I consider mine a flare up when they appear, which admittedly is more often than not. I also get them frequently with varying degrees of pain and can be on one spot or more. When they heal up, they sometimes leave a scar that tends to be sensitive and also cause me pain at times.

I consider my personal falre ups to be more than one and with high pain, which is usually all the time now a days, they have recently moved and started popping up in my groin/inner thigh area and less on my breasts now.

I have spots all the time but I only consider it a flare up when one or more of them swell up real bad and get painful. I'm lucky in the aspect of only getting them in my groin and buttocks area. But, that area is COVERED with cysts and boils.

I use heat to bring it to a head, and they move around, mostly between my groin, butt and breasts.

I also have some that never go away. Always there and sometimes leak randomly especially on my breasts, I've had to throw out so many bras from stains and just stuff on them...

I flare when it's time for my moon. Just like acne. Sometimes I have a moon with nothing new popping up. But I always have some. In my groin only. Under my breasts were in my 20s, no where else. Mostly cysts. Mostly small. Some pop some don't. Boil rarely but always around my moon. If I think something is ready to head I will use heat. I never use cold. I don't have pain. Wel, Rarely. when in a crease between legs or it super hardens like cystic acne. I have serious itch tho. Does anyone's itch?

I'm newly diagnosed. Only 1 visit to dermatologist so far. No followup yet.