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?

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.

Heh. The Boy really is a freak. I had a bartholin cyst (just google it), and he happily brought a hand mirror and a headlamp.

No, really.

Also, those things fucking HURT. But they (at least mine) go away within a week or so.

spent too much time on youtube, too, erin. GROSS.

Oh, bah. It's been a month since I've been to the gym (vacation, getting sick, etc.), and they close at 1, so I gotta go now if I'm gonna go.

Maybe I'll put coffee in my water bottle.

Why do I have this compulsion to read all the whitefont? Never mind; that was rhetorical.

I'm curious - do all y'all who have ingrown hair difficulties have straight hair? My hair's curly, and I never get such problems, and I wonder if that's why. I've read that straight hair tangles more easily than curly, so maybe it, like, tangles on itself as it grows? I dunno.

The Boy really is a freak.

No, the boy is a gem. I miss having someone who can check out something that I cannot see because I am not a circus performer. See also: ticks.

I have very straight hair, but I have had one ingrown hair before this, and it was tiny and easily identified and pulled out with tweezers.

My understanding is that curly hair actually is more prone to ingrowns.

ETA: I would have no probs dealing with a similar problem on DH, but I possess a strong stomach and a fair fascination with fixing medical stuff. I would be a damn fine nurse, except for hating vomit and poo. Pus I am ok with.