If you think you may have an infection in the taint. go to a doctor immediately ask for bactrum not keflex. I came a bit too close to having a really bad staf infection in an area i didn't want one... the keflex kinda worked but most docs i talk to say bactrum or similar would have been better. i am on bactrum right now for the next month or more..
Here is the story, ill try and be short. small saddle sore went to doc told him to only numb it and drain it give it a steroid injection, (this is my go to it works everytime and fast), he instead cut it out. really small and then burned it to seal it up didn't ask me i was bugged.
Next kept riding but never felt better, so i went to my normal dermatologist a few times for drain and steroid. no big deal but still annoying and small noraml saddle sore but painful. weeks go by i think now we are at week 4 and 3 doctor trips, so i poke it myself to try and relieve the pressure. well that doesnt work because within probably a day or two I now have a huge swollen area my derm is out of the office so my noraml doc gives me a antibiotic, i take it and it keeps me off the bike for 4 days, i take the keflex for 14 days, and near the end of the fourteen days the sore forms a head (i never had a real head before just a bump).
So here we are today I have two weeks or a bit less of weeping out of the wound now with clear or red stuff and recenlty eye buger stuff in tiny amounts, and a 3 inch long tender area that goes bigger and smaller depending on if i just rode 5 hours on gravel or not. really pretty bad, but also something i can almost handle on 2 hour rides. the 5 hour stuff eek that was a bit rough, but hey i can probably do that again too. i am messed up.
So the question for those that have fought this before is can i fight this and keep riding through the pain for another month and probably heal up, or do i absolutely have to stop riding, like of course the doc says... haha lets here your experiences. and yes i keep it clean, all the time, do bag balm, do boil ease, ect.. shorts are clean.. thanks in advance
Here is the story, ill try and be short. small saddle sore went to doc told him to only numb it and drain it give it a steroid injection, (this is my go to it works everytime and fast), he instead cut it out. really small and then burned it to seal it up didn't ask me i was bugged.
Next kept riding but never felt better, so i went to my normal dermatologist a few times for drain and steroid. no big deal but still annoying and small noraml saddle sore but painful. weeks go by i think now we are at week 4 and 3 doctor trips, so i poke it myself to try and relieve the pressure. well that doesnt work because within probably a day or two I now have a huge swollen area my derm is out of the office so my noraml doc gives me a antibiotic, i take it and it keeps me off the bike for 4 days, i take the keflex for 14 days, and near the end of the fourteen days the sore forms a head (i never had a real head before just a bump).
So here we are today I have two weeks or a bit less of weeping out of the wound now with clear or red stuff and recenlty eye buger stuff in tiny amounts, and a 3 inch long tender area that goes bigger and smaller depending on if i just rode 5 hours on gravel or not. really pretty bad, but also something i can almost handle on 2 hour rides. the 5 hour stuff eek that was a bit rough, but hey i can probably do that again too. i am messed up.
So the question for those that have fought this before is can i fight this and keep riding through the pain for another month and probably heal up, or do i absolutely have to stop riding, like of course the doc says... haha lets here your experiences. and yes i keep it clean, all the time, do bag balm, do boil ease, ect.. shorts are clean.. thanks in advance
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