Can a Boil Not be Painful ?

[gunDriller]

I cut myself shaving a few weeks ago.

It got a little infected and I got a bump, like a boil that needs to be lanced. Over a period of a week it got bigger, and I could actually see it in the mirror, even though it's on the bottom of my chin.

THEN the bump got smaller - and it stopped hurting. I've never had that happen before. Usually, when I had a boil, when it stopped hurting, it disappeared.


Now I don't undertand. It feels like a cyst.

But because of how it started, I think it's a "post-infection thingie", whose name I don't really know.


Is it possible for an infection to back off and leave a small lump - but with no pain ?

I've never had that happen before.

[Dogman]

What you have/had does not sound like a boil, or maybe a small one. All I have seen/had have all gotten bigger and needed to be popped or lanced, before they would go away. Tho with you and others they could be a boil that self heals.

When I was a kid I had the dam things all the time and THEY all HURT like hell or worse depending where they were at! I would worry them until they popped and all of the heads were out.

[zap]

Don't take any chances get a real sharp blade, alcohol the site and slice it open and see what the hell is in there.:)

[mamboni]

I cut myself shaving a few weeks ago.

It got a little infected and I got a bump, like a boil that needs to be lanced. Over a period of a week it got bigger, and I could actually see it in the mirror, even though it's on the bottom of my chin.

THEN the bump got smaller - and it stopped hurting. I've never had that happen before. Usually, when I had a boil, when it stopped hurting, it disappeared.


Now I don't undertand. It feels like a cyst.

But because of how it started, I think it's a "post-infection thingie", whose name I don't really know.


Is it possible for an infection to back off and leave a small lump - but with no pain ?

I've never had that happen before.

Probably some localized fat necrosis. Your macrophages are having difficulty processing the oils left over by the dead fat cells killed by the acute folliculitis now passed. Don't incise it - this will make it worse. Hot compresses will speed the resolution of the hard knot - could take a few weeks. If it doesn't shrink after a couple of weeks then a cyst has formed from the damaged follicle. The cyst will slowly enlarge over weeks to months -surgical cystectomy is required.

[osoab]

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[Heimdhal]

For those that are saying doing some at home surgery,

you do realize that staph, which is the biggest worry for infection and lives* on the skin, is killed with iodine, not alcohol.

I'd listen to the doc though, he seems to know a thing or two about this ;)

[Old Herb Lady]

Dont cut into the damn thing ! You could get blood poisoning easily and get the red line.
Start taking turmeric and read up on turmeric/boils/cysts, etc.

[zap]

Jezzz, I guess I shoulda' put a sarcasm icon in my post !!! I thought you'd get it? :)

[Santa]

I also had strange hard bump on my chest that I dug into with a knife. Curiosity. It turned out to be an ingrown hair. I still have a hole where it used to be.

[gunDriller]

i was thinking about the do it yourself approach.

i could feed it to the chickens afterwards !


anyway, i have often used the hot compress technique.

so, maybe i'll give it a few weeks of hot compress.

actually, i tend to use a bottle with REALLY hot water. sometimes hot enough to cause a mild burn, other times just almost that hot.

anyway, it tends to make a small infection like that "go through its life-cycle" quicker. whatever the term is.


and if that doesn't work - i guess it's cyst-ectomy time.

can't wait to see the doctor's face when i ask him if i can keep the cyst to feed to my chickens. :)

he'll say, "are you kidding ?"

and i'll say, "no, i'm serious !" - and he will probably frown.


just think, in 20 years we might all have surgical robots in our homes.

as part of Sunday night chat, we could watch Dr. Mamboni do tele-surgery on my chin.

as long as i can drink a glass of barley wine first, i think i'll be all right :)


still want to feed the cyst to my chickens though :)

[StreetsOfGold]

i still want to feed the cyst to my chickens though :)

If you in-cyst

This may make you feel better since you're not in Job's condition

Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

[Santa]

You know... that when you eat your chicken's eggs, you're eating everything your chickens eat.
Every nasty little bump you feed them goes right into your bloodstream and into your brain where it
sticks. :)

[AlicedOrio]

Doing home surgery would really be dangerous, it need some experience on this field, Try to follow dr note (http://thedoctorsnote.net) available on web. For a safe surgery at a home always try to use antiseptic solution over the damaged area and apply some medicine over the hurt part. Be careful it would be dangerous.

[mamboni]

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Bombers scanned me?

[joboo]

bad drugs, and/or alcohol dependency scannnned.

[milehi]

Maybe try some ACV on the boil? I was poking around the back room of the local herbalist's shop and found some ACV powder. Maybe make it into a paste?

[gunDriller]

Maybe try some ACV on the boil? I was poking around the back room of the local herbalist's shop and found some ACV powder. Maybe make it into a paste?

ACV = apple cider vinegar, acyclovir - or something else ?

[sirgonzo420]

ACV = apple cider vinegar, acyclovir - or something else ?

not to speak for milehi, but I'd nearly guarantee that he means apple cider vinegar.

[willie pete]

not to speak for milehi, but I'd nearly guarantee that he means apple cider vinegar.

probably apple cider vinegar, because zovirfax (acyclovir) is an anti-viral and has nothing to do with topical sterilization