[Dailydrool] forgot I was clueless, better ask

[melissa gibson]

My beloved Hanna had a nasty cyst on her tail that was fine for about ten years but finally exploded and she would not leave it alone long enough for it to heal. I ended up having her tail removed, she had about an inch nub left. I still feel horrible for doing it. She was 13 at the time and lived another three years. Now I have Buster who has cysts all over the place, they get big, burst, we squeeze all the grossness out and eventually they heal and scab over. He recently had one that was different and was still bloody and seeping after weeks. He went thru a course of antibiotics that didn't really help. So in we went and the vet said it was a sebacous cyst and usually they have to cut them out but instead we tried something new and they froze it, just like a wart. It is supposed to turn black and fall off in about ten days. I'll let you know how it turns out. It's not seeping anymore and it was relatively (seemingly) painless for him as opposed to
 going under anesthesia for removal. So I hope it works.

Melissa


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Hi all, me again,

So when I pulled Gracie a year and a half a go she had a bunch wrong (skinny, ingrown 4 inch nails, broken tooth needing extraction, unspayed and still with milk in her) but the one I'm asking about is this goldball sized cyst she had 3/4 of the way down her tail.  The vet said, no no don't remove that, tails don't heal well, I don't want to have to remove part of her tail so let me open it up and clean it out while she is under for .... somthing.  I don't remember which time they cleaned it out, they might have done it during the spay and AGAIN during the tooth removal but anyway she came home with a BIG flap of skin which filled with fluid, first blood colored and after that drained a few times a clear fluid.  It stabilized and the vet said she'd been fine, it was just a cyst.

Fast forward 18 month and last month I was petting Gracie and I noticed the small, residual "bump" had increased in size.  A couple days later I found a bunch of stuff all over her tail, it had burst.  So I cleaned her up with hydrogen peroxide and drained it for her a couple of times a day for a few days and it did the same thing on a much smaller scale.  First a blood colored fluid but after a couple days just a small amount of clear fluid and now it looks like a small pimple with a scab on it.  It doesn't need draining anymore.


Of course I kept it clean with hydrogen peroxide and I used neosporin on it a couple of times.  What, if anything, else should I do about it?  The erruption was much smaller this time and the residual is much smaller too ..... will it still come back .... in another year or two?

Thanks,
Dale
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