what's happening to our borad TMI

I am so happy that I avoided seeing a picture of my sister's boyfriend's foot over thanksgiving. He wasn't there, and had recently been to the doctor. dude is a bartender and apparently diabetic, which I hadn't realized, and his foot was infected in full "I'm ignoring bad symptoms" mode all while he was standing on it for work all the time

assuming it was full-on grossout

So I softened the gauze with saline and yanked it out myself -- hurt a little. A nice, clean hole in my back, pretty wild, looks like I was shot as someone said above. Then I managed to bandage the wound in the mirror with my arm contorted behind my back. The whole thing made me feel like Anton Chigurh.

whoa

I got a tiny (like 1cm across) cyst removed, not infected, surgery under general anaesthetic, had stitches put in

still felt p. weird for like 2 weeks afterwards

you people who had massive ones, infected, no anaesthetic - you are hardcore

mine was behind the top of my nose bones, so they wanted to take it out early bcz if it got infected/burst it could have forced its way through into the brain cavity apparently, which did not sound like a good option. they sliced right down the middle of my nose, pulled the bones apart, took it out and put my nose back together with a tiny titanium pin. they did a p. neat job, I have a faint scar and a weird bump on my nose but not too obtrusive (I think)

afterwards my face swelled up in a big purple band around my eyes, grotesque but weirdly bringing some kind of almost glamorous alien pixie cheekbone definition to my fat square Frankenstein/hamster/yeti face

the worst part of nose surgery is that the blood drains down your throat, so I woke up with a lot of dried blood caked in my anaesthetic-tube-scratched throat which felt/tasted p. nasty

but I got a big bag of codeine to take home and time off work to lie in bed (on my back only) and woozily listen to spaced-out records

That is the most metal thing I have ever heard.

Just a lil bump so let's be cool, she says

Just a little update, yesterday I inadequately bandaged the wound and then bled through my work shirt. My boss saw it and pointed it out, so I went to a CVS to buy a bigger bandage and then I went to GAP and bought a $15 sweater and an undershirt, went into their changing room, dressed my wound and put them on. I enjoyed the whole "I just got shot and am hiding from someone" vibe of it.

Awes :D

lol @ anton chigurh

UNGUENT

lol

badass

fwiw I'm pretty sure I walked into the mens room just as a dude was rubbing one out in the stall thinking no one was in the building anymore -- it was like 8pm and very few people in my building stay late. I heard a sudden, hurried shuffle and overly loud, almost projected tp wiping sounds, and then a guy came out of the stall looking a little flustered. Mostly lol because I have been that guy. I almost said "Bet you thought you were the last one here" but then thought better of it.

My hole is still draining. I managed to squeeze some stuff out of it yesterday and it was very satisfying but also it's in a really hard to reach spot and I can't get it all. Feel bad asking H to do it because it's quite smelly.

My hole is still draining.

I thought I was on the "out of context" thread at first.

Is it still infected then? The stink suggests, maybe?

I should add that I *also* had a pilonidal cyst get infected while I was in college. This happened a few times when I would just let it pop after a few days (despite the agony while sitting during the infection)—-what a mess! The “best” time was during a Richard Thompson show at the Variety Playhouse in ATL—-I hope they had a good seat cleaner! One time I got it lanced by my doctor, who was pregnant and gagged the whole time, lemme tell you I felt great about doing that to her (oh, the smell though)(and the pain, obviously). After a few rounds of these (including one that was at its worst during a particularly hard college exam, yielding my worst college grade bc I couldn’t think for the pain but was too proud to say anything) , I got the cyst itself removed, also a general anesthesia operation. I got to have my ass packed thrice a day, by university nurses, by nurses at the financial firm at which I was an intern, and by my home health care nurse, a Desert Storm vet who seemed relieved to work on the likes of me over his military compatriots.

should add: for six months after the operation I got the wound packings. So my healing after this spring’s horror was a relief in comparison. That’s the difference between a wound on the back of your neck/head and one in your ass crack.

Hmm good point re infection.. I do have a follow-up appointment this friday. I'm also still on antibiotics.

cease and de-cyst

sounds horrible man

if it starts hurting a lot and smelling that might be cause for concern

im sure youre cleaning and regauzing right?

the body does have ways to deal with these things though, plus youre on antibiotics

you've gotta watch out, sometimes the body's way of dealing with things is just closing back up over an infection or deciding to leave a wound tract open so it can drain

yeah I clean and re-gauze every 24-48. So far my body's decision seems to be to leave the thing open fwiw. I may try to see a doctor if it's still like that by the end of my antibiotics course.

Togos 6 inch Italian

u got a 6 inch italian to go?

ugh i had a UTI near-a-month ago now--the doc first guessed wrong at the bacteria type, so i spent 2 weeks on the wrong antibiotic (panicking all along that the symptoms hanging around meant i had cancer), then another two weeks prescribed on the right antibiotic. symptoms started to relieve, and theeeeen hello yeast infection.

so now a probiotic along with my antifungal and a reduced antibiotic dosage and fuck even knows what's happening in my body now, a host of unpredictable pressures & tensions as the yeast dies off & i try to not eat anything that'll make it worse. meanwhile, as i start to see daylight through that garbage, i'm just sitting with baseline bladder discomfort now and couldn't begin to guess what to blame. the bursitis in my hips is saying hello now that winter's arrived, confusing groin sensations further. i don't wanna do a fucking sixth doctors visit this month but goddammit i just wanna feel fucking normal again.

confusing groin sensations

can relate

whats up w our groins lately

I've got a baby booting mine from the inside all the time

dammit hoos :(

MA I went thru exactly what you did, a year or 2 back, I called it my 'back monster'. Mine ended up the size of a golf ball and I was days from being hospitalized with an infection - caught it just in time. It took what seemed like months to keep going and getting the wicking changed and dressed, but they told me if I didnt do it properly, the cyst'd come back again, so.

It hasnt since!

damn hoos. i'm afraid of antibiotics for much the same reason. i don't get sick much anyway but the only time i've ever gotten a yeast infection is when i was taking them for an extended period. it kills the good bacteria that keep the yeasts at bay. please don't stress. i don't believe (ianad) that eating the right foods will do anything. the drugs are too strong. the bacteria will come back and kill the yeast when you are done with it all. nature is cruel.

my hereditary sciatica has chosen this moment to start acting up, which means in addition to a churning gut my hips & lower back & groin are starting to throb on a regular basis and unlike the yeast infection or this infinity UTI this one is gonna stay with me forever

its hard not to despair a little

im a yeasty boy right now too, it's not a lot of fun but topical cream seems to be doing the job

the people who care for me most have already spent unusual amounts of their lives caring for toxic people through long hard medical scares, and if i lapse into thoughtlessness i risk plucking at bad memories, which makes me feel like i'm in this state of policing how i express what i'm feeling. which isn't healthy in any sense. i'm gonna talk that out with the necessary people.

xp lol @ "yeasty boy"

he is risen

wow it turns out if you google "diabetic foot infection" there are some v gross pictures!

Holy fuck.

Yes, obvs I googled immediately.

Oh fuck yis

yeesh...

no fuckin chance

lol

gonna wait till that comes to a theater near you

Footloose

At the Foot of Mt Gangrene

I specifically said I avoided pictures, y’all got issues

Do u kno wut a tmi thread is

My Foot Left

^^^ omg howwwlllling

Schmuck bait ya us.