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What's your best sporn story?

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Ouchbloodyouch · 10/02/2015 23:34

How excited do you get when you see KLAXON? Sometimes you get a few in a week.. sometimes there is a drought! So in order to keep us sporners truly satisfied can we do our ultimate ultimate sporn stories? I've just shared my blackhead story on another thread (TAAT guilt) but this is my best..if it looks familiar its because I have posted it under a different name.
Many years ago I became aware of a very sharp pain on my left side. Between the hip and the buttock. Upon examination there wasn't much to be seen other than something that looked like a teeny pimple. I pierced the top with a sterile needle and nothing happened. Owing to the position of the 'pimple' I had to grab my flesh to bring it to a better viewing position.. well.. as I did that the pressure I applied caused a jet of pus to spew three feet across the room. In an arc! I've never seen the like. After evacuating the pimple I took a hot bath and tried again. Lo and behold it happened again to a lesser extent.
That was it. The best half hour of my life. I've never had anything like it since.
Over to you. .

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Ouchbloodyouch · 11/02/2015 17:32

I've just got home from work.. these are AMAZING

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minifingers · 11/02/2015 15:46

When ds was 6 he got an infected mozzie bite on his leg which few and grew until it was the size of an egg, which looked very odd on his skinny little shin. He refused to let me squeeze it as it was painful, but while cleaning it one day both heads (it had 2) broke down and a river of beige pus flowed out... and kept flowing. Had to take him to GP straight away to have it properly cleaned and packed. It left a hole in his leg, which is still there.

Pinksuitcase · 11/02/2015 15:37

My mum has a refilling spot on her back, that she can't quiet reach, i love squeezing it for her, unless my sister gets to it first! We are all sporners, we often have black head checks on our backs/shoulders, particularly if we are wanting to wear a vest/ swimmer in the summer. My dad thinks we are like those monkeys that PIC each other over. But we love it!

BlueberryWafer · 11/02/2015 15:33

I get pus filled lumps on my armpits and they are oh so satisfying to squeeze - the pus seems to go on forever! DP also gets some corkers on the very top if his back/bottom of his neck and I pin him down and he lets me squeeze them, they are always very satisfying!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 11/02/2015 15:10

I had a huge spot under a pubic hair. It werent gonna go unless hair went first. Omg, the pain of pulling that hair out, I nearly cried. Spot just exploded after, that made me feel so much better.

Roobix04 · 11/02/2015 14:11

My lovely dp let me squeeze a big spot on his back. It was a smallish white head but it was on top of a huge wide lump. The puss just kept on coming. I was squeezing for ages!
I had a small painful lump on my leg and let dp at it with some tweezers and a needle. He had a bit of a dig and said he could see a tiny hair. He finally managed to grab it with the tweezers and pulled! And pulled and pulled! It was this massive long hair that just kept coming. It was brilliant!

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 11/02/2015 13:50

You people are gross.

I do have a gross story though.

I had a spot on my bum once - I was sort of vaguely aware of it, thought it might be a new mole or something. I just ignored it for a couple of months but it stated to feel a bit painful and tight.

One day I took a shower and investigated it with my fingers a bit. I squeezed and it exploded. A proper loud pop and all the normal disgustingness came forth. I was horrified. I washed my hand under the shower, then went back for another squeeze to make sure it was empty.

It popped again. Just as loudly as the first time. Took me about another four or five squeezes before I was happy that it had all gone.

I've never before or since had anything like it.

ZeldaMae · 11/02/2015 13:48

When I was a teenager I stubbed my toe going up the stairs and it hurt way more than it should've. Had a bath a bit later and prodded the toe and so much pus came out of a tiny hole near the nail, must've been a bit ingrown and I hadn't noticed.

I have a something on my back, a cyst I think just below shoulderblade but I can't see/reach it and DH isn't a committee squeezer.

DS has blackheads and will sometimes let me at them, but only sometimes. I'm just trying to teach proper technique!

XP had a lump that had been there since a boil had burst ten years ago. He let me have a go and this solid stuff came out, you could see the shape of the cavity inside, like a mold of it in pus, and then lumpy white stuff and then blood. The SMELL!

It did refill but was never that spectacular.

DS also had an ear blackhead once. I had his ear practically inside out trying to squeeze it, and when it finally went it was majestic.

HootyMcTooty · 11/02/2015 13:31

I think I would have to leave DH if he didn't let me pluck his stray hairs and pick his spots. He's terribly understanding of my obsession.

Deedeecupcake · 11/02/2015 13:30

Suppose I should add my own...
One day after DP had shaved I pointed out to him that he'd left a big hair in his top lip. He asked where so I pointed to it, ONLY IT WASNT A HAIR!! The blackhead was do black that I thought it was stubble. It was the biggest and nastiest balckhead I've ever seen, pure black at the top and slowly ombré-ing to yellow along the really long squirt that came out. It was so satisfying. He's never gotten another one like that Hmm

Deedeecupcake · 11/02/2015 13:26

God I love this thread Grin

GothicRainbow · 11/02/2015 13:26

This thread is wonderfully satisfying Grin

My DH gets lots and lots of ingrown hairs on the backs of his thighs but he hasn't let me at them in years Sad

I've even offered what I would consider to be very tempting rewards but nope nothing I can offer seems to be worth it - so disappointing think I might have to LTB!!

