Cyst? on private area? Help please. Pics

    • Bronze

    Cyst? on private area? Help please. Pics

    I'm going to try to explain this as best as I can, without sounding too sick....
    Dyllan was lying next to me sleeping on his back like normal and I noticed a red bump on his privates. I checked it out a little closer, and it looks like he has a pea sized cyst inside his “shaft”. I took a needle and nicked the top of it to see if I could get some of the drainage out of it but nothing came out and I didn't want to irritate it anymore that it already was. You can see the top of it coming out of the shaft, and if you pull the flap aside a little bit you can see the rest. It almost looks like his thing sticking out, but it#%92s not. I don#%92t know how long it#%92s been there, because it would be very easily mistaken as the tip of his . Its pea sized, and seems slightly painful to him. I can't really put anything on it due to where it's located.
    He's been peeing okay...should I not worry about it and let it heal on it's own?
    Should I call the vet?
    Does it look like a cyst to you guys?
    I have some antibiotics here left over for Zoe from her infection on her incision, should I give dyllan a few of them?
    Here are some pictures, don't get grossed out. It looks like it's his "thing" but it's not, it's the bump.
    Regular view, that's the bump not his thing.

    Ditto

    pulling back the skin

    again

    Anyone seen anything like this?
    ~Boomer
    • Gold Top Dog
    No ma'am, do NOT give antibiotics.  You couldn't know if it was gram positive or negative, and you could make it difficult for a vet TO tell what was wrong (if they had to draw blood). 
     
    Honestly this is a need for a vet visit TOMORROW.  Don't worry about how long it's been there -- just go.  Any sort of 'cyst' or bump on the prepuce area (and that's anywhere near his willie) is dangerous.  Don't wait.  Just go to the vet tomorrow. 
     
    Now the vet may say "let's see how it developes or changes" but that's HIS call. 
     
    What I'm telling you is that there is specific types of cancer that can come out there, and it is virulent. 
     
    Leave it alone and don't mess with it.  Because that can cause it to grow, and that's one of those things you don't WANT to irritate.
     
    It's a good call to catch it... but unfortunately that's where my Muffin's first mast cell tumor appeared and the darned thing doubled in size in a week.  And it's a tough spot for surgery. 
     
    Now hopefully the vet will say it's nothing, but I wish *I* had known it was a dangerous area.  Took me by surprise.
    • Bronze
    okay, I'm making an appointment today.
    I hope it's nothing serious, I've been sick about it all night.
     
    • Gold Top Dog
    I hope it's 'nothing' too -- but I'd rather yank your chain and have you find out it's nothing, than *not* and have it wind up too late.  Not only is it fast-growing, when they do surgery they can't get 'clear margins' because there's no extra tissue there. 
     
    IN honesty I'll be thinking (and sending good thots and prayers) all day -- I don't think anything on the planet gives you quite the same 'sick feeling' in your stomach as this.  We did ultimately catch Muffin's in time, but I'm glad you'll find out something today.  *hugs*
    • Bronze
    His appointment is tomorrow at 6:30. It didn't look anybigger this morning. I was sick and almost frantic about it last night when I found it, and now I just feel ill everytime I think about it.
    I just worry how long it's been there...and how long I might have mistaken it as his private poking out. I hope he hasn't been in anykindof pain over this, and I hope that it's nothing serious.
    It just makes me so upset even thinking about it....
    • Gold Top Dog
    I totally understand.  I got so freaked with Muffin's I started him on a cancer diet before I went to the vet the first time. 
     
    All we can take refuge in is the fact that it's love that makes us so crazy.  But try not to worry (which I realize is like telling the sun not to set) ... but seriously ... it will only freak HIM out.  So deep breath, and realize you did a GOOD thing by finding it when you did, and likely you found it quicker than you thot you did. 
     
    When I found Muffin's it was FOXY who found it.  I noticed him sniffing at Reno's 'willie' and I said to him 2-3 times "WILL you leave your brother A-LONE??" Please??"
     
    And the last time Foxy just looked over at me as if to say "Will YOU please PUH-LEESE look at this CLOSER?? I am trying HARD to tell you something here MOM!!!"
     
    Many times in the future that dog told me about another dog with cancer.  And dang but he was right.  I used to tell David that if he ever sniffed ME that way I was gonna worry.
     
    One time we were at the vet (the holistic vet) and Foxy was sniffin all over this old dog named Capone. And Foxy turned around and came straight TO ME and then looked up at the door to the vet's office and then back to me ... and I said "Foxy, SHE KNOWS.  That's why Capone is here ... Dr. D. KNOWS about it."
     
    Foxy laid down and sighed. 
     
    (Foxy's the almost 19 year old I lost last week -- *sigh*  Can you tell I miss him??)
    • Puppy
    What did the vet say?  I hope everything is okay.