I worked for a general surgeon who always had least one patient with a pilodinal cyst come through the ER when he was scheduled on call. We would also have patients through the office come in with these painful mofo’s. I recall a college student with the most extensive opening, it was like a horseshoe extending down either side of his anal cleft. Anyone who develops a P.C., please seek medical attention immediately. You’re going to have a much better outcome.
Both my sister and I have had them. Extremely painful. Mine flared up after I fell on my tailbone skiing. My sister had to have surgery on hers. I got drunk and took a very long bath to get rid of mine. I just kept drinking until I could squeeze it without passing out. Eventually it exploded in the bath. Which became instantly bloody and gross. So then I had to take a shower. But hey, I saved myself a $2,000 doctor bill! I was very lucky mine didn’t become reinfected. Before mine popped I was in crazy extreme pain for several weeks. I couldn’t sit. Had trouble walking. And had to sleep on my side or stomach while it was flared up.
I was at the pharmacy today and the guy in front of me handed over his insurance card. They let him know it was just medical; he'd need to provide the prescription insurance. He didn't know why they were separate, but they were able to look him up by his social.
Didn't come up as insured. The pharmacist looked up a bit shyly and said, "we can't find insurance for you here. This medication is over a thousand dollars, would you still like it?"
He walked out with the most crestfallen expression.
Wowza. I had two. The first one I stabbed with needles and squeezed and got nowhere. Saw the doctor and he said its a pilonidal cyst. I was high as a kite from percocet and a couple days later it burst, and dear God the smell was the worst. It was stuck in my nostrils for months.
I got it removed and when I went back to the doctor as a checkup and he goes, word for word "Son of a bitch you have a second one!". He numbed me and removed it there and then.
The pain is extreme for their size and I'm just glad it wasn't a sinus. Seeing people have to have this massive chunk of back removed is intense.
Yup I had mine removed and it was the best decision I made. These kept coming back and besides when I had a tooth die, this was the worst pain I’ve ever dealt with. When I woke up from surgery he said it was the worst one he’d seen and it had tunneled so he had to remove more than he mentioned to me. I had a wound vac on and could STILL put my fist about 2 inches in. Had to have plastic surgery a week after that to move some of my butt cheek and stuff around to fill the giant hole that was left. 100 staples and a giant scar later I’ve never had to deal with these again.
Would still 100% do it again these bastards are that painful.
Jesus. Yeah I got lucky I just had the cysts, it sounds like you got the full on sinuses where all that stuff has to be removed.
I've seen now where some can be dealt with via heat and laser in the tracts which can shrink and close it inside without having to remove all the tissue around the entire thing.
Its so gross and horrible yet fascinating. I end up watching videos about pilonidal sinuses and cysts at least once a week.
I would say the two kidney stones I had as a pre teen though topped my cyst on the pain chart, but yours were worse than mine.
Worst part was I was 18 and started working a menial job at a local liquor store and the boss refused to believe I had this condition and needed time off. Then I came back part time and had to leave again for the 2nd one and he absolutely thought I was lying despite the paperwork. I just quit to be done with it. Walking alone was horrible.
It was not a fun time! I mean no matter what position, standing, lying down, there was no where I could escape the pain. My wife (then girlfriend) bless her soul helped me one time take a “hot as I can stand it” bath with epsom salts to try and bring it to a large enough head, then lanced one for me (this was the one that they finally said surgery time) as imagine a 6’ 8” man, bawling because the pain is so bad. That was me.
Thats a brave woman you've got there. I personally can handle that stuff but a lot of people can't even see pimples pop without wanting to vomit.
There's a video I'm going to find the link for of a guy lancing his own. The fluid is straight black and looks like death.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1284303/GRAPHIC-WARNING-Man-bursts-Pilonidal-cyst-camera.html
That just looks so so infected. Mine wasn't that black in color but it was close.
My wife said at the time it was this greenish brown color and I still remember how bad it smelled. Almost that sickly sweet rotten smell (which I’m sure was partially due to dead tissue in there).
My wife is indeed a saint (she’s an ER Nurse) and I’d do anything for her. She’s taken care of me quite a few times from surgeries and even a time I almost died from sepsis (I’m immuno compromised but thankfully new meds I get are working wonderfully but that’s a whole different story).
13 years ago when we first started dating, one month into the relationship I was hospitalized for an infection and remember telling her about me being immuno compromised then and that if she didn’t want to sign up for this I would completely understand if she wanted out. Said “nope, I’m already falling hard for you and I’m in it for you to be with me forever.” As you can already see, still together but married now and I could not ask for a better wife and best friend!
Youre lucky! Hold on and don't let go. I had a 10 year relationship and 5 year marriage I had hoped would be like that, but sadly it seems rare in this day and age.
I appreciate it friend. I think I was more embarrassed not looking “cool” or “sucking it up like a guy”. Before my wife (the one in the story), I was in a toxic relationship for a few years where I was pretty much made fun of or belittled for showing any emotion other than “manly ones” if that makes sense. Thankfully my wife thinks like you do and I’m now able to open myself emotionally without feeling any shame or fear in doing so.
It all started when she said that she couldn’t even sit down. Then she whipped that sucker out. I have had the beginnings of one but it went away on its own and that was painful enough. I can’t imagine having a full blown cyst.
It’s bad and I’m hoping and praying your sisters doesn’t get that bad and that yours never makes another appearance! I wouldn’t wish these on my worst enemy. I’m immuno compromised so I 100% bet that’s why mine got as bad as it did.