HootyMcTooty · 11/02/2015 13:09

Rooty I had the TB jab at 14 and the same happened to me, it's a sign of natural immunity. My pustule was enormous (2 inches across) and I left it for 2 years! My pustule created the family chant of "lance it, lance it, lance it!"

Went to GP countless times and was told, under no circumstances should I lance it. Eventually I could take it no more, so I sterilised a needle and popped it. My family demanded to witness the event, it was a wonderful moment. About a serving spoon's worth of pus oozed out of it. I have a horrible scar, but it was worth it.

I also had a fanjo spot, which I popped and the push shot out about 2ft. 'Twas exciting.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 11/02/2015 12:15

Lurking, its time like that you wished you film it, that sounds awesome.

RubberBulletKisses · 11/02/2015 11:49

No pus involved in mine, unfortunately, but it was amazingly satisfying... DH had something on his back that he refused to let me touch for ten years because it hurt. It looked a bit like a tiny mole. A few weeks ago I had a feel in bed and it felt a bit pointy, like a blackhead. He said it didn't hurt when I prodded it so he let me have a go at it Grin I kind of slid my nail under the edges, like you do with a scab when you're not sure it's ready to be picked, and then the whole thing just kind of came out! It had a sort of tail that was a couple of millimetres long, and it left a narrow but quite deep, perfectly circular hole in his back. It was amazing.

LurkingHusband · 11/02/2015 11:47

MrsLH has had a cyst on her buttock for ages - just doing nothing. Then a few months ago, it started hurting. GP checked it and said it was infected, and a course of antibiotics before removal. It leaked a tad, but was quite resistant to squeezing Sad. It was removed under local by the minor surgery practice near us. Apparently the Dr managed to remove the sac entirely, and it had a very long tail Confused.

There are some fascinating YouTube clips of surgical removal. Apparently Hmm.

However, the best one was shortly after we met. MrsLH had a bungled attempt at earrings as a teen, leaving something in the earlobe. One day she woke up, and noticed the pillow was damp one side. I looked, and there was a weeping lump in her earlobe. I dabbed it with a tissue, and something started coming out. It wasn't pus or cream cheese, more like a fibrous strand that turned out to be over a foot long Shock. Never came back.

Alchemist · 11/02/2015 11:41

Ohh ShwWho I was in a car accident and my leg had to have skin grafts.

I was told by my consultant I had to pick at the area to encourage the new skin growth. I lost most of my calf so there was quite an area to pick :).

NorahBone · 11/02/2015 11:33

When I was a teenager I had a spot on my face that I kept squeezing; it would scab over but kept returning. One day I got sick of the Phoenix spot and kept sqeezing and wiping away the watery blood for ages. Eventually a massive lump of hard pus shot out and left a little hole in my face. No blood or scab.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 11/02/2015 10:41

Ahhhhh, the human body is so delightfully disgusting.

manchestermummy · 11/02/2015 10:35

I had a huge something on my cheek. It was very swollen and painful. I was driving home from work, stuck in traffic, and started to have a go. And did it go. My hand was full. Thankfully dh had been using my car and has a habit of leaving tissues everywhere so I was mopping up while driving.

SheWhoDaresGins · 11/02/2015 10:35

I am glad to see I am not alone.

I had a lump right at the top of my inner thigh when I was pregnant, my knicker elastic kept rubbing it making more painful than it should have been, the thing is I just couldn't get at it unless I squatted. So I did just that, squatted down on the bedroom floor and gave it a good squeeze. There was an audible pop and the gunk that came out was spectacular, I kept squeezing till there was just blood coming out. The best bit about it was the scab, that's where my love lies. Scabs. I am a serial picker. Smile

Hoppinggreen · 11/02/2015 09:47

I don't get many myself but FIL has a golfball sized cyst on his back.
Mil won't go near it so he asks me to do it regularly. He was having chemo which made his skin delicate so I refused to do it for a while until last summer when I had a go - stinky cottage cheese shot out all over my top. We were at it for about half an hour .
It was awesome!! He rang the other day to ask when I was going to see them as it was " very full up and bothering him" . So if anyone lives near Sheffield there is an elderly man awaiting a good sporning, better than YouTube I promise. Not just a one off either, requires regular attention.
I also had a horse with a huge infected boil on its hoof, that was pretty good too.

Alchemist · 11/02/2015 09:42

Years ago I had a boil on my thigh/groin crease. Huge it was and it would just not come to a head. It would swell, I would pick, poke and squeeze but nothing. It would go down a bit and so on.

One day I was crouching down to change a CD (Spiritualized but can't remember which song) and I heard a crunchy noise and louds of really thick pus came out. It looked like the shape of the cheese/tartex tubes you squeeze, like a star. Was lovely star shaped pus :).

DP was horrified and we finished not long after that. I miss that lovely boil :(.

Oldraver · 11/02/2015 09:38

OH is generally a good sport, he lets me at a couple of recurring blackheads on his back and he did tell me about his 'special spot'

He has a little hole that refills were he was circumcized as a child...and yes he will let me at it Grin

madamginger · 11/02/2015 09:37

I got one on my bum once. It was enormous (about the size of a 50p piece) and really painful, I couldn't sit down.
I stuck a needle in it and the pus shot out everywhere! Was very satisfyingGrin
I can still feel the hole under the skin where it wasShock

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