Hi so I’ve been diagnosed with bartholin cyst/abscess and have been given antibiotics but it’s sooo painful do any of you wonderful people have any suggestions to help ease the pain and discomfort and to help it drain naturally as I really can’t cope and I can’t wait till Monday to go back and ask to see gynaecology to have it drained.
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Sitz bath! fill up a bath and get some Epsom salt and lay in it for about 20 minutes. My partner suffered with an abscess and this really helped him and it eventually drained. Think you can get the salts in any supermarket. Hope you feel better soon, it’s bloody painful! X

Table salt in your hot bath twice a day and sit in it for 20 minutes both times. When your out the bath have a hot water bottle on the cyst and keep some pressure on it the hot water bottle and pressure will help it burst and drain naturally i do this every time I get one. I’ve been going through it every few months for 13 years now. And plenty of paracetamol. What type of antibiotics did they give you? as the doctors like to give the wrong ones

For tonight keep heat and pressure on it

Not much advice - but I had one for around 6-8 months and nothing I did helped; I went gynaecology and they drained by putting a slice into it, but even then it came back.
I can say the only thing that helped, was having sex - I guess it stimulated the gland to produce fluid and it cleared out the blocked duct 💀
Good luck mama x
Update ladies it’s popped!!!!!!!!