I was watching TLC when I got back to my hotel room and they had some “Stories of the ER” show on. Usually, I skip TLC on my way to ESPN, but for some reason I had to watch this little snippet. Some body builder (with an accent) was bending slight over against a table while this doctor was looking at his butt. He had this disgusting growth on his butt. I thought it was a boil or something, but it was the size of a fist. The doctor said it was a zit. How does this happen? How does one treat this? Could this be an effect of steroids? The bodybuilder was whining about how the judges were going to deduct 10 points for it. Needless to say, it was disgusting. I am aghast and strangely curious at the same time.
Sounds like he had an abscess, which is more or less a huge zit. Anabolic steroids can occassionally cause abscesses if the user gets an infection at the injection site.
What, they had a guy with a baby-fist sized boil and a guy with a foot covered in maggots, and you’re focusing on the boil?!? 
Pravnik, that was my first thought, too, that his injection site for his 'roids got infected, but he was mortally terrified of needles. They lanced his buttboil without any anesthetic.
My sister got a butt abcess once. I don’t know if they ever figured out where it came from - she certainly wasn’t injecting anabolic steroids.
Charles Bukowski, the writer, suffered from quarter-sized zits on his face during adolescence, and had to go to the hospital once or twice. It can happen, and without steroids.
I think it was in his autobiographical novel Ham On Rye that he related this.
Dagnabbit, don’t you whippersnappers recognize a carbuncle when you see one? It’s gettin’ so you never hear about apoplexy, consumption or the vapors anymore, neither. What’s wrong with the world these days?
Quarter-size nothing! This thing was the size of a orange. Except that it was so orange as it was black and some color deeper and blacker than black. It was kind of mountainous, too.
Few people know this, but in its first draft the famous F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was entitled “A zit the size of a fist”.
Why did I need to do a google image search for “carbuncle”?
““Not the Countess of Morcar’s blue carbuncle!” I ejaculated.”
I think I heard someone on TV say that Anna Nichole had an abcess on her backside and that was what had caused the fever of 105 degrees a couple of days before her death.
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