Weird Medicine and Even wilder Butt Hair

Not to get to graphic but last night I was getting into the shower and found a spot of blood about the size of a half dollar in my underwear surrounded by what looked to be a clearish/whitish pus looking stain soaking out about a 4" diameter around the blood spot. And after a short exploration with paper towels found the origin in the butt crack and largish lump with a rupture hole pretty deep in the meaty spot to the left of the tail bone tip. First thought was Whew not coming out of the butthole Second thought was What the hell is this and why am I just now discovering it!!! Not exactly a place you can see and not exactly a place you want to ask someone else to see. Normally something like this I would ask Mrs Krap to take a look at and at least give me a idea of what is going on. She has more than enough on her plate and is puking more than enough with the Chemo krap.

Perhaps I am a little hyper sensitive to cancer atm so the mind wondered and let me to it could be a tumor or nasty cyst in a really bad spot. Nothing to be done about it last night other than cram a wad of paper towels in the upper butt crack and call Doc in the morning. So woke up this morning and removed totally blood and liquid soaked paper towels took another shower and called Doc and said I need to see you today! Described and he said head here now! So I did and got there and into the room and in a embarrassing position with my ass in the air. Doc says "Good God how did you not notice this! It is Horrible!!!! Be still, your going to feel a poke" and a few minutes later shows me a pad with a pile of white paste, blood, and clear liquid on it. Then tells me just a few more minutes and he will have me all fixed up. A hard tug a shot of iodine and a wad of gauze shoved in the crack and he tells me "There you go good as new!" and shows me a damn good 4" bristle hair us older people start growing I though only in our ears, nose and eyebrows. Said that had ingrown and all but a 1/8th inch of it was grown into causing the lump, cyst like thing and infection. And that it obviously partially ruptured yesterday and he lanced it the rest of the way and worked all of the crap out of it, filled the space with iodine and it would all be normal again in a week or two and gave me antibiotic to take for 2 weeks.

Funniest part is for 3 weeks my left hip has hurt like I was having sciatic pain. It was that damned ingrown hair causing welling inside putting pressure on the nerves causing the hip, butt and leg pain! As soon as he lanced it and drained it out all of the pain was gone! The lump I could feel on the surface was maybe the size of a dime and a split where it ruptured. The pocket of Krap inside he said was probably the size of a large chicken egg and expanded in and not out. No tumor, not even really a cyst just a expanding pocket of blood and gunky krap all from a damned ingrown super sized Old Person bristle hair! I did not even know old people hair grew in the butt crack!!! The 6" eyebrow hairs that are like 14 wire.... sure..... can't miss those monsters that seem to sprout and grow out over night LOL.

Doc said ingrown hairs there are actually pretty common in men in the mid 50s and on up in that region just most are not that long and grown in that deep. Doc then suggest that I do a bit of "Digging around in the ass feeling for ingrown hairs and Hemorrhoids at least once a month and that he would have the front schedule a appointment to take care of the two rhoids he noticed today." I am like rhoids WHAT RHOIDS???? him "My Point Exactly!" "Soap it up good when you shower and inspect, can feel things like that a lot better with the soap and water than dry "

There is a whole lot about this aging Krap that no one ever told me about!!! And a whole lot of that missing vital and critical NEED TO KNOW information seems to involve man parts and butt parts!!! I am learning that being shy with those areas as you age just stops being a option I want to be 20-30 -or even 40 or 50 again hehe!!!

Anyway I thought I would share this as it might help someone else out experiencing wild butt crack hair growths Not even going to tell Mrs Krap about why I went to town today and the what happened, she would find way too much entertainment value in it! She did however notice that I am not limping with the left leg and grunting with pain standing up out of a chair this afternoon.

 

LOL I don't even feel anything and healing should be no problem with the hair grooming and source removed

 

I must say that I have learned something today. Thank you.

In the 80s I had a co-worker whose sphincter developed a hernia, which allowed leakage. He had to go to medical every day for it to be cleaned and drained, that routine lasted for weeks as it slowly healed.

 

Its hard getting old , We all have our bouts with different things .
YOU GOT ASS to post this , but then again
Just being an ASS !!
Sloth

 

Hey it is a real and it seems fairly common medical issue......... How Do I Get Rid of A Pilonidal Cyst — Colorectal Clinic of Tampa Bay

 

Google it but trust me it Taint Purdy!

 

It seems the older we get ,, the weider the health problems are ,, and the less embarrased we are talking about them .

Good advice on the seek and destroy and thanks for the heads up .

