OMG, I am SOOOOO glad someone else posted this. I posted something similar somewhere, complaining about ingrown hairs that turn into boils. EWWW, but true. lol
I have had to have two of them surgically removed because the bacteria that causes them to inflame into such large and painful boils tends to be staph, which is often recurring, and many times embeds itself as resistent staph in the tissues and the boils will recur in the same locations periodically, and have to be removed surgically to rid your body of the chronic infection. Two of the ones I had removed lefts scars ... obvious scars. One of which is right in the middle of my right butt cheek
. How attractive is that during doggie style?
LOL
The other is in the "valley" between my right thigh and my pubic region. Then on the left side I have two others that will have to be surgically removed because they now appear as two bruises that will not go away. So my pubic region resembles Frankenstein's monster .... lol, stitching scars and bruising. OMG.
I have found that Nair does seem to prevent the recurrence in me. It is such a pain in the ass though, to sit and wait out the 10 minutes with that gunk spread all over my pubic region, with my door locked and totally unavailable to my very invasive and nosy kids. lol I have tried the coochy cream stuff .... doesn't work. I have tried shaving in direction of hair growth. Doesn't work. I can't afford Brazilian waxing and am embarrassed anyway :rollseyes , and I can't stomach the thought of doing self-waxing, especially after what Julie said about it once.
And, I am sorry, but I can't stop depillitating my hair ... just cannot live with bush. LOL
My doctors have told me NOT to lance the boils myself, but I have done that with some success, but still recurrence in the same area. When you go to the doctor to have it dealt with, they will lance the boil, which provides immediate relief of the agonizing pain, and I prefer to do it without anesthetic, because when they introduce the needle into the site, it hurts like absolute HELL, as well as the lidocaine BURNS like hell. It's basically far more pain than a quick swipe with the scalpel to open it up. The difference between the doctor doing it and doing it yourself is that the doctor will pack the wound to keep it from closing up immediately, allowing it to continually drain while you take antibiotics to kill the bacteria. Otherwise, without the packing, the wound will close, harboring the infection inside, requiring another lancing because it will not heal. And staph is a mutating bacteria .... different in everyone, which is why it becomes resistant so easily and requires the chronic tissue to be removed.
I guess I don't have any advice, just wanted to say that I can sympathize because I am a card-carrying member of the "Ugly Vagina" club. LOL I guess if you have no complainers, and it still works properly .... lol .... then don't worry too much about it. If someone is afraid you have herpes, let them know that herpes doesn't look like that. Go online and look at some photos of herpes outbreaks. Looks totally different than my nasty ass boils. lol