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Original poster

to think some spots need to be squeezed and not left? (warning - may be gross)

60 replies

BurlingtonBertieFromBow · 06/10/2012 21:23

I have found that some spots, if not squeezed, take an age to disappear and then they come back from the dead.

I had one the other day that just wouldn't go. It of got a bit scabby but didn't get any less. I picked the stab off it, squeezed, and a hard bit of white came out. Problem solved.

AIBU to think most spots need to be squeezed until they run clear, and that it is the picking of the scab (of which I am guilty) that causes scars etc?

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chefchef · 06/10/2012 22:54

YouTube
Black and white heads on nose

It's like marmite :-)

Toombs · 06/10/2012 22:59

VeritableSmorgasbord. Fine let them roar with laughter, you are perfectly within your rights to see a doctor about an infected spot (or indeed anything else that concerns you) it's their job. Do not ever be afraid to see your doctor.

Bobyan · 06/10/2012 23:02

porn

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BurlingtonBertieFromBow · 06/10/2012 23:03

what tool is this nagoo?? think I've been missing out...

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chandellina · 06/10/2012 23:03

Yabu, I used all my will power on this absolutely immense one that started a week ago and it is now a shadow of itself and no broken skin or scarring. I think you need to treat it on a case by case basis.

Nagoo · 06/10/2012 23:06

you don't need the tool if you have a kirby grip. The tool has a long handle and horseshoe shape to get round the 'area' for all-around squooshage.

and yes, you have been missing out Grin

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BurlingtonBertieFromBow · 06/10/2012 23:07

WOW! my life has been changed. I can't wait to get a spot

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Nagoo · 06/10/2012 23:45

knock yourself out

Grin
GargarmelIsMean · 07/10/2012 08:43

Toombs My GP would not hesitate in telling you to be on your bike if you booked in because you had a spot with some pus in it!

What on earth do you think the GP is going to do? Squeeze it for you? Prescribe antibiotics?

I'd be there several times a month!!

MrsMiniversCharlady · 07/10/2012 08:49

I think the 'scars if you squeeze' thing is an old wives' tale - I've never had an scars and I am a lifelong squeezer. Likewise with chicken pox spots - I forbade my kids from picking the scabs off their spots and they all still have a few little scars, usually where the first few spots to appear were. I'm sure that if you squeeze them with dirty hands and they get infected then you can scar, but I'm not convinced otherwise.

Allegedly a nurse got struck off for squeezing somebody's spots when they were anesthetised Shock

cinnamonnut · 07/10/2012 09:47

Who, seriously, would go to the doctor with a spot?

MimsyBorogroves · 07/10/2012 09:51

Squeeze. Always squeeze.

confusedpixie · 07/10/2012 09:54

YANBU. DP has these weird clumps of hair under the skin all over his chest. I have to wait patiently for a few months or so for them to rise to the surface and then I squeeze them out. Got one the other night, it was awesome Grin

I love my comedone extractor too, they are quite amazing though DP won't let me near him with mine :(

PrincessSymbian · 07/10/2012 10:59

ConfusedPixie, those sound awesome!

chipsandmushypeas · 07/10/2012 11:31

Go to your gp if you have a pus spot?! Jesus Christ, the NHS would collapse Grin

mrsminerva · 07/10/2012 11:46

If you want to gross out take a look at this
www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_321287&feature=iv&src_vid=9EaeUmJOTmA&v=7_eotalJJEM

confusedpixie · 07/10/2012 11:50

Princess: They really are, he won't let me film or photograph them or the contents though, which sucks because I'd like to know what on earth they are! Have never seen anything like it!

He's had some on there for years now that are taking their grand time in rising. Possibly helped along by me every few days prodding at them Grin The one the other night wasn't emptied. He's a pansy so after I'd gotten the top layer of skin off so that the stuff could come out (which took all of a couple of strokes with my nail) he wouldn't let me squeeze it properly and then the bastard went to visit family for the weekend :( So I have to wait until he gets home tonight.

He did this to me shortly after we got together last year too. Let me at it at the weekend when I saw him, not much happened. Updated me all week with how it was growing and getting actual pus in it and the day before he came to see me he said he popped it as it had started leaking :( None of the others have done that (I think that one got infected!). They are just hardish, blackish lumps under the skin and when they come out some of them are these clumps of very very fine hairs, about seven hairs per clump with some dark yellow cheesey pus thrown in for good measure.

Bertrude · 07/10/2012 12:00

YABU to think that only Some spots don't need to be squeezed and not left.

All squeezable spots need to be squeezed and if they're good, photographed and uploaded for the sporners

I currently have 2 grimmers on my face - one in my 'tache on my upper lip and one right on the bottom of my chin, hanging down. I can't wait to get home.

thebody · 07/10/2012 12:08

Love this thread, yes always squeeze, itch to squeeze other people's, sometimes fantasise on the train if I see a big one winking at me all white and ripe for a squeeze I just could reach over and pop it and then sit down again and maybe the person would think wow that couldn't have happened could it??

As an ex district nurse boils were my delight. Some people get the in growing hair in arse or under arm, they are lanced and ooze lots of thick pus...

If I mention this to my dh or 4 kids they literally retch???

Total babies.

hedgehogpatronus · 07/10/2012 12:21

Dh sealed my love for him forever a few months after we first started seeing each other; he squeezed a mahooosive boil of the back of my thigh for me, sending the pus flying past his head to splat onto the picture of Nelson Mandela of his wall (pretentious university days). Knew he was the one for me from that moment on Smile

But yes, most spots do need to be squeezed. I've never had any success leaving one to their own devices.

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BurlingtonBertieFromBow · 07/10/2012 12:23

I also once had a thing on my leg, a little bump that was there for ages, like 2 years, and then got a bit scabby. After a paranoid trip to the GP and then dermatologist (cos I thought it might be skin cancer) I took the plunge with it. Was actually on MEDICAL ADVICE as the dermo (clearly a closet sporner, why else would you go into it?) said 'If I were you I'd just scratch it out'. So I did. It was like a hard little tusk and it left a HOLE! brilliant.

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chipsandmushypeas · 07/10/2012 12:47

Pixie, what a spot tease your DP is!

spottyock · 07/10/2012 13:39

Minerva I just watched your video. Oh man!
My DH has just called me warped!

confusedpixie · 07/10/2012 13:46

Chips: No need to tell me :( A git he is!

Btw all:
http://www.youtube.com/user/shaziajafrey8?feature=CAQQwRs%3D

This guy is my hero. Blackheads mainly but a few gems! I just love how he voices over the whole video too, as if he's trying to think of something to say! He's a legend Grin

FreudiansGoldSlipper · 07/10/2012 13:55

That is so disappointing when a spot looks rip to pop and just a dribble of liquid comes out especially if you have performed this procedure on others

I used to work as a beauty therapist and would be giddy with excitement when I did a steam facial on clients that had clogged pores/spots

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