Hi, A bump appeared between my buttocks a year ago. I thought it was nothing, because it used to come and go each time I had my menstruations. A month ago this bump got infected and transformed into an abscess, this is when I decided to go and see a clinician. The physician gave me an antibiotic, which served for nothing and ask me to see a general surgeon as soon as possible. i took an appointment with a surgeon for a week after (wednesday). Meanwhile, I was taking the antibiotic and hopping it works. By Monday, I couldn’t handle it anymore, I couldn’t walk and it was also starting to open. I decided to go to the emergency. I knew that I had to wait for a long time but I had no choice, I wanted to get ride of it. The doctor looked at it and told me that, she will have to open it and drain it and that if I wait until I see the surgeon, he would do the same thing as her because it’s infected. So, at first they have to get ride of the infection to be able to see clearly the cyst. I accepted to drain it. Now how did it feel? Not bad. I was under local anesthesia. What hurts the more is the local anesthesia, afterwards I was looking at everything she was doing and I was even laughing with her. However, walking was a bit hard at the end and sitting also. She gave me tylenol and advil for the pain, but didn’t work that much, it gave me stomach ache and it made me go to see a clinician to have a pain killer. I had an open wound with a wick inside that I had to remove every day at first. The first time i had to remove the wick at the emergency and this was very painful, because at first the wick was very sticky and the doctor had no patience, he just tear it out one shot. Second, I didn’t take my pain killer 30 minutes before. So, recommendations: 1- Take your pain killers 30 minutes before removing it. 2- Ask the doctor to let the nurse remove it, because usually doctors don’t have time to remove it slowly. 3- Ask the nurse to remove the wick layer by layer, by wetting each layer so that you don’t feel a lot of pain. So, as I said, at first, I had to change the wick each day and afterwards each 2 days. And they measure it each week to see if it’s closing properly. I also got another appointment with a surgeon in 2 weeks. Once, I saw the surgeon, he touched the wound and told me that the cyst is still there and that I need a surgery to remove the cyst and I accepted. So, 4 days afterwards, I had my surgery. I had the choice, between General anesthesia or local anesthesia. For sure I prefer to be sleeping during the surgery, so I chose the general anesthesia. I also asked the anesthetist that I don’t want to feel any pain after my surgery and I asked the doctor to have the strongest pain killer. During the surgery, I haven’t felt anything at all, DON”T WORRY. The surgery took 13 minutes. After the surgery, I also didn’t feel anything, because they injected me a pain killer. When I woke up, they took me to the room, where I stayed with my mom for about 2 hours, then they gave me the prescription paper of the medicine and they asked me to change the wick every day at the CLSC, because it was also an open wick. I also had another appointment in 2 weeks. All of this happened the 28 april 2014. Yesterday, the 29 april 2014, I had to remove my wick for the first time, I took my pain killer which was Morphine, about 30 minutes before removing it with 2 tylenols. During the replacement of the week, I can tell you that I haven’t felt any pain, nothing. The nurse measured the wick and it was 2.5 cm deep, 6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. So, if you do the same thing as me I assure you to not feel any pain. However, it is surely a long healing process. Cheer up! Christina