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A woman found herself hospitalized and in severe discomfort after wearing a pair of ‘granny pants’ she’d used multiple times before. The friction from the underwear led to a cut inside Kaela Tucker’s vagina, which subsequently became infected. Within days, the situation escalated as a ‘bubble’ cyst formed, prompting an emergency hospital visit.
Kaela endured significant pain and required prolonged medical treatment, during which the cyst reopened and got infected again. This traumatic experience led her to stop wearing underwear altogether. “I don’t wear underwear at all anymore,” shared the assistant property manager from Dallas, Texas, with NeedToKnow. “The only underwear I use now is period underwear, as I find tampons too risky after everything I’ve endured.” Kaela’s painful journey began in March 2024, after going to bed in underwear she’d comfortably worn many times. She awoke to vaginal discomfort, initially dismissing it as something that would heal naturally. Yet, the “intense burning” sensation drove her to seek antibiotics from her doctor. Within 48 hours, the agony intensified to a point where she felt urgent hospital care was necessary. “I couldn’t sit, stand, or even lie down,” Kaela recounted. “Traveling to the hospital could only be managed by lying on my left side due to the pain on the right side of my vagina.”
In the hospital, doctors confirmed a 4.8cm Bartholin cyst, a fluid-filled blockage in a gland in the labia, using an ultrasound wand.
Her blood tests revealed a severe infection. Kaela remarked, “They were concerned that had I delayed treatment any longer, it might have led to sepsis.”
“They administered various IV antibiotics, hoping the cyst would spontaneously burst, avoiding surgery. Luckily, it did eventually burst, but not without indescribable pain.”
She continued: “It was the second night at the hospital that I was practically screaming in pain that not even morphine could cure.
“I’ve undergone two foot reconstructive surgeries and assumed they were the peak of pain I’d face in this life – that was until I encountered an infected vaginal cyst.”
It was on the morning of her third day in hospital that Kaela stood up and felt a “massive burst of liquid gushing” down her legs. Her cyst has burst.
“Now I could sit, stand and lay normally. They kept me for two more days until they were happy with my white cell count, indicating that I no longer had an infection,” she said.
But unfortunately for Kaela, her ordeal was far from over. She claims she was sent home with an “open wound”, which became infected and was untreated for months, leaving her feeling “constantly exhausted, frustrated and close to losing my mind”.
She saw a number of OBGYNs who prescribed more antibiotics and yeast-fighting creams – but the open wound continued to get worse.
Three months after the initial incident, she started to feel just as poorly as she had before and went back to the hospital. Doctors confirmed that the cyst was back and was, once again, infected.
Kaela – who claims she was mistreated by staff members who “discredited” her pain and experience – ended up in the hospital for five days, but says no one knew how to treat her. She added: “I really thought I would die if no one would help me.”
At the end of July, Kaela moved to a new doctor’s office at the end of July and was finally diagnosed with a fungal infection.
She said: “She had me start taking this antifungal medication, and within a week, I started to feel so much better. You never know how sick you are until you aren’t sick anymore.”
Over the next few months, the wound slowly healed and Kaela was finally cyst and infection-free. “It’s so silly and insane that a pair of underwear caused mass torment and pain for me for nine months,” she reflected.
“Each time I had to tell a family member, friend, or doctor that this all started because of a pair of underwear, I died a little inside from embarrassment, but now I think it’s quite hilarious. It’s a great comedic relief story that people would never expect to hear.”
Happily, Kaela says her life has taken a “positive turn” since healing from the terrifying incident, with her able to exercise again and even losing 50lbs.
And after sharing her story on TikTok, Kaela has been in touch with a community of women sharing their own experiences with intimate injuries and issues.
She added: “I even have girls and women reach out in my DMs asking for advice on their own vaginal cysts. I feel like a big sister.
“Even though I’m scared my boss will find my videos and know too much about me, I will never take them down. They offer too much value to my fellow sisters!”
