Can you get an Abscess in another location?

[MikeCman]

Yo bros,
Well I thought i got a hemmroid, but when I went to the doc. he said it was just an abscess right in the middle of my crack. It drained naturally and im on an antibiotic. I was just wondering if you can get an abscess in another location besides the injection site? I've been injecting in my L and R glutes and the abscess formed on the surface of my skin in between my ass cheeks. Is there any correlation, or was this just a nasty pimple that prob. has no connection. My injection sites seem fine, and no redness, soreness, or even pain.

[ecivon]

Yo bros,
Well I thought i got a hemmroid, but when I went to the doc. he said it was just an abscess right in the middle of my crack. It drained naturally and im on an antibiotic. I was just wondering if you can get an abscess in another location besides the injection site? I've been injecting in my L and R glutes and the abscess formed on the surface of my skin in between my ass cheeks. Is there any correlation, or was this just a nasty pimple that prob. has no connection. My injection sites seem fine, and no redness, soreness, or even pain.

Your abscess is unrelated to your glute injection(s). They were coincidental events. The only way an abscess can form away from the injection site is if you develop an infection and it gets in your blood stream and ends up symptomatically at another location on the body. Abscesses as you had are not that uncommon and can be more follicular in origin.

Most infection manifestations are cellulitus and pus pockets in joints, the thoracic area, or endocarditis.

[Snrf]

Yo bros,
it was just an abscess right in the middle of my crack.

yum, put me right off my dinner

[Weegiebol]

"Pilonidal disease was first described by Hodges in 1880 [1] and is diagnosed by the finding of a characteristic epithelial track (the sinus) situated in the skin of the natal cleft, a short distance behind the anus and generally containing hair, hence the name pilonidal taken from the Latin, meaning literally 'nest of hairs'. During the Second World War the condition was common in jeep drivers, which led to it being known as 'jeep disease'. A similar condition arises in the clefts between the fingers of barbers or hairdressers caused by customers' hair entering moist, damaged skin."

It's called a pilonidal sinus bro, and has absolutely nothing to do with your shots. My friend had one where the hair causing it had actually grown inwards and wrapped around his spine! Keep on the antibiotics and u should be fine mate.

[ecivon]

Though Weegiebol described it in a different fashion, he is correct. These type abscesses, like I described, are follicular in nature, most generally caused by hair follicles that get inflammed and then infected, hence the abscess. They are relatively benign as long as you leave them alone. Don't pick at it trying to pop it, you won't be able to and you'll end up forcing the infection inward potentially causing serious problems. Especially if it is close to the sacroiliac, which can cause inflammation of the area and possibly infection of the lower spine. Leave it alone and keep it clean.