0K, so, following my long tour a few years ago I seem to have developed 2 or 3 ?ingrown? hairs or similar that leave me with hard lumps in the skin where saddles rest.
After a lot of riding, they tend to flare up and become boils or similar and generally hurt like hell if I ride on them again till they go down.
Some of them have been there about 5 years, on an off.
Ouch.
We all know a [good] saddle rests on your sit bones, and that means pretty much in my arse-craic, certainly when standing. I have resisted going to doctor because I don’t know if they can be removed, and I was hoping they’d go away by themselves. A few of them maybe, but some just keep coming back.
I was even hoping, sorta, they’d get so inflamed they’d burst, but this has never happened and the cause must still be in the skin.
Do I:
a) Go see a man/woman I’ve never met before and touch my toes?
b) Break out the clove oil/alternative [suggestions please], sterilise a needle and MTFU
c) Other
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