Favorite pimple stories (maybe TMI)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Wow, I read this whole thread in one sitting! I didn’t know people talked about this stuff, or even enjoyed it! I love you guys!

Well, since this has been resurrected, I’ve had some pretty nasty pimples, some on my back (where I couldn’t reach them), and some on my face. I remember having a lump inside my right cheek, about a finger’s width over from my nose, for what must have been three or four years. It would never come to a head, nothing would come out of it. Then one day… a white head appeard in the center of it. So I went to work.

Clear fluid, then clear fluid mixed with blood, and god, it hurt!. Then some pus, and finally I could see a column of hardened, waxy stuff. This required painful squeezing and digging to get it out in little bits, and then it would recede back into the hole. Squeezing with tremendous force, all of a sudden, there was an audible pop! and the mirror was covered in clear fluid, blood, and the core of this pimple, which was mashed into the center of the mirror, sticking outward. It must have been half an inch long and the diameter of spaghetti, with a bulbous end.

[Roseanne Roseannadanna] Eeeeew, that stoff came outta me!!! [/Roseanne…]

Not long after it seemed to stop bleeding, I could see another column of white stuff hiding in the center of the hole. More squeezing, fluid, blood, little bits, then POW! Another one, even bigger than the first one, all over the mirror again! I couldn’t believe it! That was the end of it. It took awhile to heal up, and there is a hole where it used to be, but it never came back.

Thanks to my wife, who likes to go looking on my back for pimples, I haven’t had any serious eruptions on my back since I got married.

Now, as for pimple goo that is colored something other than yellowish white, or smells like rotting meat - now THAT is GROSS!!

More, more!

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Why do I love this thread so?
::sighing peacefully::

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Oh Coldfire, your favourite thread’s back!! :smiley:

Whilst I cant top the tales of zit related enjoyment, I will provide you lucky people with an up-to-date link to the (or is it THE one, it has the same filename, and I can’t believe there can be that many of these things around)BIG ZIT VID .

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Jesus wept.

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You know, I resisted posting to this thread the last couple of times it was ressurected, but finally my strength to not post has crumbled. So here’s a couple of mine!

I have a few of the ‘Motherload’ zits. I can mine those suckers like clockwork every other month and get some nice results.

I also get these, well, for lack of a better term, we’ll call them, Blackhead Farms. These appear below my armpit, where the hair ends. 20-30 tiny blackheads. Oh, JOY! Always gives me something to blow an hour or so with getting rid of em all.

The strangest one I’ve ever had, formed on my inner thigh last year. It hurt like an SOB, and when I finally got home to check it out, there was this HUGE red zit. So I get the fingers into position on either side of it, and give a nice strong squeeze, and there’s this HUGE ‘SPLORT’ into my hand of a whole bunch of runny puss and a hard core of zit material.

Well, being the inquisitive person I am, I looked closer at the hard core, and realized it was the hair follicle. It had filled up with the hard zit core and came out when I squeezed. I was able to pull the core out of the ‘skin’ of the follicle.

Yes folks, I made a ‘Zit Sausage’!

(And anyone want to take bets on If Coldy is gonna finally shut this thread down if he has to slog through it again?)

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Hey, if I have to have sports threads in the Pit, I see no reason why ClogBoy shouldn’t have threads about clogged pores in HIS forum.

Besides, Broomstick’s saga is a classic, and should be required reading.

My contribution to zit classification: sometimes the fine hairs will not shed, but stay in the pores along with the newer hairs that grow to replace them. Even the most avid exfoliator can develop these accumulations. It is my duty and pleasure to remove them from anyone who comes within range of my tweezers. Afterwards, I generally show the plug to my victim, and then gently press it with the tweezers, which makes it disintegrate into the individual hairs which were bound together by dry oil and dead skin cells. These lumps can generally be found on the back and on the sides of the nose.

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Lynn, I love posts like yours! If I was a guy I’d propose! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Anybody else think that the Big Zit video sounds and even looks something like the end of a porn movie?

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My boyfriend had what we both thought was a cyst on his back for months. It started to form a head one day, so I offered to pop it for him. It was about a half inch circle about a quarter of an inch thick.

I worked on it for weeks, getting strings of foul smelling pus and blood. One day, I took my thumb and pressed down with it using all my body weight. It exploded under his skin. I squeezed again and got a ton of pus and blood all over my glasses. For the next week, I squeezed on it every day, most days getting showers of pus at least two feet in the air.

He’s still got scar tissue under his skin, but the lump makes his tattoo bulge nicely (the knee of his tattooed elf from elfquest is right over the lump).

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Did he do that on purpose, or was the tattoo already there when the cyst formed?

