Very interesting!! I had my first Bartholin cyst about 2 years ago!! The most painful thing I have ever experienced in my entire life!!! The first one I had excised at the ER room after sitting at work all day in such severe pain and then barely being able to walk to the ER (I work in the hospital). The lidocane shot they gave me in the area in order to drain the cyst was horrible!!! Then I had another one about a year ago and that time I went to my doctor's office for treatment. The doctor made the incision without any numbing shot and that was so much easier to handle than the lidocane shot.

My mom also gets the severe boils (and I would put money on it that she has PCOS), even though her PCP has said she doesnt.

I just wanted to offer a bit of encouragement to my fellow PCOers.  I am 37 (will be 38 years old August 1st) and had RNY Feb. 12th of 2008.  So let me give you some background.  I was dx with PCO when I was about 21.  I gained quite a bit of weight and when I got married I settled in at about 230.  My husband and I tried everything to get pregnant including Gonal-F and Artificial Insemination ($4000 for one month down the toilet).  We decided to adopt our daughter in 1998 which was the best decision we ever made.  She is going to be 11 in July.  Again, I had several ultrasounds and tests done and was told there really was no way I could get pregnant.  I have a low thyroid which already complicates things and my hormones have always been out of whack.  So fast forward....I had surgery and successfully have lost almost 90 pounds (started at 5'6" and 260 pounds and got down to 173 or so).  Well I just received the most shocking news of my life.  I am 6 weeks pregnant.  Yep, almost 38 and have had unprotected sex for 14 years!!!  Be careful what you wish for huh?  I am excited and scared all at the same time.  I just hope I don't miscarry.  This is my FIRST time ever being pregnant.  I just wanted to offer encouragement and let you know that, for me, the surgery has profoundly changed my life.  I wish I had done it earlier but I know I am wiser now and will use the tool more effectively.

I am so disgusted with my skin tags and they are getting worst. I never asked to have them removed yet. I was thinking calling my primary dr. and see if she can remove them and some how put it down for insurance something else.

 Wow!!  I love hearing stories like yours!! Congrats!! Were your triplets the accidental pregnancy? Or were they in addition? I keep wondering if I will have to undergo fertility treatments a couple of years after I have my DS. Kudos to you!

  I get something like these boils but I'm not sure if it's the same thing... but really glad to know it could be the PCOS- I was wondering what the heck it was all about!  By the way, I see you are a patient of Dr Pomp.  I have my first visit with him coming up on May 6.  How do you like him? Any advice ?