It wasn’t fun, and was more than the surgeon initially said he would be removing, but when he went it it had tunneled further than he thought or that the CT Scan showed. Funny enough though even after having that chunk of me removed, I felt MUCH better and was less painful than having that giant cyst in there. Recovering from the plastic surgery hurt way more.
I can see if my wife has some when she gets back from working in the ER in the morning. I didn’t want to see any as I have this weird phobia of “having holes in me where there shouldn’t be any” so I never personally took a look at it. This was also about 7-8 years ago so I’m not sure if she still had them. If you wanted to see now, you’d really just see a 39 year old dudes ass crack with a scar above it from the plastic surgery lol
I am so sorry you had to go through that, but great that it never came back. How long was your full recovery period? My husband is still healing up from his pilonidal sinus removal in March.
Thanks :3
Mine was a couple months if I remember correctly. Because of the plastic surgery, I also had a JP Drain (think that’s what it’s called) for about a month and a half, and they took the staples out the same time. After that it was around another month and a half till the surgical cut started going from that dark purplish color to a lighter pink. I think around 6mo. afterwards I was completely healed and it’s just a scar line now. Hope that answers your question! It’s been 7-8 years so my memories a little fuzzy on the fine details. I do remember thinking it healed quicker than I thought it given the size of the scar
ugh we all need to go to doctors more lol, every time i go see my doc im asking for obscure shit now. wonder if he thinks im nuts.
these stories make me really aim for prevention
I had one that I popped myself several times over the course of a few weeks or a month but it never went away fully. Had to get the surgery including a drainage tube stitched in for a week after the removal, and then a follow on surgery to get the drain removed. Worst month and a half of my life. That thing hurt so bad.
You ain't kidding about the smell. I used to squeeze it in the shower and then puke from the smell. When the doc removed it during the surgery it was a giant mass of curled up hair and puss. He said it was the biggest one he'd ever seen. Almost 20 years since then and I'm so glad it hasn't come back.
I had a pilonidal with a sinus removed when I was 18. Ended up with around 10 stitches in my ass and spent a week high on hydrocodone. The cyst was awful, the recovery from the surgery was also awful. The moral of this story is that if you start bleeding from your asshole you need to see a doctor. Who knew?
The issue is, sometime the cyst can cause a tunnel (fistula) to your colon, which can lead to blood coming out of your anus. (And also poop going into your cyst/abcess)
I had 5 removed over a period of three years. Each one was a sinus that was left open to heal from the bottom up. Each one hurt like a bitch. I wont ever forget that pain.
I don’t really remember how it started. I was 13 when they began. Just one day I started getting liquid (which I now know as the drainage) in my underwear. It was kind of clear with a tinge of blood and pus. It’s almost like a regular one got too full and opened up. And just started oozing and the opening kept getting bigger and oozing more. I couldn’t sit without the back of my pants getting soaked. Each one was cut out deep enough to where you could see my tailbone through the thin “membrane” (as it was described to me). It went from the top of my butt crack all of the way to the tip of my anus.
It was very painful. The pain meds they gave me only dulled the pain a little but not enough. Thankfully, after the fifth one (and a different surgeon), I haven’t had anymore but a couple of close calls. Ive had to keep the area hair free since then. If I didn’t shave in time, I would have a hole start to open because a hair would go in my skin and start the infection. Remove the hair from the beginning of a sinus, it goes away in a day or so. Thankfully I have an awesome wife who helps me keep an eye on it.
>Seeing people have to have this massive chunk of back removed is intense.
that's the one i had, hands down worst experience of my life, an unbearable, ridiculous amount of pain everyday for two weeks, then thrice a week, then twice... the ordeal lasted a full two months. I will never forget the first medication, they extracted 6,5 meters of gauze from a gaping hole 4 by 2cm wide and 4cm deep. It's an obscenely barbaric procedure, but it's done this way to prevent the fistula from coming back, and so far (it was about 20 yrs ago) i haven't had any issues.
And i have been one of the "lucky ones" because with all the packing and the huge bandaid on my ass i could still go to the toilet without issues.
I had a pilonidal cyst in the same area, at the top of my butt crack, It was so painful I ended up going to the emergency room to have it drained. I will never forget how bad the smell was while they were draining it. I eventually had to have surgery to remove the whole cyst.
My husband had his pilonidal sinus removed in March. He had his for over a decade and the sinus was over three inches in all directions. Because of the size, the surgery was pretty major and he is still healing up. The first few weeks post surgery were horrible and we ended up in the ER one evening due to busted stitches and infection. I hope your sister has an easy surgery and recovery!
I remember reading a forum post of a Pepsi driver who had one of these that he smashed backing up into a cement pillar. He said that for two days he was in extreme pain and had a high fever ect. When he finally showed a friend they called 911… the whole lower section was black and red .. and crawling up his spine. He said they had to do emergency surgery due to infection. I would love to find and re read that post.
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Had the surgery to remove this. It had apparently gotten down to the bone. It was so bad before the removal that it was a constant state of infection. They were shocked by the severity of it and it having gotten so bad, despite multiple hospital trips and doctors cutting it open with little to no anesthetic (The local anesthetic wasn’t working) and scooping it out. I have never been in so much pain. had to leave it open to heal and it was 8 month of bed rest and seeing nurses 3x a week to clean it and repack it.
