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Quick! To lance or not to lance, that is the question ...

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 21:37

I have a horrific spot in a fairly delicate place. It has been driving me fucking bonkers today, it was right on a knicker edge, and ow ow ow ow ow.

The spot isn't a white head, it's red, and weird and very very sore. Is lancing it worth doing? I've put isopropol alcohol on it, to try to dry it out ...

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FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 21:51

can you take photos of it as you are squeezing it?

pirategirl · 08/06/2007 21:53

F + Z I was too chicken to ask that.

love a nice ooze, me... yikes, how gross

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 21:54

Tried hot flannel, no luck. Will probably get magnesium sulphate paste - I have had this spot for at least a week, maybe more, it just really started hurting today in the hot weather. I'm hoping it will be better tomorrow.

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Bubble99 · 08/06/2007 21:56

Flannel needs to stay on for a while. And needs to be hot.

Does the spot feel hard?

FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 21:56

I had one a few years ago on my shoulder

it took ruddy ages to come to anything and then in desperation I stuck a pair of scissors in it

my god it was like something from a horror film

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 21:57

The spot isn't really hard. It's got very sharply defined edges, but is a bit saggy in the middle. It's almost more like a raised mole, except it's red and it hurts. It doesn't look like a normal pimple, really.

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 21:58

The flannel was hot, but was quite thin, so cooled down. I reheated and reapplied twice.

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FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 21:59

we need a photo

stick it on your profile I dare you

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:00

Oh yes, now i'll do it. I'll stick up a near-minge shot on my profile. Absolutely. Because you dared me, now I have to do it.

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Bubble99 · 08/06/2007 22:00

How long have you had it, NQC?

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:01

A couple of weeks? I think?

Gah, do I have to go to the doctors about this?

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FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 22:01

[job done]

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:01

I am not having arse cancer, forget it.

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Bubble99 · 08/06/2007 22:02

Might be a sinus, in which case it's tracked inwards.

yes, you need to see a doc.

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:03

A sinus? On my bottom? Confused

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FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 22:03

You could do it in close up

and photoshop the minge part so it was all fuzzy

Bubble99 · 08/06/2007 22:03

Sinus just means 'cavity.'

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:04

Right.

So your DP is the mad one is he, because he wants to talk about trains? Rather than trying to convince people online to share pitures of their minge with you?

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Bubble99 · 08/06/2007 22:04

Quite common in the arse area and no biggy.

sugarfree · 08/06/2007 22:04

FGS don't go poking about with scissors at it.
Franny! Stop putting ideas in a desparate woman's head.

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:05

Ah, that's slightly better, I guess.

A cavity of what?

Ok, if it doesn't sort itself out this weekend I will go see a doctor. It's been there a few weeks.

What will they do?

It is very odd, with the bad skin thing, and then a lump underneath. It arrived, and has just stayed the same, though.

This is a GP thing, right, not an A+E thing, though?

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FrannyandZooey · 08/06/2007 22:05

NQC there are THOUSANDS of people online right now trying to convince other people to share pictures of their minges

it is practically what the internet was invented for

and I believe in safety in numbers

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:05

I am not stabbing myself in the minge with scissors! No fear!

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sugarfree · 08/06/2007 22:06

No biggie Bubble?!I've had to use yards of packing on them in the past.
(not my arse-in a professional capacity you understand)

NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2007 22:06

Wait, you're trying to convince thousands of people with arse sinuses to share pictures of their minge? Is this like that real-bodies website, only gross?

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