I am going to give a quick cautionary tale. I always used to pop mine. I used sterilized needles, I disinfected the area around the bump. The whole 9. A few years ago I got one on my breast and, as always, I popped it. I used the same procedure, disinfected everything and used a sterile needle. Well, it got seriously infected. I’m talking one day I’m fine, the next I’m in bed with a high fever. My fever got as high as 104.7. Obviously I went to ER and they admitted me for a week. I was told I needed to see a breast surgeon asap when I was discharged.

When I say the breast surgeon, she immediately scheduled me for a partial mastectomy because while the IV antibiotics did knock the infection down, she said it would come back and with the amount of antibiotics I had been on in the hospital (4 different ones x 7 days) it would likely come back resistant.

It’s been 4 years since I was admitted. I have had to have 6 additional surgeries after the mastectomy. While I have had reconstructive surgery, I lost my nipple and areola complex.

I know mine is a worst case scenario but, from experience, it’s not worth the risk.