Here for a second opinion. I have severe pain next to the anus. I visited a doctor who advised scanning. The scanning report said i have about 3ml of abscess. A lot of ppl advised that i need surgery to drain the abscess. So i was mentally prepared for a surgery. So I visited an experienced surgical gastroenterologist who physically examined the site and confirmed that it is simple perianal abscess with low abscess formation and not a fistula. Hence he does not recommend surgery and would start the treatment with antibiotics for 5 days. If the abscess does not respond to antibiotics, then he would surgically drain it, which is a simple procedure. My question is, does antibiotics heal perianal abscess if it is in the early stage?