Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds

[Reg]

In the world of cysts popping is a good thing.  All of the best pain is reserved for the ones that just get huge and infected and don't pop.

[schild]

In the world of cysts popping is a good thing.

So true. The problem ones are the ones that keep refilling, causing pain, and repopping. Nearly every day. I suspect some people here have dealt with this for Years and had no clue. They should call this thing the Geek Cyst.

All of the best pain is reserved for the ones that just get huge and infected and don't pop.

Yar.

[Reg]

So true. The problem ones are the ones that keep refilling, causing pain, and repopping. Nearly every day. I suspect some people here have dealt with this for Years and had no clue. They should call this thing the Geek Cyst.

I had my own experience with one like that last summer. It was one that I'd been having to take antibiotics for every six months for the last couple of years. I finally let my doctor talk me into going in for surgery.

They just gave me a local anaesthetic and I was out in about an hour. The worst part was having to go every morning for two months to get my dressing changed. It wasn't just a matter of slapping a bandage on it or I'd have been able to manage it myself. No, the would had to be packed so that it would heal from the inside and not just turn into an empty pocket with the skin healed over it. Shudder.

But wait theres more!

A week or so after I'd been allowed to stop going in for daily dressing changes and been given a clean bill of health the problem recurred. It turned out the surgeon had missed a bit on his first try and that was enough to set it off all over again.

Two weeks later I was back in having surgery again and this time it was much worse. I felt like he was hollowing me out entirely. The second time worked though. I've had no problems now for almost a year.

[schild]

Yea, I'm not going that route. I'm letting them hollow it out and stitch it up. Apparently the way you did it is prone to recurrence that can take months/years. The guy I spoke with knew a good deal about it (would seem) as he was quite familiar with the whole issue and said removal/closed incision, while the feeling would be awkward at first (emptiness stitched over), yielded the best results he'd seen. I go to see the surgeon tomorrow though. I'll gauge his confidence then.

[Reg]

Well damn, sounds like I should have gotten a second opinion then. He was an older guy and I guess he hadn't bothered to stay up to date.

[schild]

There's an even newer procedure called BASCAM or something that involved removing skin from your ass and replacing what's removed and stitching the ass portion shut, but it's elective isn't covered by insurance and is mostly plastic bullshit surgery. Considering most people who get this problem are under 40 or 30, you can get it stitched and still heal.

[Engels]

In the future, when schild is retireing and is ailing from 49 exploding cists, the whole board will be threads about our ailments. Only the SWG thread will shine through the darkness of our maladies.  :-D

Seriously, take care of yourselves :)

[Grublet]

In the future, when schild is retireing and is ailing from 49 exploding cists, the whole board will be threads about our ailments. Only the Britney Spears thread will shine through the darkness of our maladies.  :-D

I fixed that for you and schild.

[NiX]

I get butt sewing for free.

[schild]

So, I went to the surgeon.

Who doesn't want to do surgery. He just wants me to take some antiobiotics and HOPE it doesn't come back. I don't think I trust him. He said the recovery would be hard if he operated.

IN OTHER NEWS, my insurance which covers visits to the ER at this particular hospital has some interesting quirks. So I went to the ER, that was covered by insurance, I haven't even gotten a bill yet. However, I did get a bill from some ER Group based out of Oklahoma City. Emergency Specialists or sommat. And they're trying to charge me $319 for sitting in a waiting room for 3 hours and then getting some pus squeezed out by a blowhard in a labcoat. There are lots of things I'm willing to pay for, but getting charged by two different groups on a visit to one hospital is not one of them.

Should I call my insurance and have them deal with it or should I go to the hospital billing department and yell at them? I'm slightly pissed off at this whole thing. What's the point of insurance and going to a hospital with coverage if I have to pay full price for the doctor?

What the hell.

[stu]

So, I went to the surgeon.

Who doesn't want to do surgery. He just wants me to take some antiobiotics and HOPE it doesn't come back. I don't think I trust him. He said the recovery would be hard if he operated.

IN OTHER NEWS, my insurance which covers visits to the ER at this particular hospital has some interesting quirks. So I went to the ER, that was covered by insurance, I haven't even gotten a bill yet. However, I did get a bill from some ER Group based out of Oklahoma City. Emergency Specialists or sommat. And they're trying to charge me $319 for sitting in a waiting room for 3 hours and then getting some pus squeezed out by a blowhard in a labcoat. There are lots of things I'm willing to pay for, but getting charged by two different groups on a visit to one hospital is not one of them.

Should I call my insurance and have them deal with it or should I go to the hospital billing department and yell at them? I'm slightly pissed off at this whole thing. What's the point of insurance and going to a hospital with coverage if I have to pay full price for the doctor?

What the hell.

Sounds like a lack of communication on their parts. Following it up (calmly, lol) should clear it up.

I think the antibiotics is probly the better route, even though surgery scars can be cool. When I took my antibiotics, I just laid on my side and watched baseball until the cyst popped. The release in pressure was so heavenly and warm I didn't even bother getting up until the smell crept out from underneath the sheets, snapping me out of my euphoric daze. Once it pops though, the result can be a little frightening, 'cus the cyst just keeps pushing out fluids- a lot of fluids. Keep plenty of TP handy. 

[schild]

The cyst is almost nothing as it burst on it's own. I can't imagine what antibiotics will do. I suppose I should take them at night and not during the day though. I get my scrip filled tomorrow.

Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.

[Reg]

Don't play games with your anitbiotics schedule. Take them when you're supposed to.

It's possible that meds will clear it up anyway. I've had cysts had responded well to antibiotics and never came back.

[Lantyssa]

Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.

At least they pay for some of your surgery sitting around.

[Signe]

Poor thing probably couldn't even sit comfortably.  For $300, he should have had a special comfy chair and maybe a pedicure.

[Moaner]

My advice is to not fuck around and take the antibiotics, but sounds like you were going to anyways.  With all the bursting and oozing infection in a huge concern and the antibiotics work prophylactically.

Confession time.  I had a pilonidal cyst about 5 years ago and underwent a quick surgery.  It was painless, recovery was incredibly fast, and I haven't had a problem with it since.

[schild]

Confession time.  I had a pilonidal cyst about 5 years ago and underwent a quick surgery.  It was painless, recovery was incredibly fast, and I haven't had a problem with it since.

This mofo refused to cut me.

I'm slightly angry about it.

[Yegolev]

Do it yourself.  You have the pills, just get a knife and some gauze.

[Signe]

There are doctors and nurses on this site.  Have another get-together. 

[Stephen Zepp]

There are doctors and nurses on this site.  Have another get-together. 

Do you really think anyone on this board wants to fly to Arizona to look at schild's butt?

/shudder

[Furiously]

Probably one or two people who might be interested in that here...

[Signe]

Not to LOOK at his butt.  To help by giving him the operation he so desires.  They would do it for their love of hilarity humanity.

[Stephen Zepp]

Not to LOOK at his butt.  To help by giving him the operation he so desires.  They would do it for their love of hilarity humanity.

Yes maybe, but they would still have to look at his butt. I dunno..that's asking a lot!

[Kitsune]

If anyone goes to perform back-alley surgery on schild's butt, I beg of you, for the sake of humanity...

Tape it and youtube the hell out of it.

Just, y'know, have the camera set up to be recording from the side so as to spare the youtube kiddies the sight of crack.


But I found out that some people who'd gone to my doctor got their cysts lanced and cleaned and they went away for good, no resurgence after a few decades.  Only when I went to see my doctor, I got pawned off on another doctor by the practice, and that was the doctor who prescribed me recalled antibiotics and suggested surgery.  So I'm making another appointment and insisting that they give me the right doctor this time; if I wanted some stranger checking out my ass cysts I could go to a clinic for cheaper.

[schild]

Yea, if this thing comes back, I'm getting it ripped out like a fatality.

[stu]

Feel free to document the entire thing, as it may make a good mini-game concept. 

Like Mortal Kombat, only with better graphics!

[voodoolily]

Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.

At least they pay for some of your surgery sitting around.

If you do the math, isn't it that he actually paid an extra $129 out of pocket (in addition to the visit)? If 10% was $19, the entire visit shoulda been only $190, instead he got gouged for $319. Next time just pay for it yourself!

[Yegolev]

Wait, wait, let's back up so I can do another joke.

Just use your DS stylus on it.

[WayAbvPar]

Biofeedback gaming ftl.

[Kitsune]

I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.

[Mandrel]

I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.

Make sure to send him a bill for your consult.

[schild]

I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.

You got the same advice as me. I don't feel so bad. By the way, you think he got all that shit out of the cyst? hahahahaha wait til day 3 of the biotics.

[Engels]

I will join my brothers in pustules by admitting to discovering an stye today. Grossest thing ever. A fookin ZIT in your eye. GAH.

[schild]

Oh man, I had one of those a few years ago. Worst part is, you just have to tough that shit out.

[Jimbo]

Wow, sorry to hear you have a bad cyst.  We have a great amount of MRSA outbreak over here in Indiana in our wounds (plus some other nasty VRE too), especially in skin wounds.  I've took to telling patients that the MRSA bunny is on the loose biting people as they sleep and causing this outbreak.  Sorry your ED visit sucked, but then again we are the band aid stop.  9 out of 10 we give some pain meds and antibiotic, tell them to follow up with there family doc.  Sure they still have to see the family doc and then go to a surgeon (we can refer to the surgeon...but that is a grey area...FMD's are supposed to be doing that), but at least pain control and antibiotics can be started.  As for billing, it will be one from the hospital, one from the doctor, one from the lab (if they did a culture of the wound).  Wow $300 per ED visit sucks!  Mine is $50 for ED (unless admitted, then it is waived) and $20 for FMD visits ($1000 deductable...sucks big time when I got sick with a GI Bleed).

Soap box:  Don't take narcotics/benzodiazepines with alcohol.  That mix can kill you or end up in the ICU with tubes coming out of every whole in your body.  Also if you do get opioids (narcotic pain medicines) such as codeine, Vicodin® or Lortab®, Darvocet®, morphine, Oxycontin®, methadone, Dilaudid®, or Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) - Motrin/ibuprofen, Celebrex, Indocin, Toradol, watch out for constipation!  I was given Vicodin and Flexeril for a pulled muscle and didn't think anything about the constipation warning (hell I tell my patients about it all the time), thinking I was drinking enough water and fiber.  The resulting bowel movement from narcotics was worse than hurting my shoulder!  And if your tailbone hurts allready, crank up some water and eat some more fiber foods so you don't have that on top of it too!