question: I have a hard, painful lump on my left labia majora. I used warm/hot compresses last night, soaked in an epson salt tub this afternoon, and even have applied ice for a while. I m not sure if it s an infected hair folicle or something worse. A friend s daughter had a bartholin cyst,but this is not inside the vagina, it s more near the top, left outer lip. What should I do?