Antibiotics

Well Sammy the sinus must have got wind of his forthcoming attempted exorcism because of late it’s been much more painful and generally nasty looking. On wednesday I went to see my consultant to see what he thought. He was pleased that I’d come and agreed that it looked like there was an infection and said he could now feel the swelling that I’ve been complaining about ever since the last nasty infection I had in January. So he’s put me on a week’s course of Metronidazole which for those who don’t know is one of the antibiotics that you REALLY cannot drink alcohol with. Personally this doesn’t bother me much as I don’t drink that much anyway, but doctors always seem so apologetic when they tell you you can’t, it makes me think normally people make a fuss about it, and we as a nation must have more of a fondness for alcohol than I would imagine.

So the past few days and esspecially yesterday night I felt really ill, my temperature was up, so was my pulse, headache, nausea. I’m fed up with feeling like this. I feel slightly better today. I’m just hoping that it clears up before a week monday when my op is scheduled for because if not there’s a good chance my op will get postponed. Fingers crossed.

Pilonidal Sinus and mouth ulcers

As I think I’ve mentioned elsewhere on the site, I suffer with mouth ulcers that seem almost always to coincide with Pilonidal infections. I’ve always had a pre-disposition to getting mouth ulcers from childhood. If I accidentally bite my mouth or eat something particularly acidic, I’ll often get ulcers. However since having my PNS they’ve been pretty bad and I’ll sometimes get three or four at once, nasty ones that don’t heal for quite a while. This suggests to me that perhaps I get them because my immune system is attacking my mouth at the same time as fighting the Pilonidal infection. In some ways it’s like an early warning system for me. If I get more than one mouth ulcer at a time for no apprentent reason I know it’s likely that my sinus is about get problematic.

I Just wondered if anyone else had experienced this? I doesn’t seem to be a common problem. In fact so far I’ve never heard of anyone who’s had the same problem and I think perhaps it’s just me.

The road ahead

Well this is my first post on this blog about my experience to date with Pilonidal Disease. If you don’t know what a Pilonidal Sinus is and aren’t sure how you’ve got here, I’d leave now if I were you because I can’t pretend it’s very interesting stuff. However if you know why you’re here but don’t know what a Pilonidal Sinus is then can I point you to this page of the site.

I have lived with Pilonidal disease on and off for roughly eight years now. Should you wish to, you can read a bit about me and my intentions with this blogsite. I will soon be having my fourth surgery for my PNS, you can read about my Pilonidal history in my story, and accounts of my previous surgeries are also on the site. This blog part of the site is essentially to track my progress from now on, and to try to spread and perhaps exchange some knowledge about this really annoying condition.

There is plenty of information on the web about Pilonidal disease but not so much is UK specific, and one of the things I’d like to do is connect with other people in the UK who’ve had or are currently suffering with Pilonidal disease. After 3 years of surgeries I’m getting pretty fed up, I needed a project and to write about my experience, hopefully it may help someone, even if it doesn’t I’ll have felt better about venting some of my frustration.

Solidarity goes out to everyone else suffering with a Pilonidal and I’d also like to take the opportunity here to say thank you to those people who have helped me over the last three years, ferried me around, been with me in hospital, helped me with dressings and generally looked after me. You know who you are, thank you, without you I don’t know where I’d be. Not forgetting also all the people who have put up with me; not being around at work; not being able to go places and generally being a drag to everyone.