Anyone else watch cyst popping videos on YouTube?

[Stink Fish Pot]

I was home the other day sick, and decided to fumble around YouTube. I somehow got into a video which showed a guy with a huge lump on his back, getting a knife stuck into the lump. The lump immediately sprayed something, I don't know what... But probably a combo of pus and water. This woman, who did have gloves on, was performing her home surgery without any sterilization material around. She then plunges the knife deeper into the guys back, making both a deeper and longer incision. Then, she squeezes. I can't describe what comes out of his back, except to say it was the most disgusting lump of cheese I ever saw come out of anyone.

Did I mention this was done at a family event, where everyone is watching and yelling and screaming. Totally strange. But totally captivating. I began to watch every clip I could find, which brought me to bot fly larvae, both inside humans and pets, which were removed alive from the person/pet.

Finally, I stumbled onto someone popping a salivary stone out of their mouth (I didn't know what this thing was), and watched a few more of these.

Basically, I found myself watching anything I could find that had something being extracted from the human body. And I find myself still watching them. I hope this is only a phase, because it is quite disturbing. But it is also amazing to me what some people will do to remove something from their body. Almost all of the pus videos ( pimple, zit, cyst, etc) are done by amateurs, with no sterilization or anything. Some of these people are so filthy it's more disgusting than the pus coming out of the wound, pimple, whatever.

I'm curious as to other's experiences with these videos, and if you find them as interesting as I do or as disgusting as my wife does.

I will attempt to post a link to one of each that I've described. This isnthe third time I've tried this, so if it doesn't work this time, I'll have to give up until another time.

But, in order... I bring you the 1) massive cyst. 2) the bot fly larvae, and 3) the salivary gland stone.

Enjoy the videos, and let me know what you all think of this particular viewing subject. Why do we find it compelling to watch? (I say we because most of these have multiple million views on them)

1) The massive cyst, killed in a relatives kitchen

2) The bot fly larvae - please note that even though the video says three removed, they only show two. The guy has at least three, but after two you can turn it off.

3) The salivary gland stone - you can watch the whole clip if you like but it's some girls channel and you may find it tedious. I found it funny, however, if you skip to the 6:00 minute mark, and watch for about 10 seconds, you will see something that odds are you've never seen before.


Remember, this does not include things that cause cysts or infections to swell up on the body and need to be drained, like spider bites for example. Once you start digging into this world, it strangely has no end.

[JohnT]

www.popthatzit.com

[Beware of Doug]

I can't get enough cyst popping. Cyst popping could become the LOLcats of the 20teens. You are going to see t-shits with a smirking catchphrase and a picture of a steakknife. There will be a cyst subculture in the body mod community. Maybe someone will find a way to put a live kitten in a cyst and pull it out on YouTube. But of course the hardcore aficionado will want pus and larvae. Pus pus pus. Larvae larvae larvae. There may even be a cookbook. There will definitely be hackneyed fanfic incorporating your favorite tv characters interacting with pus and larvae. Ok, I'm off to spend the rest of the night projectile vomiting. Seriously. Fuck cysts and fuck watching them on YouTube. YT will dickstomp you if you video a song belonging to Warner Music that is so old that all you could do was help them sell copies, but you can post up all the larvae and pus you can stand. Fuck YouTube, fuck pus, good night. BLAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG.

[LotusPotus]

So you ended up in the weird part of Youtube, I've been there before and it can be kind of fun for an hour or so...then it's best to leave before you get totally sucked in never to return!

[voltaire]

Your lead-in video was already featured in a thread appropriately titled "Poppin' a zit like a boss!"

I don't need to watch that video again, since it's burned into my brain.

[clairobscur]

Hell no! And I'm not going to follow your links.

[Stink Fish Pot]

Originally Posted by JohnT

www.popthatzit.com

Interesting. You have the ability to sign up for a "zit-zine" subscription, which I assume sends you links once a month. I didn't sign up for my free copy.

Originally Posted by Beware of Doug

I can't get enough cyst popping. Cyst popping could become the LOLcats of the 20teens. You are going to see t-shits with a smirking catchphrase and a picture of a steakknife. There will be a cyst subculture in the body mod community. Maybe someone will find a way to put a live kitten in a cyst and pull it out on YouTube. But of course the hardcore aficionado will want pus and larvae. Pus pus pus. Larvae larvae larvae. There may even be a cookbook. There will definitely be hackneyed fanfic incorporating your favorite tv characters interacting with pus and larvae. Ok, I'm off to spend the rest of the night projectile vomiting. Seriously. Fuck cysts and fuck watching them on YouTube. YT will dickstomp you if you video a song belonging to Warner Music that is so old that all you could do was help them sell copies, but you can post up all the larvae and pus you can stand. Fuck YouTube, fuck pus, good night. BLAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG.

