Paging Dr. Pimple Popper
Warning: TMI
Earlier in the year, I started catching episodes of Dr. Pimple Popper here and there. It's usually later at night, so I can't stay up to watch a full episode, but I find it kind of fascinating. These poor people and their afflictions. You wonder in some cases why they've waited so long for help. One lady, Dr. Lee kindly tried to suggest her skin issues had a psychological basis, not a physiological one; that lady came away unhappy. (She's a scratcher and probably needs a psychiatrist, not a dermatologist, but she didn't want to listen.) It's satisfying to see Dr. Lee remove the problem areas, especially the ones that are sort of like soft-serve ice cream. One guy had multiple cysts that needed expelling. It's kind of mesmerizing.
Meanwhile, last week, I decided to do some hair abatement in the bikini area. Every so often, I get an ingrown hair. I don't know if I'm shaving against the grain or what, but the next day or so I found a red bump on my right side. There was sort of a black spot on one end, like the pore, and it extended back from there. I started looking at it in my bedroom, and gently touched it, and the next thing I know there's a little pus oozing from it. Oh, great. I have tissues in my room, so I was able to grab one and stick it over the pus, then hurried to the bathroom.
I was able to express more pus, maybe some lymph fluid, plus a little blood. With a past similar issue, I did try popping it, only to have things backfire and push the issue farther back into my skin. Lesson learned--be gentle. I got out as much as I could and then grabbed Neosporin and a bandage. That stayed on for a day or so, then I checked it. There was a little pus head at the pore, so I expressed some more, applied more Neosporin and a bandage, and left it alone for a couple days. I just checked it, and the bump is down and the open pore area appears to have closed, so I think it's okay. This is not an area I wished to have lanced, so I'm glad it didn't become anything more than it was.
Earlier in the year, I started catching episodes of Dr. Pimple Popper here and there. It's usually later at night, so I can't stay up to watch a full episode, but I find it kind of fascinating. These poor people and their afflictions. You wonder in some cases why they've waited so long for help. One lady, Dr. Lee kindly tried to suggest her skin issues had a psychological basis, not a physiological one; that lady came away unhappy. (She's a scratcher and probably needs a psychiatrist, not a dermatologist, but she didn't want to listen.) It's satisfying to see Dr. Lee remove the problem areas, especially the ones that are sort of like soft-serve ice cream. One guy had multiple cysts that needed expelling. It's kind of mesmerizing.
Meanwhile, last week, I decided to do some hair abatement in the bikini area. Every so often, I get an ingrown hair. I don't know if I'm shaving against the grain or what, but the next day or so I found a red bump on my right side. There was sort of a black spot on one end, like the pore, and it extended back from there. I started looking at it in my bedroom, and gently touched it, and the next thing I know there's a little pus oozing from it. Oh, great. I have tissues in my room, so I was able to grab one and stick it over the pus, then hurried to the bathroom.
I was able to express more pus, maybe some lymph fluid, plus a little blood. With a past similar issue, I did try popping it, only to have things backfire and push the issue farther back into my skin. Lesson learned--be gentle. I got out as much as I could and then grabbed Neosporin and a bandage. That stayed on for a day or so, then I checked it. There was a little pus head at the pore, so I expressed some more, applied more Neosporin and a bandage, and left it alone for a couple days. I just checked it, and the bump is down and the open pore area appears to have closed, so I think it's okay. This is not an area I wished to have lanced, so I'm glad it didn't become anything more than it was.