How Gross Are You?

slow down there, gollum

pinch the pimples like nipples to get the pus amirite??

I've popped zits in the past that erupted on the scale of Krakatoa.

I've gotten a few tiny zits lately and it felt unsatisfying to pop them

I think I may be a premature popper

fuck, pretty sure ENBB and I are soul sisters. I do all these things, including preteen toenail biting past (got called out on it by an Aunt, said I ripped the nail off.. stopped after that), even once masturbated at previous job!

Sometimes floss out teeth in a pinch with strands of hair - don't know if that's gross really but can't think of much else that's left! I used to be a bathtub smoker when I lived at my Dad's house (he smoked everywhere, why shouldn't I? Used to grab a book, ashtray, cigs and a Portishead CD and soak until the water got cold, refilling once or twice..)

I've never heard of the hair floss before, but yeah...makes sense.

lol Lex, <3

I have terribly spaced teeth so I get a lot of things stuck in, and have some obsessive issues about things stuck in teeth - so yeah, since I don't carry toothpicks.. pluck a hair!

Also an occasional hair grows out of my chin and I LOVE plucking that fucker but I know I've discussed that before. So fun.

<3!

agreed that the botfly removal looks so satisfying. well, not the eye ones.

following on from laurel's honking of sinus congestion, at the moment i'm coughing up all kindsa gross shit, and kind of enjoying the feel of it in my mouth.

hey yall, still a booger eater :/

-I only wash my jean once every few months, raw denim thing.
-I had a boil last year that grew to the size of an acorn. I cut it open myself and lord...... it was the grosses sight and smell ever. but it was so satisfying
-I like my girl's underarm's smell

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Boils. I got one about ten years ago. Summer of '02 when I was working at a Hollywood Video. I didn't know what one was. I just knew I had this sore lump on the back of my neck and so I rubbed at it absentmindedly to give myself relief.

One day, I was rubbing on it up at the cash register in a slow period in between customers when it burst in between my fingers. I looked at my hand and saw the ribbon of white fluid and smelled the overpowering cheesy smell. I ran to the bathroom and tried to wash it up the best I could, but it kept oozing the rest of the day.

I tried squeezing the rest out at home, but even after I had squeezed everything out, I still had this great big lump. I carried that lump with me for 9 years.

Flash forward to December 2011. ILX is in the sandbox. I'm back in the office after being laid low for a couple of days by a brutal virus. I'm rubbing the back of my neck.

At some point, I'm resting my chin in my hand, staring at something on the computer, when I smell it. That fucking smell! And I look at my hand but there's no cheesy white stuff, but I have my suspicions about where that smell could have come from. So I rub the back of my neck some more. My hand smells like, 10 times as bad.

And so I rub and rub and rub and rub and keep getting the smelly hand and eventually, a small amount of flaky white paste.

I think that I was essentially expelling the stuff through my skin. The boil never came to a head or anything. But I worked on it some more and now the lump is gone and the skin on the back of my neck no longer smelly. I'm hoping it's gone for good, but I fear that some of it may still remain beneath the surface.

What the fuck, people. What the fuck.

I don't take a shower every day. That's all I got at the moment.

My sister told me an awful story about how my mom requested assistance in lacerating an armpit boil with one of the lancets my diabetic brother uses to check his blood glucose. Somehow that's like a perfect synecdoche for my family.

lacerating probs the wrong word; point is she wanted to make it explode

those lancets are pretty sharp!

yeah holy fuck, that can't be anything but an awful story

lol beachville I could pretty much tell the same story

Man, I am jealous of these boils.

#thingyoudon'thearveryoften

Aerosol, did you have yours for years like that?

Hey beachville, T. thinks you had a sebaceous cyst. Boils don't usually stay for that long. Mine turned a purplish hue before I lanced it. Mine lasted for almost 2 months and was embarrassing because my arm looks like it had a large tumor on it. I finally had to wear long sleeves shirts.