Your reply frightened me. Mainly because it sounded like the person I would expect to be watching these videos... Until I became one of them!

Originally Posted by LotusPotus

So you ended up in the weird part of Youtube, I've been there before and it can be kind of fun for an hour or so...then it's best to leave before you get totally sucked in never to return!

Quite right. The key to your statement was to leave within an hour or so, because I didn't. I got sucked in, and I still can't figure out how I got there in the first place, but I assume one of these pus-projective videos had key words that match more normal searches.

Originally Posted by voltaire

Your lead-in video was already featured in a thread appropriately titled "Poppin' a zit like a boss!"

I don't need to watch that video again, since it's burned into my brain.

Well, that doesn't surprise me. It certainly amazed, astounded and grossed me out, all in the same moment. I have a feeling that many people see this video and simply can't believe it.

[Beware of Doug]

Originally Posted by LotusPotus

So you ended up in the weird part of Youtube, I've been there before and it can be kind of fun for an hour or so...then it's best to leave before you get totally sucked in never to return!

It happened to me. I am one of about six or seven Tubers that routinely leave comments on obscure 1930s jazz records that make cyst-popping videos look like mainstream entertainment.

[outlierrn]

Hell no, I get paid for that.

[Lord Ashtar]

I had to get a cyst on my arm lanced and drained about six weeks ago. I refused to watch. Having now watched the first video linked in the OP, I am sooooo glad I didn't.

[Cub Mistress]

Originally Posted by outlierrn

Hell no, I get paid for that.

You lucky dog. I had a patient's (adult) daughter show me an abcess that I wanted to pop SO BAD. SO VERY BAD. It had at least three sinus tracts.I resisted the temptation. The daughter told me it popped on its own the next day and drained for several hours.

[billfish678]

I think part of the sick attraction is the before and after feeling. Let's face it, when you have one of these babies it generally hurts. The you squeeze the crap out of it and it REALLY hurts. Then when it pops its a massive relief.

So, I think part of the appeal is when you see one of these whoppers being popped you subconciously are thinking about how damn good it must have felt when it was over.

[clairobscur]

Originally Posted by billfish678

I think part of the sick attraction is the before and after feeling. Let's face it, when you have one of these babies it generally hurts. The you squeeze the crap out of it and it REALLY hurts. Then when it pops its a massive relief.

So, I think part of the appeal is when you see one of these whoppers being popped you subconciously are thinking about how damn good it must have felt when it was over.

I have another theory. It makes me think of trypophobia. People with this phobia (or like me minor manifestations of it) seem to have all the same urge : destroying utterly the offending material/creature/whatever (rather than, say, backing/avoiding contact with it)

So, my theory is that it might be a similar phenomenon. The desire to destroy something that is repulsive on an human body in order to return it to its 'natural state.

[Fish Cheer]

Originally Posted by Stink Fish Pot

Almost all of the pus videos ( pimple, zit, cyst, etc) are done by amateurs, with no sterilization or anything.

There really is no need. It's not like it's gonna get MORE infected.

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by clairobscur

I have another theory. It makes me think of trypophobia. People with this phobia (or like me minor manifestations of it) seem to have all the same urge : destroying utterly the offending material/creature/whatever (rather than, say, backing/avoiding contact with it)

So, my theory is that it might be a similar phenomenon. The desire to destroy something that is repulsive on an human body in order to return it to its 'natural state.

ubi pus, ibi evacua

[troubledwater]

Not for the faint of heart. And a good retort for anyone who thinks dermatologists took the easy way out of med school.

[Ambivalid]

No thanks. On all fronts.

[Ruby]

Originally Posted by troubledwater

Not for the faint of heart. And a good retort for anyone who thinks dermatologists took the easy way out of med school.

Wheeeeeeeee! I should have been a dermatologist!

[WhyNot]

Originally Posted by Fish Cheer

There really is no need. It's not like it's gonna get MORE infected.

Lots of these aren't really infected, though. They're full of sebum or keratin or white blood cells and other cellular gunk, but not always bacteria. Plus, of course, you can infect an infection with different bacteria, which makes things wonderfully complicated to treat.

I'd definitely want to use sterile tools and clean technique, if at all possible.

Originally Posted by Stink Fish Pot

I was home the other day sick, and decided to fumble around YouTube. I somehow got into a video which showed a guy with a huge lump on his back, getting a knife stuck into the lump. The lump immediately sprayed something, I don't know what... But probably a combo of pus and water. This woman, who did have gloves on, was performing her home surgery without any sterilization material around.

The comments (maybe not at your link, but at the popthatzit one) indicate that she is a medical professional, and that's why she doesn't allow us to see her face, 'cause, yeah, not the most sterile of environments to be doing it in. Still, it looks like she's using an actual single use scalpel, which comes out of the package sterile, and clean (though not sterile) gloves, and his skin glistens with what I assume is alcohol used to clean it before she starts.