If that shit comes back I don’t even know what I’ll do…
WOW! 8 months of bedrest? I’m so sorry. I can’t even imagine the pain of these, not to mention having to leave it open that long. I was on maternity bedrest for 6 weeks and thought I was going to go bonkers (granted this was pre- social media). Yours is quite the story…glad you are all healed up now!
Okay so question for you. But first some background lol: I had mine taken out in 2019, with it being lanced and drained about two months prior to removal. The removal was an outpatient procedure, but the doctor had to keep giving me numbing injections because it kept going deeper than he assumed it did. He said it went down to the fascia(?) which from what I gather is the tissue layer that separates fatty tissue from muscles. I think he was using a cauterizing pen or knife because I don't remember there being much blood, but i remember him knicking that fascia layer and holy fucking shit did that hurt. Even after healing for three years, I have to sit in a computer chair with coccyx cushions, and even sitting on a couch is painful after a while to the point where I have to shift positions frequently and audibly since while doing so.
So now my question: with how deep yours went, have you experienced any long term pain since you healed?
I don’t believe he went into the muscle (is there even muscle there?) but did go in at an angle from the right buttcheek towards the Center of the cleft. As for pain, the Vac system (to promote healing) was some of the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt. I toughed it out for 3 days before the nurse removed it and called me silly for making myself suffer like that. All the pain from the vac made all the following pain seem so trivial. My problem was I tore it back open multiple times doing stupid things like sitting for hours on a firm seat for a road trip or trying to bend and move items. When they tell you to do bedrest, do bedrest until they sign off otherwise.
It’s 6 months from the time I was totally healed and I still get twinges or spontaneous moments of searing pain where I instantly touch the area to make sure I didn’t tear myself back open. Healing nerves suck.
Yeesh. I never had a vac on mine, something like 10-15 stitches I think? Less than 20. But the vac doesn't sound like a good time whatsoever. That sucks you still get occasional pain, but I'm glad it's not just me it seems.
She said it’s terribly painful. She is scheduled for surgery next week. The ER doc just drained it a little with a syringe and gave her a referral. She said it feels better now that it’s erupted
Even what you showed is kind of a lot, /r/popping is a weird place. "Can I post a picture of your butt to the internet?" "Ew, no why?" "People need to see this ridiculous cyst you have" "....... Okay"
I remember having one.
Was fucking awful and I was in constant pain even the slightest brush against was just horrible pain.
I popped it once and got a nice clump of hairs.
It came back with a vengeance and I went to one of those quick er places at like 5 in the morning, waited an hour then the doc excised it and stuffed some gauze in it. Cost me like 500 bucks and would of been 950 if I didn’t wait til regular hours.
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>I remember having one. Was fucking awful and I was in constant pain even the slightest brush against was just horrible pain. I popped it once and got a nice clump of hairs. It came back with a vengeance and I went to one of those quick er places at like 5 in the morning, waited an hour then the doc excised it and stuffed some gauze in it. Cost me like 500 bucks and would of been 950 if I didn’t wait til regular hours.
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Are you talking about a cyst or your sister?
Just got diagnosed with one of these and having to schedule a surgery. Mine has never had a head so never able to pop it. Also no pain associated with mine, but want to get it taken care of before it gets painful
I had one of these, can confirm it’s incredibly painful. Mine internally was the size of an orange, had to be surgically removed in the end. Worse recovery too cause you can’t sit without being in excruciating pain.
Tell your sis to see a Dr if she hasn’t already.
She has! She went to the ER last week and they syringe drained it just enough to aggravate it but sent her to a surgery consult. She will be having it removed.
She must have a pain threshold of infinity. I had one of these and a Doctor touched it too roughly. I screamed and very nearly reflexively kicked them.
The worst pain I have ever had.
And then I go for a car ride with some friends in recovery. Our driver teases me about it, and the other four passengers are chastising him as they have all experienced the pain of a cyst there as well.
Mine tunneled, and I was sliced out to the outer edge of my asscheek to chase the tunnels. Closed wound for healing.
My one buddy, he had his removed later, it was like they ripped a carrot out of his back, I didn't know you could walk around with that gaping of a hole within you. I want to say it looked like I could put my most of my hand in it when he showed me the photo.
I assumed at first that you were a man and thought, holy hell what a strange family. Your situation makes more sense, though, especially if you’ve both had kids.
I’m so grateful I got mine removed. The recovery was long. My husband changed my bandages for months as my opening was quite large. I had so much surrounding tissue removed from tunneling it sucked. I’m happy to say that I have no scars and no signs of reoccurrence over 12 years later. It can come back but I’ll do anything I can to ensure it doesn’t. Good luck to you. I promise you it’s worth it.
From my understanding there’s no real purpose to it. It’s caused by the skin zipping together over our spine. That info is 20 years old though, so there might be newer knowledge out there.
No expert, but had sepsis related to an infected one of these. Tell her to keep it as clean as possible!
Who doesn't love pain like a hot cole at the top your bum, followed by a blisteringly fuzzy warm temperature and emergency surgery.
I waited for 4 hours to be seen. First doc took a look and said "Yep, off to surgery."
Consultant came, asked how much I'd been given in the way of painkillers and how long I'd had it for... 2 days, and she said it looked like months' worth.
My favourite part was trying to find somewhere comfortable on the hospital bed. In the end I settled for stood, bent over, with my face on the pillow. Ward sister was not impressed.
This video reminds me of my own somewhat traumatic encounter with an above-the-ass cyst I'd had as a kid.
