Sorry I didn't get back with you until now. My life has been super-hectic lately. Anyways, I'm not really sure what you want to know but I'll just give a pretty brief overview. Basically it's a disorder/disease of the apocrine (sweat) glands. The disease usually presents itself sometime around puberty or slightly after but it can also be WAY after in the case of some ladies I've met. Basically what it does it cause a lump that fills with pus, oil, sweat and other icky stuff. The lump swells up and eventually bursts. That lump goes dormant until the disease decides to rear its ugly head again.
At stage 1 of the disease, you just get these bumps in random places. Sometimes they reappear in the same area and sometimes they move to a new area. At stage 2, the lumps start to cluster and typically also spread to a new area. They also start forming tracts that connect the bumps under the skin. At stage 3, these clusters are fully connected by sinus tracts. The lumps can either continue to spread or stay in the same area and worsen. This is a stage of the disease where the bumps can grow to very large sizes.
The bumps can appear just about anywhere. I've had them in my groin (outside, inside, and in my thigh area), waist, under my breasts, back of my neck and under my arms. Some areas are more frustrating/painful than others. If you have any questions about it, let me know.
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Date: 2011-06-15 02:35 pm (UTC)At stage 1 of the disease, you just get these bumps in random places. Sometimes they reappear in the same area and sometimes they move to a new area. At stage 2, the lumps start to cluster and typically also spread to a new area. They also start forming tracts that connect the bumps under the skin. At stage 3, these clusters are fully connected by sinus tracts. The lumps can either continue to spread or stay in the same area and worsen. This is a stage of the disease where the bumps can grow to very large sizes.
The bumps can appear just about anywhere. I've had them in my groin (outside, inside, and in my thigh area), waist, under my breasts, back of my neck and under my arms. Some areas are more frustrating/painful than others. If you have any questions about it, let me know.