Recurring bartholin's cyst since 2018 - any advice is encouraged.

Hi all,

I just wanted to get on here to speak about my experience with bartholin's cysts. It started in the summer of 2018, where I wasn't feeling so great, the next thing i know i end up with a cyst the size of a golf ball. I had to go to the ER to get it drained without any numbing and it was probably the most painful experience I have ever had. It went away for a little until a year later. I would do sitz baths and it would usually disappear.

February 2021: It came back, and i was in so much pain i could not believe it. i went to a surgeon who specializes in these and did a marsupialization with him. the way he made the incision was very weird. The effing cyst came back as soon as I had healed!! and I was having cysts a little closer to the labia than where the gland is itself. It drained and came back AGAIN, i went back to the surgeon. son wanted me to do a second marsup. i started crying outside of his office in front of patients. i didn't care. i was so freaking upset and stressed out at that point that i could not hold it in any longer. i switched gynecologists after that event and he is great, but the cyst was still placed in a weird area so he could not put a word catheter in the way he wanted to.

Fast forward to now- march 2022. cyst is back, the size of a golf ball ALMOST, just like 2018. I am trying to go to my doctor tomorrow for the word catheter. this cyst is stubborn. i sat in epsom salt and hot water and a little blood came out. i also put witch hazel over it the night before which made it more irritated. i figure this is a good thing but i am in so much pain right now that i just want this hell over. i might have to take a week off from work for this situation..

if anyone has any advice as to what i should do because i'm telling you, ive literally tried it all. tea tree oil burned me, the witch hazel from last night made it bigger... i really don't know what to do anymore.

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