I had a hole in my arm for 2 weeks (Cellulitis 2 month progression w/ photos)

追加: 2026-06-07

[00:00:02]Hello. Hello. Today I wanted to tell you guys about how I squeezed a KP bump and it turned into a crazy skin infection that required a minor surgery.

[00:00:16]So, I have KP which is keratossis polaris and it is when keratin builds up on your skin and makes a little bump and a lot of the times there's like an ingrown hair or something like that. I have squeezed, ripped off many of these in my life. Okay, I had a KP bump on my arm. I squeezed it like any other day.

[00:00:39]Didn't think anything of it. This was on March 10th.

[00:00:43]The next day, I noticed that it's a little bit red.

[00:00:49]Figured it would be fine, right? It can't be that big of a deal. Well, it keeps getting bigger and bigger and now it looks like a spider bite. I posted online, everyone's like, "That's a spider bite. That's a spider bite." I know it's not a spider bite. I know what I did to myself. You know what I mean?

[00:01:09]Anyways, so at first I thought that I was having a histamine reaction. The bump was right here, by the way. I forgot to tell you guys, but the bump was right here on my arm. And at first I thought I was having a histamine reaction. So I went to CVS and I got some hydrocortisone cream and I put it on there. Now that is like the worst thing you can do to anything that's infected because that just feeds it, right? It makes it exponentially worse. I didn't know that girl. But I did that and the next day I wake up and I have a massive rash all around it. So obviously I stopped with the hydrocortisone cream and I leave it alone every day. It's extremely itchy.

[00:01:55]Like all the perimeter of my arm is extremely itchy. But any part of it that I scratch even like far away from the bump is turning into a rash. So I'm leaving it alone. And I leave it alone for let me check the timeline here.

[00:02:10]About 20 days. Okay. I leave it alone for about 20 days. And it shrinks to almost nothing.

[00:02:17]except there's like a hard bump underneath the skin that I was just hoping would eventually go away and it didn't. I go camping with Orisa and everything's fine, but on the drive back from our campsite, I'm getting this strange itching sensation from this bump. And I texted Ryan. And I was like, "Ryan, I'm getting really anxious. Like, this is this something feels off. Something feels off about this. It's so itchy." He's like, "We'll keep an eye on it. I'm sure it'll be fine."

[00:02:55]It wasn't fine. This is where things started to change very rapidly. I don't know what exactly I did to make it so much worse so quickly, but in the days following like it I remind you it was pretty much flat to nothing except a tiny little like hard ball under my skin. Okay. And within 2 or 3 days, this thing had become like the size of a golf ball. And it was this huge bump. Huge huge bump. like a cyst raise from my skin. And I waited a few days. Yeah. Before I went to the doctor because I'm uninsured.

[00:03:41]Healthc care is expensive. And I was scared. I was really scared of what was to come. I was really hoping things would resolve itself, but it was causing me so much pain and discomfort.

[00:03:54]It just needed to happen. So, I call around the urgent cares around in my area and um the quotes that I got for just a checkup was ranging anywhere from $90 to $400, which is insane. I healthcare should not be that variable for like the same kind of checkup, right? But I picked one that was like $125 or something. And I go to this urgent care and the lady prescribes me antibiotics and she tells me that I need to take these antibiotics four times a day, which is a lot, which is a lot. That's I've never taken antibiotics more than three times a day. Four was kind of crazy, but I did that. I was given a week's worth of antibiotics. And she told me to do a warm compress um every time I'm taking the antibiotics.

[00:04:51]and to come back to her if it starts draining. So, I'm doing the warm compress and about 2 days of doing the warm compresses, it it starts leaking and it drains substantially. And at this point, I was like, do I really need to go in? Do I really need to go in because it's draining on its own. I'm on antibiotics.

[00:05:16]Surely I'll be fine. Again, I wasn't fine. I didn't listen. Right. And the the reason why she couldn't drain it for me the first time I went in was because she said it was way too deep in my skin that she couldn't safely do it at the clinic. So, she was like hoping the warm compress would raise it up. She didn't like explain that it needed to 100% be drained. She just said to come back.

[00:05:45]It's still my fault. I'm not blaming her. But, you know, there there's I was I didn't know that it was going to be necessary to cut and drain it, you know, so it it's it's almost completely flat now, but it's just not getting any better.

[00:06:02]And I'm on the last few days of the antibiotics. So, I bite the bullet and I go back to the clinic and she looks at me and goes, "I told you to come when it started draining. why didn't you come?

[00:06:18]And I was like, I GOT SCARED. LIKE, I GOT SCARED. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

[00:06:21]Wouldn't you be scared? And um ultimately, she said that it had gotten small enough for her to be able to cut and drain it for me. And because I didn't go to her right away, she had to extend how long I was taking the antibiotics for for like another 3 days.

[00:06:44]So, 10 days total. And at this point, my gut was in complete shambles. I was heartbroken at the fact that I had to take it for three more days, but we were going to do it. And you know, if you can't tell already, I am an anxious queen, okay? I I'm living on Google. I'm living looking up all my stomach symptoms, and I'm definitely afraid of CIFF at this point. But um I have Ryan with me at at this doctor and um she has to insert a needle like a syringe into the the bump to like fill it up with like um like the uh local anesthetic. And my god, oh my god, that was the most painful painful painful painful thing I had ever experienced in my life. In my life. And I've gone through a lot of things, but that was the worst. I'm telling you, that was the worst. I'm so glad Ryan was there. I could not have done it myself. I was so afraid. And um she let me look at it after she filled it up with like the like local anesthetic and it looked like a spider egg about to burst. It looked like an alien life form growing out of my arm.

