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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Madrun Badrun on March 06, 2008, 09:33:48 PM
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Pilonidal cyst
A pilonidal cyst, also referred as sacrococcygeal fistula, is a blanket term for any type of skin infection near the tailbone. It is usually painful.
A traumatic event is not believed to cause a pilonidal cyst, however such an event has been known to inflame an existing cyst.
It is usually considered to be an acquired condition, but some consider it to be congenital.[6]
Doctors are not sure what causes a pilonidal cyst. An old theory is that a small and harmless cyst has always been present at birth, and that for some reason, it has become irritated and formed a painful abscess. Another explanation is that it is an ingrown hair that has formed an abscess due to pressure on the area.[7]
The condition was widespread in United States Army during World War II. More than eighty thousand soldiers having the condition required hospitalization.[8] It was termed "Jeep riders' disease," because a large portion of people who were being hospitalized for it rode in jeeps, and prolonged rides in the bumpy vehicles caused the condition because of irritation and pressure on the tailbone.
[edit] Treatment
Treatment for a pilonidal cyst usually begins when the patient goes to the doctor because of pain. It is treated as an infection, and a doctor might prescribe antibiotics as well as hot compresses and the application of depilatory creams to the lower back. Often the cyst is lanced, and surgery is a method that has met with some success for curing pilonidal cysts. Surgery on a cyst in the natal cleft may involve cutting out the skin and sinus in this area (excision). If the wound is packed, the patient or someone close to the patient is trained to replace the gauze packings. They must be replaced daily for 4 to 8 weeks (but healing, and therefore bandage changes, can last up to 1 year). The condition can recur, even after surgery. The chance of recurrence is much greater if the wound is sutured in the midline, compared to excellent results if the resultant scar is away from the midline, thus obliterating the natal cleft and therefore removing the focus of shearing stresses. Some people develop a chronic non-healing pilonidal sinus which must be treated with surgical excision and is bettered by relieving pressure on the tailbone.
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don't do a google image search. don't look on the second page.
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oh i had one of those
they hurt and they're kind of gross
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you've got a fat zit on your butt?
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So...a butt infection?
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it's actually at the base of the spine.
above the butt
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Fuck I have a zip on my butt near the crack too for the last few weeks. Shit just doesn't go away :maf
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it's actually at the base of the spine.
You know what else is at the base of the spine? The butt.
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it's actually at the base of the spine.
You know what else is at the base of the spine? The butt.
if you went to public school, sure
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page 116 in the sontag edition
i actually almost bought that today but i didn't want that specific edition/translation
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P: Did you really have one of those?
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P: Did you really have one of those?
yes
have you read it yet?
no. there's a complete edition i want to snag which contains the first and fourth editions which are supposed to be quite different
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i've actually read no ballard
i never really dove headlong into the transgressives
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Sniff the PUS when you burst it open. I've heard that it smells really bad.
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I would start with Crash first. It's much better overall, and a good test case to see if you can stomach Bataille.
i don't think i'd have trouble stomaching much
i mean i did read all of the dragonlance chronicles
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Sniff the PUS when you burst it open. I've heard that it smells really bad.
look on google. It's not a zit. It's like a tunnel - one that I can only assume leads to some kind of pus filled hell.
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this picture of arvie was on the google image search for this butt zit
(http://i31.tinypic.com/sbkcn6.jpg)
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I knew some one was going to post that.
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Sniff the PUS when you burst it open. I've heard that it smells really bad.
look on google. It's not a zit. It's like a tunnel - one that I can only assume leads to some kind of pus filled hell.
I don't need to use google to know what it is, moran. The treatment usually consists of surgically drainage, which means you'll get to smell it.
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How is it drained?
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They cut it open with a scalpel. It's usually extremely painful for the patient since the local anesthesia doesn't do much.
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i've actually read no ballard
i never really dove headlong into the transgressives
Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition and a bunch of his short stories are really the only blatantly transgressive things. Most of his novels are either dystopian sorts of things on concept fiction.
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They cut it open with a scalpel. It's usually extremely painful for the patient since the local anesthesia doesn't do much.
is there any way to force it to drain on it's own? help it along.
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They cut it open with a scalpel. It's usually extremely painful for the patient since the local anesthesia doesn't do much.
is there any way to force it to drain on it's own? help it along.
Put something hot over it like a towel you've soaked in hot water.
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i've actually read no ballard
i never really dove headlong into the transgressives
Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition and a bunch of his short stories are really the only blatantly transgressive things. Most of his novels are either dystopian sorts of things on concept fiction.
oh i keep meaning to link this
thought you may find this of interest
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They cut it open with a scalpel. It's usually extremely painful for the patient since the local anesthesia doesn't do much.
is there any way to force it to drain on it's own? help it along.
