I had the same problem. I had to see a doctor. You might need to see one to see whats going on, anything could be wrong.
hey your not alone...My inner thigh is covered in these dark depression spots and every month when i get my period one of the old ones or if i'm lucky a knew one will sprout and swell and maybe pop and ooze lovely puss and blood and it F-in hurts. I've been to five doctors and gotton them on my buttocks and on actually had the nerve to tell me they were from "sitting down" and then charge me 150 dollors. I'm also plagued by severe and paralyzing cramps that I can barely take care of my poor five year old boy who is so sweet he kisses my belly and brings me water when im sick.. I sweat get nausuasous, get so week so much pain and boils on top of it all. I agree womens health is severly understudied and not taken seriously. There is a reason for all this, I recently took a class with a nurse who told me not to bother with a general practictioners. She said find the number on specialist on these issues in my state and thats what i intend to do. I had one behind my ear taken out five years ago and sure is hell not getting that surgery on my inner thigh... i'm so glad you shared that with us! i had a bad feeling about just getting them "Removed" its putting a damn bandade on the problem. We need to find out more. I"m so tired of being sick two weeks out of the month. There is an answer and Im going to find it. Thanks ladies...I had no idea this problem happens to so many other women. I personaly don't know anybody and its extremely frustrating. Hopefully one day our health and not our boob size will be studdied more seriously.
I have suffered with HS since I was 23 years old. I am now 37. It is the most painful, embarrassing, dehumanizing, life altering conditions that one could have. At first I started getting boils a week or so before I started my period. They would be in my bikini area or between my buttocks. I went to many doctors and they said its from shaving. So I started waxing, they continued to get bigger, like the size of golf balls, and oh so painful. I went to so many doctors and they were clueless. They all told me to stop waxing and shaving. So I did. It did not make a difference. As I aged the boils continued to get worse and would not go away, I had constant boils that leaked puss and blood so bad that I would wear pads on the sides of my underwear. It was humilating and it smelled like rotting flesh. I tried to hide these from my husband, I didnt want him to know. So this had a huge impact on our sex lives. I just kept going to Dr.s and they kept giving me acne antibiotcs, but they never worked. Finally after suuffering for years I went to a Dermatologist and BAM she knew right away that I had HS. I was relieved that someone actually knew what I had. I could now put a name to this condition. Again she gave me stronger antibiotcs, they did not work. There were weeks on end that I could not walk because the boils had become so big and numerous. I could not work because of this either. It is disabling not to mention disfiguring. The Dermatologist said that HS is a life long condition and surgery rarely helps. In Dec of 2011 it had become so bad that I could no longer walk, wear underwear, jeans or anything. I would just lay in bed with wash cloths drying and cleaning the infected areas. The sinus tracts had grown like worm holes in my bikini area and between my buttocks. I had even thought of taking my own life because of this. I couldnt work, have normal relations with my husband, playing with my kids was out also because of the pain, not to mention the emotional toll this took on me. I am a very pretty woman and always take pride in how I look, but if people knew what was truly going on with me I would be mortified. I was at the end of my leash, ready to b done. No more pain, humilation, sickness, depression, pads on the sides of my underwear, EVERYTHING... I did not want to live like this any longer. I had been stripped of everything that a woman represents and holds dear to her heart. Plus SSD does not recognize HS as a condition that is disabling so we were struggling to raise a family of 5 on 1 income. I wanted it to be over. The depression that HS had caused almost killed me. I decided to go to a plastic surgeon knowing damn well I could not afford it. He took one look at my disfigured bikini area and said this is one of the worst cases of HS I have ever seen. He took a cotton swab of the infected areas gave me some pain pills and had me go home. 2 days later he personally called me and asked me to go down to his office. I had 27 different types of bacteria growing and living in the sinus tracks inside my body because I had been living with HS for so long. He knew my financial situation but he scheduled a surgery for 2 days after Christmas. I was under the knife for over 5 hours, he cut all the sweat glands and nerve endings on each side, plus to get rid of the deep sinus tracks that had formed he had to take 3 inches of skin of each side of my inner thighs. I ended up with over 500 stitches. I could not walk on my own for about 6 weeks, but I slowly started doing things on my own like making it to the bathroom, taking showers ect ect.. But... any movement would pop stitches so for four months I had to keep going back and getting more stitches. During that time I would still have little flares of HS and he would give me a local and cut it out and restitch. I was living in hell.. However a year later life is better. The areas that he cut are free of the condition for the most part. I still have an area that gets weepy before my period and I still get small boils on the inside of my buttocks right before my period. I have no feeling on the inside of my thighs, however small price to pay to b better. It is better, I have a better quality of life, no more smelly huge boils, I can walk, do things with my children and can have an active sex life with my husband. However HS is a life long condition, it will never go away. I will always have flare ups every now and then until the day I die. I still do not work, I found that walking a lot makes the flare ups worse and more frequent. Still SSD does not see this as a disability. I am thankful to the plastic surgon because he closed the sinus tracks so I dont seep in 95% of that area and there is no more horrid smell and I almost got my life back. I still need to see him, however I owe about $2000 to him and have not been able to finish paying off the bill, again 1 income for 5 people and I do not have medical Insurance. The total cost was 15,000 dollars. Ive done my best to pay it all off, but it seems as if something always happens, car breaks down, kids get sick, plumbing issues in this 60 year old house. Im still trying to figure out how to pay him because I need him and I owe it. There are still times I need to go see him because of a flare up but cant because I still owe him. I have large purple scars on each side of my bikini area, im still disfigured in that way and one of my vagin lips is biger than the other because the cuts he had to make. But I thank the Gods that it is better than it was a year ago. This is my cross to bare in life, and it sucks. This condition runs in famlies like diabetes. It is hereditary, and like diabetes it can skip a generation and hit the next. My Grandmother and my mother had it, however theirs was very mild. I hope my beautiful daughter does not get it. But if you have read all of this please know that you are not alone. 1 in every 100 people have this condition. It is not talked about very often because of how embarrassing it is for the one who has it, and most Dr.s are unaware of HS. They r clueless. A good Dermatologist is the way to go. But it is a life long thing. More studys need to be done on HS. Perhaps someday there will b a cure if there is more public awareness about it. I hope this will help someone out there who suffers with HS.
I have had menstrual boils for one full year - i tried two things i read on websites like this and no boils at all this month. Cut aspartame out of my diet and used an antibacterial hand cleaner on the skin where i get the boil as well. Not sure which one worked but so happy first time in a year that i'm boil free . Normally got one for week before and week of period
I had the same problem and I kept trying to figure out why I didn't get them before I was pregnant so I tried everything I did before. Nothing worked. I finally remembered I was on birth control pills before so I started that up again, and you know what, my boils have subsided. I also suffered from anemia and always wanting to faint, that has decreased also. If you are not against birth control maybe it's a possibility.
I thought I was one in a million, its good to know I'm not alone. Just kidding. Well from my own experience I contacted my dermatologist and it is called Folliculitis. Im not sure why it comes right before menstrual but to my own assumption it is because thats when our hormones kick in and hair flare up. I take medication for it Spironolactone and doxycycline and cream Tretinoin. Its very tedious and hard work, but the best solution is over the counter Benzoyl peroxide wash (PaxOxyl, Dermatopix etc) I hope this helps, because I know how embarrasing this situation is, Good luck all you beautiful ladies!
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