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Monthly boils or ingrown hair?
For several years I have been getting knots on my genital area, sometimes more so on the buttocks area. These knots are very uncomfortable, they hurt for anything to touch them. Sometimes they will come to a head or with a warm compress, I can get them to bust and pus comes out then blood then clear fluid. I end up bruising the area, but ultimately I put alcohol on it with a cotton ball or neosporin ointment to try and get it to go away. The doctor (OB/GYN) says it might be from shaving? He said it is probably hormones causing a hair folical to become inflamed. I am not so sure about this diagnosis. Because this started about 4 to 5 years ago and now it seems I have one most of the time. I read where other women have these on this site and wonder how many of us are suffering. And what else has other womens doctors told them? One girl suggested it may be herpes. I have herpes, I contracted it when raped in 1986. I have not had any kind of breakout since 1989. Then what I thought was an outbreak in 2002. But these boils/ingrown hairs (which I have never gotten a hair out from) are not annything like the herpes lesions.
I used to get this constantly on my groin. Like on my inner thighs, my mons, the inner and outer lips of the vulva..like three or four at a time and they'd get huge and be extremely painful. And as soon as one went down a couple more would crop up so I'd always have them.
Now, I get one maybe every few months.
What has helped me keep them away is not shaving with a traditional razor. I use an electric shaver and right after, I clean the area with anti-bacterial soap. I also clean the blades of the shaver between uses with Dettol to keep bacteria from growing on it.
When they do pop up, I slather them in castor oil a couple of times a day. It helps the boil come to a head and pop naturally, after which I wash the area with the antibacterial soap and continue applying castor oil until the area returns to normal.
Finally, someone told me that cutting back on sugar would help keep them down and I believe that, because while the above procedures reduced them, I didn't notice a big change until I quit drinking soda, juice, and white carbs. After a couple of weeks of that, the remaining boils cleared up drastically and now I rarely see them. So if medicine and all that doesn't work for you, try cutting sugar and see if that doesn't help.
Now, I get one maybe every few months.
What has helped me keep them away is not shaving with a traditional razor. I use an electric shaver and right after, I clean the area with anti-bacterial soap. I also clean the blades of the shaver between uses with Dettol to keep bacteria from growing on it.
When they do pop up, I slather them in castor oil a couple of times a day. It helps the boil come to a head and pop naturally, after which I wash the area with the antibacterial soap and continue applying castor oil until the area returns to normal.
Finally, someone told me that cutting back on sugar would help keep them down and I believe that, because while the above procedures reduced them, I didn't notice a big change until I quit drinking soda, juice, and white carbs. After a couple of weeks of that, the remaining boils cleared up drastically and now I rarely see them. So if medicine and all that doesn't work for you, try cutting sugar and see if that doesn't help.
Ive been going to through the same thing boils/ingrown hairs on the inner thigh buttocks area, ive had it now for probably 5 yrs and through research online i thought i might have HS.. ive went to a couple of doctors and they always tell me its either a bacterial infection or its from shaving, ive tried a million things to get them to go away and just when i think they are starting to, then my period starts to come and i know its coming because i will get like 3 large boil ingrown hair things in that area, so idk about the diagnosis either.. and through research and reading what other women have to say i think this is something alot of women have been hiding so doctors arent really aware of it so they will asume it is from shaving and what not.. i think for me it might be something hormonal or have to do with my sweat glads, for now i am just keeping super clean, trimming not shaving, and using a cream for the scars that have been left from these things... *****!
Hi, i've just been reading all of these comments and can't believe so many of us are suffering from boils in this area...I started getting mine in my early teens but only ever got one at a time, and was never left with any scars once they had popped... I suffered with them up until I had my first child, then they disappeared, I thought that after having my children my hormones must of changed so that must of been the cause of them.....I was wrong....I am 50 now and about 10 years ago they come back with avengance, I have them all the time, never get any relief from them and I'm covered in scars...antibiotics don't work as my doctor thinks I have so much scar tissue, that the infection is in between the scars so the antibiotic can't work...I have been to see a plastic surgeon who is prepaired to operate on me, by taking all my skin off from around the groin and pubic area and skin grafting me from other area's of me....she said it is a hugh operation and I would need to be desperate to go ahead with it, but I don't know if I have any option, my husband of 26 years has just left me and the thought of meeting someone else and having all of these boils and scar on my pubic area really scares me, I don't know if anyone would be interested in me with this problem....what I would like to ask you guys is, would you consider the surgery.....
what i get is not a boil with a head or anything its a sore. ii cant pop it and my skin is raw there. i cant touch it with anything cuz it hurts like hell and when i comes i have to wear boyshorts or loose underwear so it doesnt press on it. i thought i had herpes as well bt im pregnant and they do all those tests and they came back negative. i thought it might be from shaving but i stopped shaving so i wouldnt get it anymore and i still do and always ALWAYS in the same spot. in my genital area but not exactly on my vagina its like toward the back and to the side like where my vagina and leg meet before it gets to my rear.... or somewhere close to there. i dont know what to do?? and im too embarrased to ask a doctor to look at it...
Be careful because a boil that doesn't come to a head could also mean you have MRSA (staph infection) and must be on antibiotics (probably Doxycycline). If so, you'll also need to shower with Hibiclens for at least a week. Have your internist cut it for a sample of pus/blood to send to lab and get positive diagnosis.
I get these boils in the crease of my legs, on my rear end even nesr the anus, I get them under my breast and in my armpits. No doctor has given me and answer to the problem. Im 32 and have been living with these since I was 12. I had a boyfriend once that embarassed me and said I neeted std testing. I went and everything turned out fine. Im just plagued with these nasty things. Since I get them all over I try taking hot baths and soaking. I to shave the crease of my legs for my man and that always brings more boild.
I worked in a pharmacy and the pharmacist always recomended this stuff called ichthimol salve or boil ease.
I worked in a pharmacy and the pharmacist always recomended this stuff called ichthimol salve or boil ease.
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