 

I think it's fine here. There's a bunch of older monkeys out there.

 

Damn that sounds like a real pain in the ass!

 

I think in general men's health is not talked about enough and it creates a vacuum of ignorance about a lot of simple things that if left untreated balloon into major things. We just by our nature tend to ignore and assume we can work through everything until we find out that oops should have did something about that sooner. And then never speak of it because doing so might make us look weak or unmanly!!!

I don't even have words to express what a relief it is to not have the lower back, hip leg and butt cheep pain on the left side that has made me miserable for the last 3-4 weeks. Got a shot for sciatic pain 2 weeks ago and it did NOTHING. Find this thing and get it properly drained and instant relief and no pain anywhere in those areas. Had gotten to where I was constantly holding and rubbing my left butt cheek and starting to drag my left leg because it hurt so bad to actually walk with it. All because of a ingrown hair in the butt crack! I guarantee that is not going to be allowed to happen again!! It is also one of those things that if you got one you will probably prone to getting more. So Vigilance and search and destroy is indeed in order.

 

It WAS but not the cyst that really isn't a cyst itself, the symptoms however..............

 

I expected that one much sooner LOL

 

As we age our skin gets thinner and more fragile. I wear gloves when I handle wood or the skin, at age 84, will tear and form blood blisters. Healing is much slower, broken bones can kill you, and minor problems, infections, ingrown hairs, cysts, boils, can get da** serious.

I am convinced that if I hadn't fought tooth and nail for tests, threatened them that if 6 months later when I was scheduled for the tests and did have cancer, I would sue the he** out of them, I would be dead now. Made a complaint in Feb, test scoping out bladder set up for middle of Aug. Screaming loudly got test in April, had two surgeries and in chemo and radiation by the time the first exam was due in Aug. Still stage 4, but got a few months jump on it. Like the story goes, there are old pilots and bold pilots, but da** few old bold pilots. Have your spouse check you over, return the favor, skin cancer, lumps, discharges,all need attention. Would much prefer being referred to as a difficult patient than a dead patient. Took out a skin cancer about 20 years ago that my wife caught. It was very bad but still on the surface, about 3/8 in across and they took out an area about the size of an egg and as deep as they could go. Was on my back low down near belt area. Doc said that untreated it could be fatal.

Life is a continual fight, one small hole and you can bleed to death or get an infection and die. I don't know how any of us keep our eyesight. Poke a very small hole in eye and it collapses and it is gone, hard blow to chest can break ribs and puncture them, and on and on.

Listen to KK, he is an old dog and has from what little I can tell, lead an active life as have many others on this forum.

I know I have said this before , but as a kid of 21 in 1959 I was in an NCO club for USAF. Almost everyone there there had been in WW2 and Korea. As the night and the booze went on we heard every more tails of escaping death by inches. One of the young NCO's called BS on the stories and there was silence. Then one of the old men said remember Pete over Bremmerhaven and the ME 109, another one said yes. The first said lets drink to his memory, and it got awful quiet, the only ones to tell stories are the ones that lived.

Eighth Air Force casualties, 47,000 of which more than 26,000 died.

Eighth Air Force - Wikipedia

 

Happy to help!

 

Pilonidal cysts are pretty common. That is what I figured you had by the end of your second sentence.

My daughter had one when she was just 3 years old. When they infect it is often an e coli bacteria. If infected quite badly, the smell can be horrendous when the doctor lances it and squeezes out the pus out. He and the nurses also knew my daughter’s was definitely e coli just by the smell. They joked sometimes they need exhaust fans to clear the smell from the room and hallway.

Sometimes after lancing, draining, irrigating and cleaning they will pack the cavity with a gauze material so it drains and doesn’t close over and reinfect. My daughter had that. It was a bit like a Converse basket ball shoe string stuffed into the cavity and a tail a few inches long hanging out with a bandage over all of it. After a week or so I took her back and they just pulled it out, about 16-18 inches worth!

My daughter’s doc (who was also a friend) said there can be a small pocket there with some people but most not. Sometimes, fortunately more rarely, there is even a tube like passage that opens down closer to the anus and is thought to be the pathway for the e coli to get to the cyst area. If a person has had multiple infections they can surgically remove the cyst area and passage. He said it is thought to be the evolutionary remnants of a scent gland that is completely gone for most people but just not completely quite breed out for everyone.

Keep a watch on it KK, there might be a small chance for a repeat. Nice thing is most family physicians can handle the less serious versions of this in their office.

Have fun.
AT