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Grimace, your post is very timely. I’m just getting over a nasty inner thigh zit. Like yours, mine hurt quite a lot. It’s an awful feeling when the entire zit brushes the inside of your slacks material and aches. Anyway, last week I’d had enough and started putting warm wet compresses on the zit until it came to a head. This zit was in such an awkward place, I had to use a hand mirror to make sure it was ready to pop. When it was ready, I wrapped toilet paper around two finges on each hand (for leverage) and squeezed for about 30 seconds, changing position every few seconds until I found the most favorable position.

Oh.My.God. I make sure to exfoliate all over my body regularly so I wasn’t expecting what I found. Of course, there was bloody white pus splorching all over the shower wall. But the core of the zit was a tightly wound ball of several hairs doubled over each other. Sick as I am, I smoothed out the hairs and measured them. They were all about 2-3 inches long. I swear the ball looked like a golf ball that had its outer covering removed. I washed the zit area and applied a coating of Neosporin on it, and then applied a large bandage to the area. It hurt a little bit at work the next day, but nothing like when it was coming to a head. There’s nothing there now except some discoloration. I was expecting nerve damage, gangrene, some kind of major tissue damage from the amount of noxious goo exploding from my thigh. Does anyone have any advice on exfoliation techniques so that I don’t get any more thigh zits?

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Shortly after my husband and I were married, he developed one of those excruciating inner thigh zits. It was at least 3 inches across and causing him a great deal of pain. While I was examining it to determine the best plan of attack, I noticed a single hair standing straight up out of the middle of the zit. Carefully I grasped the hair with my tweezers (he calls them my “implements of mass destruction”) and pulled it out. Then I oh-so-gently placed a single finger next to the zit and gave the tiniest of pushes.
SPLORT!!!
“It’s gone a gusher, boys!” I cried as a geyser of pressurized blood and pus rocketed a good 2 feet into the air. “Oooooo!” said our wide-eyed daughter, who was about 2 at the time. “Do it again, Mommy!” Being one who likes to indulge my children when I have the opportunity, I gave another, firmer, squeeze, and was rewarded with another spurt of gloop, nowhere near as impressive as the first one. Then I slapped some Prid salve and a Band-aid on it and put the daughter down for her nap. Sadly, my husband has yet to present me with another zit as entertaining as that one was. He does have a mother-lode pore on his back, though, and while it doesn’t engage in spectacular eruptions, it’s sometimes fun to see if I can get all the crud out in one unbroken lump.

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Oh, man, I get those thigh pimples every so often. Mine are fast growers, too. So I’ll walk to class just fine, but some time during the day, I’ll be walking around, and the boxer’s’ll brush just right and…

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

But the worst part is, they take forever to get a head of any kind.

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… okay, am I the ONLY one that only gets the docile sort of pimple, the kind that just ooze a little goo and then go away without making a bid for world domination?

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I’m almost ashamed to admit that my heart leapt for joy when I saw this thread had been bumped up!

I love you guys.

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Oh yes, Oh yesssss! The pimple thread is back! (Writhes with pleasure.) Coldfire-Sama, please don’t lock it, even if it makes you heave…

I love those zits that don’t form a head, but come up in a matter of hours and appear as a hot, red area of hardness. Then you give a tentative squeeze to see what it is and there is a CRACK! and then upon another squeezing a sort of “ruffle!” and a lot of white dryish fondant textured stuff comes out.

Does anyone else relive “Good Zits I Have Popped” when daydreaming? And sometimes wish you had approached them in a better manner? My best zit was one once in the corner of my nose which came up as the biggest lighthouse of a pimple during one morning. When I went to pop it, under all the pus, which was satisfying enough in itself, there was revealed a blackhead the size of Blackpool Pier. I squeezed it half out and then stopped to admire it in the mirror. BAD mistake, as then when I tried to get it out, it broke in half and ruined the aesthetic experience…

(Vomiting yet, Coldy??)

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Well, yea, but those aren’t as fun to talk about as the giant gushers of doom.

Actually, I’d support closing this thread if we started another people thread, a Part II, if you will.

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PIMPLE. Not people. Pimple. Though I imagine if we squeezed Coldie’s head, some very colorful things would come out.

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Sorry to keep posting, but I was just reading through and thought this was a fabulous idea. I remember those disgusting operation shows that were on TLC a few years ago around dinnertime (and god help you if you were eating and channel surfing…“Stupid…seen it…stupid…AHHH IS THAT HIS LIVER!!!..stupid”) and this would be just perfect for that niche.

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Yea, I also get the docile kind. Dammit, sometimes I wish for bigger ones!

What’s worse is when I’m with friends and I notice their pimples and zits, and I have the secret desire to just squeeze them…