# Intranasal zit forming: Its gonna be a good one! (TMI? you think?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869 "2005-10-12T08:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/1 "2005-10-12T08:24:46Z")
Ug. I’ve got a monster of a zit forming just inside my left nostril. It started yesterday, I had the peculiar sort of tender-to-the-touch sensation that you just _know_ is going to be a zit. Today, its become noticeably swollen and rather painful to the touch. All attempts at popping have so far been met with only a token oozing of clear fluid and a dollop of blood. I can tell already this is going to be quite a show when the fucker finally gives. I give it 1-2 more days of torturing me before Zero Hour. I will provide updates on the status of this particular bane of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/2 "2005-10-12T08:32:35Z")
Try cotton wool soaked in hot water to ease the pain. Just be careful though, if you normally get cold sores on your lips, as they can also appear in your nose. If the “zit” looks more like a blister filled with clear fuid, go to your pharmacist for advice.Topical Acyclovir might help it to heal faster. ---
**Author:** ![Nilor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nilor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nilor)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/3 "2005-10-12T08:45:26Z")
Be sure to post pictures next time! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/4 "2005-10-12T09:01:05Z")
Here’s hoping it’s a gusher! There’s nothing quite as satisfying as splattering your mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/5 "2005-10-12T09:22:27Z")
The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, and I’m kinda past the acne stage, so that was weird. The head of the pimple was _inside_ my nostril, not outside on the skin of my nose. But it didn’t burst…it just disappeared. No blood-splattering-bathroom-mirror episode for me. Fun fun fun! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/6 "2005-10-12T11:31:29Z")
“I never inhaled.” ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/7 "2005-10-12T12:18:21Z")
I’ve gotten a few of those, though they were all small, and they hurt like HELL. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/8 "2005-10-12T14:21:26Z")
Oh, yeah. Those are goodies. When it finally lets go, the pain is piquant. Cleaning the mirror can be a pain, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/9 "2005-10-12T14:23:23Z")
It’s that moment where your eye waters and you think you can’t handle it anymore _just_ before the pop that I love so much. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/10 "2005-10-12T15:05:38Z")
Wow… Uhm… I got my first one of these a few days ago… Bizarre. How -does- one deal with them? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/11 "2005-10-12T15:21:21Z")
It’s probably a very bad idea to pop them, but that’s what I’ve done. It hurts like a motherfuck, but the relief when it goes is indescribable. Almost orgasmic, though quicker. I’m one of those freaks that picks her boyfriend’s zits as well as the few I get myself, though, so I might have a weird idea of what’s a good thing to do with a zit. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/12 "2005-10-12T16:31:29Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > The head of the pimple was _inside_ my nostril, not outside on the skin of my nose. Same here. Its on the left side of “the divider between the nostrils”, as I call it. > [@irishgirl](#): > > Just be careful though, if you normally get cold sores on your lips, as they can also appear in your nose. If the “zit” looks more like a blister filled with clear fuid, go to your pharmacist for advice.Topical Acyclovir might help it to heal faster. Definitely not one of those. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/13 "2005-10-12T18:28:52Z")
I had a good one a few weeks back that had a glorious chunky vibratory sensation as it progressively popped out a serious of semi-congealed chunks. Kind of a moist “puh-puh-puh-puh-POP” feeling. I was going to post about it, but then decide it was better to spare everyone the story. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/14 "2005-10-12T18:47:52Z")
Well, since this thread is here and all… My skin’s been behaving itself well the last few weeks, must be the weather. My skin looooves misty weather. But about 4 days ago, my chin starting hurting a little. Dammit, I though. Zit. It’ll have got to a head tonight or tomorrow morning. So I wake up the next morning, and no, it hasn’t come to a head. Instead, one side of my chin is hugely swollen and painful, but not too red. In fact, if you didn’t look to closely, with the angle and all, you probably wouldn’t see it. So I load up the zit cream on that one spot and go about my day. That night, it’s even bigger, if that’s possible. I soak a cloth in hot, hot water and place it on my chin. And keep doing this, for about half an hour. Again, load up the zit cream, go to bed. It’s day four now, and I’ve been doing the same soak-with-hot-water, try-a-tea-tree-oil-mask, load-up-with-zit-cream regimine, but nothing. It’s still a giant, painful, but not red lump on my chin that won’t do anything. Won’t decrease in size, won’t come to head, nothing. I even found a point that looked like it could be the problem pore and poked it with a needle - all I got was a drop of blood and some clear fluid. I don’t want to mess around with this too much and get some big ugly scar on my chin, but WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/15 "2005-10-12T20:45:37Z")
I misread the thread title as “Intranasal zit **farming** …” Then I read the thread and my first impression seems correct. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 12, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/16 "2005-10-12T20:56:45Z")
Oh please please! Every one post about their zits! If there’s one thing the SDMB luuuurves, it’s zit threads! The other day I finally figured out how to use those zit poppers–[the metal thing with the holes on the ends](http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=45351&catid=13107&brand=7796&trx=PLST-0-BRAND&trxp1=13107&trxp2=45351&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-BRAND&cmbProdBrandFilter=7796). Little whitehead on my little forehead, pressed down with the little hole and _splort_ right on the mirror! Yippieeee! My favorite, tho, are the ingrown or infected hairs. You pluck the little hair and it’s all covered in cheese. Ieuuuu! ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/17 "2005-10-12T21:15:02Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > My favorite, tho, are the ingrown or infected hairs. You pluck the little hair and it’s all covered in cheese. Ieuuuu! Ohhhh, I had an ingrown hair on my leg a while ago! It turned pimply so I started to pop it and it made this _poo!_ sound while a little sausage of pus came out. I’ve been blessed in the acne department _knock on wood_ so I don’t have to pop pimples often, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/18 "2005-10-12T22:39:03Z")
How do you people _get_ these things, for pete’s sake? Maybe I need to let mine ripen longer before squeezing. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/19 "2005-10-12T23:23:07Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > How do you people _get_ these things, for pete’s sake? > > Maybe I need to let mine ripen longer before squeezing. Cultivate, people, cultivate! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/20 "2005-10-13T00:24:19Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > Oh please please! Every one post about their zits! If there’s one thing the SDMB luuuurves, it’s zit threads! Except **Coldfire**. I bet he’s glad he doesn’t have to read these anymore. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869.md?page=2)