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Has anyone had a cyst that they popped at home? How did you do it, and did it get infected?
I have one that actually started leaking I guess you can say, some clear fluid, but when it is pressed on some clear and white stuff comes out. But the hole/pore is too small for it all to come out easily, so only little bits at a time. My family wants me to go to the doctor so they can surgically remove the whole thing. I would rather just drain it, don't trust doctors much at the moment. This is maybe the 3rd time this thing has come back after popping by itself when it got this big before and it takes a long time to get this big. I say big, but it's about a 1-inch circle. Trying to decide whether to talk my husband into poking it with a pin in the same hole that the stuff is already coming out of, to make the hole bigger and easier for the junk to come out.
Sorry if this grosses y'all out, lol.
My wife does it occasionally for our son's acnes but only when they are pretty much ready to burst and if you dab it with cotton with tincture of iodine and it starts oozing out. The key is to ket every last bit out, otherwise it continues festering, and thats not as easy as it sounds.
One of the big one, we took him to a doctor just to see what she says, and she popped it with a needle and dressed it and gave anti biotics. However, its still not fully healed.
If its smaller cyst you can try using the pimple patches. They do a great job in popping and sucking out the stuff cleanly and the few times we used it, it healed pretty well. But we dont did it during early stages.
Thank you, this was helpful. I’ve never heard of “tincture of iodine”, are you just referring to regular iodine you buy at the store? Or is there a tincture? I do have usnea tincture that I made myself, do you think I should try putting a bit of it on the cyst after squeezing it? Usnea tincture as you probably already know is like an antibiotic. Maybe I should take some of it and too, couldn’t hurt 🤷♀️
My husband got a little out last night, then tonight he used a syringe needle and tried to suction it out, but of course it didn’t work. Though it did work to open the hole enough to get quite a bit of junk out 🤢 Good hubby to do stand there and squeeze and massage it for like an hour to get as much as he could out. I’m a little sore now but glad to get so much of it out, he said it now feels soft. Have a feeling he may have to do it again though. Washed it up, sprayed with 90% alcohol and then bacitracin then bandage. He said he felt like there were multiple pockets in the cyst.
Barbara O’Neill says to put a cooked onion on it. you’re supposed to cut the onion in half and then cook it in the oven for a half an hour or something, let it cool, and put it on the cyst. I just saw the video on Instagram the other day.
Dr Pimple Popper will show you how. Videos on YouTube. Make sure to get the sack out. Then it won’t come back.