# The back of my ear just exploded. (TMI, big time) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2001, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911 "2001-06-07T10:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911/21 "2001-06-08T08:29:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > **One summer when I was thirteen or fourteen, I had the lovely experience of a boil forming on my eyelid…** I had the same thing happen to me when I was seven. My eye was shut tight for two solid weeks. When I finally did get it open, I had to rip it apart. The tearing sound was audible, and quite disturbing. 😃 My body has done some of the most disgusting things, whether I liked it or not. Oh, my ear is just fine now. Other than the scab, you’d never have known that anything happened. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911/22 "2001-06-08T13:24:30Z")
I get small boils often enough for me to check periodically, they tend to confine themselves to my waist or the back of my neck. I have a dark patch of skin near my bellybutton, this is all that’s left of my most unusual boil. It was more like a blood clot. I had tried lancing it several times but it just stayed there. One day, I decided to try to get rid of it once and for all. I drew a bath because I knew there would be some blood flow after. Instead of lancing, as I had been doing, I tried squeezing instead. I had tried this before, but this time I actually got a positive result! So, I squeezed more. After what seemed like a few minutes, there was an audible pop and a black mass the size of a split pea landed on the tub wall. ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911/23 "2001-06-08T19:10:11Z")
There’s actually a video of a guy gettin a boil on his butt lanced. It is Pantera’s III (Watch It Go). Completely gross… When I was about 14 I went snow skiing and skied through some trees. I hit a tree and felt a sharp pain and a bit of blood from my ear, I noticed the tree had these sort of spikes in its bark - from then on I had a little raised hard spot on my ear - never thought anything of it. Fast foreward about 6 years, my ear got real sore and swollen and I squeezed it an along with the pus comes this little piece of wood the exact same shape and size as the ones on the tree I hit a few years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Soccerbaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Soccerbaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soccerbaby)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911/24 "2001-06-08T20:06:09Z")
I was there when this happened and let me tell you! It wasn’t totally gross seeing as how i watch surgery on tv and all but still, I must say this is probably the nastiest thread i’ve ever seen on here! David all I have to say is Get Over It 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911/25 "2001-06-09T03:57:38Z")
I must be really sick. I want one too!!! I love popping that kind of shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-back-of-my-ear-just-exploded-tmi-big-time/67911.md?page=1)