Re: ok here's my boil story
From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:11:25 -0400
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Oh my Gosh - How awful!! (but that is where mine are too..YUCK - and OUCH!)
LoriP wrote:
> Are we playing "What's grosser than gross?" That was one of my favorite
> games as a kid. LOL Anyway, I have a boil story too, though I don't
> think it's grosser than yours!
>
> I got my first one on my butt when I was in high school. It was so
> painful that I had to have it lanced. It was a mortifying experience,
> because my doc invited a bunch of interns in while he did it. There I
> was 17 years old with my butt sticking out for all to see (I know it
> doesn't compare with childbirth, but I was a bashful teen at the time).
> I had to miss my ACTs because I was on codeine for the pain!
>
> FYI: I haven't had any trouble with boils since I started taking met 2
> months ago.
>
> Lori
>
> At Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Kelly wrote:
> >
> >i don't really know why i'm sharing this but since all of you guys have
> >been talking about boils...i'll share mine..but reader beware!!! well
> >this happened about four years ago before i was even diagnosed with pcos
> >but i knew something was wrong...i woke up one morning with what seemed
> >like a pimple on my upper thigh..as the day progressed it hurt more and
> >more..i picked at it a little that night and went to bed..when i woke up
> >---brace yourself it was as though someone had cut an orange in two and
> >inserted half of it under my skin..at this time i was going to
> >university in a town far from home and i had a test that day i couldn't
> >miss-- anyways i went to school..about half way though the test i felt
> >something wet on my leg i went to the bathroom to see and the boil had
> >opened..i finished the test and had to wrap my jacket around my
> >waist..the next few days were horrible the (gross) puss was coming out
> >so fast that i couldn't leave the house. so instead i walked around
> >with get ready to laugh a maxi taped to my leg!!!the flow was so bad
> >that i had to change it every hour!!! anyways it finally stopped and to
> >this day i have the scar of this boil on my leg..it got so big so fast
> >the it left a stretch mark in the shape of a circle right where it
> >was..so here's my story..laugh and cry...that's what i did too!!!
> >
> >--
> >Kelly
> >
>
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