Sebaceous Cyst cure without surgery

[BenjiA]

Just posting here as I was getting close to needing to pay for surgery on a small cyst that had been hanging around just to the side of my nose for about 3 years.

Whilst it wasn't huge I could smell it and was feeling self concious about it.

I got some Erythromycin and zinc acetate lotion from an online pharmacy (about £25) and set about treating it twice daily after washing.

I also added Collagen and Hyaluronic acid to my daily protein shake - both of which are supposed to help with skin regeneration.

After 6 months it's now gone, just thought I'd post here as my googling a few years back showed no option other than paying to cut it out.

Hope this helps someone, sometime!

Ben.

[Road2Ruin]

Thanks Ben, that may be useful to me. Ta.

[CoolHands]

And once again the st nhs won’t do fk all for you. Won’t remove things like this, and won’t suggest a treatment like you’ve mentioned either.

[peterperkins]

Some friends with very basic medical training operated on me with a blunt scalpel at work once to remove a cyst..

[geeks]

CoolHands said:

And once again the st nhs won’t do fk all for you. Won’t remove things like this, and won’t suggest a treatment like you’ve mentioned either.

I’ve had one removed on the NHS

[Mr Pointy]

geeks said:

CoolHands said:

And once again the st nhs won’t do fk all for you. Won’t remove things like this, and won’t suggest a treatment like you’ve mentioned either.

I’ve had one removed on the NHS

How recently?

[Rockets7]

Had one shifted by nhs last year from scalp. Told them I was a motorcyclist and it was rubbing in crash lid. Sorted in 2 weeks

[CoolHands]

Probably postcode lottery then. Which is another crazy thing anyway, why should the treatment differ depending on where you live.

[blueg33]

CoolHands said:

Probably postcode lottery then. Which is another crazy thing anyway, why should the treatment differ depending on where you live.

Decentralised funding

[Road2Ruin]

CoolHands said:

Probably postcode lottery then. Which is another crazy thing anyway, why should the treatment differ depending on where you live.

You have to make it sound like it is affecting your life. I have one that is painful to sit on. So they are looking at it....

[dobly]

My GP cut one out of my back (halfway between shoulder blade and back of neck) a few years ago - abut the size of a yellow fruit gum squashed so that it wasn’t round. Sent off for histology, came back as pre-cancerous. No issues since.

[river_rat]

I had one removed on the nhs about 5 years ago.

My own GP was dismissive and basically said to live with it (on my face) so I booked a private doctor appointment, who was an out of hours NHS GP who said he would recommend removal under NHS after some questions (where he prompted me to answer ‘correctly’)

I did get the start of another cyst a while afterwards in a different place, but I put aloe Vera gel on that and it disappeared