Question:
Hi,
After having this problem with my 'lower end' for a while, i finally went to the doctor to find out what this mysterious lump was which bled everytime i went to the toilet. He's informed me it's a cyst (Pilonidal i think).
The doc gave me some antibiotics, dry powder spray and some permitabs which i have to use for 30 minutes every day by soaking a gauze in and applying it to the area and lying on my stomach. The idea is using these meds it will dry the cyst up and it will die out.
Question is: After researching this on the net, it seems that the way to treat it is by removing the hair and having the cyst removed somehow instead of 'drying' it up as the Doc has suggested... Anyone had one of these in the past? Any advice is appreciated.
Answer:
I have had a cyst for awhile now. It recently poped and drained for a month before i was able to go into the doctor. It was confirmed that I had a pilonidal cyst and it goes all the way down to my tailbone itself. I am scheduled for surgery this summer and will be having it removed. When I went to several different appointments regarding it I was told by a specialist that you can either live with the cyst or you can have it removed. The best advice they gave me was to wipe down away from the cyst itself. Though wipeing away from the cyst towards your front would be problamatic for woman that get these. I had also been on a few rounds of antibiotics but about a week after the bills were used up the infection came right back and drainage occured. Hopefully the cyst will fully be cut out and removed during my sugery as the specialist said that there is a chance the cyst could come back if not fully removed.
best of luck to you. Just try to keep things clean back there as much as possible and if you can live with it do so, but personally I want it removed. I get drainage a lot and it's very embarassing.
Answer:
i developed one of those shortly after giving birth. they are no fun. it wasn't fully developed but it hurt like hell. i was already seeing a proctologist/surgeon for fissures, when i decided to visit him to check out the lump on my tailbone. i assumed it was a cyst since i had researched it on the net. he agreed and drained it right there in the office... that was excrutiating pain i must say. and caring for it was a pain. but all is well now. i think i developed it from the baby putting much stress on my tailbone during delivery. i wish to never get one of those ever again. the end.
i wish you luck!