# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**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 13, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/21 "2005-10-13T01:00:27Z")
Heck, half the fun of these threads was grossing **Coldy** out. The other half, of course, is going “ooogh!” at what other people go through. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/22 "2005-10-13T01:06:44Z")
> [@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. Then maybe it’s a _wart_. My dermatologist told me about removing a giant wart from the inside of a guy’s nose. Naw, you wouldn’t do such a thing **CGabe**. It’s definitely one more reason not to go booger mining, though. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/23 "2005-10-13T02:08:30Z")
Here’s a nifty zit tale. Some of you may know of all the work I’ve had on my nose. The last round of surgery involved removing a piece of my ear cartilage and placing it in the skin on the tip bit of my nose from nostril to nostril. The idea is to prop my nostrils open. I started to get a deep zit on the outside of my right nostril right above where I used to have a piercing. The damn thing grew for days and jabbing at it with a little pin didn’t help. After about a week I could feel and see it on the inside of my nostril. I couldn’t pop it from there either. One day I decided enough was enough and decided I wasn’t going to leave the bathroom until the bastard had been drained. After a fair amount of squeezing and poking I noticed something odd coming from the hole where my nose was pierced. I got out the tweasers and gave it a tug. It was a hair. A hair?? My guess is somehow during all the nose cutting a hair follicle somehow ended up growing backwards and caused the infection - the escape route was the old piercing hole. Once the hair was out I decided to have no mercy on the bag of pus that was once my nose. I pushed a pin into the old piercing hole. I figured I would either pop the growing menace or re-pierce my nose in the process. Pop! I must have milked out at least 2cc of bloody pussy gunk. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/24 "2005-10-13T04:08:53Z")
So what would Michael Jackson’s inernasel zit look like nude? (Never mind. Forget I asked.) ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/25 "2005-10-13T05:32:59Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > So what would Michael Jackson’s inernasel zit look like nude? > > (Never mind. Forget I asked.) Is that what they’re calling his “nose” these days? ---
**Author:** ![Habanero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d9b06d/32.png) [@Habanero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habanero)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/26 "2005-10-13T06:19:52Z")
How come you guys get to have all the fun. For the life of me I can’t grow those things. ☹ I’ll just resort to husband grooming. _pick pick_ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/27 "2005-10-13T12:01:28Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > 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? I dare say you got yourself a boil. Get thee to a doctor, you need to be on antibiotics. When these finally pop, you’ll probably get about a tablespoon of smelly pus. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/28 "2005-10-13T13:56:07Z")
> [@Habanero](#): > > How come you guys get to have all the fun. For the life of me I can’t grow those things. ☹ > > I’ll just resort to husband grooming. _pick pick_ You really, \*really \*need to pony up the cash to join. You are one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/29 "2005-10-13T14:03:19Z")
The hell? They actually make zit poppers? And me just using a safety pin all my life. The things you learn… ---
**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:** [October 13, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/30 "2005-10-13T14:58:29Z")
In my experience, zit poppers don’t work so well for “blind” pimples – the ones that don’t have much of a head to them, so you go after them with a safety pin. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/31 "2005-10-13T15:12:43Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > You really, \*really \*need to pony up the cash to join. You are one of us. One of us! One of us!! Oh, and I had one of those “blackhead removers”. Either it doesn’t work, or I’m too dumb to figure out how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/32 "2005-10-13T15:28:54Z")
Oooh, I love me some zit popping, and this thread brought a few things to mind: 1. I also recently got a huge, ow-y, won’t-come-to-a-head zit on my chin, but perserverence paid off and i popped it the other day. It was rather anti-climatic, didn’t make much of a mess or anything. 2. the clear fluid is called lymph. 3. my SO and I love popping each other’s zits, but we only do ones the other can’t reach. He gets a little grossed out by it in theory, but i know he likes it just as much as me. 4. I have also gotten nose pimples in the past, but it’s been awhile. From what I remember, they got big and hurty, but were spectacular when popped. I also sometimes get them on the cartilige-y part of my ear, and those are fun to pop too. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/33 "2005-10-13T18:51:59Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Oh, and I had one of those “blackhead removers”. Either it doesn’t work, or I’m too dumb to figure out how to use it. I find that [this kind](http://bestgroomingtools.com/product_info.php?products_id=82&osCsid=535c274892c8b0a05f57cf46266424f2) works better for me. ---
**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 14, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/34 "2005-10-14T03:00:37Z")
OH MY GOD! I have an intranasal zit! And it HURTS! This thread gave it to me! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869/35 "2005-10-14T03:54:02Z")
Hola Amigos. I know its been a while since I rapped at 'ya. Status report: Zit still intact. It has failed to increse substantially in size, but has increased in tenderness. All attempts to pop have so far failed. I’ve tried both the “needle” and “excruciating amounts of pressure” tactics, with no success. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intranasal-zit-forming-its-gonna-be-a-good-one-tmi-you-think/325869.md?page=1)