OK. So. I'm putting this out here because I think it should be OK for women to talk about stuff even when it's weird.

Last week I saw my GP. When I said (helpfully) "I think it might be a Bartholin's cyst" he said yeah, sure, that's it - barely touched it, prescribed me antibiotics Just In Case. I went with it because it matched everything I had read and heard up to that point, but I thought the guy was being a bit stand off-ish.

That said, I just got back from seeing an actual gynecologist nurse practitioner today. And she said, No Way is that a Bartholin's cyst, it's way the heck up over there. She said, it's a sebaceous cyst - the kind that only plastic surgery can get rid of. It's because of where your pelvis is - which means it's a saddle issue (which I already knew).

So - it just goes to show that just because somebody is a doc doesn't mean they know jack about ladyparts. Go see a ladypart doc for ladypart issues. Silly me!

I'm still not sold on the plastic surgery issue - I'd like to resolve this with a saddle - because my thought is if I stay with the same saddle (and have the lump removed), it'll just come back, or I'll have another issue, or something.

In the meantime, the gel cover is working (as a band-aid).