Yup that's what I've done but my clumsy ass completly yank off the hair by accident...Good move! Doing girth through an ingrown hair can cause serious scarring and infection. As I said earlier use a hot compress until you see the black hair come to the top and when it does take a tweezers and gently remove the hair. Over the next following days it will drain and you should be back to work.
So now I just need to let it heal for some days and hope he'll grow strong enough to push through the skin this time !