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What is this on my hip?

34 replies

Tootiredforallthat · 23/08/2024 18:07

It’s been there a few weeks, I sort of forget about it until I touch it, bit sore to touch but not otherwise, not really itchy unless I start messing with it. Isn’t a bite 🤷🏻‍♀️
Sorry for the stretch marks!

What is this on my hip?
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BatFaceGrrrll · 23/08/2024 23:29

@angeldelite I d probably stop passing off your opinion as an absolute fact tbh ...

rosesyrup · 24/08/2024 00:11

Abscess or boil. See your GP for treatment advice. I had one in that area a few years ago. Needed dressing for months afterwards.

sarahzbaker · 24/08/2024 00:18

Boil Very old thing. Old country way was a bread poultice. Weird I know but proper bread might do it. Quite hot to draw it out
You can generally treat small boils at home by applying warm compresses to relieve pain and promote natural drainage. For larger boils and carbuncles, treatment may include: Incision and drainage. Your doctor may drain a large boil or carbuncle by making an incision in it.

DidsburyHighMum · 24/08/2024 00:19

Ingrown hair in a stretch mark?

I get them exactly the same.

CatMum10 · 24/08/2024 01:04

DidsburyHighMum · 24/08/2024 00:19

Ingrown hair in a stretch mark?

I get them exactly the same.

I was going to say exactly this.

The tiny white hairs you get all over... on my hips where my clothes rub they get trapped like an ingrown hair but because the deeper skin is torn apart (essentially what a stretch mark is), the spot always ends up looking like this. They go away eventually from wearing looser clothing. FWIW I don't think it's a boil or anything else suggested. Mine look exactly like this when it happens.

HelenaWaiting · 24/08/2024 04:34

angeldelite · 23/08/2024 23:24

I spelt it wrong, it’s a giant comedone, that’s what the doctors called it.

Comedones are blind spots i.e. without a head. They are not, by any stretch of the imagination, blackheads.

angeldelite · 24/08/2024 08:36

HelenaWaiting · 24/08/2024 04:34

Comedones are blind spots i.e. without a head. They are not, by any stretch of the imagination, blackheads.

Take it up with the NHS, and GPs - ‘A giant comedone is an exceptionally large blackhead.’ https://www.pcds.org.uk/clinical-guidance/giant-comedone

Bloody hell, some of you could argue in an empty room.

rosesyrup · 25/08/2024 12:25

HelenaWaiting · 24/08/2024 04:34

Comedones are blind spots i.e. without a head. They are not, by any stretch of the imagination, blackheads.

A comedo (plural comedones) is a plugged follicular orifice.

  • Open comedones (blackheads) are grey, orange, brown or black papules. The keratinous contents can be expressed or extracted.
  • Closed comedones (whiteheads) are uninflamed skin-coloured papules. They must be punctured to remove their contents.
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