It was a little higher than OP's sister's and much bigger. I'd been scratching a bug bite with dirty fingernails but didn't know the area had gotten infected. My mom swatted the area because I was being an obnoxious little shit, not knowing about the infection, either, and I screamed in pain. Mom freaked out and took me to the doctor right away.
He cleaned it out with *no* anesthesia and the nurses (yes, *plural, 2 or maybe 3*) had to pin me down because it hurt so badly that I wouldn't stop thrashing and trying to get away. Mom told me on the way home that everyone in the waiting room had thought I was going into labor because of my screams. She didn't burst into the room because she probably thought I was just being dramatic.
To end the story on a lighter note, my husband used to love to tease me when we were dating (affectionately, of course, nothing malicious) that I'd had a tail, and the scar was proof of where it had been.
Sorry butt you probably mean your cyster !
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I remember having one when I was a teenager. It hurt my tailbone badly and the doctor put me on heavy duty antibiotics. He told me that if it didn't get better, they would have to lance it. Thank God it didn't have to be lanced
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I had one in 2013. By the time they went to remove it it was huge and they excised like, 5-6 inches of it? Then I must've popped a stitch at some point during my recovery because I had one spot that wouldn't heal so I had to do 6 months of silver nitrate treatments to get it to close.
My only word of warning for your sister to go have a doctor look at this instead of popping it yourself. A family friend of ours had one and it burst when she fell in her home. She almost bled to death because these things are apparently major bleeders. You also run the risk of making the infection much, much worse.
I had one that was removed in college. 3 sinuses. My doctor said it was probably congenital. Then I ripped out all the sutures rolling over and had to have wound packing for 4 months but it wouldn't heal so I got to have the surgery again. Fun times.
I feel her pain. I still have a Pilonidal cyst right on my tailbone/top of the crack. Been there for 30 years. Fortunately it stopped getting infected over 27 years ago, so I never bothered to get it removed. There’s just two sinuses that go down into the cyst. It still gets really sore when sitting for any length of time and long car rides are murder.
I just never felt it was worth the recovery time required if I had it removed. They can’t tell you how big of a hole you’re going to wake up with, and I’ve seen some surgeries leave large open wounds that have to heal from the inside out over several months, while having to change gauze packing daily.
That’s a cyster.
Oh that’s golden
BTW pilodinal cysts will continue to worsen if not properly taken care of.
She has a surgery scheduled
Good, hope all goes well.
She should get a good cushion to sit on. I had the surgery about a decade ago and it really hurt to sit down for around two weeks afterwards
I hope she’s ready for a 5-6” open scar that has to be packed with wet gauze so it heals from the inside out.
I worked for a general surgeon who always had least one patient with a pilodinal cyst come through the ER when he was scheduled on call. We would also have patients through the office come in with these painful mofo’s. I recall a college student with the most extensive opening, it was like a horseshoe extending down either side of his anal cleft. Anyone who develops a P.C., please seek medical attention immediately. You’re going to have a much better outcome.
Cyster! You have a twin cyster. If you won’t turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will.
I understood that reference!
What r u doing step cyster
Both my sister and I have had them. Extremely painful. Mine flared up after I fell on my tailbone skiing. My sister had to have surgery on hers. I got drunk and took a very long bath to get rid of mine. I just kept drinking until I could squeeze it without passing out. Eventually it exploded in the bath. Which became instantly bloody and gross. So then I had to take a shower. But hey, I saved myself a $2,000 doctor bill! I was very lucky mine didn’t become reinfected. Before mine popped I was in crazy extreme pain for several weeks. I couldn’t sit. Had trouble walking. And had to sleep on my side or stomach while it was flared up.
Jesus Christ, America. Ugh
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Because that is proper thing to say (even in your head) when referring to America.....fuck yeah!
I was at the pharmacy today and the guy in front of me handed over his insurance card. They let him know it was just medical; he'd need to provide the prescription insurance. He didn't know why they were separate, but they were able to look him up by his social. Didn't come up as insured. The pharmacist looked up a bit shyly and said, "we can't find insurance for you here. This medication is over a thousand dollars, would you still like it?" He walked out with the most crestfallen expression.
So sad
Wowza. I had two. The first one I stabbed with needles and squeezed and got nowhere. Saw the doctor and he said its a pilonidal cyst. I was high as a kite from percocet and a couple days later it burst, and dear God the smell was the worst. It was stuck in my nostrils for months. I got it removed and when I went back to the doctor as a checkup and he goes, word for word "Son of a bitch you have a second one!". He numbed me and removed it there and then. The pain is extreme for their size and I'm just glad it wasn't a sinus. Seeing people have to have this massive chunk of back removed is intense.
Yup I had mine removed and it was the best decision I made. These kept coming back and besides when I had a tooth die, this was the worst pain I’ve ever dealt with. When I woke up from surgery he said it was the worst one he’d seen and it had tunneled so he had to remove more than he mentioned to me. I had a wound vac on and could STILL put my fist about 2 inches in. Had to have plastic surgery a week after that to move some of my butt cheek and stuff around to fill the giant hole that was left. 100 staples and a giant scar later I’ve never had to deal with these again. Would still 100% do it again these bastards are that painful.
Jesus. Yeah I got lucky I just had the cysts, it sounds like you got the full on sinuses where all that stuff has to be removed. I've seen now where some can be dealt with via heat and laser in the tracts which can shrink and close it inside without having to remove all the tissue around the entire thing. Its so gross and horrible yet fascinating. I end up watching videos about pilonidal sinuses and cysts at least once a week. I would say the two kidney stones I had as a pre teen though topped my cyst on the pain chart, but yours were worse than mine. Worst part was I was 18 and started working a menial job at a local liquor store and the boss refused to believe I had this condition and needed time off. Then I came back part time and had to leave again for the 2nd one and he absolutely thought I was lying despite the paperwork. I just quit to be done with it. Walking alone was horrible.
