Abcess has not popped/drained
Hi all!
I am new to this skin abcess stuff.
Long story short, I've never had skin abcesses until 7 days ago (Sunday night).
I noticed a small pimple with a white/yellow head on my right lower abdomen and decided to squeeze it. Well bad idea.
The next morning (Momday) it was painful and pink in that area. I put mupirocin cream on it (my bf suffers from MRSA abcesses occasionally so he had a full tube of antibiotic at home).
I then went to urgent care Tuesday since it had gotten more pink and was spreading. The Dr prescribed Bactrim 2x a day for 10 days and told me to keep applying Mupirocin ointment.
Well, the first few days (Mon-Thu) I was off balanced, weak, and extremely fatigued. It seemed I had a low grade fever of 99.4 too.
Friday my energy returned. But my pimple abcess got aggravated since my toddler brushed/pushed it by accident and I banged it on the corner of a chair.
Now it looks a darker pink and is still painful.
Mind you, when I take hot showers, there seems to be a stubborn pinpoint collections of pus that comes to the surface but it's not a lot. And it is not runny.
So my question is, is it supposed to drain eventually? Do I need to to get it drained? Or will my body absorb it? How long till it calls down and goes away?
I feel a lump the size of the head of my thumb underneath the red skin discoloration.