scrotum cysts

I get these all the time. I wait until they get big enough, take a sterile sewing needle and poke a hole in the skin. I then use the needle to scrape the top of the skin a bit, poke the needle in the cyst and pop it right out. Bleeding stops in no time and I go on with life.

I use hemostats, a pair of needlenose tweezers, and a scalpel:

the painful part: use the hemostats to pinch under the cyst, and snap the hemostats closed to the first tooth, freeing up both hands. This will hurt, but you'll soon be relieving the pressure and the pain.

relieving the pain: use the scalpel to make a thin, light pressure slice, about 1-2mm, across the top of the cyst. Ideally, you'll see the skin open just barely, with the white of the cyst wall peeking through. Use the tweezers under the cyst, with the hemostats still applying pressure, to bring the entire, unruptured cyst out of the incision (this'll require a decent tug towards the end).

If the incision is too deep, you'll rupture the cyst, causing the sebum to squeeze out without the cyst wall, which to my understanding is important in preventing these things from recurring.

USE AS MANY PRECAUTIONS AS POSSIBLE (STERILE BLADES AND GAUZE PADS, ALCOHOL, ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT, ETC) TO PREVENT INFECTION!!

try putting on ASTRINGENT (facial care products) on it ... try to soak your whole body in warm water in a tub for like 15 to 25 mins and the cyst get softer to pop. I had a cyst on my leg on time and it popped on its on when i was in a hot tub and i helped finished the process with my hands! but for cyst use the ASTRINGENT it gets deep down ...

I just wanted to put my two cents in about these things.

I have had them since I was 16 and I now am 22. One thing I did notice is that they went away while I was at college. Now that I am back home they are starting to reappear. I live in the basement of my parents home, same room I lived in before college, and now they are back. I don't think it is a coincidence because I also have dry skin around the sides of my nose and get cystlike ingrown hairs on my chest. Same with the cysts, I had all of these skin disorders before college, they went away when I moved, and are now back when I am living in the basement again.

It is either the change of water, we have well water at my parents house and city water where I went to school, or the dry cool climate of the basement. My diet hasn't changed much from school besides binge drinking that used to happen at school.

I am going to move upstairs to see if they dry basement is to blame. If not I think the hard water might be to blame. Also, I never had dandruff at school but again it is starting to be a problem while living in the basement.

Everyone, good luck and like many of you have said, don't let these little white bumps ruin your sex lives.

madmouse3639... PLEASE SEND ME A VIDEO OF SELF CYST SURGERY! MY BOYFRIEND HAS ALOT OF CYSTS AS WELL. I WANT TO HELP HIM DO THIS. I KNOW IT MUST BE VERY HUMILIATING... PLEASE HELP!!! thanx so much

I must say it is a comfort to know that I am not alone with this cursed condition, and it is great to finally find a forum with which to discuss it and share information. I too first developed these cysts when I was a teenager, and was mortified at their discovery. I scoured the internet to search for possible diagnoses and a cure. I didn't encounter much luck; it had not only seemed that this disorder was rare, but only idiopathic (the scientific community does not know the cause of it).

Like many of you, it was a source of great embarrassment and shame, leading to intimacy issues, depression, and having a negative effect on my sex life. So in college (in my early twenties), I finally gathered up enough courage to do something about it. I went from dermatologist to dermatologist, and very frustratingly, no one could tell me anything definitive or offer me a solution. The most that they told me was that it was benign, and referred me to a urologist. Upon consultation, the urologist told me I would need to have to get them removed by a plastic surgeon.

Desperate for a way to get rid of these numerous cysts plaguing my scrotum, I followed the plastic surgeon's advice to have sections of my scrotal skin removed. He told me that scrotal skin is forgiving and that this was the best way to ensure that these cysts would not return. Now if any of you encounter this suggestion, I do not recommend this. The surgery took several hours to perform and cost me $3000. It was only after the procedure that the surgeon told me it was idiopathic scrotal calcinosis.

I had to wear a jockstrap cushioned in gauze to support my scrotum, so that it would heal. It was painful and difficult to walk around and I'd say the downtime was at least a week. I regret being so hasty, because after the surgical wounds healed, I experienced less sensation down there, and that the shape of my scrotum was a little abnormal. Fortunately, the scar tissue softened over time and it looks more natural now. However, when the scrotal pouch retracts (from cold weather, for instance), the skin tends to uncomfortably bind my testes. Not only that, to my dismay, the cysts started returning several years later.

