Yep. I was fairly sure I had some flesh eating disease or cancer of the YAknow . Totally freaky and owwy.

Heh. Yeppers. I was all OH DEAR GOD PUNANNY VOLCANO

Erin I had the same thing happen to me once, it was freaky and scary. It took awhile but I was able to get the hair out as well. It left a dark mark on my skin for awhile too.

I've also had a similar ingrown hair situation on my boob. Unfortunately I am cursed with hairs and when I pluck I tend to get minor ingrown hairs. But once it was really bad, the way you described except it turned out to be two hairs that had ingrown next to each other.

askye, I had one of those, too. It ended up being rather long and I had to use a hot compress to bring it out, but it healed up with no problem afterwards.

askye, a little dab of astringent on the area helps as well.

So I'm taking a break before I dive into repairing my car, again. Exciting adventure again last night.

I will do a write up later, as I will be going to work after I put in an alternator.

I get those ingrowns from time to time. It's like it's been growing and growing and growing for years and magically one day gets close enough to the surface that the immunue system goes into overdrive and tries to kill it ded. Which of course does not work, just gets really uncomfortable and messy, since the nice warm moist climate really makes everything blow up. Keep it as clean as possible for a day or two, and no need to worry about scarring in that location! If it is still hurting in cuple days, might be time to see a dermatologist. Just in case, ya know.

The best prevention for ingrown hairs is exfoliation....but there's some places that just do not cry out for a loofah.

Heh, i'm imaginging lots of mirrors and lamps. Gotta be frustrating to not have good access. I guess DH isn't really into amateur dermatology?

I told him about it, because I am in some pain, but no. He's not looking at that! I would like him to want to have sex with me again at some point.

And anyway, I am much better than he at minor medical stuff. He wouldn't have been able to do what was necessary. It hurt, but I have a pretty high pain threshold and a grossness threshold. I still feel kinda queasy and shaky, though. He about fainted when I took his finger stitches out, so it is on me to be all ARGH PIONEER WOMAN.

So I'm taking a break before I dive into repairing my car, again.

And you thought to yourself, "I wonder what my Bitches are talking about!"

PSA: do NOT google "boil" and then watch the youtube results. I really am on the verge of hurling. And now i'm supposed to go to sleep? Oh HELL no.

eta: and i am not at all sqeamish abount medical (or pseudo-medical) practices. People really need to go to the doctor sometimes. Leave severe MRSA infections to professionals, not yr friend w/ a boat, m'kay?