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Update RE: Sebaceous Cyst
Hello again.
Thought I'd give an update on my situation. I had a 2nd opinion scheduled for an OB in the nearby metropolitan city for next week but will be canceling it.
However, I got in to see a local guy yesterday who is in our ins. network (spouse's job is going away soon, so I don't have much time left to use insurance).
This guy basically reiterated what my present OB said: but this guy couldn't find it! Can you believe it? Makes me wonder if my present doc actually saw it--why would he fib?
Anyway, this guy explained in greater detail about what would most likely happen to try to go after something so small: hurting/damaging the surrounding tissue and inevitably causing trauma to the area. This translates into NOT GOOD! I trusted this guy and may switch to him in the event that my present OB won't be in our insurance network in the future and this guy is.
Anyway, I put the equivalent of Neosporin on it, and this guy also recommends using hot tub soaks and the like. But, if the cyst was larger, (and this guy could've seen it!), then he'd be more apt to try to lance it or something.
Very frustrating problem, that's for sure!
Thanks for all of the previous replies to my original post.
Hoosier
Thought I'd give an update on my situation. I had a 2nd opinion scheduled for an OB in the nearby metropolitan city for next week but will be canceling it.
However, I got in to see a local guy yesterday who is in our ins. network (spouse's job is going away soon, so I don't have much time left to use insurance).
This guy basically reiterated what my present OB said: but this guy couldn't find it! Can you believe it? Makes me wonder if my present doc actually saw it--why would he fib?
Anyway, this guy explained in greater detail about what would most likely happen to try to go after something so small: hurting/damaging the surrounding tissue and inevitably causing trauma to the area. This translates into NOT GOOD! I trusted this guy and may switch to him in the event that my present OB won't be in our insurance network in the future and this guy is.
Anyway, I put the equivalent of Neosporin on it, and this guy also recommends using hot tub soaks and the like. But, if the cyst was larger, (and this guy could've seen it!), then he'd be more apt to try to lance it or something.
Very frustrating problem, that's for sure!
Thanks for all of the previous replies to my original post.
Hoosier
Squeak:
Thanks for the response. Hey, I need your doc! (The person sounds pro-active! heh heh)
Since mine is only 4 mm (and I don't know what the diameter of yours was/is), I am being told, that since it's very tiny, that it's basically not worth going after w/ a scalpel.
HOWEVER, if it gets larger, then all bets are on that it may be wise for Yours Truly here to go to the local OB/GYN that I saw this past Monday instead of my regular doctor (he's closer and said that they [the docs] like to go after the cysts that are large so that they have better success at removing or draining them).
I think I have an ingrown hair or something similar because I actually pointed that out to him on Monday, too. I don't plan to declare war on it myself, but it doesn't go away, and the thing has been lurking for nearly 3 years or longer. I don't know how to get rid of it. I don't have time right now to do a bunch of hot tub soaks--maybe at bedtime, but not during the day.
Good luck to you, too! I guess I kind of came away unscathed when these doctors couldn't (or wouldn't) do anything surgically for me; otherwise, I was sure I'd tear apart their examining table while on it...heh heh
Take care,
Hoosier
Thanks for the response. Hey, I need your doc! (The person sounds pro-active! heh heh)
Since mine is only 4 mm (and I don't know what the diameter of yours was/is), I am being told, that since it's very tiny, that it's basically not worth going after w/ a scalpel.
HOWEVER, if it gets larger, then all bets are on that it may be wise for Yours Truly here to go to the local OB/GYN that I saw this past Monday instead of my regular doctor (he's closer and said that they [the docs] like to go after the cysts that are large so that they have better success at removing or draining them).
I think I have an ingrown hair or something similar because I actually pointed that out to him on Monday, too. I don't plan to declare war on it myself, but it doesn't go away, and the thing has been lurking for nearly 3 years or longer. I don't know how to get rid of it. I don't have time right now to do a bunch of hot tub soaks--maybe at bedtime, but not during the day.
Good luck to you, too! I guess I kind of came away unscathed when these doctors couldn't (or wouldn't) do anything surgically for me; otherwise, I was sure I'd tear apart their examining table while on it...heh heh
Take care,
Hoosier
Red_Rose:
A synopsis of my problem:
Sometime after my third child was born, in the summer of 2003, I started to definitely notice some 'mysterious' soreness in the labia area. I discovered a small 'pimple' like bump inside, which actually may be an ingrown hair (go figure).
Went to a doc, the doc who performed my 3rd c section. Because I wasn't specific in what was going on, the guy was clueless and called it a vulvar lymph node.
Online research threw the word "cancer" around concerning the above paragraph, which caused me fear (of course), so I sought a 2nd opinion, this time from an OB GYN who was not my ob/gyn.
She found zippo (nothing).
My newest OB/GYN was told about it, but we didnt' really get into the nitty gritty of it until I made it imperative that I wanted it seen about. He wasn't too thorough, probably because I (again) wasn't 100% specific. Anyway, he automatically called it dermatitis and prescribed Temovate, a very high-potent steroid cream. No mention of a sebaceous cyst was made, btw.