Besides of the undesired outcome of the surgery, I did not want to have to undergo the surgery again and have more skin removed. I tried to cope and deal with the few cysts that returned, hoping that they would just naturally go away somehow (what wishful thinking). I tried to conduct a sex life, hoping my partners would not notice. Like others on this forum, I would awkwardly participate in ways to try to obscure them. They, of course, multiplied in number and grew in size, causing myself to bring a halt to any further sexual relations.

I scoured medical articles and found a procedure that was promising called the surgical pearl: pinch-punch excision. In short, this entails anesthetizing the area, rubbing the cyst to bring to the surface, and using a disposable biopsy tool to "punch" it out. Because of my last experience, I really strove to find a surgeon that I felt would have expertise in this area. Excitedly, I found a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills that specialized in genital surgery and urology.

I met with this particular plastic surgeon, and learned that he had performed scrotal reconstruction and excision of scrotal calcinosis multiple times before. Looking at my "family jewels" and the amount of skin remaining, he assuredly told me excision was my only choice. I would go under general anesthesia for the procedure while he would cut out as many cysts as he could find with his scalpel. He told me that I had to accept that these cysts will not go away; they will return eventually and that I will have to come back every 5-10 years to have him remove them again.

A few weeks ago, I underwent this procedure. Being asleep for the surgery, I woke up with a little pain, but my cysts were gone. He had cut out about fifty of them, large and small. The procedure took about one hour, but cost a pretty penny (about $4000 with all the expenses included). However, there was minimal bleeding and I was up and walking the same day with only some discomfort. There are some stitches that will fall out on their own in 5-6 weeks, but the results look pretty good.

I am pretty much back to my normal routine now. We'll have to see what happens, I guess. After reading about all of you brave self-surgeons, I may consider doing this for myself in the future. With proper sterile technique, I can save a lot money and be able to implement the excision to eradicate the bastards immediately when they emerge.

I'll keep checking this thread in the future. I know that this post was long, but hopefully my experience helped or will help someone out there. Let's pray that a cure is found or at least a cause is identified one day, so we can all thankfully move on with our lives.

I'm not sure if I can describe the relief I feel after reading this entire thread.

I had 1 or 2 small bumps come up when I was 17/18 - but they seemed to go away. Through college, I never really noticed these or anything, and then within the past 2 or 3 years I have had a few come up and go away, but I'm 27 now and have 2 BB sized ones on each side of my scrotum.

I trim myself with clippers and keep things neat, and I have noticed more of these coming. Small ones - nothing too large, but they are popping up. Occasionally, I can squeeze the little ones and they excrete a dry, thready substance kind of like a really blocked pore.

I've been kind of nervous about them, and to be honest have been afraid to research because I was afraid I would find some sort of signs pointing to cancer... I lost my dad to lung cancer a year ago and work in the medical field, and to be honest the whole thing had me scared. About a week ago, I watched an episode of Dr. G, Medical examiner with a guy on it who ended up being full of stomach cancer when she cut him open, and it looked like a bunch of small pea sized white balls - similar to these things only larger, and it freaked me out. The lack of sleep/worrying about it put me in a depressed funk which is not me. I was doing alright, and then last night popped one of the little ones with a needle to get the stuff out of it, and it got me thinking about it again - needless to say I spent the day with a nervous stomach about this after a sleepless night. I got home and decided I had enough, and after a few minutes I ran across this. This is the most relief I have felt in a very long time... I split up with a guy I was dating for 6 months about a month ago because things got awkward because he noticed one of them and kept bringing it up.

I think I am going to get a good night's sleep, get some tools and topical anesthetic and take care of these things tomorrow.

Hey chaps,

I'm 22 and i've had these little bastards since I was about 12. I have about 50, all different sizes, with one about the size of a large pea. I regularly pop some of the smaller ones (if they're ready), and sometimes the larger ones rupture and they burst too - but they usually just 'refill' again. I've had the larger ones surgically removed once before, was very painful for about 20 mins (while i drove home... get someone to give you a lift!!) until I got home and popped a bunch of codeine, then no pain whatsoever, even when the codeine wore off. Life was good for a while, but, as I knew they would, they started to come back, albeit in different places this time.

I'm sure it's something to do with skin type, because both my father and my sister get sebaceous cysts on the scalp (but not down there...), and I have quite sensitive skin on my face etc. I also suffer from excessive sweating, but only under my armpits, so some of you may have this also? who knows...

I once had a dream that I had a scrotum transplant from a guy my age who died in a car crash, and it cured the condition - was the weirdest dream of my life!!! but would be cool if this were possible...

