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As a diabetic, I'm prone to boils & abscesses. Well, I had a really gnarly one suddenly blow up to golfball size right on my inner thigh (right where my underwear rides). It didn't hurt, but it was pretty awkward...so I popped it while I was sitting on the toilet. It actually made a squeaking sound when it ruptured & all the pus came rocketing out, I shit you not, and I wound up with what appeared to be several tablespoons of yellowish-green funk spooged all over the toilet and floor.

I just had to share this little bit of grossness with someone... :#

...only not really.

Anyway, nearly two weeks ago I noticed a small bump in my armpit during a shower. It looked like a mosquito bite or a pimple so I thought nothing of it. Then last Friday I noticed it got REALLY big and was getting pretty sensitive and painful. To the point where on Saturday I couldn't move my arm without it stinging and the fact I was out and about and sweating like a fool made it hurt 10x worse.

It got so bad I had to go to the ER this past Sunday to get it opened and drained. It was a quick (if excruciating tbh) procedure and once they were done they packed it and sent me on my way. Apparently they didn’t pack it enough so that it kept the wound open so it tried to heal over and AROUND the packing thus putting me in pain so bad Tuesday all I could do was cry to avoid loudly screaming in agony (and not being able to move the arm at all). So I went to my regular doctor yesterday, who was obviously displeased at how the ER handled it. She had to do the procedure all over again, only this time not only was it full of infection the old packing ALSO got infected. So it was one heap of gross. But she packed it properly, wrapped it, taped it, and sent me home with proper antibiotics and vicodin.

I can’t get the dressing changed until tomorrow when I go back in for her to check on i

But I noticed this while getting changed into clothes less sweaty and smelly (warm night + oozy wound = why yes I would love the bed to myself). It was a pretty major wound that they had to pack and keep open to continue draining and apparently over 12 hours later it’s still oozing. XD


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I mentioned to my doctor that I'd considered attempting to lance it at home and she practically yelled at me like an angry mother. So yeah, just fyi to anyone else who gets one of this do not poke it yourself. Either use a warm compress and wait and see if it pops and drains naturally, or get a doctor to do it. These things get reinfected super easily (as I found out the hard way. I can only imagine how much worse it would've been if I'd poked it myself.)

And this happened because of shaving. I'd gotten a smaller one that popped on its own back in March on the other arm. Now I got this one and there's a tiny one forming below it that the doctor thinks will die on its own from the antibiotics I'm now taking. Apparently my skin became too sensitive for shaving. Oh well. Now I'll have to put up with either pit-waxing or pit-nair-ing :C

so. over the last few days, i've developed a boil/abscess thing on my labia, somewhat close to my vagina. (no, it's not a bartholin gland cyst.) i get them occasionally, and they get to be pretty painful. because of its location, it makes inserting my diva cup kind of painful, which sucks. last night, i tried to stick a lancet in it to see if i could drain it, but to no avail. meh.

so today at work, i had to empty my cup, and while i was pulling it out, my hand brushed against the bump. i almost yelped out loud, it hurt so bad! i felt it (gently) and found that it was bigger than it was last night. for shits and giggles (and because i'm a masochist, apparently) i gave it a little squeeze, and HOLY BLOODY PUS BATMAN!! all over my hand. i couldn't believe how much pus was in that thing. it must have been pretty deep.

bright side: the pain was gone pretty much immediately. a little sore, but barely any pain when i put my diva cup back in.

I got this nasty, NASTY mosquito bite under my arm a few days ago.

And rather than heal properly, something happened while I was asleep last night because I woke up and it was oozing blood, and pus, and other gross stuff.

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I don't know if this has been posted before but wow!

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I am about to lance this thing I have on the back of my thigh. I don't know if it's a huge zit, or a bug bite, or a boil. But it hurts like a bitch and it needs lancing. I'll post pictures when i'm done!
 

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As a bonus, here's a picture of the sore my dog chewed onto himself. The Cone of Shame is coming out soon, the allergies are bad this year

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I am in a veryyyy TMI mood right now haha. I have an obsession ( as im sure most of you have as well) with popping anything i can on my body. Pimples, zits, ingrown hairs etc. Send me your best videos of all things popping! :D please and thankss!! haha.

I'm a weirdo... i know, i know.. but i embrace it :P

Last night my BFF and I got super stoned and took turns picking pores, removing blackheads & squeezing unspeakable nastiness out of clogged skin ducts- then trying to gross each other out and see who could produce the sickest amount of silly string. It was foul, oh so foul- but tons of fun. (I told him we probably looked like a pair of really retarded monkeys LOL.)

He's got this one really gnarly pore (hole?) on the bridge of his nose where he had a sliver of glass embedded in a car wreck years ago, and it tends to build up a ton of crud; I got both fingers around that fucker and made it give birth to an inch long black turdlike thing LOL. I got another one (not as big, sadly) from a similar spot next to his ear. He popped a really juicy zit on my back, which managed to spurt right into his mouth (he was busy talking & it made him gag LOL). Oh, and he's spent the last 2 days producing crippling, eye-watering amounts of toxic ass vapor...the kind that crawls along the floor, climbs up your nostril and punches you directly in the brain- and FOLLOWS you when you try and run away from the stench. My house still smells like his raunchy ass, lol.

He's a hairy bastard, too; I've never seen someone with coarse dark hair growing on their nose before, nor have I seen someone who has excess hair (eyelashes?) growing in the corners of their eyes. I must have spent 2 hours tweezing hairs from places it normally doesn't grow- I would have done more, but he was being a pussy about it (I threatened to take the electric clippers and make him look like a shaved weasel LOL).

Oops- almost forgot, I gave him a couple of q-tips and let him root around in his ears- holy fuckballs, that boy pulled something that looked like a big brown carrot (hard, HARD wax) out of one ear, and a ton of yellow-brownish shit out of the other. And he's got an infected hair on his arm that's turned into an abscess, so I got to pop that as well.

yeah, I love my gross dudebro BFF lulz

So, one of the people I live with got a boil on their chest. They harped and whined and griped about it and got pissed when everyone made fun of them for their overreaction. They are the type of people to look up a webmd article, and suddenly have all of the afflictions mentioned, and for this fun endeavor, they did so twice as much. To be quite honest, I thought they were playing with it way too much, and were more likely irritating it/making it worse, but being that I don't look up symptoms/treatments online, what would I know? Now, if they had sedated their paranoia by reading all of the numerous sites/blogs on the subject they had claimed to have read, they would know that it is /highly/ advisable to wash everything and anything the infected area comes into contact with, and if you live with a lot of people, you should really make sure to be vigilant enough of your highly contagious skin bacteria to not spread it around.

This person either used other people's towels, did not tell them, and left them in the bathroom, or in my case, they used my electric razor to shave their chest, as I work most of the day, do not share a room with them, and hardly see them, let alone get close enough to spread contagious pus. Why do I say this? Because in the past few days, what started as pain associated with ingrown hairs in/around my armpit have become swollen and painful to the point that I cannot lift heavy objects or reach at work without being in immense pain. I've been placing ointments on it, and bandaging it up regularly, but Monday night/Tuesday morning, it started to ooze a little, and tonight, it oozed a lot. Since getting home from work, I've had to clean the area and change out bandages numerous times, I've also had to change my shirt three times because the stuff leaks through what I have on it and bloody pus saturates the shirt.

Another person I live with has reported boils too, near their crotch/inner thigh, and I've been telling everybody else to not use any of the towels in the bathrooms, even if it was theirs and they just cleaned it.

What's worse is that the person that started this mess borrowed one of the people I do share a room with's shirt to work out, then sprayed it with cologne and told him he would be able to wear it. Ugh.