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Victoria’s story

December 7, 2013

I want to share my story and what worked for me and the reviews people posted here really helped me. I didnt go to doctor and i didnt have a surgery and got rid of this afwul and really painful cyst.

I am 23 year old female. It took two weeks for this thing to go from pea size to huge and swollen extremely painful and then rupture. At first pain wasnt that bad but then it was getting worse and worse and I am very tollerant to pain but after a week of getting this thing it got so swollen red and extremely painful so painful that every time i tryed to get out of my bed to go to the bathroom i had to literally crawl on the floor or hold on to walls because i felt like im gonna pass out. It was just horrible. I felt nauseous too.

But this extreme pain lasted for three to four days. And when i begun experiencing this extreme pain i started my research and found this website… Tried many things that people wrote work but not everything helped me… Heres what i did. I bought heating pad, castrol oil, epsom salt, and tea tree oil, gauze pads. I spent four days in my bed with castrol oil + tea tree oil on gauze pad located directly on my cyst and then heating pad on high next to my butt making sure that the hottest part of the heating pad was located directly on the cyst. I would put something behind heating pad so that it stays glued to my cyst. I could not lay on my back or sit on my butt. So i would spend two to three hours in such position and then i would go take a really hot bath with epsom salt for 20 minutes. Then i would clean up the cyst area and do the oil and heating pad procedure again. I did this several times a day. Basically i was glued to that heating pad day AND night. It actually would help me with the pain. I didnt take any pain medication at all i really dont like taking meds.

Also i was drinking echinacea tea and taking my vitamins to boost up my immune system somehow. So i was sweating under two warm blankets and heating pad for four days. Then i could walk, couldnt sit cause the cyst was still firm but then on fourth day of all the procedures my cyst ruptured and it was immidiate relieve and then came more intense pain and all the nasty stuff was coming out for a day and it was really nasty and the smell was just horrible. But i was so happy that it was coming out and that castrol oil heating pad and hot baths helped me to get rid of that thing. I am so thankful for this website! I am so glad i didnt have to deal with hospitals surgeries and medical bills. I honestly thought i would die because i was in so much pain. Now i know how to take care of this thing to prevent it from coming back.

And special thanks to God for answering my prayers :).

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