[00:08:05]It was so scary. And then she makes a little incision, drains it all out. I look at it, there's a hole in my arm.

[00:08:14]Horrifying. It wasn't big enough to need a um like they usually pack absesses like that if it was big enough, but thank god it wasn't big enough for that.

[00:08:25]And she tells me to look at it, you know. Oh, doesn't it look so much better? No, it's still horrifying. Now there's a bloody hole in my arm. Thanks.

[00:08:34]Thanks. And um yeah, she was really sweet. The doctor was really sweet. She had a very motherly aura. She kept calling me sweetheart and um that made things a lot better. But um for like how long how long did I have a hole in my arm for? I had a gaping wound in my arm for a while and this was like leading up to my Japan trip. So I was like praying to the Lords to that my hole would close up before I ended up in Japan. But for from April 14th to like April 25th, I had a hole in my arm and I had to do gauze changes twice a day. And the first night, oh my god, I did the gauze change by myself at like midnight. And I like I thought I was going to pass out like looking at the hole in my arm. It was so scary. I got so dizzy. I was like having a panic attack. It was so scary.

[00:09:46]And I had Ryan take a picture of the first first picture. We didn't get a picture for the first day because I did it by myself, but the second day he took a picture for me. Um, I was so scared. I couldn't even look at it. Like at that point, I was like refusing to look at it because it was so disgusting and it it made me feel dizzy and like I just wanted to have my arm amputated. At the point I was like, I just get rid of the whole thing. Just get rid of the whole thing. I don't want it. But um yeah, so I I'll show you guys um the progression photos of like the days and how how the hole got smaller. But truly, it was so scary. So so scary. I I pray none of you ever have to go through it.

[00:10:31]But now I have this like scar. There's like a little dark spot on my arm still and it's like a scar and it still gets itchy sometimes which is slightly concerning.

[00:10:46]I know like a large percentage of cellulitis. It was cellulitis by the way. I don't know if I forgot to mention that but um a large percentage of cellulitis becomes recurring. Oh my god, isn't that great? That's so great. I love that for me. But um like last week there was like a couple like small like pestual looking things coming out of like the scar area which was like really scary. I didn't go back in for that but like it resolved itself but like it still gets really itchy randomly in the same way that it did after I got back from the camping trip. And um yeah, I'm really hoping that I don't get like a reoccurring thing, but you know, I was really surprised that I did jiu-jitsu for so long and I never got any scary skin infections, none of that. But I squeeze one little bump on my arm and it turns into this crazy thing. Like the worst case scenario happens to me. Like this is the sort of thing that like I would see on WebMD and be like, "Oh yeah, that's not me though." No, it was me this time. You know, you get a spider bite and you look it up like am I okay? Am I going to die?

[00:11:55]And you it says like like warning it might be cellulitis. Like no girl, it actually happened to me. So, um thanks.

[00:12:02]Like my you know my anxiety loves that, right? My anxietyy's going to love that.

[00:12:07]That's so that's so good that it actually happened to be the worst case scenario. But um now I have this scar this like the whole perimeter of what was the bump no longer grows any hair.

[00:12:19]It's bald. She's bald. Um, which I think is kind of funny, funny, funny. But yeah. Oh. Oh, what I wanted to tell you guys also was that, you know, I was saying like I didn't get anything during the entire duration of jiu-jitsu. Why this now? When I was having the bump and the hole in my arm and I was trying to avoid like bumping into it because of the pain. Um, I realized how much like rub Hey guys, let's not fight. Hey, cut it out.

[00:12:55]I realized Sorry, the cats were about to start fighting, please.

[00:13:00]Okay, sorry. Anyways, so I realized as I was trying to avoid rubbing the bump or bumping into the bump, um, that this spot specifically on like my dominant arm gets so much rubb. Okay. Like it's so hard to avoid bumping it. Like think like if I'm climbing and I'm like rubbing the sweat off my forehead, it's literally right there. If I'm rubbing my nose, it might be there. Um wiping on the toilet, it's rubbing on my booty, right? Like it's rubbing on everything all the time. So it might have just been like a locationally unlucky thing. And I'm a hygienic girl. I bathe every day.

[00:13:41]You know, I wash my hands after I use the bathroom. So, it was just unlucky.

[00:13:46]Just unlucky. And I also think I'm a bit prone to like skin infection type things because I've had a problem with like um recurrent impatigo, which is like a different staff infection. Like this was probably also staff. So, yeah. Um don't squeeze that bump, kids. Don't squeeze that bump. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. A little bump wound up costing me what, like $300. Like, girl, that's seriously not worth it. $300 and like 2 and 1/2 months of suffering. Like, it was a long time, guys. And like, my stomach is still messed up. Still messed up.

[00:14:28]But yeah, sorry that was long- winded. And sorry for the graphic pictures, but like, isn't it interesting? At least I think it's interesting.

[00:14:39]Yeah. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope this at the very least prevents somebody from going through what I did. Um, if you guys think I'm stupid, I might be. I might be, and that's okay. But, um, I love you guys.

[00:14:54]Thank you guys so much for watching.

[00:14:57]I'm trying to get back into posting more long form content, so hopefully there will be more to come.

[00:15:05]Bye, guys.

[00:15:07]Have a super sparkly rest of your week.