Anyway, two weeks into this 'treatment,' and the cyst either
1) decided to flare up on its own accord
2) flared up because of the cream, although I don't know why it didn't flare up at the BEGINNING of the treatment. Again, go figure...
The cyst (if it is, indeed, a sneaky little sebaceous cyst; the jury's still out on that one...) was flaring up on a Sunday, and I got in to see my present doc the next morning. He said he saw the cyst but wouldn't do damage control on the thing. I don't think he went into the biggie explanation of what would happen (damaging the surrounding tissue) if we were to declare war on it. Prior to this visit, he must've not seen a cyst. I hope he wasn't making it up...
I did the hot tub soaks as he recommended (was pacifying him, that's all...) for a week but then made an appt. with the hopes of lancing or excising the following week, but when I got in there, he had trouble at first locating the thing, but then basically really 'came clean' about admitting that he's very conservative, yadda yadda. I still wish that, since he KNEW he wasn't going to perform amy cutting on it, that he would've told his staff to inform me that he couldn't do anything. I don't know who is "technically at fault" on that scenario.
Oh, well.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! LOL
I think I may have vulvodynia (if I really don't have a sebaceous cyst), but that topic is just that: ANOTHER TOPIC ALTOGETHER. There is no cure, per se, for vulvodynia, but if that's what I have, then my chances of getting it solved are pretty slim because I don't know any doctors who specialize in treating (or trying to treat) it, and I can't keep going to 50,000 ob/gyn's.
Hoosier
A synopsis of my problem:
Sometime after my third child was born, in the summer of 2003, I started to definitely notice some 'mysterious' soreness in the labia area. I discovered a small 'pimple' like bump inside, which actually may be an ingrown hair (go figure).
Went to a doc, the doc who performed my 3rd c section. Because I wasn't specific in what was going on, the guy was clueless and called it a vulvar lymph node.
Online research threw the word "cancer" around concerning the above paragraph, which caused me fear (of course), so I sought a 2nd opinion, this time from an OB GYN who was not my ob/gyn.
She found zippo (nothing).
My newest OB/GYN was told about it, but we didnt' really get into the nitty gritty of it until I made it imperative that I wanted it seen about. He wasn't too thorough, probably because I (again) wasn't 100% specific. Anyway, he automatically called it dermatitis and prescribed Temovate, a very high-potent steroid cream. No mention of a sebaceous cyst was made, btw.
Anyway, two weeks into this 'treatment,' and the cyst either
1) decided to flare up on its own accord
2) flared up because of the cream, although I don't know why it didn't flare up at the BEGINNING of the treatment. Again, go figure...
The cyst (if it is, indeed, a sneaky little sebaceous cyst; the jury's still out on that one...) was flaring up on a Sunday, and I got in to see my present doc the next morning. He said he saw the cyst but wouldn't do damage control on the thing. I don't think he went into the biggie explanation of what would happen (damaging the surrounding tissue) if we were to declare war on it. Prior to this visit, he must've not seen a cyst. I hope he wasn't making it up...
I did the hot tub soaks as he recommended (was pacifying him, that's all...) for a week but then made an appt. with the hopes of lancing or excising the following week, but when I got in there, he had trouble at first locating the thing, but then basically really 'came clean' about admitting that he's very conservative, yadda yadda. I still wish that, since he KNEW he wasn't going to perform amy cutting on it, that he would've told his staff to inform me that he couldn't do anything. I don't know who is "technically at fault" on that scenario.
Oh, well.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! LOL
I think I may have vulvodynia (if I really don't have a sebaceous cyst), but that topic is just that: ANOTHER TOPIC ALTOGETHER. There is no cure, per se, for vulvodynia, but if that's what I have, then my chances of getting it solved are pretty slim because I don't know any doctors who specialize in treating (or trying to treat) it, and I can't keep going to 50,000 ob/gyn's.
Hoosier
Hello HH3, I'm so sorry you are going through all of this mess too, but don't give up, we WILL get better! I just found a blister/lump on my upper right labia minora yesterday and of course, it scared me to death. I had no idea what this thing was and decided to research it on the net. Some of the things I found made my anxiety that much worse and made me even more miserable, but this site has been such a tremendous help! Anyway, I went to the gyno today and the instant he saw the "thing", he said "Oh this is a sebaceous cyst...basically a pimple." Then he asked me if I wanted him to drain the fluid from it, and yes I wanted it done. Let me tell you, he proceeded to take a syringe to open it up and then squeezed the cyst, which obviously hurt like crazy. After reading some of the posts, I am worried that I did the wrong thing in letting him drain it/squeeze it...I hope that it does not make matters worse. As for the hot tub soaks, I am going to do that tonight and see if it helps too. My dr. told me that I might have to squeeze some more of the fluids out of the cyst, but I think I will do the soaking, etc. and give it a few days to see what transpires. Good luck with everything and try to think positive. (that is something that I often forget to do myself, but try hard to remind everyone else to think positive!)Take care :)
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