what happen if you don't pop a pimple?

[ICJump]

I mean besides hell freezing over. What happens to the pus?

[ChampagneCommunist]

I guess it gets reabsorbed into your body?

[MimsyBorogroves]

It doesn't fulfil its destiny? MN cries?

I've never left one. on myself or DH

[Room101isWhereIUsedToLive]

It sits on my face. For a long time. Most of my spots are terribly unsqueezeable

[thenightsky]

oh wow.

I never knew we had a Sporners Corner board

Love it!

[cuntycowfacemonkey]

An angel doesn't get their wings

[VenusRising]

A fairy dies.

Actually they stay as solid sore little or big cystic lumps until you have to prod them into action again.

[ScarletForYa]

It stays in the pore and goes rancid and hard. Then it's a blackhead. This is very bad because it stretches out the pore making it all saggy and baggy, even if you get the blackhead out.

So you have to squeeze you see. Very urgently.

[EBearhug]

Depends - the ones on my back when I'm not feeling flexible enough seem to dry out, and then just rub off.

Wouldn't know about any I can reach, tbh.

[steppemum]

some come to a head and pop. They may then refill and re-pop until they clear up.

some stay as lumps under the skin and then fade away

[Fink]

They end up in one of two ways:

1. Get scratched when going about normal life and end up bleeding & oozing simultaneously.
   
2. Get buried with their owner, who dies of shame with all the people pointing and laughing at the huge unsqueezed spots.
   

In reality, they just go away on their own, eventually.

[Wombat87]

If I don't squeeze mine (they have a quick turnaround so red spot at night and then I wake and sometimes find...) a hard lump. It's quite unsatisfying to be honest. Just comes out hard.

I had a pimple on my ear lobe once. Squeezed it and I heard it go pop. I've never had one their since. I remember it well.

I wax-down there- so get a good fix of hairs that the follicle has given up on and just pops out with a light pinch. Or occasionally I'll get a decent In growing hair to play with. Thankfully i don't seem to scar!!

[IvyLeaf]

You DIE.

[ICJump]

See I knew I should have popped my cheek pimple. Stupid OH. Now angles with out wings are killing fairies and I've just got a stupid hard lump.

I going to a photo shoot in Friday. What can I do to get rid if the red bump?

[Destinysdaughter]

Now that's a whole other thread...!

[Wombat87]

IC - toothpaste on it overnight helps mine! The floride ones!

[VenusRising]

Use a steroid cream to take inflammation down before the iPhoto shoot. Make sure the lights aren't shining at an angle so it looks like you've grown a nose bud on your face


But personally I think better out than in and I'd go at it with a hot flannel, making sure to give it a squeeze with gentle rotation, cover it in magnesium sulphate paste and a splash of hibiscrub. If it comes to a head again, be sure to be ruthless!

If you want to leave it, you may have a lump there forever And you may find that people talk to it instead of looking at your -norks, as happens to me- eyes!

[gingerboy1912]

I wouldn't know it's never happened to me

[PreemptiveSalvageEngineer]

We won't love you. And you'll never be elected MN Queen of All Spornia*.

(*That's not a thing, but it should be.)

[originalmavis]

I had a big lump on my shoulder for years. It was the size of a pea, skin coloured, no 'head'... It was just a lump.

Then one day I gave it a good squeeze.

Imagine jumping on a full tube of toothpaste with the lid off. It left a wee hole too.

[makeitpink]

Omg original that sounds amazing!!

[Floggingmolly]

It doesn't turn into a blackhead; blackheads come first. Dd gets a huge blackhead in her ear every so often, in exactly the same place. Won't let anyone touch it, but eventually it gets really red and inflamed, and bingo - blackhead disappears...

[EBearhug]

I've had a small lump just by my ear for ages, which is difficult to get at, and nothing much has happened when I have tried.

This afternoon (instead of revising for an exam), I had another go, and a thick worm of yellowy gunk came, and kept coming. No lump any more. It was most satisfying.

So I still don't know what happens if you never pop it.

[ICJump]

That is a great story original

[PickleBot]

If you don't squeeze then the pimple pixie will come for it in the night. You don't want that, believe me.