I'm 26 and just had a marsupilation of bartholin cyst si...

just wanted to share my story since I've been going through this for a while. I got the cyst in January 2013. It never was infected, never had any pain. I'm  originally from Toronto Canada. I moved to England in September 2013 to start my teaching career. I decided to have the surgery to remove the cyst in a hospital in London. I had the surgery by July 2014. The healing process was fine, the surgery and recovery was not painful at all. The doctor left a tiny rope inside the incision which I had to pull out the next day. I had sex with my boyfriend 4 weeks after surgery was not painful at all. But I immediately felt a tiny lump afterwards, which eventually grew back into another cyst. 

Fast forward to September 2015 where I know live in Hamburg Germy. Same thing happened, cyst was there but no infection until this month. One weekend I began to feel sick, a combination of a cold and flu, and I noticed my cyst was beginning to become sore. By the end of the weekend I was feeling better but my cyst however became extremely painful, I was in tears and taken to the hospital. It broke in the middle of the night at the hospital but the doctors chcked me still and said the cyst was not completely gone. The surgeon cleared the cyst completely and left two stitches one either side of the opening to help continue to release fluids. I had a check up a week later and the doctor said it looked great. 4 weeks later I noticed the dissolvable stitches were still there, and silly enough my boyfriend and I decided to try sex with some lubricant, I started to become afraid and I was so tight he could not even go all the way. However the next day I began to feel sick and the area where I did the surgery began to hurt. I immediately went to a gynaecologist the next evening. He explained to me that cyst are reoccurring because there are thousands of glands that produce secretion in that area, and if the glands that are infected are removed COMPLETELY the cyst will always come back, he had a look and pulled out the stitch that had been there after 4 weeks, he said dissolvable stitches are supposed to be gone quite quickly, however this stitch was quite long so it remained and was probably why I was in pain down there. He said my surgery was done extremely well, as the surgeon completely removed the cyst and cleaned the area, and my cyst will probably never come back and I need to give my self two more weeks at the most to completely heal. So today, a day after that doctor appointment I'm actually feeling better, no inflammation, I'm taking sitz baths and I'm feelings confident, the bottom line is to make sure you get a surgeon who knows what they're doing and will comepletly clear the cyst and leave IT open with stitches, 

Thanks

Would really love some feedback note you are mostly a few months to a year down the line...

I had a bc which accessed 5 times in 4 months. I had the marsupialization done on New Years eve (yay) so am now 3 weeks post-op. Whilst the area has become more comfortable, there is still a hard lump (pea sized, maybe a little bigger) with an occasional pus-ey ooze (tmi!). I think the fact I can still see quite a big,deep hole is worrying me, will it ever close? The surgeon tried to remove the gland during the op, but said it had gone to deep to reach, will it ever stop oozing given the gland is still there? (All the swabs taken didn't grow anything )... I am genuinely loosing the will with it all :-(

Would love to hear how you all got on....

I just had an awful bartholin cyst that was probably the most painful thing I will ever experience. Couldn't bend over to put socks on, could hardly walk, no position was comfortable. 

I went to the gyno for an emergency drainage and after consulting another physician the decision was made to do a marsup in the operating room under general anesthtesia the following day. Doing it with local anesthetic would be far too painful and my cyst was enormous. I was given a painkiller and had the surgey the next day. I woke up almost pain free; even after the drugs all wore off I felt so so so much better! Today is day 3 after the surgery, I'm having almost no issues aside from slight bleeding which they said to expect. I was told NO sitz baths after the surgery, only showers to rinse the area and ice packs. So far the swelling has gone down so much. It's like night and day. I HIGHLY recommend this proceedure, but have it done with someone who knows what they are doing. My gyno said the recurrance rate for his pateints is very very low, after a marsup it hardly ever comes back!