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for your delectation - DH's infected sebaceous cyst

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Alabasterangel6 · 31/05/2018 10:21

I know how you like this, so I'll try to be as descriptive as possible for you.

He has consented to one photo, and it's not very spectacular, but I shall post it after this from my phone.

DH has a sebaceous cyst, centre back, been there for years. he had it cut out about 5 years ago but GP clearly didn't get the sac and it started to refill. It got back to the size it always was (walnut?) and was pretty static, not giving him any trouble or getting bigger.

A week ago he said 'something's changing' and asked me to have a look. So I said 'well, if you insist' Wink - it was suddenly getting a lot bigger and redder and looked ready to explode. He went to the nurse who scheduled a GP incision appt but they did say it could be 6 weeks. She was determined it was not infected so no antibiotics. She did have a 'gentle prod' he said.

Monday we'd been in the car all day, hot, with his back against the seat. He felt something was wrong; 'wet' and again asked me to check. His tshirt was covered in muck and this thing was obviously draining, so he stood in better light by the back door - luckily I was standing slightly to one side, wiped it over (with no pressure at all) with a sterile swab and it literally exploded - what hit the back door (audibly!) was a trail of revolting contents. The walnut lump now seems to have gone from hard contents to liquid contents - like it's liquefied. I cleaned and covered but it was self draining, like a constant stream of the stuff. Soaked through dressings.

He's been to the GP who has put him on a long course of antibioics and told him to get me to clean and re-dress it twice a day. I can't understand how so much gunk can be inside the thing - so much has come out - everytime I replace the dressing I use about 6 swabs. It literally runs down his back. loads comes out, it looks loads flatter, then the next time I change it it's back up raised again and more comes out. I am a sporner, and it makes even me a bit bleugh.

Wondering when the antibiotics will kick in.

Photo to follow.

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KalindaBlack · 01/06/2018 18:32

OP I applaud you, and your DH, thankyou for the pictures and description.

Alienspaceship · 01/06/2018 18:40

Thank you op wonderful.
Am I the only one hoping for some pictures of what comes out? Grin

AnnaMagnani · 01/06/2018 18:55

DH had one like this.

We went straight to plastics privately. Had it all removed - cost about £400 totally worth it.

Apparently they aren't usually infected but sort of collapse in on themselves and get infalmed or something can't honestly remember the details

Anyway, it was really painful for him and he couldn't have waited until the thing burst and the nice surgeon let me let him Also the stupid things can recur if you don't remove the whole remnants of the wall even if they have burst.

SauvignonBlanche · 01/06/2018 19:00

Nice one! Grin

AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered · 01/06/2018 19:05

OP that description was WONDERFUL! Grin

I only wish you'd managed to film it.

Alabasterangel6 · 01/06/2018 19:58

Due to clean it soon. I’ll do my best. Yes it does feel like the content have collapsed in - and yes I am gently encouraging the crap out but believe me it’s like what comes out doesn’t match the size of the lump and 12 hour later it’s full all over again... wish my bank account worked like that!

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Alabasterangel6 · 01/06/2018 21:26

Argh it got me again!! Gentle pressure and the sodding thing exploded over my pristine white shirt. I can confirm the contents were green Envy

Here is your photo, you grim lot!!

for your delectation - DH's infected sebaceous cyst
for your delectation - DH's infected sebaceous cyst
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Branleuse · 01/06/2018 22:11

oh my!

annandale · 01/06/2018 22:17

[awed silence]

Thank you, alabaster's Dhabi, for your manly generosity.

It's so odd that apparently lots of men will send women pictures of their penis at the drop of a trouser, but I have never heard of any who will think to send a close up of a really infected cyst.

MadCap · 01/06/2018 22:27

My dh had one years ago the was huge. It was before I knew I wasn't alone in my sporniness. It got infected. He was booked to have it removed, but it burst in PRIMARK! When we got home I squeezed and squeezed and got tons pf stinky cottage cheese out.

The gp praised me for how thoroughly I emptied it. DH ended up having a vasectomy and the sac removed in the same week.

I bought him 2 xbox games.

mummmy2017 · 01/06/2018 22:34

Had one on my head.. thought I had got cake mix in my hair... sac came out was like a hollow grape skin.

Littlebird88 · 01/06/2018 22:35

Oooh thank you. My OH has had one of these for 10 or so years. Go get it in same place. . He won't let me do a thing.
Hopi g it pops and I get to squeeze

praisedbebitch · 02/06/2018 09:03

This truly is a thread that keeps on giving.

@MadCap Grin You’ve made my morning, what a story. Congrats on your superb extraction skills!

MildredSparkles · 02/06/2018 20:51

Op, I would use proper pressure to empty it, if it has a hole try and use a syringe to really irrigate with a solution of 50/50 saline and betadine and see if you can get an inadine dressing from the chemist. Put inadine, gauze and a sticky dressing over the top. If you can’t get inadine, gauze soaked in betadine (iodine solution) or aqueous clorhexidine will do.

Alabasterangel6 · 02/06/2018 22:23

mildred the hole is literally a pore - 1mm? I’ve pushed it tonight and what I can feel is where the lump was is now more like a volcano - a circle of firmer something and a jelly liquid centre. It’s pushing out a mix of almost solid white and liquid green.
Even with squeezing the solids then seem to block the little pore hole....so I squeeze more and invariably wear it. Within an hour it’s filled again. Cleaned it up at 7, left it dry. Within an hour his tee was showing gunk and the lump was back up. We’ve been using dressings that the nurse have but his back is getting irritates by those too.

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Alabasterangel6 · 02/06/2018 22:24

These are the dressings we were given?

for your delectation - DH's infected sebaceous cyst
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scotchpie · 02/06/2018 22:29

How exciting, obviously not for your amazing DH

AuntyElle · 02/06/2018 22:32

It's so odd that apparently lots of men will send women pictures of their penis at the drop of a trouser, but I have never heard of any who will think to send a close up of a really infected cyst.

Some of the truest and most profound words ever written on MN.

AuntyElle · 02/06/2018 22:33

sac came out was like a hollow grape skin.

Oh goood lord!! That is a sext...

3luckystars · 02/06/2018 22:35

Thanks!!!

I think it deserves a name.

AlistairSim · 02/06/2018 22:38

I'm trying to be sympathetic to your poor Dh's obvious discomfort but really I'm jealous as hell.

CanIBuffalo · 02/06/2018 22:39

Looks like a Robert to me.

NevermindMyMind · 02/06/2018 22:48

Jeff, definitely a Jeff!

MrsMoastyToasty · 02/06/2018 22:50

I think that it should be called Kilauea after the volcano currently erupting in Hawaii.

madamginger · 03/06/2018 00:13

Mepore lite dressings are better, they are designed for damaged skin and the glue isn’t as sticky.
Softpore are good too and cheap to buy.