WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: skin irritation, possible boil?

Re: skin irritation, possible boil?

From: Gina (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:44:13 -0600 (CST)

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At Tue, 11 Jan 2000, kelly-linn wrote: >
>I recently have gotten a pimple like inflamation the size of a dime,
>getting larger and more painful. It flared up 2 days ago. It appears
>white and pussy and is very painful.
>It is located on the outer vagina.
>I have had this problem before and so have a few friends of mine, it more then likley just a boil and can be caused from anything to infection, sweating, or wearing underware that is not cotton. A friend of mine had a huge boil in the same place you are talking about and she went to her OB and he gave her a prescription for an antibiotic and told her to put a potatoe on the area for as long as she could stand it and the starch in the potatoe would bring it to a head and pop, but he told her not to mash it or pop it herself it will pop on it's own and it did after 24 hours of sleeping with a potatoe taped to her vagina (hahaha)sounds funny but it did work. At worse if it does not pop on it's own within a week they told her, they would have to lance it. Good lucky, and don't worry I have been told this is very common.

>I plan on seeing a OBGYN tomorrow to have it looked at, until then the
>pain is quite irritating. Am I wasting my time going to an emergency
>room tonight? Besides taking Aleve is there anything else I might do for
>the pain?

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Thank You,
Scared and Anxious

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