abscess/boil on pubic mons is it ingrown hair foscile or use

I have had this red swollen bump for about a week, thought it was an ingrown hair, then thought a zit NOWAY , then it just kept getting bigger and hurting worse, it was like nothing I have ever seen before, never had nothing like that in that area before ewwwwww, so my hubby looked at it,and tried popping it:( , so last night after a long day ridding in the car I got home and looked at it, it was popping , so I squeezed and YUK puss and blood, then I noticed a long blck thing and I grabbed it and pulled it out, a HUGE hair and it was stuck to a ball of some sort, it left a hole, but the pain subsided and it is still draining, hope it continues to get better!

I have the same issue with ingrown hairs. if u look carefully at it u can see a little bit of a hair stickig out from the top of the bump. i hope this is of use cause it helped me but, if u pluck the hair out with one of those nail-clipper looking things like what u use to pull hang nails or eyebrows, it makes 100 times easier to pop. i also have something odd. i once got rid of an ingrown hair, but now in place in a greyish looking spot and when i put my finger over it, it feels like a hole is under the skin. i would like some insight on this please

I have the same problem. Whatever it is, is huge and hurts really bad when I walk. Mine also looks grey from the skin surface and is between my thigh and privates. Do you think its a infected ingrown hair, or maybe a cyst or boil of some kind? I am putting medicine on it, but it doesn't seem to be working... I am considering going to the doctor, but I am afraid she will pop it or lance it because that would hurt so bad! I would also be embarrased.... Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

This problem has been an immense source of shame for me for some time now. It has interfered with probably every facet of my life: professional, personal, interpersonal, etc. It makes me feel less of a quiggle, to use Erving Goffman's phrase, to know that all of you have to deal with this liminal -- the only word that seems to work -- condition. Thank you. Here has been my solution over the years: I apply several splashes of salicylic acid (clean and clear makes this product for pimples) to a cotton ball, and then dab the infected area. I do this as often as I can, anywhere from two to seven times per day. In usually a few days, swelling goes down, and viola: no boil/abscess achieved. This has treated me decently well for the past three years. It keeps the infected area clean, and involves no 'popping' whatsoever. I hope this proves to be as successful -- and less painful -- for you.

Well im 15 and was a bump and growed into like a bump i put a needle in it and kept proddin it until the thing was burst then i cleaned the area and there was like a little hole the i a really deep one im freaking out anyone no how to get rid of it without seeing a doctor or anything it would really help me

I know nobody has updated this in a while....but decided i would share too. 

I get these ALL the time. This may be TMI but i dont think i can get any more graphic than what u have seen urself...but it does help when u know it's actually normal, and i have found a trick that helps. 1st I would like to tell u about the 1 time i ever experienced this. I got this boil at my right pubic outer lip area. it was the most aweful thing & huge, bout the size of 1/2 of a golf ball. thats no exageration, but i think it got so big cuz i wouldnt quit trying to pop it. Well i found out that my bro inlaw had 1 b4 on his balls, His popped on it's own, & blood was all over the front of his pants. But mine just seemed to get bigger, it looked like it had a slight head, like a zit would. but it would not pop, even my hubby tried. It was soooo painful. My sis in law told me to try bacon on it, said it would cause the head to get bigger, Idk...something to do w/ the fat. I tried laying a hot rag on it. I just wanted it to go away. I couldnt even work...I was a stripper. Could u imagine? I 1st thought i caught something from the dance pole from another stripper. that was 13 yrs ago. after a few dys, approx. a week. it started seeping out puss. So i started squeezing & it gushed out all the puss & blood. & it had a really nasty smell. The swelling went down alot, but it took some squezzing & took about another week til it looked almost normal again. After that it was like i was proned to getting them. although i never got another as bad as that 1, but it's still painful. Usually i can get them to pop, i know ur not suppesed to squeeze them, but it hurts 2 bad cause i usually get them right at my bikini line or where my panty line is, , but it hurt just to even walk so i would have to pop or prick the head to take some of the swelling down I know ur not supposed to squezze them, so if i get 1, & i can see where the head is I'll take a sterile needle & just barely prick it allowing it to drain. Sometimes i would just the tip of my nails & pinch the head, it hurt alot less. But i have found out that after i shave, If u take deodorant & rub it where u have just shaven, i do not get razior burn, & during the 1st-2nd day that i've shaved I dont wear panties, & loose fitting clothes, like cotton short, sweats, pajama pants. they work great. Cuz everytime b4 after i shaved i'd wear a tight thong, a blue jeans, & almost immediately I'd develope this "ingrown hair" although i never actually say any hairs. I thought i was just irritaing me, & for the most part, i quit wearing thongs, exept when i dont want pantie lines. I hope this can help someone else. In the beginnig, I did thought it was an STD, from the dance pole, & me & my hubbby had only been together 3 wks b4 we moved in our own place...& his ex was a cheater. So even if u do think it's a boil, U may wanna check w/ ur Dr....just to be safe, especially if u r sexually active, I know that herpes can cause sore like blisters, & that was the 1st thing I wanted checked. & Unless there is an STD that i dont know of, Herpes if the only 1 that causes sores...but they r totally diff, & herpes have a tendacy to cause sores on & around the clit. As far as I know anyways. But if this only happens soon after u have shaved more than likely it is an aggrivated in grown hair. If u r still concerned that you may have herpes, u can find sights that show up exactly what herpes looks like. & will see that they deff aint the same. But i would Advice you DO NOT wear anything tight in ur pubic region, it will cause irritation, & if u still get them try the deodorant, expecially if u get raizor burn, also helps w/ the itching when ur pubic hair starts grown back. Hope this helped

