I can’t believe I even looked at this show. I don’t think I could say the title of it out loud without gagging. But then, I click on links that I know will be pictures of spiders, too. So I watched it. And I thought it was very informative and interesting, although like ivylass, I spent a lot of time looking at a nearby wall!
I wonder how this poor doctor is ever able to eat! I’m off cottage cheese for a while myself.
What about sour cream and various flavors of custard?
:flees:
I’ve got suppurative hidradenitis and had the sweat glands in my armpits removed so now I don’t suffer from golfball-sized infected glands in my armpits. I still get the cysts in other places and yeah, I don’t see how it can be cured with surgery anywhere else. Or antibiotics. You just gotta take steps to avoid flare-ups and learn how to deal with them when they do come.
I do not watch Dr. Pimple Popper, fwiw. Considering my condition, I get enough of that nastiness on my own! 
That must be perfectly horrible for you. Do steroid shots help any?
Not to mention mashed potatoes!
I saw this show at the gym. Don’t typically watch it. I have done most of the procedures mentioned in an emergency room setting in Canada, to a good standard, although plastic surgeons and dermatologists have much more experience.
It is really hard to treat infected sweat glands, and the best new therapies may modulate the immune system, rather than be surgical.
The smell of some of these lesions is indescribably bad. This probably comes out on the show. I remember a rectal lesion that could be smelled three days later, even after they repeatedly disinfected the room!
Medical vocabulary includes words like caseous. Makes you not wish to eat cottage cheese, etc., for sure.
Most of these are, and should be, done under local anaesthetic.
Ovarian cysts should not be. I’ve seen quite a few that must have weighed over ten pounds.
I don’t fully understand the appeal of this show. In Canada, many GPs don’t do these procedures (or complain they can only bill small amounts despite considerable time taken), and specialists may consider them low priority. So they are not always resolved quickly.
I do like the show, but I don’t watch everything. I record it and fast forward through all the human interest backstory stuff. OK, I get that some of these disfigurements can make someone’s life miserable. But cut that stuff in half and get to the procedures! The guy with the cyst above the knew- holy crap. It must have been 1 1/2 cups of what looked a lot like bleached oatmeal. Awesome!
I suffer from hidradenitis suppurativa and antibiotics only make matters worse. It isn’t an infection like you normally think of infections. The only real relief I got was when I found a surgeon who had seen and treated it before. By the time I got to him I had, in one area-- my neck, 6 cysts that antibiotics made bigger and bigger until they tunneled together into one, gigantic very painful, stinky, debilitating mess.
Doctors think it is an autoimmune disease but little is concretely known. I should clarify about the antibiotics: If the site actually becomes infected and is not just copying the symptoms of a skin infection because it is a fucking bitch, then antibiotics are needed. As I said, I got to the knowledgeable surgeon pretty late in my disease’s first breakout. By that time all that could be done was to remove all the diseased skin. Miracle of miracles, it worked.
My armpits took a much longer time to get their act together. The left one suffered a real infection that made it so, so, soooooo much worse. After the 3rd surgery my doc said if it flared up again, he’ll have to remove skin from my butt to put there in order for me to be able to lift my arms normally. Luckily, it didn’t.
That was about 20 years ago. I still get my “lumps” every now and again. However, the best treatment I have found is to let them drain naturally. Unless it starts deep. Then surgical drainage may be necessary. I am lucky. Hidradenitis suppurativa is hard to treat, mostly because nobody really knows what causes it. They are not even sure what it is, exactly. Everyone who has it must come to their own treatment plan. But for sure it fucking sucks.