It stopped oozing a couple days after it exploded. I had my boyfriend finish draining it (i.e. poke, prod, and squeeze, which HURT!!) and he said it looked like all the pores in that region were enlarged, and one might have gotten seriously inflamed.
Thanks for the advice, though, if it comes back I’ll definitely have it looked at. And thanks for the song…I think.
In case you’re wondering if he loves you, the answer is yes. 
Good God, I read that initially as “I had my boyfriend finish drinking it”. :eek:
Do get it looked at (preferably by a doctor ). If it’s a pilonidal cyst, it can end up putting you in hospital (I was hospitalised for a week at a time twice when I was about 20 for one of these). My father and sister (cyster?) also had one. The longer you wait, the deeper they get, and the more intense the surgery gets. THe worst part is that after the surgeon excises the thing and drains it out, he can’t sew up the wound. It needs to heal naturally from the inside out, resulting in your having a gaping raw wound in your arse crack for about six weeks. This will be padded with gauze and changed daily by a nurse. There are also fun salt baths to be had.
The arse crack ones were common with US GIs from riding in jeeps with no suspension to speak of, and barbers get them between their fingers from customers’ hairs lodging in their skin.
Get thee to a doctor.
[John Rhys Davies]
Ass. Very dangerous.
You go first.
[/JRD]
Anyway, a friend of ours had a PC, and (now I’m getting the info third hand, so bear with me), some wee beastie took up residence, then decided to spread out, moving deeper and wider into his ass. He wound up having a good portion of his rear excised,* and then had to let it heal from the inside out, which involved *yards * of gauze packing.
So, ya know, keep an eye on it.
*Yeah, he’s now half-assed.
Come, come now ladies and gents. Don’t freak out our fair Giant_Spongess. There is another surgical method (warning: pdf) to treat a PC that doesn’t require a full excision with an open wound.
Bascom! Bascom! Rah! Rah! Rah!!
Don’t know, but I can see how a puss-oozing ass boil would make El Rushbo come to mind.
I didn’t realize till the third read that we were supposed to be singing this
to the tune of “The Cat Came Back”, as the tunes of both “The Beverly Hillbillies”
and “Gilligan’s Island” came to mind first and second.
Who else has heard other tunes in your head while reading this?
I heard The Yellow Rose of Texas which I suppose would be The Pimple of Giant_Spongess, in this case.
Ya know… It SAID TMI right there in the title.
And, when I rolled over the title, I also saw it was about some clogged-pore infected nightmare that dopers can’t seem to get enough of .
And yet… and yet!.. I STILL had to open it and read the horrific description that decorated so many previous threads with titles like Tell me YOUR zit-story or some such nonsense.
If you’ll excuse me… I’m going to vomit, wash my eyes with bleach, shower with ammonia whilst using a steel-bristle brush on my flesh.
Perhaps THEN I’ll be able to forget about these pimple-squeezin’ fiends on the boards here.
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Correct me if I’m wrong…are hairy-butted people more prone to this malady than the smooth-as-a-baby’s-butt crowd?
Somewhat, but hair from other places can lodge itself in the dimple and cause a cyst.
I am so ashamed to be doing this…
In “Under the C”, ass bites you!
I’d just like to say that I have managed to not click that link. I’m closing this window now.
One thing that happens is that hairs that are not growing in the area get lodged into the pores, and the victim of this unfortunate circumstance does not realize that they are foreign to the area and leave them be even if they notice that there is hair there.
Just washing the area is not enough if the hairs are allowed to stay.
I hope you are lucky and it clears up completely.
I have a smooth ass, thankyouverymuch.
It’s all healed now, nothing to see here…move along, move along.