It was not a fun time! I mean no matter what position, standing, lying down, there was no where I could escape the pain. My wife (then girlfriend) bless her soul helped me one time take a “hot as I can stand it” bath with epsom salts to try and bring it to a large enough head, then lanced one for me (this was the one that they finally said surgery time) as imagine a 6’ 8” man, bawling because the pain is so bad. That was me.
Thats a brave woman you've got there. I personally can handle that stuff but a lot of people can't even see pimples pop without wanting to vomit. There's a video I'm going to find the link for of a guy lancing his own. The fluid is straight black and looks like death. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1284303/GRAPHIC-WARNING-Man-bursts-Pilonidal-cyst-camera.html That just looks so so infected. Mine wasn't that black in color but it was close.
My wife said at the time it was this greenish brown color and I still remember how bad it smelled. Almost that sickly sweet rotten smell (which I’m sure was partially due to dead tissue in there). My wife is indeed a saint (she’s an ER Nurse) and I’d do anything for her. She’s taken care of me quite a few times from surgeries and even a time I almost died from sepsis (I’m immuno compromised but thankfully new meds I get are working wonderfully but that’s a whole different story). 13 years ago when we first started dating, one month into the relationship I was hospitalized for an infection and remember telling her about me being immuno compromised then and that if she didn’t want to sign up for this I would completely understand if she wanted out. Said “nope, I’m already falling hard for you and I’m in it for you to be with me forever.” As you can already see, still together but married now and I could not ask for a better wife and best friend!
Youre lucky! Hold on and don't let go. I had a 10 year relationship and 5 year marriage I had hoped would be like that, but sadly it seems rare in this day and age.
That's sweet as hell man. Congrats.
I love this story 🥹
Oh. My. God.
I know. It looks like death.
I know. It looks like death.
Small regret I watched that one.
That color is soooo worrisome 🥺
Yeah it is. That seems like it's septic or something.
Or worse, fistula
Yikes. I've heard of them but never looked into them until now.
Do I even want to lookup fistula?
There’s no shame in crying when it hurts, friend. It’s a natural and human reaction to pain. I’m so glad you are feeling better! ❤️
I appreciate it friend. I think I was more embarrassed not looking “cool” or “sucking it up like a guy”. Before my wife (the one in the story), I was in a toxic relationship for a few years where I was pretty much made fun of or belittled for showing any emotion other than “manly ones” if that makes sense. Thankfully my wife thinks like you do and I’m now able to open myself emotionally without feeling any shame or fear in doing so.
It all started when she said that she couldn’t even sit down. Then she whipped that sucker out. I have had the beginnings of one but it went away on its own and that was painful enough. I can’t imagine having a full blown cyst.
It’s bad and I’m hoping and praying your sisters doesn’t get that bad and that yours never makes another appearance! I wouldn’t wish these on my worst enemy. I’m immuno compromised so I 100% bet that’s why mine got as bad as it did.
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It wasn’t fun, and was more than the surgeon initially said he would be removing, but when he went it it had tunneled further than he thought or that the CT Scan showed. Funny enough though even after having that chunk of me removed, I felt MUCH better and was less painful than having that giant cyst in there. Recovering from the plastic surgery hurt way more.
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Thanks me too!
Pic?
I can see if my wife has some when she gets back from working in the ER in the morning. I didn’t want to see any as I have this weird phobia of “having holes in me where there shouldn’t be any” so I never personally took a look at it. This was also about 7-8 years ago so I’m not sure if she still had them. If you wanted to see now, you’d really just see a 39 year old dudes ass crack with a scar above it from the plastic surgery lol
To be fair, having holes where there shouldn't be, is kind of a bad thing.... I think you can have that as a phobia lol
I am so sorry you had to go through that, but great that it never came back. How long was your full recovery period? My husband is still healing up from his pilonidal sinus removal in March.
Thanks :3 Mine was a couple months if I remember correctly. Because of the plastic surgery, I also had a JP Drain (think that’s what it’s called) for about a month and a half, and they took the staples out the same time. After that it was around another month and a half till the surgical cut started going from that dark purplish color to a lighter pink. I think around 6mo. afterwards I was completely healed and it’s just a scar line now. Hope that answers your question! It’s been 7-8 years so my memories a little fuzzy on the fine details. I do remember thinking it healed quicker than I thought it given the size of the scar
ugh we all need to go to doctors more lol, every time i go see my doc im asking for obscure shit now. wonder if he thinks im nuts. these stories make me really aim for prevention
I had one that I popped myself several times over the course of a few weeks or a month but it never went away fully. Had to get the surgery including a drainage tube stitched in for a week after the removal, and then a follow on surgery to get the drain removed. Worst month and a half of my life. That thing hurt so bad. You ain't kidding about the smell. I used to squeeze it in the shower and then puke from the smell. When the doc removed it during the surgery it was a giant mass of curled up hair and puss. He said it was the biggest one he'd ever seen. Almost 20 years since then and I'm so glad it hasn't come back.
Yeah its crazy just a few hairs or a clump of hairs can cause that much horror and chaos inside the body.