 

HEY EVERYONE,

IM 23 YEARS OLD AND IVE HAD THESE LIL RED BOILS OR WHATEVER THEY SAY IT IS, SINCE I WAS A VIRGIN!!!!....SHYYT IDK WHAT IS IS. DOCTORS SAY THE SAME THING..BLAH BLAH

DUDE NO JOKE EVERY THING THAT THESE PPL SAID; ARE EXACTLY MY SYMTOMS, IVE HAD TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM IDK HOW MANY TIMES!,BUT I DEAL WITHIT AND TRY NOT TO IRRITATE THEM...DONT SHARE BATH STUFF...LUFAS SOAP ANYTHING!!!!. NEXT TRY NOT TO SHAVE TOO MUCH, YEAH YEAH UR GNNA HAVE A MUFF BUT WHO GIVES A sh*t WE WOMEN DAMMIT.... HAIRY OR RED BOILS....HMMMM,B BUT IF YOUR REALLY CANT STAND IT JUST GET IT WAXED AND IN WASH YOURSELF IN BETWEEN THE DAY, YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO CLEAN.. BUT YEAH I GUESS sh*t JUSY HAPPENS... HAPPY I COULD HELP!!!!!!

BAY AREA!

 

Hey everyone, im 16 years old and i believe i am experiencing the same problems as you all. A few months ago i noticed i had a pimple like bump in my pubic area that hurt and had puss in the center. So like any pimple i squeezed it and the only thing that happened over the course of 3 days was puss and blood came out and it got bigger and more painful. So on the fourth day i just squeezed it super hard and a white ball of puss and 2 hairs inside of it started to come out and i just pulled it out with some tweezers. the next morning there was a noticeable decrease in size of the bump and the pain was starting to go away. So besides the gaping hole that was left on the top of the bump for about 2 days... this solved my problem. The only problem is now i have another one and this method isnt working. Is there any other methods that i can try?

Just reading your post, I had these since I was a teen and now I am 35 and still having them. No cure so far. I have a lot of scars from them. DO you them same? Did you find a way to threat the scars?

I have one and it's quite embarrassing.. Mine doesn't really hurt anymore. I've had it for like 2 years, I try to pick at it and mess with it but I know you shouldn't do that. The new ones wanting to come in hurt but not this one. I've read all the stuff and I want to thank you all for helping out.. I really didn't want to go see a doctor about it because I'm afraid. I will try the hot water and  hydrocortise cream and tell you how it goes. Again thanks a lot and I hope these things go away soon! 

did it work for you? I have this same exact thing you had and i cant walk at all. it is too painful and i dont want to go to the doctor because it is to painful to even let anyone try to stick a needle in it to numb it or cut it open

