So I'm gonna get surgery to remove my pilonidal cyst in a few months. I've seen threads about this before...

Had one done a few years back

Needed a nurse to come daily for months. Didnt lift for about 6 months after, ended up havjng a few courses of antibiotics of varying strength, but i think mine went worse than a lot of others

This fucking thing ruined my teenage life, Jesus Christ. I wish it had a body so I could punch it in its stupid face.

The surgery is fine, takes a week or so for basic recovery, but do what you're told for a month or so to make sure that it fucks off forever and you should be good. I have a bunch of scars but I don't give a shit because I don't have pus shooting out of my butt 24/7 anymore.

I had one surgery when I was a teenager and another when I was 24. First one healed in two months, daily dressings from a nurse. Second surgery took a much larger chunk and i had complications (post-surgery bleeding) so had to be re-sutured. Took six months of dressings to heal. Second one apparently was about 12cm deep and at the opening about the size of a golf ball. My bum crack looks and feels a bit weird now, but not a homo so doesn't affect me.

Went to the doc to drain it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, but it's filling up again.
Should I get it removed with surgery?

The changing of the dressing sucks, but it is not anything to get upset over.

>Shave my ass, no homo
>pimple shows up next week
>ingrown hair gone wrong, it's pretty large
>squeeze it until it pops
>it comes back after a week
>shit nigga, squeeze it out again
>still inflamed after a few more days
>get worried it's a pilonidal cyst
>Squeeze it extra hard, grab tweezers and pull the hair out
>Didn't come back
Wew lad

This surgery ruined my life. No joke.
Did it 3 years ago and the scar still hasn't healed properly
>wound closes entirely
>back to the gym 2 months after
>wound reopens
>have to change dressing every other day
>had to drop dream of military career after

It can be a fucking nightmare depending on how you do it. I wouldn't remove anything, just have your doctor make and incision and drain it. Heals in weeks supposedly.

>grab tweezers and pull the hair out
How can you grab a hair with tweezers when you can't even see it? That's some sensei shit right there user

I got one of these cut out of my ass at 19 after it got very badly infected. They told me they cut a 2" hole about 2.5" deep, and it took about two hours to get it all (they put me under). I swear I got fucking PTSD from the staph infection that manifested two weeks later. That was worse than the cyst getting infected and so far the most painful experience of my life. Cue six months of nurses replacing gauze in a gaping hole in my ass (goodbye biking and power bottoming). That was 5 years ago and I still freak out if I get touched anywhere near the wound site or catch myself sitting in a way that puts pressure on it.

Oh, and thanks to that staph infection I haven't taken a solid shit in 5 years. So that's cool too!