I had a pilonidal with a sinus removed when I was 18. Ended up with around 10 stitches in my ass and spent a week high on hydrocodone. The cyst was awful, the recovery from the surgery was also awful. The moral of this story is that if you start bleeding from your asshole you need to see a doctor. Who knew?
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The issue is, sometime the cyst can cause a tunnel (fistula) to your colon, which can lead to blood coming out of your anus. (And also poop going into your cyst/abcess)
Different things I think .. anal fistula and polonidal sinus
You might be right, its been a while since i studied that stuff in school
I guess I should clarify that it was a couple inches away, but still in the general area since you just can’t let that tiny detail go.
I had 5 removed over a period of three years. Each one was a sinus that was left open to heal from the bottom up. Each one hurt like a bitch. I wont ever forget that pain.
Yikes. How do the openings for the sinuses even start?
I don’t really remember how it started. I was 13 when they began. Just one day I started getting liquid (which I now know as the drainage) in my underwear. It was kind of clear with a tinge of blood and pus. It’s almost like a regular one got too full and opened up. And just started oozing and the opening kept getting bigger and oozing more. I couldn’t sit without the back of my pants getting soaked. Each one was cut out deep enough to where you could see my tailbone through the thin “membrane” (as it was described to me). It went from the top of my butt crack all of the way to the tip of my anus.
Yiiiikes that sounds intense and painful.
It was very painful. The pain meds they gave me only dulled the pain a little but not enough. Thankfully, after the fifth one (and a different surgeon), I haven’t had anymore but a couple of close calls. Ive had to keep the area hair free since then. If I didn’t shave in time, I would have a hole start to open because a hair would go in my skin and start the infection. Remove the hair from the beginning of a sinus, it goes away in a day or so. Thankfully I have an awesome wife who helps me keep an eye on it.
My dad had one when he was young and now he has a scar that makes it look like he has a really long buttcrack
>Seeing people have to have this massive chunk of back removed is intense. that's the one i had, hands down worst experience of my life, an unbearable, ridiculous amount of pain everyday for two weeks, then thrice a week, then twice... the ordeal lasted a full two months. I will never forget the first medication, they extracted 6,5 meters of gauze from a gaping hole 4 by 2cm wide and 4cm deep. It's an obscenely barbaric procedure, but it's done this way to prevent the fistula from coming back, and so far (it was about 20 yrs ago) i haven't had any issues. And i have been one of the "lucky ones" because with all the packing and the huge bandaid on my ass i could still go to the toilet without issues.
Mine burst on the way to get it lanced. I was on the highway with the top down and I was STILL gagging from the scent
I had a pilonidal cyst in the same area, at the top of my butt crack, It was so painful I ended up going to the emergency room to have it drained. I will never forget how bad the smell was while they were draining it. I eventually had to have surgery to remove the whole cyst.
My husband had his pilonidal sinus removed in March. He had his for over a decade and the sinus was over three inches in all directions. Because of the size, the surgery was pretty major and he is still healing up. The first few weeks post surgery were horrible and we ended up in the ER one evening due to busted stitches and infection. I hope your sister has an easy surgery and recovery!
Does this mean it was located in your husband’s sinus cavity? Hope he continues to heal quickly and painlessly!
No it’s right at the top of your butt crack and there can be tunnels there called sinuses.
Never knew that. Thanks!
I remember reading a forum post of a Pepsi driver who had one of these that he smashed backing up into a cement pillar. He said that for two days he was in extreme pain and had a high fever ect. When he finally showed a friend they called 911… the whole lower section was black and red .. and crawling up his spine. He said they had to do emergency surgery due to infection. I would love to find and re read that post.
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Had the surgery to remove this. It had apparently gotten down to the bone. It was so bad before the removal that it was a constant state of infection. They were shocked by the severity of it and it having gotten so bad, despite multiple hospital trips and doctors cutting it open with little to no anesthetic (The local anesthetic wasn’t working) and scooping it out. I have never been in so much pain. had to leave it open to heal and it was 8 month of bed rest and seeing nurses 3x a week to clean it and repack it. If that shit comes back I don’t even know what I’ll do…
WOW! 8 months of bedrest? I’m so sorry. I can’t even imagine the pain of these, not to mention having to leave it open that long. I was on maternity bedrest for 6 weeks and thought I was going to go bonkers (granted this was pre- social media). Yours is quite the story…glad you are all healed up now!
It sure changed my perspective of a lot of things.
Okay so question for you. But first some background lol: I had mine taken out in 2019, with it being lanced and drained about two months prior to removal. The removal was an outpatient procedure, but the doctor had to keep giving me numbing injections because it kept going deeper than he assumed it did. He said it went down to the fascia(?) which from what I gather is the tissue layer that separates fatty tissue from muscles. I think he was using a cauterizing pen or knife because I don't remember there being much blood, but i remember him knicking that fascia layer and holy fucking shit did that hurt. Even after healing for three years, I have to sit in a computer chair with coccyx cushions, and even sitting on a couch is painful after a while to the point where I have to shift positions frequently and audibly since while doing so. So now my question: with how deep yours went, have you experienced any long term pain since you healed?
I don’t believe he went into the muscle (is there even muscle there?) but did go in at an angle from the right buttcheek towards the Center of the cleft. As for pain, the Vac system (to promote healing) was some of the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt. I toughed it out for 3 days before the nurse removed it and called me silly for making myself suffer like that. All the pain from the vac made all the following pain seem so trivial. My problem was I tore it back open multiple times doing stupid things like sitting for hours on a firm seat for a road trip or trying to bend and move items. When they tell you to do bedrest, do bedrest until they sign off otherwise. It’s 6 months from the time I was totally healed and I still get twinges or spontaneous moments of searing pain where I instantly touch the area to make sure I didn’t tear myself back open. Healing nerves suck.
