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Never really suffered from cysts or anything like that, fortunately. I’ve had the occasional ingrown hair, which I’ve always dealt with myself with the aid of some very sharp tweezers to hook the hair out and some antiseptic splashed on, but something like Merak’s I definitely wouldn’t want to attempt myself, that’s a job for a professional! Looks very uncomfortable, that.
“Mmnn this is a topic close to my neck”
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This was a nice bit of internet browsing and all's good with the world etc, until Merak's uninvited selfie of a hairy neck-balloon that's probably next to be shot down by the USA.
The smelliness suggests a sebaceous cyst. They stick the laboratory out when we get a good one at work. Like an intense cheesy feet smell.
But also the fact that it's been there for years on the fatty part of the thigh would indicate a lipoma. Both almost certainly non malignant.
Most GPs have a mole/cyst enthusiast, keen surgeon partner who'll do a clinic to get rid.
Lipomas though are a bit more involved and need a more skilled surgeon than a GP can provide.
Oh crumbs, you're in Warwickshire aren't you? If you have that removed I might get to see it anyway 😆
I’ll raise you two pilonidal sinus operations.
Ah, love the hunt the hair tract game! The specimens do look like they'd be painful for the patient and involve them sitting on some sort of inflatable ring for a few weeks
Oh crumbs, you’re in Warwickshire aren’t you? If you have that removed I might get to see it anyway 😆
Yeah man. Look forward to cycle-specific cyst chat on the next podcast 😂👍
The first required such a big excavation that the consultant asked if I was OK if he used the photos for his medical students, and every trainee District Nurse in Sussex got to come and marvel at its grandeur when the wound got repacked.
Any chance that was at Princess Royal in Haywards Heath? and was the consultant an Asian gentleman? If it was he did the same to me. maybe he has a collection in a scrap book. 2 Ops also, no silver nitrate though.
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Any chance that was at Princess Royal in Haywards Heath? and was the consultant an Asian gentleman? If it was he did the same to me
Slightly further up the county but quite possibly the same guy.
I have had 3 removed, one on the back of the neck, no issues. Second one very close to the jugular on the neck.
And the third back in 2019 (the largest one) which really unsettled me and caused issues as it was in my throat and causing problems with my voice.
Crikey mounty_73. That sounds pretty gnarly 😳
Scary stuff.
The cyst got infected and it came up the size of a golf ball, half under the skin.
Out of the whole experience the only thing that frightened me, was the needle for the anaesthetic, crazy stuff!