Post by pilonidalstories.com on Sept 4, 2017 7:27:47 GMT
I'm a 17 year old Australian girl who has had this pilonidal sinus since I was in year 9 (15 years old), and believe me it has not been fun. When I first realised I had it, I didn't even know what it was. I was getting really pusy around the top of my buttocks and I was pulling out clumps of dried pus and hair so I got really embarrassed and actually waited maybe about a month or abit longer before i told my mum, who is a nurse by the way. So
I eventually bucked up the courage to tell her and she took me to my local GP almost straight away after looking at it herself. At first we tried salt baths and all that, but then it got to a certain point where we just knew this wasn't going to work out and I got my first surgery. Thankfully my doctor/surgeon was a woman, but I have been through the embarrassment of young cute male doctors having to look at it, now i really just don't care who looks at it because I've had so many people poking around my butt. Anyway, because of my age and where the wound is, I haven't been able to tell most people where my surgery is being done, to most people I just say its my lower back, although I'm not exactly lieing, the only people who know what it really is and where it really is are my family, my boyfriend, and my best friend. Everyone has been really supportive. I've just recently had my 4th surgery. We've tried closing it, and we've tried leaving it open to pack and heal but nothing has worked so far. I'm hoping that this surgery will be my last but considering my last ones, I can't get my hopes up. My mum is trying to do the best she can at making me feel comfortable about all this but is also preparing me for what could be the worse. That this may not be the last. I was do glad to come on the website and read other women's dealings with this, knowing I'm not the only one. It's been really rough dealing with this as a teenage girl, it's prevented me from doing things at times, because I have to keep off my butt during the healing process, but then I just remember, as bad as this is, there could be worse things that I have that other kids are dealing with at the moment, and that I'm kind of thankful for. Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
I eventually bucked up the courage to tell her and she took me to my local GP almost straight away after looking at it herself. At first we tried salt baths and all that, but then it got to a certain point where we just knew this wasn't going to work out and I got my first surgery. Thankfully my doctor/surgeon was a woman, but I have been through the embarrassment of young cute male doctors having to look at it, now i really just don't care who looks at it because I've had so many people poking around my butt. Anyway, because of my age and where the wound is, I haven't been able to tell most people where my surgery is being done, to most people I just say its my lower back, although I'm not exactly lieing, the only people who know what it really is and where it really is are my family, my boyfriend, and my best friend. Everyone has been really supportive. I've just recently had my 4th surgery. We've tried closing it, and we've tried leaving it open to pack and heal but nothing has worked so far. I'm hoping that this surgery will be my last but considering my last ones, I can't get my hopes up. My mum is trying to do the best she can at making me feel comfortable about all this but is also preparing me for what could be the worse. That this may not be the last. I was do glad to come on the website and read other women's dealings with this, knowing I'm not the only one. It's been really rough dealing with this as a teenage girl, it's prevented me from doing things at times, because I have to keep off my butt during the healing process, but then I just remember, as bad as this is, there could be worse things that I have that other kids are dealing with at the moment, and that I'm kind of thankful for. Thank you for taking the time to read my story.