Beachville, what you got there is called a secbaceous cyst. That's what the cheesy stinky goo is - its the oils yr skin produces to keep it soft, but... too much? Infected? Anyway I have the exact same thing between my shoulder blades. Was gonna have it surgically removed but the it spontaneously drained one day and ever since its been a small lump, like some dormant volcano.

Woah xpost lol

i had one for 20-odd years but mine got well stinky at the start of last year so i had it surgically removed.

twenty!

Ive still got mine and its been about 7 or 8 years, but the only active period was when it first showed up in 2004 or thereabouts - I went through a horrible phase of getting caught out with it leaking/bursting and soaking my shirt with bloodied, smelly pus in inconvenient situations like on a train. I ended up having to wear these big surgical pads like some kind of back-nappy :(

I got my mum to help drain it once (between my fscking shoulder blades - the one spot on the body a person cant reach!) and she said "there is literally enough liquid pouring out of you here to fill up a jug, this is horrible".

omg

It was the WORST! :( And oh my god the smell.

I was scanning and for a minute I thought I read that someone upthread shits in their toenails. You filthy monkey.

Trayce's back-nappy story reminded me of this. About 12 years ago I developed axillary hyperhidrosis, which basically means the sweat glands in your armpits malfunction and you LITERALLY DRIP SWEAT, even on cold days. It got so bad that I took to ramming wads of tissues etc. up my armpits and sort of waddling around the office like a penguin. I thought I was getting away with it but one day someone asked me why toilet paper kept falling out of my shirt.

Yeah I have a little one on my neck but I think mine is a ganglia? it fills with stinky cheese, I squeeze it out, it goes away & comes back a few months later. No blood, no pus or liquid, just the smelly keratin stuff. Fun to squeeze! The smell, ugh.

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MWHAHAAHAHAH

In ~2006 I got a boil right above my right hip. It was extremely painful and my belt and waistband irritated it constantly. I was uninsured, so I did some Googling and learned that I had to lance it and take tetracycline antibiotics.

The lancing was NBD - I used a blade fro a disposable razor that I took apart and lanced it and SPEWED noxious smelling puss and almost-black blood onto the wall and the toilet. I didn't feel a thing but I still screamed through clenched teeth.

A week went by and it was clear that the abscess wouldn't heal, but I couldn't afford a doctor, so I found an online pharmacy based in New Zealand where I got a 90 day supply of tetracycline for $70.

What remains is prominent 1" scar.

Thank god for shady Kiwi pharmacies!

i picked bacne last night until it bled through the back of my shirt, then proceeded to pick at it all afternoon

I chew the shit out of my lips. All the time. Even when I'm trying not to, and even when have really good, healing lipcare stick that doesn't dry my lips out or create the stupid chapstick dependency...god the amount of lip skin I have absentmindedly ingested :(

Je55e, I don't know specifically about tetracycline, but in my experience antibiotics are pretty cheap, even without insurance. I was in a hurry to buy some antibiotics for my daughter last year and went to a pharmacy that wasn't covered by my insurance. They only charged me $16.

Also, in Duff McKagan's autobiography, he talks about getting fish antibiotics from the pet store to treat the clap in his early GnR days.

I kept thinking about all these exploding boils when I was trying to sleep last night. blech

Tetracyclines are probably ultra-cheap b/c they're old fashioned, I think. I guess the issue would have been the doc visit? IDK. I spent many years figuring that health care was not something I could have. TBF to 2006-Je55e, I couldn't have gotten an office visit + meds for $70.

Oh god the one time I visited the free clinic was beyond appalling. I went in for persistent chest and back pains and left b/c I felt like a drain on the wholly inadequate, terrifying, chaotic system.

I went to the ER instead and was diagnosed with pleurisy which sounds about as real as "imbalance of the humours" IMO.

Aside, this book to thread (it's quite interesting)

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VG I chew on my lips too! If I get bits of flaky hangnail-esque skin that wont come off, I worry at it with my teeth til it does. Sometimes I get carried away and end up with a bleeding lip for some time ow.

Wonder twins...ACTIVATE :)

Can I be a triplet in the trinity of lip chewing?

welcome!

I chew my cats' lips.