This hurt
Pilonidal Sinus

Felt like a small swelling, put it down to rough roads banging away at my coccyx, I took a few ibuprofen and hoped it would stop.

Excruciating pain when it reached its peak after a few days- I was on all fours, squealing like a stabbed cat. Showed the missus, asked her to stick a pin in it, she said it looked like a gigantic blister the size of a plum, with weird stuff inside rising and falling, like it was 'boiling' inside. She wouldn't stick a pin in it. She certainly wasn't going to stick a pin in it and video it for me.

Went to A&E in the end, told to come back the following day for an 'emergency' operation- some emergency! Burst whilst waiting on the ward for the operation. Smelled really bad....

3 weeks off work, 800mg ibuprofen and 30mg cocodomol 3-4 times a day. Made me fall asleep in minutes - best painkillers ever those cocodomol, 5mg or 8mg is the best you can buy over the counter, so a hit of 4-6 times the usual dose was quite literally a knockout amount.

Had to have the wound cleansed and dressed daily for 3 weeks. Not all nurses are gentle when cleansing out a wound about 2" deep. Felt really strange, like the swab was deep inside my back, nauseous the first few times till I got used to it.

All 'cos I'm a bit hairy and I work in an office where the ladies feel cold if it's less than 28C.

If it happens again, they'll excavate about 4" x 4" of flesh down to the bone (ie near the spine) and it will be 6-12 months at home lay on my front, with nurse visiting twice a day to clean and dress it. Not a nice prospect, apart from the nurses...

Men: wax your arse crack!

(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 22:28, 3 replies)

Bloody nasty things them...
I spent the best part of three years in an out of hospital with one. Seven operations, four different dressing methods and just about every nurse in the South Wales area poking and prodding my bum at some point.
(Dai Napoleon, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 23:29, closed)

Heh, yeah I had that
Was rushed to hospital there and then; work managed to get someone in to cover for me but they were useless so I went back in to get the work done, kneeling on a sofa cushion in front of my desk because I couldn't sit down. The director of the company* came over and told me not to kneel on the sofa cushion because I might leave a mark.

*naming no names, but his son is a very famous racing driver
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 9:09, closed)

Thanks for the memories!
Had the same thing... 3 times!

First time it was quite deep, and seeped some horrible smelling fluid for a couple of years, before it became quite painful and had to deal with it. (Was back working within a couple of weeks)

Second time, the damn thing returned and spent ages off work - the nurses really looked after me though, and thought that it had been dealt with....

That is until one unsuspecting night, I work up with a terrible pain. The damn thing had swelled up overnight and I could hardly move with the pain. Fortunately took the day off work as I recognised the symptoms, and as my behind throbbed and throbbed, it burst by it's own accord. The smell was something that turns my stomach just thinking about it. (Imagine the festering rotting contents of a zit the size of two pence piece).

I'm pretty certain that it's come back, but since it doesn't hurt, I'm going to leave it well alone - can't really afford another two months off work.
(libraryboy Cheer up, you could be french!, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 10:02, closed)