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    Okay--
    so a friend of mine is having these ingrown hair issues on his legs, but he doesn't shave. As far as I know, they've JUST shown up after he did a sport where he wore padding on each leg, so he figured they were ingrown hairs. Except now, a couple weeks later, there are new one's forming and their huge, like half the size of a pencil erasure on the end of a pencil. So I'm like-- ew, that's gross, and he's still thinking they're ingrown hairs, but my ingrown hairs have never looked like that.

    so...what's the deal? It could be staph, but the pus is just under the skin, and not looking like it's way underneath the skin (which is what staph looks and feels like in my experience...except for a few tiny pustules here and there.)

    what else can it be?
    I'm advising him to pop the suckers, soap everything up and wash, exfoliate with either a loofah or a scrub, and then put...I dunno, bactine, or something on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl
    I'm advising him to pop the suckers, soap everything up and wash, exfoliate with either a loofah or a scrub, and then put...I dunno, bactine, or something on it.
    That's what I'd do. His skin probably just got irritated from the pads.

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    Default Re: what presents like an ingrown hair but gets huge?

    Ingrown hairs can get huge...but, if he keeps getting them or they get infected or start to hurt, tell him to go to a dermatologist.

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    They could be boils! Tell him to go to the doctor and ask for something called bactroban. It works a lot and then all those bumps with leak out on their own. Sometimes it just happens... When I shave almost every other day or every day I will get in grown hairs too. (Even though I know you said he doesn't shave his legs).

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    Default Re: what presents like an ingrown hair but gets huge?

    Guys get ingrown hairs on their thighs all the time - especially if they're wearing sports pads. And yes, they get quite big.

    Pop 'em and try rubbing alcohol and peroxide. Sometimes it works if I just use tweezers on the skin where the hair folicle is and gently pick it - after a few plucks, it grabs the folicle from the top and gets the hair with the least pain and smallest wound.


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    Ingrown hairs can get big. I knew someone once who had to have one surgically removed. It had grown 4 feet long!

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    I have an ingrown hair that size right now, no the back of my neck at the hairline. OWWIE!
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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker
    Ingrown hairs can get big. I knew someone once who had to have one surgically removed. It had grown 4 feet long!
    Whoa!

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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker
    Ingrown hairs can get big. I knew someone once who had to have one surgically removed. It had grown 4 feet long!
    What?!! How/why did he let it get that big. And where was it located??







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    Apparently it's not that uncommon, lol. It was near the spine at the bottom of the back.

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    : O -mentally trying to uncoil four feet of one piece of hair from someone's spine...- how long did THAT take to fucking grow? You would have thought that person would have gotten a sister or something to cut the whole fucking thing out when it was about one foot.

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    Yes I second the boil comment. I had this problem once. Thought it was a hair....but ..it wasnt. Also, they are VERY contagious and can spread on your own body becoming carbuncles. TERRIBLY PAINFUL!! got to dermetologist ASAP!!!

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    I agree with tori. If he can't pull the skin taut and see a hair like I can do with my ingrowns, he should take the safe route and assume it could be something else and get it checked out just in case. A lot of things that people assume it's ok to pop turn into absesses and have to be surgically removed. I just saw this at my best friends daycare when a mother poped what she thought was an ant bite on her 2 yr olds thigh. It absessed (huge) and they had to cut it off...... the poor girl may have a big circle shaped scar for the rest of her life now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl
    : O -mentally trying to uncoil four feet of one piece of hair from someone's spine...- how long did THAT take to fucking grow? You would have thought that person would have gotten a sister or something to cut the whole fucking thing out when it was about one foot.
    Lol, I dont think they noticed or worried about it so much at first, the bump must have been there for a while and they were young so it's probably one of those things kids dont give too much thought to. The hair had grown round and round in a coil mostly and it was a really fine hair. Because it was close to the spine the drs were worried.

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    okay, so I was looking at his bumps last night and there was a really huge one on his inner thigh, like the size of a pinky nail with lots of red around it, so I'm thinking Staph now. I told him to wash with a lot of hot soapy water to get the pus up to the skin and then push it out and then to go to the doctor if it gets worse... it sucks though because he's a) super busy with two jobs and poor, so he can't take a lot of time off from work, and b) mostly "whatever" about a lot of med stuff anyways, so it will have to get worse in order to get him to go, especially since he doesn't have insurance.

    If/When he gets antibiotics for this, how long does it take to clear up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl
    : O -mentally trying to uncoil four feet of one piece of hair from someone's spine...
    Holy Crap! That sounds a lot closer to a TAIL than a hair... Was he able to swing from a tree with that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker
    Ingrown hairs can get big. I knew someone once who had to have one surgically removed. It had grown 4 feet long!
    Exactly! Look at pilionidal cycts, which are often caused by a huge, ingrown hair and cause so much pain and suffering you can't even imaine. My sister had one and it was the most awful thing in the whole wide world to see her go through. I think her hair was also like a million (okay, 2-4) feet long and she couldn't even WALK at it's worst, even once it was removed and she was left dealing with the infection. Awful. Anyway, my boyfriend also has hairs on his legs that seem to grow into his legs. They are very short, only a couple of millimeters, but cause small red bumps at the grow-in site and we sometimes have to scrape them out. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fancygirl
    okay, so I was looking at his bumps last night and there was a really huge one on his inner thigh, like the size of a pinky nail with lots of red around it, so I'm thinking Staph now. I told him to wash with a lot of hot soapy water to get the pus up to the skin and then push it out and then to go to the doctor if it gets worse... it sucks though because he's a) super busy with two jobs and poor, so he can't take a lot of time off from work, and b) mostly "whatever" about a lot of med stuff anyways, so it will have to get worse in order to get him to go, especially since he doesn't have insurance.

    If/When he gets antibiotics for this, how long does it take to clear up?
    One thing that often brings "things" to the surfact (like boils and such) is to cover the area with as hot a compress as one can possibly tolerate, using hot water and a 100% cotton cloth. This is really effective with boils and it may help with your man's problem as well. This can be done with, say, one minute on, one minute off if it is hard to tolerate and is very very effective. You can even mix the hot water with epsom salts. :-)
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