# Picked zit infections - ewwwww

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picked-zit-infections-ewwwww/12723>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 11, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picked-zit-infections-ewwwww/12723 "2000-01-11T05:54:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picked-zit-infections-ewwwww/12723/41 "2000-06-17T14:59:03Z")

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> You bunch of amateurs.
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> I’ve had 'em on the ear lobes, on my chest, on my back and shoulders, on my neck, on my jaw, on my cheek, above my upper lip, on my temples (one so big I had to go to the emergency room when I woke up and couldn’t open my right eye), in my left armpit, a large colony of 'em on my butt, and one on my inner thigh near the (otherwise) happy regions. Spontaneous ooze, projectile pus ‘n’ blood. Daily band-aid regimen. Tetracycline. Erythromycin. Benzac. Retin-A. Accutane. Twice. Cortizone shots. Surgery.
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> I laugh at Clearasil commercials.  
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My husband is almost 30 and still breaks out pretty bad. He also has tried every medication on the market, with very little improvement. He tried cortisone shots, dermabrasion, acne peels, etc., again to no avail. The acne gets better in the summer (after he sun tans his face), but flares up again terribly during the winter.

Anyway, this is supposed to be gross-out pimple stories, so I have one that happened to me a couple of years ago. I developed one on the side of my cheek that just wouldn’t go away. I tried acne creams and even my husband’s Retin-A, but this thing took a couple of months to go away. In the meantime, it would spontaneously pop about once a week, usually when I was in public or something, and I wouldn’t notice until somebody would ask me why there was blood on the side of my face.

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