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 ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

So basically I've had this weird grey lump in my arm for months, it's smaller than a pea - you really wouldn't notice it but it was bugging the shit out of me and I was picking away at it and it wasn't doing anything. So my mum went at it with a pin earlier and here's the results:

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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!

( edit: here are the [mildly disappointing] pictures! )

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 ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )