How Gross Are You?

Too late, but it'd be a shame to waste an opinion: Band aid is a good look except that the middle padding part stands out. For aesthetics and healing, may I recommend a hydrocolloid bandage - no contrasting pad, heals much more quickly and with less scarring, and available at your local chain drug store.

I had a bump on my back that I squeezed and this stuff with the consistency of soft cheese came out. I'm guessing it was a blackhead, so gross.

was the cheese white, or yellow? smelly or not smelly?

gross is all in the details, milo :)

Possibly a sebaceous cyst! Those are exciting.

otm

Mine hasn't come back yet. So stoked about life.

dealing with gross toe fungus!

yaaaaaaay!

I have a spot on my back that has a recurring ingrown hair -- I scratched at it for so many years that there's a bit of scar tissue back there, and that one hair and surrounding dead skin accumulate as a hard mass. About once a year that grain of rice is ready to harvest and I get my wife to dig it out with a penknife or tweezers. It feels great when she catches hold of it and pulls it out.

I usually use a sharp pin sterilized with rubbing alcohol rather than a penknife to work the ingrown hair free - I find it's less obtrusive to surrounding skin than a knife - before using tweezers to pull the hair out. I sometimes need to keep an alcohol pad handy to wipe the skin if it bleeds, but nonetheless, having a painful ingrown hair pulled out is one of life's unsung small pleasures....

yep, just looked up sebaceous cyst - definitely what it was
cottage cheese + funky odor

There is a thread for this: Cysts

I have a spot on my back that has a recurring ingrown hair -- I scratched at it for so many years that there's a bit of scar tissue back there, and that one hair and surrounding dead skin accumulate as a hard mass. About once a year that grain of rice is ready to harvest and I get my wife to dig it out with a penknife or tweezers. It feels great when she catches hold of it and pulls it out.

dude

Marital aid

There is a thread for this: Cysts

sentences that single-handedly demonstrate the all encompassing monster that ILX has become.

I have what I guess is a sebaceous cyst on my neck, mentioned itt way upthread. Though my doc called it a ganglia. It gets full of stinky cheese once or twice a year, not v big, squeeze it out and it goes back to normal. It doesn't hurt or bleed or anything.
the cheese is gross. but secretly I think it's kind of fascinating in a grody kind of way.

I kind of dig getting rice grains stuck in my sinuses, it feels good to snort them out and eat them

― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:02 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

sometimes I get these little... growths? I don't know how to describe them, except that I can scratch at them, and they'll come out, and leave a little 'socket' behind. sometimes I get a nice big one and it leaves a little hole behind that's big enough to be dark (i.e. light can't get in). feels good

I love rubbing neck acne

I just looked at a carton of whole milk and though "buttwhole milk" that's how gross I am.