Reply posted for B and C.
Don't be scared of the stons
I am a 35 year old Crohn's Patient. I have had since I was 15 and got my first anal fistula about 4 years later. My first surgery was just a lance and antibiotics, I missed a few months of school and the last half of football season.
then it got better, never really closed up but was not a bother, then about 5 years later after a few flares in between it swelled up pretty bad and I had a surgery to clean it out and some setons put in. You forget the Setons are even there and they allow it to drain if it needs to so it won;t swell up and be extremely painful again.
since then the setons have fallen out on their own and we never put them back in, I have had a few other swelling flares since but its back to normal again.
I seem to always be on antibiotics both for the fistula and for the Crohn's in general.
Good Luck!
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