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Yeah, it’s not an unusual thing. It is an ingrown hair, but just with several follicles joined together. Happens occasionally with me, too.
No need to seek medical advice. (Simmer down, Anaamika.)
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Sorry! It looks scary to me.
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It is NOT an ingrown hair. At least not any normal ones. Did any of you look at the pics? That thing is freakish.
Buddy, doctor, ASAP.
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Looks like an ingrown hair to me. And I’ve pulled lots of odd stuff out of patients in my career.
Where the heck is gabriela? I wonder if she’s done a forensic study of ingrown hairs before. 
Everybody keeps saying it’s no biggie. People! he has it photographed next to a ruler for scale, and with a normal hair for comparison. That THING looks pretty big to me.
Pardon yet another Star Trek reference, but anybody remember the one about that giant cream-horn looking thing that sucked in ships and planets and stuff? That’s the first thing that came to mind when I looked at the photos.
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Everybody keeps saying it’s no biggie. People! he has it photographed next to a ruler for scale, and with a normal hair for comparison. That THING looks pretty big to me.
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Meh. It’s an ingrown hair. I’ve seen and treated waaaaay too many in my career.
Or do you propose a different theory?
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Meh. It’s an ingrown hair. I’ve seen and treated waaaaay too many in my career.
Or do you propose a different theory?
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Yes. It looks like the poop thingies from shrimps. I forget what they’re called. So maybe the OP should look and see if his poops are less than they once were.
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Yes. It looks like the poop thingies from shrimps. I forget what they’re called. So maybe the OP should look and see if his poops are less than they once were.
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You think his intestines are coming out of his face? 
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You think his intestines are coming out of his face?
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Ya never know. :dubious:
OK, I’m going out on a limb here, and suggesting that maybe it was a clove inserted into his face, like a ham. In that case – he’s cured already! 
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Meh. It’s an ingrown hair. I’ve seen and treated waaaaay too many in my career.
Or do you propose a different theory?
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Ok, but why is it wearing a condom in the first photo?
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Yes. It looks like the poop thingies from shrimps. I forget what they’re called.
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“Dirt vein” is what we always called them in Florida. Not claiming that’s the proper name or anything.
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Meh. It’s an ingrown hair. I’ve seen and treated waaaaay too many in my career.
Or do you propose a different theory?
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Maybe it is just a really big weird ingrown hair, or maybe it’s a mindless killing machine that will suck up pet rodents, cats and small dogs.
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Maybe it is just a really big weird ingrown hair, or maybe it’s a mindless killing machine that will suck up pet rodents, cats and small dogs.
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The battle is not always won by the strong, nor the race by the swift.
But that’s the way to bet.
I’m betting on ingrown hair with its follicular sheath intact.
Ugh! It looks like a cable…any chance you’re a cyborg?
I get 'em. That’s a pretty big one I admit, but it’s not something I’d worry about.
I had my own theory (no basis in fact or research) that maybe that’s why they’re called “whiskers”… the bundle of hairs together looks like the old “whisk brooms” made from a bunch of straw tied to a stick. You can generally break them apart into individual hairs.
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The battle is not always won by the strong, nor the race by the swift.
But that’s the way to bet.
I’m betting on ingrown hair with its follicular sheath intact.
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Anything that has a sheath can’t be entirely trusted.
I have no feedback, but deeply admire your scientific spirit in posting photos.
I get these too; nearly always right on the jawline - the longer they stay buried in the skin, the thicker and more mutated they seem to get; most of them are thinner than the specimen here (although still 3 or more times thicker than my regular beard hairs, and completely consistent, visually, with the OP’s example.
One time, I had one under my chin that didn’t surface at all and just formed a hard, painful lump that persisted for a couple of months; eventually it came to some sort of head and when I dug it out, the object inside was almost exactly like a little bird’s talon.
The OP seems to have pulled out a rather exemplary one though; I’d recommend dabbing a little antiseptic on the area where it came out.
I get those too, once in a while. Speaking of TMI, it kind of reminds me of that other thread with the pores that ooze a seemingly impossible amount of pus. I had one of those once too.
Maybe you could list it on eBay, since you have the pics already.
Has the hole in your jawline closed in yet? Keep an eye on it to see if another hair-o-lith grows back.
Maybe a form of Morgellons? http://www.morgellons.org/