My suggestion... Get a cream such as boil ease or the black tar-like gel called ichthamol ointment. Its a drawing salve that helps form a head for it to open. Then it can heal. U can buy tgis stuff at walmart or walgreens. Not sure of anything else besides an i&d. Good luck.

I totally understand what you mean about being jealous of other peoples armpits...never in my life would i think an ARMPIT would make me jealous!!! but it so does!

There is also a drawing sav callled Prid you could try. Make sure when it gets really sensitive to put a hole in it or else the pressure just hurts worse..........

I have been using ichthammol for about a month now and it is the only product that has given me results and relief. you can get it at you local feed store and in CA i paid 14.99 for a good size tub (14oz) it looks scary and stains so I have pajamas that I wear when I want to slather it on. I put it on the crease in my armpits and groin areas and anything i think will turn into a monster. With mine, it leaves a little bruise and then starts to heal leaving out all the agony inbetween. I also called my Derm and told her and she thought it was wonderful that it was working she hadnt thought about using products made for animals. I totaly understand you looking at "normal" pits. I find myself with an attraction to some women not sexually but because their skin is amazing and I want it lol Hang in there :)

well theres this silver medicine tha could by at the store.I tried taking it and it helps a little and try it and i know how u feel i have 4 holes under my armpit its wrong.

actually, unless it is continuing to grow/spread/cause terrible pain, i think you should just leave well enough alone. i had something similar that had been stable for over a year before i made the mistake of letting a doctor lance it. it healed up with a scar, and then refilled with puss, and spread with terrible pain. so if it isnt hurting too much, and it isnt spreading, just deal with it.

oh, and ditto on the jealous of other peoples armpits. i will take it further, i am jealous of their arms. mine are so pale from keeping them covered, and so flabby because the chronic problems makes me unable to move them so well. i have these nasty armpits and these sickly white, fleshy, flabby arms to go along with them. does anyone else identify with the fat, flabby paste white arms?

Sadly nona I do..Along with the alien in the crease..I have one in each of my armpits right now, they're just big enough to be painful, but not big enough that a doc would lance it..ugghh..
I hear you gals on the armpit jealousy..I can't even remember my pits without the HS now..sad..
And ichthamol has helped a couple of times...but god does it stink...I've smelled dead skunks that smelled better..lol
Boil ease don't do much for me..not sure why..

It is a disfiguring disease but it is a disease...and you are not a freak! It is just depressing to see people with healthy skin though...I remember back to the days when mine was also beautiful. Those days are long gone though. Wish you the best! Hugsss

I've had good results with putting Campho-phenique on stubborn ones that just won't open. They usally make a head and drain within 24 hours after application. This won't help the ongoing draining, though. I have an armpit one that has been draiing for 20 months.

I'm with you gals in the armpit admiration society. Figure skaters make me want to get some of their DNA and splice it into mine for the pretty armpits....

i definitely agree with the whole being jealous of someones armpits.....i never thought i would see the day where itold someone i wish my armpits looked like theres....SMH the little things we take for granted! But try boil ease and neosporin toghther not only does it eas the pain but it brings the boil to a head and put gauze over it....it should drain in no time.. or try a hot compress as hot as you can stand it and keep repeating it.

Recently, I made a thick paste of Turmeric Powder, Olive Oil, and water, and placed it under my daughter's armpit. She had a huge lump that had been there for over two weeks. I covered it with gauze and tape and the lump ruptured overnight! If you haven't tried this, please do. And of course it's very staining, so make sure you're wearing something that doesn't mean much to you. :-)

I try to keep my daughter's spirits up and not allow her to be down about the situation. She's only 16 and I don't want her to grow up with complexes because of HS. She may have HS, but HS will not choke her quality of life, and will not triumph over her!

I also have been dealing with HS for almost 20 years, and I know the pain.

It's hard to deal with, but she is pressing forward, and keeping a positive outlook. No offense to you all who were talking about envying other people's "healthy looking" armpits (and I really mean NO OFFENSE), but I won't allow her to "envy" anyone who has healthy looking armpits, because that will turn into her being envious of someone's healthy looking breasts, or healthy looking thighs, because these are the places that she has scars. I don't want her to feel inferior or like less of a person because of HS. I want her to understand how beautiful she is and that this is something that is not her fault. I also want her to be confident in who she is as a human being. She still has a whole entire life ahead of her, and I will do my best to make sure she walks and lives with confidence and understands that God allowed this to happen for a reason. Even though we may not understand it right now, we will by and by.

She will be able to be a blessing to other people through her experience with HS and will be able to be anything that she wants to be in this life.

HS WILL NOT WIN!

So I encourage all of you to LIVE to the best of your ability. And know that if you allow HS to overtake you, it will.

this stubborn spot under my arm has progressed unfortunately. It spontaneously started draining one day and I was able to get a lot of fluid out but a week later it filled up again and is spreading...looks like I will have to take a trip to the doctor for my first ever l&d argghhh. I HATE THIS DISEASE!