Just wondering if anyone else has had any experience with recurrent sebaceous cyst on their labia and if anyone has had any luck at finally getting them to go away for good?
Today, I've just had my third one of these evil bastards lanced. That's three in three years I've had to have cut into and drained - one for every year the last three years. The previous two I had grew quite slowly but this one came on quickly, in a matter of weeks although I guess if it was small enough I wouldn't have noticed it until it started getting painful and uncomfortable in the last few weeks.
It's right inside my 'lip' if you get my meaning so apparently that means it's definitely not a bartholin's cyst as it's in the completely wrong place to be a bartholin's and I actually do believe them now when they say that (at first I wasn't so sure). Although they seem to be treating them the same way as a bartholin's as I have a Word cathered in-situ right now (which is awkward as hell and I think it's going to fall out).
I asked today if they were sure there wasn't anything sinister causing these cysts to recur and got a flat 'no definitely not anything sinister' so that's not really a concern (and I definitely don't want to think about it as with the last cyst I had I went through an awful phase where I was convinced I had vulval cancer which even just the thought of truly terrified me). What does concern me however is that apparently if it recurs again, for a fourth time, I will need to be put to sleep so they can make a bigger incision and do what basically sounds very similar, if not the same, to a marsupilisation of a bartholin's cyst (stitching a little pouch so it can continually drain - or something like that). However, that will leave a much bigger scar right inside my labia which horrifies me. My confidence is already rock bottom - DH used to like going down on me but since I had the first cyst I won't let him do that anymore because the scar from the previous two incisions is noticeable and I can't stand the thought of his tongue feeling how scarred it is down there. If that's how I feel about the admittedly small but still noticeable scar I already have, I can't imagine how bad I'll feel about a bigger long scar down there.
I know in the grand scheme of things it could really be a lot worse, it's not like a life-threatening condition, but at the same time it is really starting to destroy my confidence and my happiness having these cysts continually recur and then having to go through the pain of having them lanced. It's like a waiting game - they get lanced and then you wait with baited breath for the swelling to recur which inevitably it always does, then comes the pain and the discomfort from the swelling and then you have a whole new waiting game knowing you have the excruciating pain of having to submit myself to essentially have my vagina cut into.
If anyone else has had this problem and could maybe give me any advice or if they had any luck in finally getting rid of them (or maybe even just some perspective) I'd love to hear it so I don't feel quite so down.