http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling after a Pilonidal Sinus? en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:37:38 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-156791 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:24:43 +0000 Mandopicker101 156791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hat...gargantuan bagel...biscuit... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-156788 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:47:36 +0000 SRD 156788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let me guess - a hat? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-156786 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:11:04 +0000 Mandopicker101 156786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD - the pillow is now performing other valuable work in our household, possibly beyond the imagination of its original designer. This evening it became the ideal distraction tool for a tired and mildly grumpy 6 year old near bedtime. Priceless... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-156781 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:49:10 +0000 SRD 156781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's good news! Hope it continues. (Sorry if you don't need the pillow now...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-156778 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:03:45 +0000 Mandopicker101 156778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So, today was The Day. Having handed myself into hospital at tea time, the consultant decided this evening I could be released back into the community as the sinus is currently pretty tiny and has been consistently diminishing in size for a few months. As the consultant put it, sometimes these things burn themselves out. Hopefully I really am that lucky.</p> <p>No surgery means no enforced time off the bike. I may even get to see something of the Festival of Cycling. Still the hospital seemed very nice, very <em>clean</em> and very quiet. I can understand the attraction of going private... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152525 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:21:55 +0000 Mandopicker101 152525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks Gembo - that's encouraging. </p> <p>I could probably stand five weeks off. I had a disc problem over the winter of 2012/2013 which I found very hard to cope with as the osteopath figured riding a bike with drops and skinny tyres on the mean streets of Edinburgh was bad news. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152449 Thu, 08 May 2014 06:52:53 +0000 gembo 152449@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am just back after five week lay off. As consultant predicted, lungs will be fine, heart will be fine but legs will be suffering.</p> <p>Did ease myself in with little journeys and some downhills with train back but WoL path both ways yesterday. Very slowly on way home.</p> <p>Hope it all goes well. Make sure you are better. Can't see much difference between four weeks off and five weeks off if the extra week makes the difference. I found bus hard but altered my timings, either earlier or later and it was better. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152440 Wed, 07 May 2014 22:26:44 +0000 SRD 152440@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got a used donut pillow for sale. DM me if you want. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152437 Wed, 07 May 2014 22:06:42 +0000 Mandopicker101 152437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks everyone for your thoughtful posts (and a rubber ring is now on my shopping list...) </p> <p>I'd suspected it was going to be a long haul, although the surgeon isn't proposing 'open healing' and he did seem to think it was all very straightforward. </p> <p>To take my mind off the imminent op, I'm riding the Bethany Edinburgh Sportive five days before I check into hospital. As this is my first sportive, it may be a foretaste of what 'suffering' is all about...lol. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152432 Wed, 07 May 2014 21:37:35 +0000 threefromleith 152432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had an op for that very thing in the late 80s. It took quite a while to heal up and left me with very little padding in the coccxyx area for a few years. I didn't cycle back then, but sitting down was very delicate for quite a while afterwards. The wound I had was quite long and had been very deep, which may have made things drag on longer in my case.</p> <p>You'll probably have to wait and see how the wound heals and wait 'til it gets to the point that you're not ripping it open again by cycling too soon.</p> <p>I'm sure you'll have seen and heard some of the worst cases, but to reassure you - my sister and brother both had the same thing* and none of the three of us have had any further bother.</p> <p>* this was so unusual as it's not hereditary or catching, and we all had it within a year of each other. We were contacted by medical researchers years later as it was so rare that they wanted to use us as a case study! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152429 Wed, 07 May 2014 21:32:03 +0000 Arellcat 152429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I wondered if anyone had experience with this and how did you get on with cycling post-op? The thought of 6 weeks or more without cycling (mid-summer) is rather frustrating.</em></p> <p>A good acquaintance of mine has had a series of operations on such a condition. The advice was that after 6-8 weeks you're probably ok to ride a recumbent bike, but not necessarily an upright.</p> <p>But if you think 6 weeks off the bike is bad, how about 22 weeks? I think that after the first four weeks or so I stopped caring. After about 16 weeks I bought a new bike. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152425 Wed, 07 May 2014 21:19:01 +0000 Dave 152425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A prone bike perhaps, Obree style? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152403 Wed, 07 May 2014 19:14:49 +0000 Instography 152403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ask the doctor but I knew someone who had that done and she sat on a rubber ring for quite a while. I have bad memories of that and it wasn't even me who had it done. Sorry, but I'd say cycling is probably out mainly because of the jarring your backside gets from bumps in the road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152396 Wed, 07 May 2014 18:22:56 +0000 wingpig 152396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you can keep the sweat out of it...<br /> My dad had one of them so I'll ask how capacitated he was after it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12768#post-152393 Wed, 07 May 2014 18:07:25 +0000 Mandopicker101 152393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello all</p> <p>Next month I'm having a pilonidal sinus (basically an abscess caused by in-growing hair) removed from my lower back (right on my coccyx). Antibiotics failed to do anything to it, other than make me feel ill. Surgery is the last resort apparently.</p> <p>Advice from the surgeon about recovery wasn't exactly specific other than 'You'll be off work for a few weeks', which is probably understating things given his description of the procedure. I have a stock of DVDs to watch while I heal and reading around suggests recovery times vary (which you'd expect). </p> <p>While I've read enough horror stories to keep me awake at night in a cold sweat, I wondered if anyone had experience with this and how did you get on with cycling post-op? The thought of 6 weeks or more without cycling (mid-summer) is rather frustrating... </p>