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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.
we have the same problem...i only got boil since when my son was born. and it keeps coming back for 3 months now...i am worried that maybe this can cause me not getting pregnant again? how can i get rid of this and not coming back to me anymore??
we have the same problem...i only got boil since when my son was born. and it keeps coming back for 3 months now...i am worried that maybe this can cause me not getting pregnant again? how can i get rid of this and not coming back to me anymore??
Hi guys I have been reading the posts here and I want to share a solution. I also have that problem of big boils/ pus build up in my genital area. It is not herpes. It usually comes out just before my period. I showed it to my dermatologist and she said it is being caused by bacteria that live on our skin. She prescribed a cream- Bactroban (Mupirocin) and instructed me to apply it on the genital area for 3 weeks and also on my nostrils. Why the nostrils? because she said some bacteria actually are caught and live on our nostrils and spread out to our skin. I'm actually surprised that doctors in the US or other countries where you guys are from have failed to diagnose this. I followed this treatment and it disappeared completely. (I'm from the Philippines by the way)
I got my first boil 7 years ago and recently I have been getting 2 or 3 a month. I am now 40 I have looked at all options if it is hormonal stress related etc. I have been told that people with dark hair are more prone to them. I normally use Magnesium paste and this normally works and brings it to a head which I can then burst. Having read all of the posts above, I am concerned that I making this worse. I have just spent the evening researching it and many suggestions. One of the things I am goign to try is Vitamin E and A to stop them coming in the first place. I have tried the hot bottle tonight, but don't think that the boil was ready to burst, been about a week now and still no head. Will try that again tomorrow. If anyone has any more self help remedies that work I would love to know about them, as this is driving me insane. xx
i woud suggest to everyone tea tree oil or eucalyptus oil and apply it directly to the area. Do this in the morning and before u go to bed and it will take it down significantly for you, the more times you apply the faster it will go down. I really hope this helps all of you for it has helped me
I've gotten pimple-like things after shaving before, and they would usually come to a head and so I would pop them and problem over. Well the last two months I got ring worm around my vaginal area. I didn't know what it was at first, but I went to the dr and they gave me a lotion that got rid of it in about a month. My dr suggested I not shave so I don't spread the ringworm. So when it finally went away I shaved my pubic hairs. Only this time I got three or four round, red itchy bumps. They're about the size of my fingertip and aren't painful. They just itch like crazy! When I would get the pimples from ingrown hairs, they would itch. But these seem a little different. They're kind of dry and scaley and don't have heads. I'm worried they're some kind of other rash! I'm on vacation and I don't want it to spread!! Help?!?!
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