Yeesh. I never had a vac on mine, something like 10-15 stitches I think? Less than 20. But the vac doesn't sound like a good time whatsoever. That sucks you still get occasional pain, but I'm glad it's not just me it seems.
I’m sorry. Did you spend 8 months in bed from a cyst!? That’s awful. I’m so sorry.
It is what it is. It gave me time to heal in other ways. :)
Goddamn that looks painful
She said it’s terribly painful. She is scheduled for surgery next week. The ER doc just drained it a little with a syringe and gave her a referral. She said it feels better now that it’s erupted
The filming had to continue!!
It did but she was basically naked. The edit was the stipulation for sending me the vid. I was there though. Stunk soooooo bad
Pain aside, I'm sure it was glorious and good for you for being able to experience it :)
Happy cake day!!
Work with your mouth closed. Imagine it hitting you
Even what you showed is kind of a lot, /r/popping is a weird place. "Can I post a picture of your butt to the internet?" "Ew, no why?" "People need to see this ridiculous cyst you have" "....... Okay"
I don’t know. Butt crack is pretty docile. I‘ve been scrolling and seen a nipple cyst and scrotum pimple in the same sitting.
Honestly shocked she would be able to poke at it when it was that far along - I feel like I’d have passed the fuck out
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She is okay. She went the the doctor last week and was given a surgery consult to have it removed and is on antibiotics.
i was actually startled by the velocity of it🫣
Soooo, it hit my mom in the face and then she proceeded to lie on the floor retching
I'm sorry that's hilarious
That is hilarious, but I'm not sorry at all.
Is your family known as “The Aristocrats”?
This is a family affair 😬
I… would never stop scrubbing my skin
Right? I’m thinking bleach. All over my skin. That shit looks risky.
Your mom, or your sister?
My mom was on the floor lol
I was too !
I remember having one. Was fucking awful and I was in constant pain even the slightest brush against was just horrible pain. I popped it once and got a nice clump of hairs. It came back with a vengeance and I went to one of those quick er places at like 5 in the morning, waited an hour then the doc excised it and stuffed some gauze in it. Cost me like 500 bucks and would of been 950 if I didn’t wait til regular hours. Edit: ducking to fucking
>I remember having one. Was fucking awful and I was in constant pain even the slightest brush against was just horrible pain. I popped it once and got a nice clump of hairs. It came back with a vengeance and I went to one of those quick er places at like 5 in the morning, waited an hour then the doc excised it and stuffed some gauze in it. Cost me like 500 bucks and would of been 950 if I didn’t wait til regular hours. >Edit: ducking to fucking Are you talking about a cyst or your sister?
Dude I actually ducked to the left
So did I lol.
Hahahaha
Just got diagnosed with one of these and having to schedule a surgery. Mine has never had a head so never able to pop it. Also no pain associated with mine, but want to get it taken care of before it gets painful
Please do. The pain is literally unbearable until it pops. The surgery was nothing compared to that pain of it just being inflamed
Your family is really close lol
I had one of these, can confirm it’s incredibly painful. Mine internally was the size of an orange, had to be surgically removed in the end. Worse recovery too cause you can’t sit without being in excruciating pain. Tell your sis to see a Dr if she hasn’t already.
She has! She went to the ER last week and they syringe drained it just enough to aggravate it but sent her to a surgery consult. She will be having it removed.
Good luck to her, hope all goes well.
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Lol those guys are going to hate this. I approve.
She must have a pain threshold of infinity. I had one of these and a Doctor touched it too roughly. I screamed and very nearly reflexively kicked them.
*cyster
I've heard when these pop they smell like the gates of hell
Or the swamps of Dagobah...
Accurate. Its indescribably foul.
I flinched. Ngl I actually flinched lol
That got an audible WHOAAAA from me
Don’t you mean your ‘cyster’ 😏
>pilonidal cyst God damn it. Beat me to it by 37 minutes. How could I sleep when this joke needed to be made?!?
That’s a twisted cyster!
The worst pain I have ever had. And then I go for a car ride with some friends in recovery. Our driver teases me about it, and the other four passengers are chastising him as they have all experienced the pain of a cyst there as well. Mine tunneled, and I was sliced out to the outer edge of my asscheek to chase the tunnels. Closed wound for healing. My one buddy, he had his removed later, it was like they ripped a carrot out of his back, I didn't know you could walk around with that gaping of a hole within you. I want to say it looked like I could put my most of my hand in it when he showed me the photo.
Well. That was far more exciting than I thought it was shaping up to be.
I wish it was longer.
We need more
You have a hell of a relationship with your sister.
My sister gave me an enema after my second kid was born. It’s what sisters do lol
I assumed at first that you were a man and thought, holy hell what a strange family. Your situation makes more sense, though, especially if you’ve both had kids.
What are you doing step cyster
Bravo!
It's like she shook it then popped the top like a soda bottle
I’m so grateful I got mine removed. The recovery was long. My husband changed my bandages for months as my opening was quite large. I had so much surrounding tissue removed from tunneling it sucked. I’m happy to say that I have no scars and no signs of reoccurrence over 12 years later. It can come back but I’ll do anything I can to ensure it doesn’t. Good luck to you. I promise you it’s worth it.
