SCORE!!!
My friends (who are all sick like me) and I delight in grossing each other out, sending links to pictures on rotten.com and the like.
A few of them were over last night and I called up that link. When that zit did its firehose thing, I had a couple of them dry-heaving over the wastebasket.
Well done!!! I am now ahead by LARGE gross-out points. Heh, heh, heh…
My sister had a similar problem on the side of her nose. When the zit covered up the entire side, she squeezed and squeezed and squeezed out lots of pus and blood, and finally a small little pebble popped out.
She has a huge scar because of it.
I’m sure a lot of you were glad this thread was gone, but I just had a long conversation with a friend about it and she will hopefully visit this thread and be so enamoured with the SDMB she’ll join.
How exactly do you remove blackheads on your nose, by tweezing, or by some other method? I have problems with pores clogging up there now and then, and often even the Biore pore strips only get a few of them cleaned out. I’ve noticed some pore enlargement that’s vaguely disturbing.
I would like to ask everyone to pray for the safe return of my blackhead removal tool. It’s gone missing in my house and I haven’t seen it for over a week. Either a kitty swatted it to the floor and it’s under the bed somewhere, or Mr. Amanita hid it from me so he wouldn’t have to submit to my blackhead-related ministrations. I know the Dopers who read this thread with the joy that I do can appreciate what an anxiety-producing loss this is. 
How did she get a pebble under the skin of her nose? Road rash from a bike crash or something?
I tell you, I read these stories and realize that the one ingrown pubic hair I had was nothin’ in comparison, even if the pus DID turn an icky grey-green and got all hard and stuff. Except for once, all the rest of my zits have been pretty small and non-projectile; I generally get a small worm. I think I get bigger ones on my back, but it’s hard to tell because I can’t see them when I clean them out. (My arms are flexible. I can bend them enough that I can usually apply a pore-clearing fingernail to pretty much any point on my back. And then I go back and pick the scabs off.)
I love it when this thread is resurrected. Did your friend check it out? Did she join?
My dad had a good pimple story that he shared with me.
He had that really nasty cystic acne, and would often get terrible giant infections. So one of the zits from hell formed on the side of nose about 1/8th inch above his nostril. He said this thing grew and festered and grew and festered for weeks. It became an extremely painful second nose that he just couldn’t keep his hands off.
So one day he is walking between classes at the University, fingering his second nose, when he felt it finally break. Joy! He didn’t care that he was out in public, this thing had torcherd him for weeks. So he grabs his nose and gives it a might squeeze. Sppprrrddttth!
So you’d expect a big load of goey blood snot stink stuff to going flying out of this thing. And it did, but the pimple had festered through to the inside of his nose.
He said he just kept on squeezing and blowing pus out of his nose as he walked through campus.
Yuck!
damn I miss my dad! He had a big sink hole looking place on his nose from this one.
We need more description on that- Colors, smells, etc.
Please.
Will a mod shoot me if I resurrect this one? I am enthralled.
Well, HoCD, since this is a zombie thread I’m sure a mod will be along to close it. That’s policy, and I have no problem with that.
But that doesn’t stop someone from starting a “Pimples-The Sequel” thread, now does it? Just sayin’, that’s all.
Psst! Remember to link to this thread in a new one!
I feel all biggity that my story is the last in the thread!
It really is time for a new pimple thread.
(so sorry mods, I know you hate them but you have to earn that coffee cup)
I don’t know if this should be called a zombie thread, so much as a gold-star classic thread.
Every few months I like to run the “printable” version of this thread through speech synthesis software and listen to it at bedtime. Had a couple of glasses of wine last night and did it again. Awesome. After about fifteen minutes, the giggles start to hurt.
So we’re getting responses, but no pimple stories. C’mon, someone out there has to have something…juicy…to tell us about!
In my advanced old age, I’ll take them as I get them. I’ve been fortunate the past couple of weeks in getting small pustules on my thighs and ass, and I pop them with great delight. Unfortunately, it’s a story of small zits at the rate of maybe one a day, instead of The Big One that requires pressure washing the mirror.
I’ll step up with not just *one *not-really-a-pimple story, but two.
First up: my daughter was born c-section, and I had the classic bikini-line incision right above the public hair. About two years after she was born, I noticed that the very left edge of the scar was kind of lumpy. I chlked it up to strange scar healing whatever, and ignored it as best I could. Then it started to itch. Maddeningly. So I scratched it as much as I could without being rude in public. One night, lying in bed, I reached down for another scratch and my fingers came back wet. I turned on my lamp, waking my husband, and we both stared in amazement at the 1/2-inch hole in my abdomen. I proceeded, with some assistance from my husband (we’re both avid pore-plunderers) and half a box of Kleenex and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, to remove about a half-cup of pus, along with what has to be the world’s longest pubic hair. Packed it with Neosporin, covered it with a Band-Aid, and called it a night. Hasn’t bothered me in the intervening five years.
Story number two is on behalf of one of the beagles, Shadow. My sister the vet looks at the lumps on her back and says “ah, they’re sebaceous cysts” and leaves it at that. I ask her what to do about them, and she says they’ll either go away on their own, or they’ll rupture one day and make an almighty mess. So one day I’m petting Shadow and I notice that my hand is wet. Sure enough, one of her cysts has ruptured and it reeks. to. high. heaven. I go grab the trusty box of Kleenex and proceed to squeeze the living daylights out of the golf-ball-sized cyst. Blood, pus, goop, clear liquid, you name it, it was coming out of that poor dog’s back. And she’s such a good dog, she just sat there staring at me curiously while I inflicted all of this on her. It took several months of repeated squeezings for the cyst to finally give up and pretty much go away.
Um, pubic. Not public.
The amount of material I expelled from my pimple is not really anything special, at least not in this thread. What makes this unique is the location. Continuously-producing pores have been mentioned, but mine is on my nipple! Well actually on my areola, near the actual nipple.
One day I became aware that I had had this weird bump thing for quite sometime and wondered at why it was there. Awhile later the urge to squeeze entered my mind. Lo and behold, at little minature icing-looking squirt came out. I hoped it would go away but no such luck. This was about two years ago. So every few days I give it a good squeeze and clear it out. Sometimes I can even massage the base of the pore to coax more stringy gook out!
Did I meet the TMI requirement?
Pictures! We need pictures!