Sorry, this is going to be slightly revolting.
I've had a fairly mahoosive abscess under my arm - around 5 cm at its worst. Unfortunately I was away and couldn't get to a doctor for about a week. Eventually I went to a walk-in clinic at the weekend and they referred me to A&E to go under the knife, but after a lot of umming and ahing they decided to give antibiotics a go. And in fact it has improved, mostly because it eventually opened of its own accord and started draining, encouraged by me because I'd rather it was done in, as it were, controlled conditions rather than seeping all day - it's not a place where I can really stick a plaster on it effectively. Also it's fun. It's a seven day course of antiobiotics so I'm still taking them.
So that's improved it a lot, mainly because it isn't the big, hard painful lump that it was. But what I'm wondering about is that, after two days, the discharge doesn't seem to be getting any less - if anything it seems to be increasing. Some bits of it now feel soft but there are still some quite hard sections. Is it likely that it's going on just because there was a hell of a lot in there, or am I likely to be producing more? And should I go to the GP to get it cleared out properly? Is it something a nurse could deal with?