AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH CROHN'S BACK IN 1990, I WAS DOING FINE WHEN THEY DID THE SURGERY UNTIL 1998 WHEN I HAD A FISTULA AND MY MOTHER TOOK ME TO THE VA HOSPITAL. THEY KEPT ME ON I.V. AND THE DOCTOR DID ANESTHESIA ON MY STOMACH, SWABBED THE INSIDE AND STUFFED IT WITH DISSOLVABLE GAUZE. ONCE AGAIN I WAS FINE UNTIL RECENTLY WHEN I GOT A INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FISTULA. THIS TIME THEY KEPT ME FOR A WEEK FEEDING ME ANTIBIOTICS BY I.V. AND THEN RELEASED ME TO GO HOME WITH A OPEN WOUND IN MY STOMACH AND TO TAKE ANTIBIOTICS BY MOUTH WHILE CHANGING GAUZE ON MY STOMACH FOR THE DRAINAGE DAILY. THIS THEY CLAIM IS TO SEE IF IT WILL HEAL ON IT'S OWN OVER THE NEXT 2 MONTHS AND THEN THEY'LL DECIDE WHETHER TO TREAT IT WITH REMICADE OR DO SURGERY. THAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING I EVER HEARD OF CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT I'M AT HOME DOING NORMAL EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES, BUT I HAVE A OPEN WOUND IN MY STOMACH JUST BEING PROTECTED BY GAUZE AND ANTIBIOTICS FOR 2 MONTHS. 
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I had a abcess on my butt and that was left open after being operated on for about 4mths and now 4yrs later its still discharges and as now become a fistula it often swells right up and then its back on antibiotics but my surgeon said hes gonna put a drain on it for a month see if that clears it up.Hope you get your wound sorted i know how awful it is it being open just take care and be well. Love Chris xxx