
Originally Posted by
guns626
If you have a cyst in the area directly above your crack it is called a pilonidial (sp?) cyst. These are not caused by gear useage and there are a couple of treatments. 1. Go to your daoc or the er, if the cyst has not developed track below the surface, you can have it I&D or incised and drained. After this it should be packed with iodaform gauze. This allows for it to heal from the inside out. If it is just lanced, the surface tissue will close and the underlying area will fill back up with puss and you will have not accomplished anything. once it is packed, you will have to change this packing at least once every 2 days until it heals.
2. If this has already becomed tracked and the puss has spread to other areas then this will require surgery. They must cut out all the encapsulated area and this will definatley require some healing time. I am in med shool and was a flight paramedic before this. Trust me when I say that this is not from gear useage. This happens in a large percentage of the population that do not use gear. Hope this helps. Guns