# Bursting cycts (TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409 "2005-08-10T05:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/41 "2005-08-31T18:06:03Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > > [Here](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2387&CAT=movies&NSFW=1&rtn=search-2387&Keywords=zit). Don’t blame me. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/42 "2005-08-31T18:45:15Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > > [Here](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2387&CAT=movies&NSFW=1&rtn=search-2387&Keywords=zit). Don’t blame me. HOLY CRAP! What third-world country was THAT taped in?? Thank God I keep my speakers turned off. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/43 "2005-08-31T18:53:43Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > > [Here](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2387&CAT=movies&NSFW=1&rtn=search-2387&Keywords=zit). Don’t blame me. :eek: When will I learn? ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/44 "2005-08-31T19:08:21Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > HOLY CRAP! What third-world country was THAT taped in?? Thank God I keep my speakers turned off. Aww, I wish you’d kept your speakers up. Then you would have heard that it was performed without even a local anesthetic. :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/45 "2005-08-31T19:16:29Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > :eek: > > When will I learn? Right after me, I guess…HOLY CRAP! And what’s with the spoon…I must be spending too much time on the darker side of the internet, I half expected someone to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/46 "2005-08-31T21:30:57Z")
Without the sound you missed the best part: narration by John Carradine! (Seems to be a clip from [Journey Into the Beyond](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076237/combined)) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/47 "2005-08-31T22:14:28Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > > [Here](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2387&CAT=movies&NSFW=1&rtn=search-2387&Keywords=zit). Don’t blame me. That reminds me…I gotta go get some toothpaste. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/48 "2005-08-31T22:21:45Z")
Anyone else hungry? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/49 "2005-08-31T22:52:55Z")
Man, that felt good just _watching_ it! Until they got to the “stick a finger into the cyst and root around” part, at least. The feel of collapsing zit walls is…unique, and eerily arousing. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/50 "2005-08-31T22:53:07Z")
I was going to post about when I had a cyst down there, you know, I think it’s called the labia - I thought I might have had vaginal cancer (being somewhat of a fatalist) until I went to the doctor. It was a little humiliating as it was in it’s early stages of development - I’m saying “no there, can you feel it”, she’s saying, “here? I can’t feel it” etc as the search went on. It got bigger and bigger and it was with me for about 1 1/2 years in total. Near the end I decided to squeeze it a little every day - it was so tantilisingly close to the skin. Then one day it really hurt, so got the then SO to have a look, cause I wasn’t about to find a mirror and place it at the right angle to see (I’m no 70s woman exploring my body). He excitedly says “oh, my god - don’t move” - rushes out to get tissues, then comes back and squeezes it, all the while, going “wow, wow, oh my god”. So far it hasn’t come back - still miffed that it was in a place where I couldn’t enjoy final cyst popping. But after these stories and the video (bleurghhhh), mine seems quite ordinary in comparision. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/51 "2005-09-01T03:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > And what’s with the spoon…I must be spending too much time on the darker side of the internet, I half expected someone to eat it. Oh, thank Og I wasn’t the only one who thought that! That was… :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/52 "2005-09-01T03:42:00Z")
> [@MelCthefirst](#): > > I was going to post about when I had a cyst down there, you know, I think it’s called the labia - …\… Then one day it really hurt, so got the then SO to have a look, cause I wasn’t about to find a mirror and place it at the right angle to see (I’m no 70s woman exploring my body). He excitedly says “oh, my god - don’t move” - rushes out to get tissues, then comes back and squeezes it, all the while, going “wow, wow, oh my god”. Had me a coupla those. The first time I was a little concerned, so hied myself to the doc whereupon she calmly explained that it was a small cyst and prescribed a course of antibiotic and told me to keep an eye on things. It went away, and all was right in my world. Fast forward a few years later and another appears - close to the same spot as before. Instead of going to the doc right away (antibiotics tend to make me really sick to my stomach), I asked el hubbo to take a peek at my girly bits. He did pretty much the same thing your SO did. It hasn’t been back since. Thank goodness. Those puppies HURT! ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/53 "2005-09-01T04:37:54Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > And what’s with the spoon…I must be spending too much time on the darker side of the internet, I half expected someone to eat it. Well, it _did_ look awfully like ketchup and mayonnaise. Oddly, the only thing that disturbed me about the video was that the person performing the surgery wasn’t wearing gloves. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/54 "2005-09-01T14:10:16Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Don’t say I didn’t warn you. > > [Here](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2387&CAT=movies&NSFW=1&rtn=search-2387&Keywords=zit). Don’t blame me. GAH! I… I think… I think I’m going to vomit. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/55 "2005-09-01T15:34:14Z")
[At least pus isn’t alive when you squeeze it out.](http://kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2238) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/56 "2005-09-01T15:42:14Z")
EWWWWWW!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/57 "2005-09-01T16:18:08Z")
> [@soulmurk](#): > > Well, it _did_ look awfully like ketchup and mayonnaise. > > Oddly, the only thing that disturbed me about the video was that the person performing the surgery wasn’t wearing gloves. It’s the finger tip rooting around in the hole that does me in. Then comes the hemostat and I have to turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/58 "2005-09-01T16:53:00Z")
[Here](http://www.mrcophth.com/oculoplasticgallery/sebaceouscyst/sebaceouscyst.html) is another good sebaceous cyst site. They even cut open the cyst after they’ve removed it. Interesting video there. I can’t quite hear it on this computer – did the narrator say something about holding a Bible over the cyst? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/59 "2005-09-01T17:40:10Z")
> [@MelCthefirst](#): > > I was going to post about when I had a cyst down there, you know, I think it’s called the labia - It got bigger and bigger and it was with me for about 1 1/2 years in total. Near the end I decided to squeeze it a little every day - it was so tantilisingly close to the skin. Then one day it really hurt, so got the then SO to have a look, cause I wasn’t about to find a mirror and place it at the right angle to see (I’m no 70s woman exploring my body). He excitedly says “oh, my god - don’t move” - rushes out to get tissues, then comes back and squeezes it, all the while, going “wow, wow, oh my god”. > So far it hasn’t come back - still miffed that it was in a place where I couldn’t enjoy final cyst popping. ooOoo I had one of those. Took it almost a month of soaking in hot bath tubs 3 days a week to convince it to finally develop enough that I could get it…though I _did_ get a mirror and lance it myself. Thing was the size of a small grape towards the end. It seemed to take a year bouncing between grape and pea size as my body cycled through its phases, then I got lucky and was house sitting a friend who had a wonderful hot tub and decided to aggressively try to get it to come to a head. Next time, definitely get a mirror! ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409/60 "2005-09-01T18:01:33Z")
Astro - is there supposed to be sound on that clip? And what the hell was that? Were they in the U.S.? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bursting-cycts-tmi/316409.md?page=4)