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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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Jumblebee · 11/02/2015 09:27

Oh I'm so jealous of every single one of you who've had lovely juicy squirters! ahem

I don't get spots often but when I do they are squeezed straight away! I sometimes examine DP just to double check he doesn't have any good'uns but alas he is not sufficiently spotty :( I should LTB.

He does have quite a few blackheads and large pores which he will no longer let me have after the first incident (bloody spoilsport!) He said I have this "look" on my face when I see a good squeezable blackhead that he is scared of Confused

Oldraver · 11/02/2015 09:24

I've told OH (as he asked what I was laughing at) what SPORN meant and he said we were all a bunch of nutters Grin

I'll work on him

I remembered when DS was in SCBU and he got a red angry spot in his groin crease, showed the nurse and she said would have a word with the doctor....he only went and bloody well popped it when I wasn't there

Mouthfulofquiz · 11/02/2015 09:24

I think that legally now, that lump is yours oldraver

Lj8893 · 11/02/2015 09:08

Oh wow im not alone in my weird fetish!

in the summer i developed a large painful boil on my stomach, eventually i pricked it and it drained bright yellow pus for 3 days!! I had to keep tweezing out hard lumps of pus that was blocking it up.
a week later i got another one, and another one, and another one. In total over the summer i had 8!!!

Ouchbloodyouch · 11/02/2015 08:56

We wont tell oldraver

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Oldraver · 11/02/2015 08:54

My OH has had a grape size lump on his neck for what seems like ages, I did prod and poke it but nothing came of it. A few weeks ago there was a little brown bit and a small amount of stuff came out of a hair follicle.

He let me haave a proper go at it and I was squeezing out stuff for an hour, it was stiff cottage cheesy smelly stuff I doused it in Tea Tree and it got left for a while as it hurt like fuck where, he says, I had prodded it.

I got another go last week and it was more pussy but not smelly, lots of shooting over my shoulder stuff. Its ready to go on its own at the moment, and I'm hoping to have another go at it but he's getting possesive over it.

I took pic in the week but not sure he would let me post it

GemmaTeller · 11/02/2015 08:45

I've had a few corkers over the years!

When I was a teenager I got a huge spot on my cheekbone - it was too scary to even attempt a squeeze.
After a few days it started to dry out and scab over.
I hesitantly picked the scab off and there was a big lump of dry pus stuck to it.

On finding a mirror to investigate further the spot had bled and there was another huge lump of pus half way down my cheek in the trail of blood.

There was also a further huge lump of dry pus sat at the opening of the spot which scooped off on my nail leaving (what I remember being) a rather large hole.

It scared the crap out of me at the time but I remember it fondly Grin

Ouchbloodyouch · 11/02/2015 08:43

Jollyfrog I started this thread BECAUSE of your fanjo spot. Its not refilling quick enough

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HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 11/02/2015 08:42

Oh, it was a massive boil in a personal area, Ouchbloodyouch. Huge. One day I turned the shower on it, then grabbed the whole thing (it filled my hand) and squeezed. Hard.

I both heard and felt a pop, followed by a prolonged feeling/noise that I can only describe as pfffffft as it drained into my hand, filling it with a thick gooey pus and blood and then a more solid lump of pus.

I have a small one under my arm that appears every few years. It's about the size of a pea. I grab round the back of it and pull forward and it relieves itself with considerable force into the palm of my cupped hand. It leaves a small hole into which you can insert the tip of your little finger. Then it heals and again we wait...

Skinheadmermaid · 11/02/2015 08:31

I burst and drained a bartholin's cyst.
It involved a needle and DH holding a mirror but under strict instructions not to look.
Lots and lots of fluid came out. The relief was immense. Thankfully it hasn't flared up since.

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 11/02/2015 07:45

We love you Benedictine. (Is mrsB a MNetter too? She'd like us)
My best was my dad-told this before. He had a boil on back of neck. Mum couldn't do it. Middle of summer, I'm wearing halter top. (It's important) dad had been black ointment ing the fucker. I carefully took the lint off. Was glorious. Dad pulled the skin apart-nothing. I said-there's a bit of lint stuck in it. I tugged it and boom! There was a fantastic splat and it exploded all over me. Stunk like sulphur, but it went on and on all yellow and green. Sigh.
I'm now late for work.

JollyFrog · 11/02/2015 07:40

Well ive got a thread going at the mo all about my fanjo spot.
the crunch when it popped and pus flew out was awsome.
we are still awaiting a refill as there it still a largish lump there, but its been 2 days now.......

