My friend had his lung removed due to cancer. They pulled it out through his side and he was left with this hole for 6 months after.

I had one of these once. The awful thing is that I was horribly embarrassed about it and the whole idea of having to go to the doctor to show someone my oozing asscrack terrified me. Not to mention that I had no health insurance at all. So I let it go and let it go some more. It was unbearably painful, but over a period of eight months or so I learned that standing in the hot shower encouraged it to drain.

My job at the time required sitting most of the day in a hard chair and I think that it irritated it and made things worse. Every so often I would try to poke it with a sterilized pin and squeeze it, but the pain, right? You know what I mean. Like someone is stabbing you with a white hot poker.

It began making a drainage hole about an inch below the inflamed area. It just seemed like it was getting worse and worse, so one day I finally had enough. I made a last ditch attempt to rid myself of it and decided that if it didn't work, I would have to suck it up and see a doctor. I spent two full days sitting with a heating pad on top of some wet washcloths that I placed over the cyst for hours on end. I could feel it draining and draining. Every so often I would have to get up and reheat the pad and rinse the pus and blood from the washcloths. Towards the end, I began squeezing it and squeezing it, as much as I could take. I thought I was going to pass out at times. But finally it seemed to have been drained.

I waited a week as it healed over and I never had any problems with it again. I do have a purplish, kind of bumpy scar there, it's not horrendous, but it's embarrassing, you know, being a girl. All that work to keep a nice bod, and I end up with an ugly scar in a titillating place. I always worried that I'd be down on all fours and some guy would see the scar and be put off, but I ended up marrying a great guy with a couple scars of his own, so I guess it worked out.

TL;DR - If you have a cyst, go see a fucking doctor.

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