Was that you, and how did THAT happen?
Scleritis.
You get it from touching other people’s money and steering wheels, then rubbing your eye.
:mad:
Holy crap. Do you still have vision?
And most of the time, no, you don’t get it from touching anything, you get it because you have an autoimmune disorder like Wegener’s granulomatosis, rheumatoid arthritis, polychondritis, or systemic lupus (it’s never lupus, except when it is.) It’s usually chronic, not an acute infection. Glad to hear yours was the rarest kind.
Yeah.
Basically, the infection was beyond conjunctivitis (pink eye), the sclera itself became inflamed. Needed special eyedrops and a week off from work because the pimple/blister forced my eye to cross.
Do they look red dark red/purple on the skin? I want to make sure we’re talking the same thing. After I burst mine under the skin, it leaves a purple mark that takes a long time to fade. Maybe mine have more blood in them? Like I said, if mine discharge anything, it’s a little bit of dark blood.
Well to be honest I’m too fat to get a good look at my inner thigh, and they usually seem to be on the assward side of my leg. Like I said they seem to be multi chambered, and when I needle them I get either red blood, whitey-greenish pus, or most often a mixture of the two.
Oh, ghods. PopThatZit.com.
I strongly recommend that you do NOT look at the one labelled Central Georgia Massive Abcess Flood. You have been warned.
good lord -
I mean this in only the most professional way possible. Ahem:
Holy. Motherfucking. Everloving. Lord of Mercy. That. Is. Insane. :eek:
(Do you suppose the surgeon has enjoyed a plate of Swedish Meatballs ever again?)
I’ve been avoiding the videos because when it’s my pus I’m okay, but I don’t know how I’d feel about somebody else’s. Thank you, WhyNot, for confirming that this was the right decision for me to make.
I’m oddly fascinated by *most *zit/abscess/blackhead removal videos. That one? Just don’t. Seriously and no exaggeration, I think that patient left at least 5 pounds lighter. There were at least 3 liters of very liquid pus and blood and a few random chunky bits.
The soft cheese/toothpaste-like extractions are much more fun to watch, anyway. 
unfortunately - I can confirm WhyNot’s findings, and will never use his handle again when deciding to click a link.
The best part?
The surgeon sticking his fingers in the hole to swish around and start a new flood
What I like about these videos is how even the professionals woefully underestimate how much gauze, etc they need to capture all the mess. In the “Central Georgia” link above, the surgeon has a couple of pieces of cotton in his hand and just two of those blue and white things that remind me of doggy pee carpets, when they really needed a five gallon bucket and about 20 beach towels. 
They probably should have taken his pants off too. “Uh, you might want to wash those when you get home, OK?” 
they need to elevate the patient above the bucket (imagine changing the oil on your chevy)
We call them “chucks” when we’re talking to each other and “underpads” when we’re filling out order forms. And when I’m doing not-sterile wound care in people’s homes, I often use doggy pee pads instead, because they’re exactly the same and 1/5th the price!
Never heard them called anything other than chucks. Huh, so they’re called other things, too…
I remember when I had my abscess surgically drained I was advised to sleep with one covering my pillow. I’d roll over at night and I’d wake up when my face squished into the draining pus and custard.
It was not pleasant. I was glad when that sucker started healing more and oozing less.
Since I don’t really want to watch it, is it by chance a peri-rectal abscess? Like I said earlier in the thread, those can become enormous.
Imagine how often this kind of thing had to be done in the pre-antibiotic era, or nowadays in Third World countries. :eek:
And be grateful computers don’t come with Smell-O-Vision.
No, it’s a huge abscess on the back. It’s bigger than it looks - the patient is rather heavy, and the abscess appears to be fairly deep, so the true size of the thing is concealed by the surrounding skin and subcutaneous fat. The doctor has to insert his(?) finger into the incision several times to break up loculations, and each time there’s a new gush of material. I can’t imagine how painful it must have been before it was drained.
Do you suppose the patient finished the tattoo?
GAD! I posted this on the zombie zit-thread from some ten (?) years ago…
What ARE you people eating that makes your bodies produce these ungodly boils?!