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Huge Abscess

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Foxxo · 25/06/2024 09:13

Unfortunately I can't share photos due to its location.. it was literally as high up my inner thigh as it could get without being directly in the crease.. and encroaching on intimate places..

But yes.. over last week i had what i thought was a normal bit of acne pop up down there.. i get them occasionally, the rarely head up, just be lumpy and annoying for a few days, then just go away.

Only this one didnt, it kept getting bigger, until on thursday it was hurting to sit on. Still no head.

Friday morning i visited the dr, and boy, by this point did it HURT, i yelped when she poked it.. she declared it an abscess and sent me home with antibiotics.

By Friday evening i couldn't find a comfy way to sit, it was huge, painfully swollen and hurt like all hell, so i went to bed early.

While getting changed i had a good look at it (with help of phone torch, and my mirror) and it had a massive head on it.. so, me being me (yes i did sanitise my hands first) i prodded it, and it promptly popped in a cascade of liquid crap,

The PAIN.. and the relief, omg. this thing drained so quickly. Didn't smell thankfully, but there was a LOT.

I'm first aid trained so i dealt with it properly, i did call 101 just to check with a dr if there was anything else i could do, and with my bestie who is a paramedic, and both advised to get as much out as i could, then apply a bandage overnight, and to get some proper dressings in the morning, rather than what i could raid from my first aid kit.

Been using inadine dressings on it since, which have worked wonderfully, it finally quit draining last night.

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QuintessentialQuokka · 25/06/2024 16:52

I feel like I need a cigarette after reading that. Thankyou, OP.

OrlandointheWilderness · 25/06/2024 17:02

Ohhh that was good. Ta OP!

gwanmen · 25/06/2024 18:57

QuintessentialQuokka · 25/06/2024 16:52

I feel like I need a cigarette after reading that. Thankyou, OP.

😂

Foxxo · 26/06/2024 09:46

haha, thanks.

i was so annoyed, i'm a sporn fan, and the one time i get one worthy of recording, and its somewhere i can't put the camera, lol.

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Dustyblue · 29/06/2024 10:00

Ahhh, thanks so much for sharing. God we're a pack of weirdos.

I've had a few of these over the years and people always say "Bartholin's Cyst" but they never have been.

Had one soon after giving birth and freaked, it was that massive and painful, worse than the haemorrhoids I had as well. Made a GP appointment and that morning, as soon as I sat on the toilet it exploded. Was something else.

Hope it's healing nicely

Foxxo · 29/06/2024 20:40

it has, nearly all gone now, just the last bit of healing under the skin to go!

Def not a BC, had them before and they can go to hell xD But this was worse than those tbh!

This was definitely inner thigh!

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Nitgel · 29/06/2024 20:48

I had an abcess that had to be surgically drained then packed daily for 6 weeks.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 29/06/2024 20:52

We could've coped with a pic, crease is fine,fanjo is not 🤣

Excellent description,thank you!

Pasithean · 19/07/2024 22:16

I had an abscess and they put maggots in it. 😝

Sandwichgen · 21/07/2024 11:28

Tell us more, Pasithean. There can’t be too much of the ‘more’ btw

Pasithean · 27/07/2024 13:24

Sandwichgen · 21/07/2024 11:28

Tell us more, Pasithean. There can’t be too much of the ‘more’ btw

Ha ha ye that’s it. When all the gunk was gone . There was a lot of dead tissue . So the nurse ordered maggots there was two of them in a tiny sealed box thing , she took them out and cleaned my wound and packed them in. They were given names. Madge and Bot . They made an amazing job of clearing the dead skin.

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