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Should I worry about the mahoosive spot behind my ear?

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 20:59

I have had a huge spot for a month or more now, behind my ear, hiding just behind my ear lobe.
Its not a zit or an insect bite - so what is it?

Should I worry about it?
Should I visit my grumpy gp?

Thanks all

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CMOTdibbler · 21/02/2010 21:03

Dh had a huuge spot just there which went really really manky and required a lot of treatment - so I'd go to the GP

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:13

Ewww a manky spot - you are sooo cheering me up!

Was it a spot or a lump?
Because actually I guess by definition mine is a lump..........

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whomovedmychocolate · 21/02/2010 21:17

If it's in the crease behind your ear it's probably (sorry) an infected sweat gland (yummy ).

Does it have a head on it? I'm of the 'whack some toothpaste on it overnight and dry it out' school of thought on such things personally. I had a whopper in my ear once, it hurt like hell, and I kept fiddling with it and it went off and lots of horrid green stuff came out...and then kept coming for ages - yuck. Cleared up fine though.

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:21

I thought I had a spot

Now it seems I had a disgusting spot

Perhpaps Ill go and get some toothpaste

Whomoved - its in the space between a bone and my ear, hiding behind my earlobe

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whomovedmychocolate · 21/02/2010 21:21

Yikes

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:23

have
perhaps

I can spell honest

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:28

Whomoved
that is a really really mahoosive spot

It makes mine look mediocre

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CMOTdibbler · 21/02/2010 21:28

It was a lump. And being a man, when it failed to get a head, he decided to lance it himself. There were then a few days of it running pus down his face every time he touched it before he went to the GP and got it properly cleaned out, anti bs etc

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:28

I am definitely not letting anybody accept a doctor near it!
I might try the toothpaste trick though...........

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KurriKurri · 21/02/2010 21:33

If Whomoved's link is anything to go by, you can sort it yourself Laura with a pair of rusty scissors, a tea towel and some iodine.

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LauraIngallsWilder · 21/02/2010 21:54

Thats a great idea - I have a dirty tea towel in the kitchen and some old scissors.

No iodine though.............

Also no gaggle of friends with a video camera to come and laugh and spew as someone lances it for me

Poor me, I might just have to go to see my grumpy gp instead

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whomovedmychocolate · 21/02/2010 22:10

God though, that pop that zit site could be sold as a diet aid bleurrrggh!

BelaLugosiNoir · 21/02/2010 22:42

Might be a sebacous cyst. Containing thick caseous material. Not v.squeezable or pop-able tbh.
If it is seb cyst will go in couple of weeks usu. but prob best to see GP to verify.

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