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This is a gross subject. I think I am getting a boil on my shoulder. I have never had one and don't know what to do about it. if anyone has any experiance with them let me know..
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Buy some "Drawing Salve" and follow the directions.
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I hope and pray each day that my ex mother-in-law awakes every morning with a boil where the sun don't shine.
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Hot compresses as often as you can stand 'em until it comes to a point and opens. Antibiotics don't do a thing until the abscess opens. Sometimes pain meds are necessary, in the event of a boil in the nether regions (apologies to 284LUVR's ex-MIL!!!) But I gotta say, there is little in emergency medicine more satisfying than opening, draining, and packing a real nasty boil. Patients don't care for it much, of course... 
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I hope and pray each day that my ex mother-in-law awakes every morning with a boil where the sun don't shine.
284. Taint?
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An ice-pick and a good pair of slip-joint pliers usually takes care of even the largest BOILS.
(OUTSIDE treatment is usually preferable to afterwards washing walls and ceilings.)
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Up here they are treated just like you guys do with Snake Bites. Cut a X on the boil and have your best friend suck it out.
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...have your best friend suck it out. I guess you're doomed.
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This brings up the case of the guy running down the hospital hallway, wearing a hospital gown, holding his crotch and screaming in pain, with a nurse close behind him, and a doctor following her yelling, "No, no, nurse. I said to prick his boil!"
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Jeeze, 40 minutes and nobody has yet posted " Shave your junk and eat a can of frozen orange juice with a spoon"? Shocked, I am.  John
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Yep seen it s few times, some even shoot the goop (tech medical term) several feet if ya don't have a cover pad.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
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I hope and pray each day that my ex mother-in-law awakes every morning with a boil where the sun don't shine.
284. Taint? "Lord God, I've been bit by a tschzit snake!" (For those familiar with the works of Lewis Grizzard.)
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I went to the doctor complaining my farts sounded like a small Japanese motorcycle.
"Interesting," he said, "Anything else?"
"Yes," I responded, "I also got a big boil on my butt."
"Right," said the doctor, "I'll just lance the boil and both your problems will be taken care of."
"How's that?" I inquired.
"Because abcess makes the Fart go Honda."
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I went to the doctor complaining my farts sounded like a small Japanese motorcycle.
"Interesting," he said, "Anything else?"
"Yes," I responded, "I also got a big boil on my butt."
"Right," said the doctor, "I'll lance the boil and your problems will be taken care of."
"How's that?" I inquired.
"Because abcess makes the Fart go Honda." Quick! Somebody page Leighton! John
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Man walks into the doctor's office and takes off his hat to reveal a frog sitting on top of his bald head. The doctor asks, "Can I help you?" The frog replies, "Yeah, can you take this wart off my ass?"
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Yep seen it s few times, some even shoot the goop (tech medical term) several feet if ya don't have a cover pad. I lanced a REAL stinky one about 6 months ago that spray-painted the wall 12 feet away. Impressive!
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"Because abcess makes the Fart go Honda." OMG!! That pun is TLEE-worthy!!
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i think boils must have been pretty common, back in the day, when folks worked around livestock such as cattle, hogs, etc.
not a recommendation but before that new-fangled antibiotic that was developed (discovered?) back in WWII, they'd use mustard and ginger poultices to draw it out. lancing it was common too. some kind of bacterial infection, sounds like?
penicillin was quite the miracle, wasn't it?
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Had a couple in the Thirties. Medical "wisdom" in those days was "don't touch 'em," but disobedient experience proved that draining and disinfecting 'em was a better course all 'round. Complete draining called for some darn painful finger pressure but precluded further agony. (An Olympic-grade boil goes deep � isn't just a surface *&^%$#@! Think "bomb crater.")
Ugliest pus I ever saw! Hurt like the devil, too.
Had one on my knee and (another time) one on my arm. Bad enough. Auntie had one on her eyelid � hard to imagine a worse site. Even one on your butt could be lanced!
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This is a gross subject. I think I am getting a boil on my shoulder. I have never had one and don't know what to do about it. if anyone has any experiance with them let me know.. Get ya woman ta squeeze it. They like doin' that chit,.... Don't ax me why.
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