There are plenty of good websites giving information about Pilonidal disease, what it is, the options for treatment and advice on surgical aftercare or living with it. Particularly the excellent www.pilonidal.org Therefore I don’t intend to replicate them. This blogsite is primarily a record of my experience and opinion. To connect with other sufferers and provide knowledge through my own experience of the condition.
A quick explanation. I use the word ‘blogsite’ in the Stephen Fry tradition of combining words to more accurately explain shifting technologies where existing words don’t seem to quite embody the meaning effectively. This website/blog contains content and structure which is reflective of, in the traditional sense both a blog and a website. Though the word ‘blog’ is a diminutive of ‘weblog’, which itself derives from the amalgamation of website and log, weblog and blog have come to mean what is a simple chronology based website with short entries, usually with no distinct pages and structure in the hierarchical sense. This site does have that element though it also contains persistent pages with large chunks of copy and sub-pages in the traditional website way of things, so therefore I am going to use the word blogsite to describe it. Thank you for indulging me.
I live in the UK and all my treatment has taken place here. Different countries have differing medical systems where I’m sure surgeons and medical professionals have slightly different ways of dealing with this condition. If you live outside the UK your experience may well be different to mine. As such, the information here is aimed fairly and squarely at suffers in the UK, though that is not to say that people outside the UK may find it useful.
Finally I’d like to point out that information here is my opinion only. It does not constitute medical advice. I am not in any way medically trained, my knowledge of Pilonidal disease comes purely from my experience of being a Pilonidal suffer and my collected knowledge from reading and speaking to doctors, surgeons and nurses in the course of my treatment over the time I have dealt with the condition.
The internet is a wonderful thing and there is a lot of good information in the public domain. That said, please seek a medical opinion if you’re concerned about your own situation. Here’s why
