Hey Everyone, Thought it was abt time i shared my experience with the cyst..mind the grammar.
Please read it fully as i have some important tips
Timeline: *first appearance: early 2017(guess , as i ignored the initial signs just like anyone) *It would drain during sleep>>(evident from my underwear)..and i went on with it for 4 months..once had to sit in a car for a 2.5 hr long drive…near the completion of the trip…felt excruciating pain at the area of the abscess(as it’s infected)..that was the toughest hour of my life. I never mentioned about this to anyone and was embarrassed as i knew it was oozing out blood and pus in the middle of the journey…that’s when i came to realize that this isn’t an ordinary wound.
I googled it and found out it was a pilonidal cyst ..fast forward a month..in my vacation i went to my doctor who saw me and told i had the cyst. Now coming to how i blew this bastard to oblivion.. Was given antibiotics to stop the recurrence and pain killers just in case…my vacation ended and i went back to my university(I am in Hostel). Had no recurrence for two weeks but one day the area of the cyst got itching like crazy..now my doc said that itching and soft lump are ways to discover if the cyst is infected…felt like i had entered hell again..cursed god for a day..after that a week passed but the abscess won’t drain at any cost…it was hard knowing that i had an active infection that refused to heal..got pissed..remembered reading how the sinus/cyst got infected in the first place..
*The sinus might have been there from birth or might have formed over time
*It gets infected if hair penetrates the skin , the immune system takinh the hair as a foreign substance reacts to fend it off..in the process leaving a hole in the region above the cleft. If left ignored the dirt from all the sweat and hair enter this hole leading to an abscess
*Decided to trim off the hair in that region to the best i could using the help of my phone…solved the issue of hair and sweaty dirt(caused by sweat along with the hair)
*Took a 40*40cm cotton cloth and applied all the compressive force that i could muster with a thumb and four fingers on the abscess. It broke open oozing out mostly blood and pus(mixed)(Note:1.This method is painful..but i was tired of wasting my valuable life and thoughts on this and had decided to move on as quickly as possible 2.Chances of getting septicemia is high)
*Washed the now drained sinus with glycerin soap (NOTE: IT will STING A LOT!!!..but rest assured..you have effectively prevented any chance of recurrence at least until the hair grows back.
*Lay down on my belly and played clash royale (reached league 1 that day and slept for 2 hours).
After this the opening of the sinus started to close like any other wound and formed a brown hard cover on top in 3 days..my curious hands peeled it off and to my surprise there was pink new skin and no sign of the hole..verified this for a week by taking photos of the region daily for a week and this also confirmed my theory that..’The hair in the cleft region along with the dirt from usual sweating in the region was hindering the cyst from kicking out the infection and the immune system to start healing the cyst opening…as this itself was the cause of recurrence..the trimming of the hair eradicated the chances of any hair entering the sinus and the cyst started healing as the infection i removed was the last’.
*This is an unorthodox way i used and it worked out *I’m still under my parents so never thought about surgery and costs.
*Took bath once n washed the cleft region twice daily. spent no money except for the pain killers and antibiotics and doctor consultation.
My thanks to pilonidal.org for all the information and personal stories i heard and they helped a lot.
Keep up the good work! Hope this helps someone out there!