I think i'm going to get them surgically removed again, they're such a pain. But don't worry guys, it is possible to have a normal sex life. I have had a girlfriend (gorgeous!!) since i was at highschool (6 years), and she doesn't care about them. Her response? "noones perfect'. So just come up with a passing line to say if anybody does notice them, and just make like it's not a big deal (because it isn't!!). "oh yeah, just some swollen follicles - doc says it's excess testosterone or something" (which is believed to play a role!!).

good to know. thanks!

I cured mine w/out surgery. If you are older i would suggest bypassing all the background story below and just scroll to the numbers where i explain my "cure". the little narrative below is more for the younger guys (like teenagers) who feel they are "diseased". I just dont want them to go through the stuff i went through.

I'm 23 years old and i'v dealt with these since i was 14.

at first I thought I somehow got an STD like herpes through oral sex (this was before i ever had sex.) they bothered me for the next year or so especially when i started having sex with my g/f but they never hurt. i really avoided her giving me oral sex bc i was so embarassed. i never told her, my next gf, or any of my sexual partners about them but the whole time i was worried that i had herpes and could be spreading it. when i was 16 i went to the dr. to get a physical to play soccer and i was so embarased that before he did the "cough" check, i told him i had some bumbs on my scrotum. he examined them and said they were nothing serious but didnt tell me what they were or how to treat them (it was one of those free physical days so i guess he didnt care)

my sr. year in high school my mom made me go to the dermatologist to clear up my acne before sr. pictures. by this time i had matured enough to stop being so embarassed in front of a male dr. i showed him the bumbs. i cant remember what he said they were but whatever he said it turned out being wrong. regardless he said they were no big deal though but didnt tell me how to treat them.

i had a girlfriend my first semester in college that had an "oral obsession" and i had to tell her. i showed them to her and she didnt seem to care at the time. after we went through a bad break up she told the whole town about my "diseased balls" though! ha

throughout the first 3 years of college i joined a fraternity and had dozens of sexual partners. i got into a routine of getting tested for STD's every six months. at one check up a presented the little bastards to yet another dr. finally i got the right diagonosis. he said they were sebacious cysts and were: completely unavoidable; something like 15% of adult men have them; and were hereditary. i finally asked my dad and he admited that he had them when he was in college into his late 20's but they went away.

i started playing in a band with 3 guys that worked at a hospital ER. one was a dr. and the other 2 were RN's. i told one of the RN's about the cysts and low and behold that dude dropped his pants, lifted his sack, and said "look". he had them too! he said that he had to have a few surgically removed because they got infected. he said that you can pop them with a needle or cut them off with a knife but he wouldnt advise it unless you know what you're doing. thats when i started to pop them with needles.

I wouldnt advise popping or cutting them. it hurts like hell sometimes and they bleed and swell up making them worse. i noticed that small ones soon became big ones. i was fed up with them about 6 months ago which was about the time my current gf started to perform oral sex alot! i looked online and asked the dr. in my band what to do and it worked!

********heres what i did to get rid (actuall really reduce them):

1. at first i quit taking showers and started taking baths. this may sound kinda girly but it worked. apparently soaking in hot water liquifies the cheese puss inside of them which drastically reduced the size and the hardness. they became smaller and softer almost immediately.

2. I read that taking vitimin c helps b/c it boosts your immune system to fight infection. thats all puss is- infection. i started taking vit c and i noticed no new ones appeared and some of the smaller ones disappeared.

3. i quit the bath thing but started using a heating pad on my testicles at least once a day. your balls will sweat pretty bad but they disappeared and it kinda feels good! haha. the only trick is to make sure you use antibacterial hand wipes on the heating pad to disinfect it. otherwise you get an even worse heat rash and possibly jock itch (athlete's foot fungus on your balls).

4. i started cleaning my buddies with antibacterial soap just in case and i shower 2-3 times a day.

5. i avoid fatty and greasy foods that cause every kind of pimples.

6. ***MOST IMPORTANT***- i stopped popping, pricking, smashing, cutting, and every other "home surgery type activity. small ones still appear every month or so but theyre gone with in a day or two.


I don't think i need to continue doing all these things to prevent sebacious cysts. I bet i can stop taking vitimin c or start eating fatty foods and they prob wont come back like they were. i would just suggest doing ALL of these until they are gone and then stop them one by one unless they come back. these are just basic healthy things to do anyway so i keep it up.

i hope this helps and im sorry it was so long. mainly i want younger guys to know its not that big of a deal and not to be scared to tell your drs. i promise, they have seen them or at least heard of them before in medical school!

good luck
-brent