If I had the skill that some of you folks do at creative, nigh-literary profanity, I’d put this in the Pit–but I don’t. When I get irate, my vocabulary contracts down to variations on the word “fuck”, which is pretty boring, I’m afraid.
But that’s not the point. The point is that I have a pimple. In my ear. Not on my ear, IN MY EAR. Not deep–it’s hanging out, just inside the old aural canal, being swollen and hurting like a very hurty thing if touched and dully aching the rest of the time. How the heck am I supposed to squeeze a pimple that’s in my ear?
I suppose I’ll let it alone for a while and avoid sleeping on that side and not use earbuds in that earhole and hopefully it will subside meekly of its own accord. Going to the doctor for an earhole pimple would be a bit of a bother (though I suppose an excuse to talk to him about a few other things. I refuse to admit that the earhole pimple might be a blessing in disguise, however!).
First off, I want you to know I’m not advocating doing this. But I’ve heard that you can take a nice, clean bobby pin and use the curved end to press on a zit in a tight spot. It’s what I’ve heard. Not advocating it, just in case you try it and it doesn’t work out well.
Yeah, that would be a lot like the little wire loops that are used for doing extractions when you get a facial. A totally legit way to squeeze a tight place, I guess.
Had this. More than once. Not a big deal.
Don’t mess with it. Don’t squeeze it prematurely because you could well end up forcing the infected goo further in.
Tincture of time. And a hot bath, or hot compresses to bring it to a poppable state.
No, I am not using the blackhead remover or bobby pin on it. Did I forget to mention it hurts really rather a bit? If anything, I’d use one of the sterile, extremely short lancets that I have (don’t ask) to poke it–but because it’s on the side of my head, and therefore hard to see, I’d just wind up poking randomly at my earlobe.
I would gladly trade this for a pimple on my butt or crotch. Whole other league of annoyance here.
Ah yes; my ex once spent a lovely evening digging an ingrown hair out of the back of my neck after the hipster barber pointed it out to me. She was a good 'un; shame I couldn’t hang on to her.
I had one just like it a few years ago. Here’s what I did accidentally, and perhaps you can do it on purpose:
I had taken a piping hot shower, and when toweling off, noticed that my ear felt sore. I felt the ear canal with a finger; obviously something was wrong in there. I very gently introduced a Q-tip, trying to find just where the sore place was. I pressed it against the sore place and heard a small “crack!” in my canal, and withdrew a Q-tip covered in goo (sorry -TMI). Another pressing or two got more out, and then I washed and dried the place and applied Neosporin with another Q-tip.
The piping hot shower was what raised it up, I’m sure. Let hot shower water play gently on your ear for awhile, and then proceed with gentle pressure from a Q-tip.
As for the pimple, lancing a cyst can be really… interesting.
I suggest watching some videos online then using the tools.
Perhaps some ora-gel might help numb it before hand?
