Is there any hope?
This is gonna be a long post and im a bit nervous because im very new in this situation, so to start i am a 26F and all of this started for me on february of last year, I used to have a very bad habit of sitting in very weird positions when i was on a chair, and one day I sat in a weird way where i was holding my legs with my arms and i was applying a lot of pressure to my coxis, I really didn’t gave it too much thought and i was like that for hours but when i stood up my coxis was hurting and it felt painful, so i ran to check in a mirror and i saw like a red dot in between my ass cheeks, I was like shit i bruised myself but i kinda went on with my life, as the days went by so did the pain, but everytime i would apply pressure to the area it would hurt a bit again and when i checked the red dot was still there, and as the months went on it turned purple and would still hurt me when i would apply pressure or would workout using the coxis or glutes area, which is very frustrating, it never got bigger but if i did apply pressure to the are would feel a bit inflamated or the color would switch from purple to dark pinkish, with time i managed to sort my life in a way i never apply pressure there, i sit kinda laying to a side or another and i always sleep in the bed facing down or in the sides (i miss sleeping facing forward), I genuinely thought that was gonna disappear i was convinced that it was a bruise for so long… But given that im an anxious being i researched and decided to go to a specialist called “coloproctology” he checked me and told me it was indeed a pilonidal cyst, but he said that because wasn’t affecting my life and it didn’t hurt when he touch it, he recommended me to do nothing about it, which to me it felt like a cold water bucket was thrown at me, he said if it got bigget i could come back but he said this is better than having a scar… Im very emotionally affected by this situation because not only the fact that scares me that it gets worst but for example, currently I feel a bit more of a bump than a few weeks ago, and it terrifies me that it gets worse and I have to get surgery. Also in the aesthetic part i hate that it looks purple/redish like a bruise that never goes away, im so insecure about having sex again, I don’t know how im gonna be able to have someone looking at that and being attracted to it, it hurts me a lot to think there’s no cure or solution and that I can’t make it go away… I even looked if there is any way or laser that can remove the color but I'm afraid that’s gonna make the cyst perse worse, but if someone has had anything like this I would like to hear your experience.
I also don’t know if you guys know any natural thing that might help the inflammation go down when it happens, also any kind of tip you guys wanna share with me would be very appreciative, at least knowing I'm not the only one helps me to feel better. If you managed to read this far I'm really thankful and I wish you well.