Great big effing boil on my neck! Help!

[BagofHolly]

I've NEVER had a boil, ever, and now, 4 days after I go from long hair to a short bob, I've got something that looks like another nipple. It HURTS! I've put metanium on it and it's coming up to a point but there's no head on it. I don't feel too well either but that might be unrelated.

What should I do?! Help!

My DP had a boil on his leg last year and had to have it incised, he was left with a hole in his leg that was packed daily with a special packing material that was made from seaweed but looked like fibre glass. I watched it being cut open in A&E, and should have videoed it vaguely helped the Dr by passing instruments and then felt a bit queasy. He's got a round scar on his leg now that needed a lot of bio oil on it the reduce the scarring.

No wine? NO WINE????? AAARRRGGHHHH!!!!

I thought it was only metronidazole which had an emetic interaction with alcohol? I took my last dose at 4, had a tiny wine at 8 and next dose is due at midnight, so perfectly timed I thought!

But agreed, I don't want to gain a neck orifice.

ObviouslyOblivious, boils are the new Boden. Fact.

Neck orifice. Ha! I bet there are specialist websites for that sort of thing.

Or have I gone too far?

Nope actually lots of antibiotics do. But some are worse than others. Yes Metronidazole is a vomfest but most serious antibiotics either make you hurl or shit yourself if combined with alcohol because they massively increase your liver enzymes.

Drinking in the bathroom! I'm a maladaptive genius!

boils are the new Boden.* Fact.

Oh. My. God. Holly.

I think we need a boil emoticon.

I'm really surprised the GP didn't get the practice nurse to dress that for you.

Keeping it covered with an appropriate dressing will reduce the likelihood of further infection, and could be beneficial in terms of promoting healing as the antibiotics work.

Go easy on the vino

They don't like to cover it Sidge. Political correctness demands that new life forms grown on people have the right to wear whatever they damn well please so long as they don't ooze on the surgery floor. due to the risk of a reaction to the dressing.

This is like the kittens thread, but with boils :o

Hope you're feeling better soon :)

How many heads did the kittens have? Did they get squeezed a lot?

The HCA said that there wasn't really anything to dress. I'd planned to slap more magnesium paste on tonight, under a plaster. Should I leave it? I'd left it to air dry cos that's what they said to do with my cs stitches.

Kittens with boils? That's just too sad!

This looks a little like a boil in reverse , should be red on the outside and yellow in the middle though.

Don't dress it - you need to keep an eye on it, it needs access to the air (FGS let your head creature breathe ). Plaster not good idea. Rip the plaster off when it's adhered to the nose centre of your head creature and you will have a big hole. Which might sound good but you'll probably create an extra three heads.

See this is what your pic 6 will be if you put a plaster on

wmmc we cover cavities like that - they tend to drip otherwise

BagofHolly it's hard to tell from the picture but it looks like you have a small cavity, surrounded by lots of erythema and cellulitis. Certain dressings could help to keep the cavity fairly moist and clean whilst it heals, as if it dries out too much you could be left with a dry scabby deep dimple that hasn't healed well. Sort of like a dessicated volcano...

PMSL! Whats the one eyed thing from Lord of the rings called? Syron or something. Thats whats emerging from your neck!

wmmc, where will the badness go if it doesn't leak/burst? The black bit in the middle is back and getting bigger, surrounded by a yellow ring. Bleugh.

Where does it go? Where do you think it goes? The body is brilliant at getting rid of stuff it doesn't need. Actually when it dries out there is not a lot left. The bacteria dies and drops off. (So all over your house is the answer really isn't it? ) And the crusty top will clearly drop off and your new skin will grow there (hopefully) and the dead white cells will come out in your poo.

GlaikitFizzog that's it - she's got SYRON on her neck

Apparently it's Sauron.

No really all the yellow stuff, the pixies take it away in a little cart and load it into the faces of teenagers over night. So when you get better and you go out and see a spotty oik at the checkout, remember, you are contributing towards saving the planet: reuse and recycle.

OMG - that's even more disgusting than the verucca gnome.