This is in reply to lucaskeith’s story. Your story interests me because my “young” adult son is entering the military and he has what appears to be a pilonidal abcess. Hardly ever flares up, doesn’t limit his activities, just a pain in the butt every know and then. He made it through his first physical and cleared the bend-over part. He asked the doc why they do this portion of the exam and was told looking for pilondial cysts, doc told him not to worry , your all set. It wasn’t inflammed or leaking (hasn’t in awhile)