Bartholin cyst
Sep. 5th, 2008 12:57 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I noticed yesterday that it felt like I had caught a piece of hair and ripped it out, kinda a little twinge that didn't go away and it was red. This is on the right side just behind the vaginal opening like 2 millimeters behind, so it isn't directly beside it. But from the pics I saw thats what it is.
Now today I woke up and it hurt so I had a nice hot bath and felt around and theres a big (pea sized) squishy lump, so I grabbed a mirror and it is bright red and angry looking. When I dried off with my towel it hurt like a bugger and now there is a tiny spot on it that looks like a made a rub burn when drying it off, but does not appear to be open and draining.
The horrible part is I just started my period today! Great timing eh? So wearing pads is irritating it even worse! So I have been sitting on a heating pad and hoping the heat makes it through the pad to the cyst, and I've been rubbing polysporin with that numbing stuff into it so it doesn't hurt.
Is there anything else I can do? and should it hurt this much!? I figure it isn't an abcess cuz it's still pretty small.
Also if I do need to have something done to it, will the doctor sedate me? I am a huge wuss and ahve really really bad panic attacks. I even need to be sedated to ahve cavities filled.