Sebaceous Cyst Found in Gyno Region: Doc is conservative - Page 4

HH3 · 06-05-2006, 12:37 PM

I happened to call a local OB's office up earlier to see what the guy's schedule looks like this week, he IS contracted (thought he was not), and there so happens to be a rescheduling, which gave me the opportunity that I needed, and I have an appt. for 1:45 this afternoon. Yippee!

Let's hope that we can work together to REALLY get the scoop on what my dilemma is and, more importantly, FIX IT!

I'll post back later on my findings.

Thanks for listening,

Hoosier

need_to_loose · 06-05-2006, 04:09 PM

I don't have any advice on the Cyst thing but when it comes to DR's, they are constantly having cancellations, if your schedule allows, call up every morning and ask if they have any cancellation appts that you could slip into.
I did this with the Dr for my sleep study and it worked great, changed a month away appt. to the next day.

mraleigh01 · 06-05-2006, 06:00 PM

I may be able to offer a little advice here. I"ve had two run ins with cysts in that area. One was huge and disgusting, pus filled. Doctor gave me some strong antibiotics and the infection went away. The cyst is still there, but it has not become infected since that once (about 7 years ago). It's more towards my thigh crease, so who cares.
The second one seems more like yours. i swear there was a lump (and yep, scared the you know what out of myself on the internet of all the possible things it could be. I had it for a while and the only comfort I got was sitting in a warm bath with epsom salt. I dreaded my period but it would always subside when that time came. GO figure.
My ob coul dn ot find any lump, but I knew it was there. SO he said I probably have a bacterial infection (mind you, I had this a very long time). He prescribed a tube of 'clotrimazole and betamethasone dipropiante cream USP 1%.
Hello! IT was the ticket. I used it just a couple days and that pain/lump has not returned.
I hope you got to the bottom of this with your last app't.

HH3 · 06-05-2006, 11:07 PM

Thx for the additional replies.

Well, go figure. The guy couldn't find the lil bugger! Can you believe it? Probably went into stealth mode...

Anyhow, he reiterated what my present doc said: it's asking for trouble to go after something if it's TINY because what will most likely happen is that the scalpel (sheer act of declaring war on something so minute) will wreak havoc on the surrounding tissue.

Use this analogy: Try going after a flea in a haystack. Chop away at the haystack just to get to the flea, only to discover that the flea (small and wiry fella that he is! LOL) has disappeared, and you've already tore apart the haystack, throwing hay everywhere and making one big mess (that may seem like a silly analogy, but it's the only way I know at this second in time to explain it in layman's terms! ha ha)

He said, "We like to get at these things when they're big," and mine evidently isn't at that stage. I don't know how large it was, though, when it flared up a few weeks ago, but if it was, that would've been a golden opportunity for my present OB to try to reduce its size.

This guy that I dealt with today mentioned Keflex and some other topical cortizone ointments, but he said that he just didn't feel/see it, but he DID say, "I know that you women get these," so he was also reassuring me that he knows that I'm not blowing hot air around...

So, my present OB isn't "fired." LOL I wasn't planning on giving him the boot. He hasn't done me wrong; he's just conservative.

The guy today was more thorough than my present OB. I don't know why my present doctor wasn't that thorough. He probably hoped that he wouldn't find anything, yadda yadda.

The area still hurts, and I was advised to continue hot tub soaks and to put some Neosporin on it (that won't hurt me), but he said that the Temovate, being a steroid, would have done nothing for a sebaceous cyst. Then again, when the Temovate was prescribed, the doctor hadn't said anything about the possiblity of it being a cyst.

Thanks for all of the replies. I need to cancel my appt. in the city that I had scheduled for next week. He would probably say the same thing. And, he might not see the little critter, either...

NitroChic · 06-05-2006, 11:39 PM

Kerri...I agree. My hubby gets them on his back pretty bad. When they get too bad, he HAS to go in. The last one they packed with more than a foot of gauze string. OHHHHHHHHHHHH how horrible.....I usually use hot compresses on him when they flare up bad... THey go back down for sometimes months.. Just something he has to live with.