It started with an ingrown hair on the point of my pubic bone about 10 years ago. After 18 months of savage itching and frequent pus explosions, it dried up of its own accord.
7 years later, guess who’s back? In exactly the same place, but a slow burner this time. No amount of digging around with tweezers and needles yielded the offending ingrower so I wonder whether it might be a phantom ingrown hair in memory of the original. It’s less itchy, and suppurates with less ferocity than last time, and is very occasionally and briefly painful.
Over the last 3 years I’ve seen a gp who prescribed antibiotics that didn’t work, but wasn’t very worried about it (though she agreed it had been in my life long enough that it was reasonable to want it gone). I’ve also had two BIG courses of antibiotics following a caesarean, and subsequent complications from infected c section scar 4 months later. The monster retreated in the face of such a sustained antibiotic assault. 6 weeks after my last antibiotic, the fucker is back.
What’s going on?
Am I going to die if I just ignore it and accept that occasionally I will have to crumble dried crumbs of pus out of my pubes?
Will it go away on its own or will it accompany me, gently supurating, to my grave?
It doesn’t particularly bother me. Pain, inconvenience and embarrassment is a 1/10. I’d rather it wasn’t there but as long as it doesn’t grow I think the two of us can coexist amicably enough.
What would you do?
Sorry, no photos. It is hidden under a thicket of pubes. I have never seen it, due to this and its location.