Is treatment for a Bartholin Cyst painful?
Not If It’s done with a local anesthetic… Treatment for a Bartholin gland cyst that causes symptoms A Bartholin cyst that is large, painful, or infected will be drained. If you have an abscess, you may take antibiotics after the procedure. Simply draining a cyst and letting it heal shut will likely allow it to fill up again.2 To keep the cyst from closing and filling up again, it is usually held open for a few weeks with: * A Word catheter, which is a small drainage tube with a small balloon on one end. The balloon is inflated inside the cyst to keep the tube in place. After the gland has healed and the tube and balloon are removed, the opening remains. This is the most common way to treat a large or infected Bartholin gland cyst. * A small piece of gauze which keeps the cyst from closing. * Stitches, which prevent the cyst wall from reforming a closed sac. Bartholin gland cysts only recur about 10% to 15% of the time after this procedure.3 Less commonly, the cyst wall is damaged wit
