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Putting Garlic on your ass is not as easy as you would think.
Let me explain:
Many of you know about my cyst and how it can get so irritated it becomes an abscess. For those of you who do not I'll explain briefly. I have a cyst the base of my tail bone that acts sometimes and produces an abscess. I need to get surgery to remove it but my current doctor is an ass and refused to recommend me to a surgeon. I am going to Tuesday to a clinic where you can put your name in and they find a new doctor for you. But I digress a little, the abscess can be very painful even at it's smallest. Before it flared up to an abscess the first time, I always thought I was bruising my tailbone because of the way that I sat or the horseback riding that I did. But no, it was the unknown cyst.
So anyway, back to the present.
It's acting up again. It's not so bad size wise. There's hardly a bump at all, but for some reason it's very painful. Just as painful as it was the week before I had to get it lanced for the first time.
Well, I have absolutely no desire to go through what I did the first time it got REALLY bad. (It grew to the size of a golf ball and I had to get it lanced without freezing because the freezing did nothing because it was so big.)
So I've doing the stuff I normally do when it starts to get sore; keep it dry and cool. Put Ice on it and that Icy muscle rub stuff on it to keep it cool. Make sure I sit on my hip more than my ass to keep pressure off it, etc.
Nothing has seemed to help.
So I went online to see if I can find an herb that will draw out infection. After several minutes of searching I read that Garlic is great for reoccurring Abscess and boils. So I go the kitchen and make a paste with the garlic clove I have. And put it on my ass where the pain is. OKay no problem. It feels cool and wet, no biggy. I walk back to the livingroom and start playing on my computer. About a minute later I'm like "Huh. Interesting." My girlfriend asks, "What?"
"Well, it kinda stings a little," shrug, "But it' fine." After I say that, it stings a little more. Now it feel like I put that icy rub on it. Now it still feels like that but it's growing in intensity. Getting more intense, more intense. Holy shit! This really fucking hurts now! BUt I'm stubborn and want the garlic to work, so I do what the info told me; keep it on for 5 or more minutes. OMG! 5 minutes is like an hour to me! Finally I get to run to the bathroom and wipe it off. And of course, that hurts cuz of whatever the garlic's doing and because it's tender and sore to the touch. But I wipe all the garlic off after whining and whimpering in pain. And now we're back to just feeling like I have that icy rub on it. I can deal with that.
But fuck! Who knew that garlic was capable of doing that!? And I gotta do it again tomorrow and until it goes away. Fun wow! -_-
Well, it beats having to lance it again. :-p
Let me explain:
Many of you know about my cyst and how it can get so irritated it becomes an abscess. For those of you who do not I'll explain briefly. I have a cyst the base of my tail bone that acts sometimes and produces an abscess. I need to get surgery to remove it but my current doctor is an ass and refused to recommend me to a surgeon. I am going to Tuesday to a clinic where you can put your name in and they find a new doctor for you. But I digress a little, the abscess can be very painful even at it's smallest. Before it flared up to an abscess the first time, I always thought I was bruising my tailbone because of the way that I sat or the horseback riding that I did. But no, it was the unknown cyst.
So anyway, back to the present.
It's acting up again. It's not so bad size wise. There's hardly a bump at all, but for some reason it's very painful. Just as painful as it was the week before I had to get it lanced for the first time.
Well, I have absolutely no desire to go through what I did the first time it got REALLY bad. (It grew to the size of a golf ball and I had to get it lanced without freezing because the freezing did nothing because it was so big.)
So I've doing the stuff I normally do when it starts to get sore; keep it dry and cool. Put Ice on it and that Icy muscle rub stuff on it to keep it cool. Make sure I sit on my hip more than my ass to keep pressure off it, etc.
Nothing has seemed to help.
So I went online to see if I can find an herb that will draw out infection. After several minutes of searching I read that Garlic is great for reoccurring Abscess and boils. So I go the kitchen and make a paste with the garlic clove I have. And put it on my ass where the pain is. OKay no problem. It feels cool and wet, no biggy. I walk back to the livingroom and start playing on my computer. About a minute later I'm like "Huh. Interesting." My girlfriend asks, "What?"
"Well, it kinda stings a little," shrug, "But it' fine." After I say that, it stings a little more. Now it feel like I put that icy rub on it. Now it still feels like that but it's growing in intensity. Getting more intense, more intense. Holy shit! This really fucking hurts now! BUt I'm stubborn and want the garlic to work, so I do what the info told me; keep it on for 5 or more minutes. OMG! 5 minutes is like an hour to me! Finally I get to run to the bathroom and wipe it off. And of course, that hurts cuz of whatever the garlic's doing and because it's tender and sore to the touch. But I wipe all the garlic off after whining and whimpering in pain. And now we're back to just feeling like I have that icy rub on it. I can deal with that.
But fuck! Who knew that garlic was capable of doing that!? And I gotta do it again tomorrow and until it goes away. Fun wow! -_-
Well, it beats having to lance it again. :-p