I could not get magnesium paste within a 20 mile radius of my house - rubbish chemists but
I've got a very old fashioned remedy that is working wonders its a pot of glycerine and icthamol drawing ointment. Its about 40 years old
and was from my husband long dead aunty who was a district nurse. We have always used it to get splinters out - its like a miracle cream. Its disgusting stuff almost black and very sticky and smells of sulphur. We always knew it as the black ointment.
Since I put it on last night the abcess is half the size it was and is much more of a volcano shape and getting a good head. I can tell a head is forming as it feels like I am being stung by a thousand wasps
I am back to Drs tomorow afternoon. Not sure what she will do - I am hoping that another dose of the black ointment overnight will get it to burst again.
This is longest and most painful thing I have had in a long time.
The antibiotics don't seem to have had a great effect its the getting it to a head and bursting it that has been helping.