But her incision isn't the way I was taught it's done (to one side) and she seems to be squeezing in and down a lot, instead of grabbing from the base and squeezing up and out, so I'm guessing while she's a medical professional of some sort, she's probably not a surgeon or dermatologist.



Hey...there's something fishy about this post...

[Stink Fish Pot]

This Isn't sick. what's sick is that not only have I seen this video, but there are four or five in a series by this doctor. All pretty much the same, pulling sits out of noses p, especially that old man with the Jimmy Durante schnoz.

[Son of a Rich]

I may never eat cottage cheese again.

[LorieSmurf]

Ear wax removal videos are fun too. All kinds of gobs of wax, fungus, etc.gets taken out of them.

[Stink Fish Pot]

Here is a dandy. Draining of neck abcess with multi-tool blade.

Ok, maybe not a multi- tool, but this guy is just cranking out the videos and having a good time with it,

On you tube, hit the "more from" button and you'll get a ghoulish list of what he does.

[Isamu]

God, I can only watch the first one, and only then because I once had a cyst myself. But not like that one! Jeeze, that was Kuato trying to get out of his back. I'm kind of ill, but still fascinated.

I had a small cyst on my neck, many years ago, no bigger than a pimple. and my local GP excised it, intact, thank God. He opened up the skin around it and cut a diamond shape around the cyst and then just took it out. He sent it to the pathology labs to check it for tumors, but it was fine, just a cyst.

I don't want to see botfly, do I?

[Stink Fish Pot]

Originally Posted by Isamu

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I don't want to see botfly, do I?

Oh yes, you do!

But it gets worse. The botfly videos are truly strange, as many people make a joke out of them, and have little "parties" to celebrate the birth of the things. What is happening inside your body is not pleasant, and yet people seem to have no problem feeling these things living and squirming inside them, eating the host until they are large enough to leave on their own.

There are three more videos which I must post, but I won't tell anyone yet, in case they have already been posted. But when I think of things crawling around inside of me, I cannot take it. But still I watch.

"Why, separate knob, why?"

You will see.

[Son of a Rich]

Originally Posted by Stink Fish Pot

Oh yes, you do!

But it gets worse. The botfly videos are truly strange, as many people make a joke out of them, and have little "parties" to celebrate the birth of the things. What is happening inside your body is not pleasant, and yet people seem to have no problem feeling these things living and squirming inside them, eating the host until they are large enough to leave on their own.

There are three more videos which I must post, but I won't tell anyone yet, in case they have already been posted. But when I think of things crawling around inside of me, I cannot take it. But still I watch.

"Why, separate knob, why?"

You will see.

Do they typically kill the flies upon their emergence, or do they have an emotional attachment to them?

[Stink Fish Pot]

Originally Posted by Son of a Rich

Do they typically kill the flies upon their emergence, or do they have an emotional attachment to them?

Most people kill, but not right away, some put in alcohol and save that way, some have birthday parties and kill them when they are off camera.

I've never seen anyone chop the botfly in two, although it's the first thing I would do.

[Unauthorized Cinnamon]

I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, but I knew you guys would appreciate it, just as I knew there'd be some manner of zit popping thread I could append my story to.

So, last week I had an annoying hangnail, and I trimmed it with cuticle nippers. I guess in doing so I crammed some wee beasties under the skin, because yesterday it started to hurt, and today it became swollen, with a dark area in the center, surrounded by whitish skin.

I would have gone to the doctor, but I'm on my way to Orlando. Given that the city has some of the busiest urgent cares in the world, I decided I might as well try some home surgery. Either it'll get better, or I'll make it bad enough it's definitely worth the wait at the clinic.

I used hand sanitizer on the spot and the nail clippers that are my only available tool. I had soaked the finger first so the skin was soft. I dug right into the white area, and pus squeezed out of the incision. So I alternated between clipping off skin iand squeezing, getting quite a bit of pus, and one solid white chunk of ick. When I was done the discolored skin had been mostly removed, and I hadn't even drawn blood.

It's now lavishly coated in Neosporin (which my phone is determined to correct to noes pork) and band-aided. It feels tender, but SO much better without all that pressure! I'll keep you updated, especially if it turns awful and needs professional lancing or something!

[WhyNot]

Sweet. When you change the dressing, don't slather it liberally in Neosporin, just use the thinnest coating possible on the wound part. More doesn't kill more, and too much can "macerate" the surrounding skin, spreading the problem. (I wouldn't bother redoing it now, but just when you change it tomorrow...)

[Ruby]

<disappointment over no video>

[saje]

Here's a horse sized one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqNmgQv0w0

[drastic_quench]

"Now that's a horse of a different color."

Several.

Internally.