creatorzine.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI was wearing shorts in London, I was out all day, getting hot, and when I got home that night, I felt a gumboil-sized lump on my bikini line.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sat down to do my makeup and it seeped out. I squeezed it, and I shouldn\u2019t have; it was a bad idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was sore, and after I squeezed it, it went from a boil to a massive sac cyst that stretched from my bikini line to my bum.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the next few days, Christy\u2019s condition rapidly deteriorated.<\/p>\n
Collins initially thought she had nothing more than a painful boil after noticing a small lump on her bikini line. Jam Press\/@thechristycollins<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was massive, red and rock hard,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought it was an ingrown hair, but it was the size of an iPhone 16 Pro Max within a couple of days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to the pub and was so lightheaded, but I\u2019d been staying hydrated. All of a sudden my vision went blurry, then it went, and my hearing went. I came around and went home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next day, the sore was getting worse, and I was feeling weak. I was waddling around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called [emergency services] and they told me to go to [the ER], but it was late, so I waited until the next day to speak to my GP online, and they gave me antibiotics.<\/p>\n
Doctors diagnosed Christy with sepsis and warned that waiting another day to seek treatment could have been life-threatening. Jam Press\/@thechristycollins<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t stand up by the end of the day, but I kept thinking I\u2019d be fine. The area on my bum was getting hotter.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was only after a concerned friend urged Christy to go to hospital that doctors discovered how serious the infection had become.<\/p>\n
She was diagnosed with sepsis and rushed into theatre for a one-hour operation to remove infected tissue.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friend saved my life I\u2019m so grateful to her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the hospital, it became traumatic. I thought I\u2019d be given a pill, but when they said I needed surgery, I was so scared. They said my infection markers and blood pressure were through the roof.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctors said if I were older, it would be a different story, or if I left it an extra day, it would have been life-threatening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was wearing shorts in London, I was out all day, getting hot, and when I got home that night, I felt a gumboil-sized lump on my bikini line,\u201d Collins said. Jam Press\/@thechristycollins<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctors said if I were older, it would be a different story, or if I left it an extra day, it would have been life-threatening,\u201d Collins said. Jam Press\/@thechristycollins<\/p>\n
\u201cI was crying for days; it was so scary. Then they said I had sepsis. When I woke up, I was in so much pain.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was out of it because I was on so many pain medications, and I was hallucinating. The nurses said my age is what kept me going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christy spent five days recovering in the hospital and has been left with a wound around two inches deep and five inches wide. The wound has been left open so it can heal from the inside out.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom is having to shower me, and I need help to go to the toilet. I\u2019ve lost my independence at 28,\u201d Collins said. Jam Press\/@thechristycollins<\/p>\n
She is taking antibiotics and attending her doctor\u2019s office every day to have it dressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t go out apart from to the doctors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom is having to shower me, and I need help to go to the toilet. I\u2019ve lost my independence at 28. I\u2019m reliant on my mom like a baby when I\u2019m used to doing everything for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christy is now warning others not to dismiss an ingrown hair if it shows signs of becoming infected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always shaved my bikini line, and ingrown hairs are so common,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to be so careful.<\/p>\n
The nurse said they see this a lot and to never shave your bikini line.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not safe,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A content creator says shaving her bikini line left her fighting for her life after an infected ingrown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,2352,4472,2727,1297,2372],"class_list":["post-897671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-influencers","tag-london","tag-public-health","tag-women","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}