I used to have these too until my doctor told me to wear loose fitting underwear such as boxers. The brief constantly catch hair and along with sweat and bacteria cause damage to where the hair was pulled fom on the skin . Sometimes the hair breaks and and the shaft will curl under the shakin and get infected. It keeps growing and pus surrounds and causes the gray mounds or red bumps. When gray you can squeeze under them and force the core out. This is very painful it will clear up within a day

I used to get these all the time too because my skin is so sensitive. I used to get severe diaper rash and so my mom had to use the cloth diapers on me. The cheap material used to make most underwear cause a bad reaction on my skin and especially because that area rarely gets time to breath it flares up on the sides, just as many of you explained.

Try to wear 100% cotton underwear or if you want to continue wearing cheap underwear, often made of nylon and other manufactured material then you'll need to stock up on topical antibiotics. I used topical antibiotics for years, every time i'd get a flare up i'd put it on and the inflammation would go away pretty much over night. I stopped using them however, because I was sick of putting it on my skin all the time.

Hello ladies well I must say I have to be an expert on this since I was a little girl ive been getting them. I found out that there not pimples, not cysts either. Its an abscess. But it all depends if u get one in your inner vagina lip there are bartholian glands if thats the case then its a bartholians cyst. Funny I should run into this forum. I was actually looking for something similar but with the hair instead. Last night I kept feeling a very annoying ache on the outer part of my vagina. I realized it was a hard layer it was dark and had two tiny holes in it. It wasn't an abscess, cyst or a zit! That was a first for me because like I said I get them a lot. Anyway I started messing with it trying to see if I could pull one or two of the layers of skin off. Nada! So I got a tweezer (very thin for those tiny annoying hairs that grow on your eyebrows) I put it in one of the small holes and tried to pull the skin off(didn't hurt much, we do have 7 layers of skin) a tiny black hair popped out I'm thinking ok that's it. Then I noticed I had broke the hair off instead of removing it completely, so I started to pull the broken piece out of the hole and when I tell u I had to pull and pull for at least 5 minutes that hair was so Damn long I was shocked I had never seen a pubic hair that long. It was crazy! So towards the end of the hair I'm assuming the root I got stuck!!! It wouldn't come out... nevertheless I kept tugging I started to feel this pressure against that hard layer of skin I had tried to rip off until finally I pulled so hard it came out and I am still in shock because not only was I pulling one piece of hair a huge glob of hair came out it was like a cats hairball. It was shocking I looked in three hole it left and saw more when it was all done I had pulled out 7 I repeat 7!!!!! Big balls of wrapped up pubic hairs. I had never seen anything like it, I'm trying yo figure out how that even accumulated like that. It must've been growning for months or even a year it was so much of it. Now this morning it was like it was never there! No hole no bleeding nada. Except that particular side of my vagina is a bit swollen and sore. I'm still wondering what happened. So ladies as far as the abscess and/or cyst(bartholians glands) here's a method I got from my nana (r.I.p) it never failed even works with pubic hair, ingrown hairs,pimples,acne! (If you have high blood pressure or diabetes I wouldn't advise it so much but it's safe enough) no chemical no creme unless u want. So here's how simple this is turn the water on completely hot as the water is running get a bowl or w.e not a cup while its putting into the bowl u take 1/4 of salt and sprinkle it into the water measurement basically a third of water and 1/4 of salt. Take a rag find it a couple of times let it sit in the water for about 1-2 minutes get comfortable take the cloth out lay it on the area that your treating hold it there 10minutes. And go about your day if u like after u can put neo on it try not yo wrap it tho works better when its aired out. U do that 1-3 times a day depends on u. The salt water brings it to a head and it will pop on its own within a few hours or days depends on how bad it is. Do not ever squeeze them I know its tempting but trust me u will regret it in the long run. It will come back with a vengeance. I've been there. Leave it bee!!! When u squeeze it the actual root (which is the cause of these things) will move further and no matter how much stuff comes out the root won't and it'll force itself to form another abscess. U need the root out its an impurity and as long as it's in u it'll always come back like chucky u can cut him stab him and he'll still be your friend to the end. This this helped ladies!! Good luck

make a poltice of tarragon powder mixed with ginger paste. I swear you will get a result