Abcess - Warning and a bit if info needed!

PhillyDee

PhillyDee

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Not looking for advice AT ALL. I already have medical advice.

Firstly a warning, have you suffered from an abcess on any part of your body caused by an ingrowing hair or infection? If so, did you leave it be or seek medical attention?

Personally, I have suffered from small ones for years. Ones which when they got the size of a pea, went red raw, or just generally became painful I would go to the doctors for a course of antibiotics to clear them up.

I thought this one was the same! Late on thursday, my buttock crease was feeling a bit sore, felt like a little abcess was forming. Didn't think much of it. By saturday it was starting to be painful. Went to a walk-in centre on sunday and they prescribed anti-biotics. It was becoming v difficult to walk or drive. Sitting was painful as well! Drugs hadn't done a thing by tuesday, and was in incredible pain after waking up. Went to hospital Tuesday as advised by doctor.
Needless to say, I just got out! Was knocked out, and had it drained. I am currently quite happy on some nice painkillers!

This is the painful bit: I thought that the abcess was bad (Which ended up 1/2-3/4 the size of a ping pong ball in 3 days), this is nothing compared to having the first dressing changed today. They had packed it with Aquacel. This is the single most painful thing I have EVER had happen to me. Both removal and reinsertion. I really was stifling the screams! I had to keep telling the nurse to stop. Worse again, this might need doing for a few days! Nurse is coming round tomorrow to do it again.

Has anyone had these, that required packing, and how long did it actually go on packing it for?

I am serious when I say - at the first signs of an abcess, get to the docs. I certainly will be from now on!

And no, no pics. I think I will ask the nurse tomorrow to take a pic though!
 
I had one on the inside of my leg, and thought nothing of it - they come and go.

A few weeks later it became really painful and enlarged to the point I could not walk. Fortunately for me the antibiotics worked pretty fast, but I've been sent off to have a blood test, as they claim these things can be a sign of Diabetes. :(
 
PhillyDee said:
:D. The ones at hospital most certainly were :p
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Damn, I need an ingrowing hair somewhere.....(in the groin area maybe?)



Seriously though, a friend had one just inside his anus and he had to have an operation, it was the source of jokes among us for weeks, especially when he had to use the rubber ring to sit down in the Pub....
 
[FnG]magnolia;18321556 said:
I don't think having abcesses 'come and go' is normal, is it?
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Depends. Some are caused by ingrowing hairs, some are blocked hair follicles. Can be a sign of Diabetes. Have known this in the past! Mine were usually caused by blocked follicles, but they are easy to keep on top of. (Yes I shower every day!) I work long shifts, and guess that the engineering environment does not help matters!
 
Do you shave your arse or something? How are you getting so many in-growing hairs causing abscesses?

I used to fix and re-tool the machines that made and packed Aquacel ribbons and dressings, it's made out of Seaweed from a really grotty looking beach in South Wales. :)
 
My cousin had this done, they have to pack it continually so it heals from the inside out and doesn't get infected.

I know he had a hard time with the packing too!
 
PhillyDee said:
Depends. Some are caused by ingrowing hairs, some are blocked hair follicles. Can be a sign of Diabetes. Have known this in the past! Mine were usually caused by blocked follicles, but they are easy to keep on top of. (Yes I shower every day!) I work long shifts, and guess that the engineering environment does not help matters!
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What is blocking the follicles? not wiping properly? ;)
 
you mean a BOIL...

magnesium sulphate will draw all the puss to the surface you can get it from your local chemist.

anywya if it was in your lower back and you know have a hole the size of a tennis ball theres a name for it but i cant remember what it is, can take months to heal
 
[FnG]magnolia;18321684 said:
It's unlikely that antibiotics would be prescribed if the solution was available over the counter.
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depends how bad it is they are from "staph virus" the boil is your body pounding white blood cells at the area to fight the infection when a boil ruptures the middle is where the virus was and it will stink like rotten poop

what the op may have had is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst ? very nasty
 
This thread is absolutely fine without pics.

In related news, my wife had some kind of boil on her back a few years back, it must have been caused by an ingrown hair or something. It was fairly flush with the skin, but was incredibly sore. Unfortunately, she was pregnant when it really started to bother her, so they couldn't slice it open or anything, as the risk of septicaemia is too great and that would probably kill the baby. After a while it get weepy and gross and I had to clean it with hot water and whatnot, and press it a bit to get all the gunk out... Gross. Sometimes it came out thin and watery, other times it was like cottage cheese, and it always, always smelt like absolute death and made me want to hurl. It was quite violent coming out sometimes, too. One time it was a bit troublesome getting some of the gunk out, and when it finally came out I swear a jet of putrid filth hit the ceiling. Mercifully, it calmed down after that, so I must have got the core of it out.
 
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