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lsu mike 
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| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 11:12 am to TheDoc)
You could very well be right but I will do anything to not have another one of those. Worst pain I ever had to endure for a extended amount of time. Just relaying what he told me to do and what researching the internet on the subject said as well. If I get another due to shaving will never touch it with razor again in my lifetime. 
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Dr. 3
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Member since Mar 2005
10781 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 11:17 am to TheDoc)
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Shaving that area just seems like a bad idea because your chances of having an ingrown hair go up a dramatically.
I had my first one years ago and they told me I needed to keep shaving it, which was impractical, especially since I was a 19 in college with no GF. For about a week I had home health nurses shave the area.
Fast forward to now, its back and I really dont want to deal with this shite.
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LSUMJ
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BR
Member since Sep 2004
13656 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 11:17 am to lsu mike)
ive had it twice
and IT SUCKED
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KAVandy05 
Vanderbilt Fan
Nashville, TN
Member since Sep 2011
231 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 11:26 am to FGCU Gator)
Best thing I did was get it lanced first. I don't know if an ER will do it, but a General Surgeon can do it in his office. Hurts like hell even with a numbing injection, but you'll start feeling better after a day.
Get ready for lots of crying in the shower with blood running down your legs after surgery, kind of like a rape victim.
I didn't really shave like they said, but packed and repacked the site with gauze religiously which sucks because for the first few weeks you're basically ripping out a scab each time.
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doublecutter
LSU Fan
Hear & Their
Member since Oct 2003
2015 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 12:22 pm to KAVandy05)
a friend of mine that is a plumber suffered with this. He gave a new meaning to "plumber's crack".
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eyepooted
LSU Fan
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jul 2010
776 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 12:37 pm to doublecutter)
HOLY CANNOLI!
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laxer17
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NOLA
Member since Jan 2012
2613 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 12:57 pm to eyepooted)
Not clicking that link
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Jobu93 
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Cypress TX
Member since Sep 2011
2169 posts
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| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 1:14 pm to laxer17)
ugh. I watched it.
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Philthy
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Eunice
Member since Sep 2011
233 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 1:18 pm to eyepooted)
why did i just watch that???? 
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ryan985
Member since Nov 2011
1354 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 1:26 pm to Philthy)
I hate positioning and prepping these at work. Nothing like flipping some dude on his belly with his arse straight in the air. frick all that. I'll go do some breast reconstruction
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mctiger1985
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Member since Oct 2009
894 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 2:32 pm to FGCU Gator)
Had surgery to remove mine in Dec 2011. Hasn't bothered me since. Had it for a few years and after the last flare up I had enough. I was worried about having surgery because a lot of things I read said they had to leave it open. Well the doctor I went to said he could close it up and he did. Very minimal pain because I pretty much just laid around all day. It wasn't really draining the way I thought a surgical wound would. Turns out the only opening was at the top and the first time I truly sat down on a hard surface(The seat of my truck), it decided to drain gallons of gooiness all over my seat.
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TigerstuckinMS
LSU Fan
Member since Nov 2005
3503 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/21/13 at 4:00 pm to Philthy)
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why did i just watch that????
Who wants a strawberry shake?!
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FGCU Gator 
Florida Fan
Coronado
Member since Oct 2008
1744 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 2:45 pm to TigerstuckinMS)
Bump.
I'm in surgery!
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DrTyger
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Member since Oct 2009
15432 posts
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| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 2:50 pm to FGCU Gator)
Don't think an iPhone is sterile.
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eyepooted
LSU Fan
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jul 2010
776 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 2:52 pm to DrTyger)
Take a video of that nasty pocket of hard puss coming out!!!
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BengalBen
LSU Fan
Member since May 2008
822 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 3:02 pm to FGCU Gator)
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I'm in surgery!
Congrats. I hate to say it but the fun is just now starting. The healing process is slow and painful. As many have said, it has to heal from the inside out and that takes a long time. I stuffed mine with gauze as directed and still had to reopen it because it closed too soon.
Pulling the gauze out after it's dried and stuck is about as much pain as you can have.
Glad to know I'm not alone in my experience.
And....mine has not given me any problems since it healed. It was about 20 yrs ago.
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Sid in Lakeshore
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Member since Oct 2008
18162 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 3:05 pm to TJG210)
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I've never heard of this ailment, but for some reason I can't look away from this thread.
My skin is crawling,,,,er,,um,,,,,puckering.
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Swoopin 
Auburn Fan
Member since Jun 2011
12870 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 3:13 pm to FGCU Gator)
I never heard of these cysts until I read about them on the OT last year. Ever since then I've been terrified.
Something about your tailbone piercing your skin, and then you having 2 epidermal layers with the inner one growing hair inside your body?
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jeff5891 
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Aug 2011
1786 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 3:19 pm to FGCU Gator)
Have it as well,
Only way to get rid of it is to have surgery to remove it.
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Fight4LSU
LSU Fan
Metairie, La.
Member since Jul 2005
5521 posts
| re: OT Doctors: Pilonidal cyst**Updates Erry'where*** (Posted on 1/22/13 at 3:33 pm to FGCU Gator)
These things are awful! I had one about 8 years ago. Couldn't sit or even lay comfortably. Went to the ER before a head developed, the Dr. told me it may be authritis.
After a couple more days, I can finally feel a head, so I went back to the ER. Got it cut and stuffed with gauze, man that was 10 tons of relief.
It came back a year later, and it didn't hurt as much, but it was uncomfortable. So I waited for it to pop. After, I went to the ER and they finally cut the whole thing out. Haven't had one since.
They will stuff you with gauze. You've gotta change it constantly. It has to heal from the inside before you let the hole close back up again. If the hole closes before, then you have to go get cut again.
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