Benedictinemonk · 11/02/2015 07:31

You learn all kinds of new things on MN. I never realised this popping spots fetish was a 'thing'. I thought it was just a peculiarity of my own DW who, the minute I'm out of the bath or shower, is all over me - and not in the way I'd prefer! She turns me round to inspect my back, prodding, poking, picking, and every so often I hear "Ooooooh, there's a good one", and suddenly I feel a piece of my skin being squeezed viciously between sharp fingernails. Blackheads, pimples, zits, boils whatever ... no inch of my body is left unexplored until she's satisfied there's nothing left to pop.

meandjulio · 11/02/2015 07:11

I had a boyfriend with wonderful oily skin that made the most beautiful blackheads (always my favourite). I remember a sunny afternoon in the park when he had his head in my lap and let me at his face... small grey smidge on his cheek produced a dark point followed by a smedge of grey shiny matter... repeat...

There was also one date where he held forth about his facial cysts and usual management techniques. I have never listened so hard to anything.

I spent 3.5 years trying to stretch that relationship out [sigh]

EugenesAxe · 11/02/2015 06:52

I too love sporn but have not been well blessed with experiences of it. I think the unexpected ones are the nicest - I had a zit in my ear. The first time I became aware of it I went in with my nail for a recce and it splutched open onto it. I removed my finger and there was a big blob of bloody pus on the nail; my ear bled for sometime afterwards.

I had a few snakers and exploders when a teen but nothing that prolific.

Ouchbloodyouch · 11/02/2015 06:42

My son is starting to get blackheads. He won't let me near them. Spoilsport.
Howcan the shower one please. These stories are amazing! I had a spot on my shoulder once that would not squeeze despite my best efforts. I butchered it so much that it had a layer of dry skin on it which I peeled off. I had another go and it had GREEN pus in it. I now have a scar and a refilling blackhead in its place.
mouthful you got PAID for that? You lucky lady! I'd have given 20 quid for that! '

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tinkerbelletigger · 11/02/2015 01:36

Oh god, this makes me so happy Grin

Mouthfulofquiz · 11/02/2015 01:01

It ws about about 15 years ago... My dad had a pain between his shoulders and asked me to take a look. There was a tiny red dot there - almost invisible. Anyway, I pressed it, and BOOOOOOOOOOOM.
White thick pus, everywhere. And it kept on and on and and on.
And my dad gave me £20 for my efforts.

rootypig · 11/02/2015 00:59

That is the sort of thing I would do to myself. DD is PFB and so I managed to control myself, just about. She has a scar....presumably by the time her arm is grown up size, it will be a little one.

My TB never pussed in such spectacular fashion!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 11/02/2015 00:53

Pooty, that reminds me of the time I had TB jab at 13. It turned into a huge pus filled lump. Being a stupid teen, I stuck a pin in it, pus came out, scabbed over, stupid teen again, picked the scab to reveal a whole in my arm.

I still have the scar 19 years later.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 11/02/2015 00:50

My ex used to have some amazing zits. Best one was when I noticed a huge black mark on his chin, got the trusty tweezers out. It was his facial hair that grown together in a lump, got infected. Omg was that fun to pull out.

Oh I had a huge zit at the top of my thigh. Give it a squeeze, it went "pfft" and what looked like vaseline came out.

Ahhhh the feels.

rootypig · 11/02/2015 00:45

DD's TB jab (at 1mo) gave her a huge, green pustule on her tiny little arm. She was about 4mo by the time it reached bursting point. I was desperate to pop it but was very restrained. I looked it up several times, and I knew I shouldn't. So I left it, far, far longer than I ever would anything on my own body, watching with a desperate fascination. And one day after her bath, the tiny little scab holding everything together gave way and the most astonishing quantity of bright green pus flowed forth. As I gently squeezed wiped, more and more. I still cannot believe how much pus was in her arm or that I didn't video it.

Motherhood is so fulfilling.

Knottyknitter · 11/02/2015 00:36

Aged 12; the week of school photos (it's special).

Enormous yellow lump in centre of chin. Became more and more painful as it got bigger and shinier.

Eventually gave up on the good girls cleanser and clearasil none of which had had any effect anyway, and stabbed it with a tcped earring.

The relief was amazing. It turned into a liquid glob three times it's original size and returned after wiping away several times (with a bit of a squeeze once it was slowing down)

Never had one like it since.

QueenofallIsee · 11/02/2015 00:28

I have 2 - massive ingrown hair on my bikini line. I noticed it in the shower, picking the hair out was amazing, it was inch long at least and all surrounded by pus.

My lifelong love of sporn was formed at about 13. For some reason I got 3 blackheads on my upper lip, close together. I had no idea what they were, my Mum was itching to get at them but I kept refusing....after a few mths I squeezed them. The white squiggly line that shot out was like nothing I had ever seen sighs happily. I actually wished they would come back but have never a blackhead again.

foofooyeah · 11/02/2015 00:27

I had an infected cyst in my back. I was due to have surgery and the surgeon said she would have to deal with that first. 'I will take my knife to that' she said.
She did and the thing splattered her and the two nurses.
Was like a small bomb going off.