Influencer rushed to hospital after shaving bikini line left fighting for her life over ingrown hair

A content creator says shaving her bikini line left her fighting for her life after an infected ingrown hair developed into sepsis.Christy Collins initially thought she had nothing more than a painful boil after noticing a small lump on her bikini line last week (9 August).But within days, the swelling had ballooned into a rock-hard mass which the 28-year-old described as being “the size of an iPhone 16 Pro Max.”She became so ill she struggled to walk and even passed out before eventually being rushed into emergency surgery.Doctors diagnosed Christy with sepsis and warned that waiting another day to seek treatment could have been life-threatening.“The thought that shaving could have killed me is horrible,” Christy, from Bournemouth, Dorset, told creatorzine.com.“I was wearing shorts in London, I was out all day, getting hot, and when I got home that night, I felt a gumboil-sized lump on my bikini line.“I sat down to do my make-up, and it seeped out.“I squeezed it, and I shouldn’t have; it was a bad idea.“It was sore, and after I squeezed it, it went from a boil to a massive sac cyst that stretched from my bikini line to my bum.”Over the next few days, Christy’s condition rapidly deteriorated.She said: “It was massive, red and rock hard.“I thought it was an ingrown hair, but it was the size of an iPhone 16 Pro Max within a couple of days.“I went to the pub and was so lightheaded, but I’d been staying hydrated.“All of a sudden my vision went blurry, then it went, and my hearing went.“I came around and went home.“The next day, the sore was getting worse, and I was feeling weak.“I was waddling around.“I called 111, and they told me to go to A&E, but it was late, so I waited until the next day to speak to my GP online, and they gave me antibiotics.“I couldn’t stand up by the end of the day, but I kept thinking I’d be fine.“The area on my bum was getting hotter.”It was only after a concerned friend urged Christy to go ...