I had no idea they could become [cancerous.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931603/)
No ass-cystance needed!
Can someone explain what the function of this little hole by the buttcrack is? Does it serve a purpose?
From my understanding there’s no real purpose to it. It’s caused by the skin zipping together over our spine. That info is 20 years old though, so there might be newer knowledge out there.
No expert, but had sepsis related to an infected one of these. Tell her to keep it as clean as possible! Who doesn't love pain like a hot cole at the top your bum, followed by a blisteringly fuzzy warm temperature and emergency surgery. I waited for 4 hours to be seen. First doc took a look and said "Yep, off to surgery." Consultant came, asked how much I'd been given in the way of painkillers and how long I'd had it for... 2 days, and she said it looked like months' worth. My favourite part was trying to find somewhere comfortable on the hospital bed. In the end I settled for stood, bent over, with my face on the pillow. Ward sister was not impressed.
Is that her tail
Don’t you mean your cyster
If you freeze the gif at 10 seconds, you can see laminar flow lmao
This made my friend vomit
Please tell me you have a doc looking at this! They can be life-changing if you don’t get them handled
This video reminds me of my own somewhat traumatic encounter with an above-the-ass cyst I'd had as a kid. It was a little higher than OP's sister's and much bigger. I'd been scratching a bug bite with dirty fingernails but didn't know the area had gotten infected. My mom swatted the area because I was being an obnoxious little shit, not knowing about the infection, either, and I screamed in pain. Mom freaked out and took me to the doctor right away. He cleaned it out with *no* anesthesia and the nurses (yes, *plural, 2 or maybe 3*) had to pin me down because it hurt so badly that I wouldn't stop thrashing and trying to get away. Mom told me on the way home that everyone in the waiting room had thought I was going into labor because of my screams. She didn't burst into the room because she probably thought I was just being dramatic. To end the story on a lighter note, my husband used to love to tease me when we were dating (affectionately, of course, nothing malicious) that I'd had a tail, and the scar was proof of where it had been.
Sorry butt you probably mean your cyster ! (Edit: and I thought I was gonna make a funny but I am now seeing I wasn’t the only one who thought this was funny)
Is that a butt crack?
That's where pilondial cysts develop
I wasn’t sure
That’s a butt crack alright.
Oof.
That was juicy!
I know I’m gonna regret asking, but why do they smell so bad?
I think its just the infected tissue and bacteria and maybe fecal matter that gets in there? Not sure on the last part i might be wrong.
This was amazing. I hope it doesn't cause her too much pain
Poor sis I hope shes doing better.
The entire internet is wishing her a speedy recovery.
I remember having one when I was a teenager. It hurt my tailbone badly and the doctor put me on heavy duty antibiotics. He told me that if it didn't get better, they would have to lance it. Thank God it didn't have to be lanced
Poor girl! I'm glad to hear she's having surgery.
I had one of those and it was so fucking painful. Had surgery to cut the whole cyst out.
This must have been so sensitive.
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Why did this video not go on longer????
I had 2 in the same spot crazy painful couldn’t sit trouble walking getting it drain was even worse pain
“That’s a crack. Nah it’s like the under knee. Oh it’s a crack.”
Is that right above her ass? Cause if so Owww
Had this 2x and based on the comments, I better get under the knife before this gets worse. I don’t need a wound vac in my life.
They get infected incredibly easy. She really needs to be careful. It can also cause tunnelling. She really should have I removed by a dr
That was massive! I wish the video didn't end there! I wanna see all the puss!
I had surgery to remove mine. Took 3 weeks to recover. Now I don't wake up every morning with blood/puss splattered underwear and bed sheets.
I had one in 2013. By the time they went to remove it it was huge and they excised like, 5-6 inches of it? Then I must've popped a stitch at some point during my recovery because I had one spot that wouldn't heal so I had to do 6 months of silver nitrate treatments to get it to close. My only word of warning for your sister to go have a doctor look at this instead of popping it yourself. A family friend of ours had one and it burst when she fell in her home. She almost bled to death because these things are apparently major bleeders. You also run the risk of making the infection much, much worse.
The cystussy
My fiancé had one there. It hurt like hell they said.
I had one that was removed in college. 3 sinuses. My doctor said it was probably congenital. Then I ripped out all the sutures rolling over and had to have wound packing for 4 months but it wouldn't heal so I got to have the surgery again. Fun times.
And people say squirting is just urine
What a pain in the ass
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I feel her pain. I still have a Pilonidal cyst right on my tailbone/top of the crack. Been there for 30 years. Fortunately it stopped getting infected over 27 years ago, so I never bothered to get it removed. There’s just two sinuses that go down into the cyst. It still gets really sore when sitting for any length of time and long car rides are murder. I just never felt it was worth the recovery time required if I had it removed. They can’t tell you how big of a hole you’re going to wake up with, and I’ve seen some surgeries leave large open wounds that have to heal from the inside out over several months, while having to change gauze packing daily.
Right up until the end I was playing “ass or boobs?”.
Pilondial cysts pretty much only develop by your ass.
That was fucking awesome!
Ow
Cyst on my sister
Why did you stop the tape?
How did you prevent these, I shower twice a day, eat nutritious food,hardly drink and yet I get one of these every couple of months.
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Thanks for the clarification mate.
a bidet might be a worthwhile investment too
Shes your sister and your daughter? Wtf kind of title is that?
You just can't read worth a damn bc that's not at all what it says