Put something hot over it like a towel you've soaked in hot water.
Thanks. Can you proscribe me something to help me calm down doc?
I'm really freaking out - and it's really stupid. I'm terrified of medical stuff.
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Not one, but two of my friends had the same condition during high school. They became known as the guys with two buttholes.
Buy one of those microwaveable hot packs from a pharmacy, and place it above your ass crack for 20-30 minutes every four hours. It should help the pus drain.
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Not one, but two of my friends had the same condition during high school. They became known as the guys with two buttholes.
DP :pirate
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Just had my surgery. A half inch deep incision into my ass crack. :'(
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Just had my surgery. A half inch deep incision into my ass crack. :'(
My God. Good luck with the recovery. And I Googled it. Fuck.
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warm up I guess.
Just had my surgery. A half inch deep incision into my ass crack. :'(
My God. Good luck with the recovery. And I Googled it. Fuck.
thanks.
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Fuck, a month of going in almost everyday to the doctors and my wound just got infected. :'( :'( :'(
MY BUTTS HURT.
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Im sorry man. :(
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you too? sorry man.
i did the operation about a month ago though mine was called Pilonidal sinus, dunno if it's the same but from the description it sounds like it. i went with surgery over drainage because that's more painful and there is a big chance it will return again.
unfortunately, after removing the stitches for a week, i had a small wound above my anus and now i have to change dressing every day at the hospital till it heals.
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Same thing.
Mine they didn't stitch at all and just stuffed it with dressing everyday after the surgery so that it heals from the bottom out. That way it prevents what happened to you.
At least mine is higher up; away from my god-given hole.
Thanks FOC.
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did the operation about a month ago though mine was called Pilonidal sinus, dunno if it's the same but from the description it sounds like it. i went with surgery over drainage because that's more painful and there is a big chance it will return again.
WTF is there a pandemic of this going around. Half the people here have it. I could be next. Jesus Christ!
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I think it's 1 in 100, 000. Unless you rode a jeep during WWII.
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http://www.pilonidal.org/
this helped me after doing the surgery, give it a read and see if you can find use of it.
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I read that too :-*
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did the operation about a month ago though mine was called Pilonidal sinus, dunno if it's the same but from the description it sounds like it. i went with surgery over drainage because that's more painful and there is a big chance it will return again.
WTF is there a pandemic of this going around. Half the people here have it. I could be next. Jesus Christ!
as long as your ass isn't hairy, i don't think you will have it.
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So wait sitting down gives you this disease? Fuck this, im never sitting down again.
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Mine they didn't stitch at all and just stuffed it with dressing everyday after the surgery so that it heals from the bottom out. That way it prevents what happened to you.
Holy fuck they really did toss your salad.
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Mine they didn't stitch at all and just stuffed it with dressing everyday after the surgery so that it heals from the bottom out. That way it prevents what happened to you.
Holy fuck they really did toss your salad.
:rofl :rofl
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Fuck. Saw my surgeon again today and he said it may take three fucking months to heal. He then put silver nitrate in it which burnt like hell. :'( :'( :'(
How is yours going McDragon?
edit: and before some one says it no he didn't mistake my hairy ass for a werewolf's. jerks.
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Another 3 months?! Jesus. At that point I'd just tell him to stitch me up, ass and all.
What the hell are you going to do for three months?
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I'll tell you what I won't be doing. Sitting.
I think when he said three months he meant total time so like another month and a half. Hopefully. When I first started going into the mediclenic all the nurses kept on telling me a horror story about a chick that had this same thing and had to go in every day for six months.
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shoulda stayed at your job for those easy paychecks
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Wait, you have a hairy ass, Arvie?
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Like a coconut. Did you not read the wiki thing?
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Just had my surgery. A half inch deep incision into my ass crack. :'(
:(
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Fuck. Saw my surgeon again today and he said it may take three fucking months to heal. He then put silver nitrate in it which burnt like hell. :'( :'( :'(
How is yours going McDragon?
edit: and before some one says it no he didn't mistake my hairy ass for a werewolf's. jerks.
2 months later and this wound is still open, small but still open.
now i am sitting on some salty water before i change dressing for the 100 time, feels good.
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ya they have me doing salt water baths too. Are you changing your own dressings?
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no, too lazy to do that. (and i don't think i can reach this place lol)
luckily, the nurse says it will be closed in 2 or so days, yay i guess.