had a abscess drained a few months ago,(on my shooulder) it was infected, look like a golfball sticking out of my shoulder, did a whitehead form on top of it? anyways dcr sliced it and all this dark red syrup(thick) blood came spilling out, instance relief, pack it full of guase to keep cut open so it could drain more, gave me some antibiotics, went back two days later, pulled the gause drained some more. was back working out in a week. after two weeks all i had was a scab on shoulder. i told dr i was on steroids, know big deal. also do not try to drain it yourslef, i did that and made it even worse.