what's happening to our borad TMI

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.

I think my long-standing sebaceous cyst on my back heard me reading this thread - it went and got angry about 3 weeks ago.

I’d had it a long time, it used to have a sibling up near where the back of my neck meets my shoulder, but that got angry itself about a decade ago - it just slowly popped and ruined a few shirts.

This one, though, was down at lung height and when it turned heel it was really fucking with my sleeping. So after a few days I went to see my GP and they sent me to A&E (ER). I waited a few hours then I was seen by someone who said “take these antibiotics and hope it gets less inflamed, we’d rather not cut it in this state”. But it didn’t so a few days later I came back.

There’s not a lot of TMI tbh - because I’m in the soft decadent republic of Londonistan, I got about 6-7 local anaesthetic shots before the operation, and then one during, into the wound. The smell was apparently pretty bad, but I was face down and didn’t smell anything - I was impressed that the doctor considered it bad though, he works in emergency services!

But he thought he got everything and since then it’s just been coming in every few days to get the wound repacked. A nurse a week ago was muttering notes while working on it and said it was about 1cm deep, which is more deep than I thought I could go and basically not notice at all.

Basically I just wanted to be one of the cool kids.

I was telling my girlfriend about the operation and about how
I was face-down-but-actually-facing-right for most of it, and at the end while the doctor was off fetching something to pack the wound I shifted over to facing left, meaning that I was staring at the trolley with the bandages and blood and the bits of the cyst, horrible gory lining that it’s freaky to think actually came out of me.

And then she stared at me for a minute and I stfu.

Kind of

.....jealous?

I only ever go to hospital with wrecked knees or lungs it sucks

welcome to the club Andrew

Yeah I meant to say your story is an inspiration.

i'm on about 7 meds for 5 ailments this week.

no cysts tho!

feel better morbs

get demmm

Good luck with the ailing, man.

hey guys are you ready for some real deal tmi?

i was gonna go to bed but i will stay up for this