A warning about Pyoderma
This is largely a warning about pyoderma gangrenosum, but also a bit of a horror story. This is in the UK under the NHS.
I’ve been a complicated crohn’s case most of my life, eventually losing my colon entirely. I’ve been on assorted immunosuppressive therapies, mostly humira. Thankfully since the loss of my colon I’ve had no further gastro symptoms.
In that operation, my ileostomy was moved to the opposite side (wasn’t expecting that!). Around this new wound I developed a nasty skin…
