for the third time in the span of about two months. I'm scheduled to speak with a surgeon this wednesday. After reading this site, however, now I'm terrified out of my mind to do anything to it! I hear the procedure itself isn't painful but the recovery of constant packing is a pain in the BUTT...excuse the pun. So the question I guess I have is, is it really THAT TERRIBLE? How long is a usual recovery time? And does that mean I will not be functionable for weeks? (limited walking, driving, running around...etc?)
In Reply to: pilonidal cyst posted by FREAKED OUT! on May 05, 2003 at 19:26:48:
Recovery isn't that bad. If you follow your surgeon's directions exactly! Check out www.pilonidal.org
it is a site for only pilonidal cysts and there is a lot of information there for this disease. And, this will not go away on it's own. It can become dormant and not act up forever but it will continue to tunnel.
In Reply to: pilonidal cyst posted by FREAKED OUT! on May 05, 2003 at 19:26:48:
I had the full surgery nearly 20 years ago and they used the granulate healing method where you keep it packed with moist, clean gauze for several weeks. I seem to recall the initial recovery period was about 4 weeks. For the first two weeks I had my parents (I had just graduated College and had to delay my first job start) take care of me. It was four baths per day with new packing each time. Then I hired a home health nurse for two more weeks. She came twice a day (morning and night) to change the dressing. That got me lots of funny comments from my room mates. I remember going for my checkup after a month and being told that it was healing well and all I needed was to use a tucks pad in place of saline soaked gauze. AND I could do it myself. It was such a relief.
I have been extremely fortunate to have no flair ups since. I am always very careful to bathe every day. If I ever get tingling, soreness, or sensations, I use a tucks pad twice a day to clean the area.
Good luck to you. I never knew anything about pilonidal disease until I found this website a year ago. I know there are plenty of sufferers and Dr. Stoll says it's about 50/50 whether or not the surgery will permanently cure the problem. I might have hesitated on the surgery, but by the time they found it, I had a very bad infection.
-Steve
In Reply to: Re: pilonidal cyst posted by steve on May 07, 2003 at 00:06:41:
Thanks, Steve.
It is always good to hear from one of the successful 50%.
May it continue to be so.
Walt
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