My experience w/ Bartholins cyst

So SAT morning around 3am I noticed one of my vagina lips was larger than the other (no pain) .... so Saturday it was still swollen (no pain) .... me and my boyfriend have been together for 11months and recently stop using condoms so I figured it was BV... Sunday morning I go to the hospital, they did the surgery (cyst was about the size of a thumb nail) the psycisian assistant put the string in there to drain. (Told me to take it out in 2days) go home sit in WARM water 5 times a day for 15minutes & try to drain it on my own. The next day I wake up in excruciating pain. Couldn't sit, stand, or walk .... my house is 2 stories and I live alone :-( ...anyway... i attempted to drain but NOTHING came out & it hurt like HELL to even touch...I was given Tylenol w/ codeine (which wasn't strong enough) and antibiotics .... later on that day the cyst got much bigger and wayyyy more painful ...the next morning (today) it was even BIGGER, VERY SENSITIVE, and HARD. I was sure it was a hematoma or blood clot. So I got sucked into becoming a Google doctor.... after doing EXTENSIVE research & reading different people home remedies I decided to pull the string out because it's DAY 2 & sit in SCORTCHING HOT WATER.... surprisingly this allowed my wound to BURST OPEN (didn't even feel it) and I was able to drain it myself. i sat in running hot bath water and drained for about an HR ( 40 minutes in I ran out of hot water) when I say literally the lump & the pain has gone away I am now able to sit, run, stand, cross my legs, it's almost as if nothing is wrong but my labia is still swollen. I will update what I wake up tomorrow like but I felt I needed to share this because it may work from someone else! I hope it does! Xx

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