Small deep "holes" developing on my body

[hillyardgrl]

About a year ago I noticed a small acne like bump towards the back of my ribs. The bump never came to a head like a pimple would and remained a bump for several months. I started to pick at it and eventually a ton of stringy white puss (almost like the longest white head you've ever seen) came out. I continued to try to extract everything I could until only a small hole remained. To this day the hole remains and it is an actual hole. There is a small black dot at the bottom of it. The same thing happend to an area under one of my arm pits only the bump deveolpes in the same area and the stringy white puss comes out of it every couple of weeks. Im concerned because now I have the same thing happening on one of the outer lips of my vagina. Same small bump, no head, same seemingly never ending white puss and a black dot at the end of this hole. Does anyone know what these things and or how to treat them???

[Bradpr]

Sounds like a carbuncle to me, you should give it a heat treatment to bring the sutff to the surface

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
The symptoms are suggestive of sebaceous cyst. A sebaceous cyst is a closed sac which contains a "cheesy" looking substance called keratin. Blocked sebaceous glands, swollen hair follicles and excessive testosterone production will cause such cysts.

Generally no treatment is required but they become painful then it means they are infected, then surgical excision by traditional wide excision, minimal excision, and punch biopsy excision may be required.
Hope it helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing. Kind regards.