New member having surgery

Hi is it drainage of an abscess or surgery to remove the sweat gland. If it's drainage, then my only advice is to shave as the removal of covering they place over it to keep it clean, is painful when it's pulled off for obvious reasons. If it's the removal of the actual sweat gland I don't know. Make sure you take the painkillers your given. Good luck.

I have never had surgery but wanted to just say hope all goes well for you.

I have had HS for 45 years!! Learned to live with it but I am obviously not as bad as most people on here. My lumps only come up in my groin and like you rub on under ware but any one eruption will only last about 6 weeks each time and I now get them only about 4 times a year since menopause. When I was your age they came up monthly The doctors have been useless over the years not even knowing what it was. I was told "ingrowing pubic hair follicles"! Have learned more on this site in the past couple of months than I ever learned from hospitals and doctors!!

There will be someone on here that can advise you. Good luck.

Good day megan, hope you are ok?  I have just had surgery on the left hand side of my groin area, in the exact same place where my knicker line is.  

It was a drainage proceedure, and done as an emergency op at hospital as very strong anti biotics weren't budging this flare up this time.  I was discharged the following day and was left with a 5cm long and 3 cm deep wound which needs changing and packing everyday by a district nurse.  For the first few days it was bloodly painful, but I am changing my own dressings now and its healing very well and I dont feel any pain from it at all.  I hope to god that this will be the last flare up I have as I am looking into giving up cigarettes and asking for an allergy test to be carried out just in case I am allergic to say, the Dealy Nightshade family (Potatoes, Tomatos, Red Bell peppers and tobacco). I didnt shave as I dont around this area due to suffering ingrowing hairs which doesnt help.  I do trim but never shave.  You can get plasters that are easy to remove without painfuly fulling on the delicate skin and hairs in that area, make sure you ask the surgen or your nurses, they will have done this many times and unfortunately this is more common than you think.  Wish you all the best for your op, its a very simple proceedure and the recovery all depends on the size of the wound you are left with.  Keep us posted :-) xx 

Hi Meagan nice to meet you.  I was so happy to find this site as well so know exactly how you feel.   I have had several incised but on my stomach and they weren't big but kept recurring.   What hurt most was the local anaesthetic!   I didn't have any problems afterwards nor did they hurt. 

One thing,  the doctor said they couldn't operate if it was inflamed because of the  risk of the infection spreading and possibly c ausing further damage.   Mind you they had to under a general anaesthetic for one on the top of my inner thigh a few years ago coz it was a monster.   So if it is very big and inflamed they should do it under a general rather than a local.   Good luck with it.  x

 

Oh forgot to add - the big one was slightly painful afterwards but nothing like it had been before!  It had to be packed by a nurse from inside out to a few weeks.  I was told to stay off my feet as much as possible to allow it to heal.  x

Hi, I have been living with HS for over 10 years. I've had everything from antibiotics to Incision and Drainage to extreme I&D where I was in the hospital for a week at a time.  I've put off the surgery because of the magnitude of it but I am scheduled to have it done under both arms on 4/15/15.  They aren't going to do the skin grafts on mine, they are using another procedure called skin flapping. I'ma very nervous about having it done because of the downtime, but feel that I need it.  I've been walking around for a year with my underarms draining freely, messing up my clothes and everything, the pain is horrible and I'm tired of it. So I just wanted to say I'm in the same boat and good luck to you!