The best thing your body has produced *warning-grim content not suitable for weak-stomached persons*

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Once, when I was about 20 my toenail started to hurt, I looked at it and it didn't seem different, but I noticed that the toenail was a teensy bit in the skin. I got the nail scissors out and cut the nail. It was like peeling open a can of ready-roll pastries-there was a small pause and then a pop as a small river of brown pus rolled out over my toe. I spent a happy half hour or so cleaning under the nail, and then over the course of about 6 months it grew out. I was almost sad when I said goodbye to the last thickened nasty toenail.
It has never happened again despite my best efforts to the contrary

Ooh!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-without-underarm-protection/#:~:text=Several%20years%20ago%20ago%2C%20scientists,on%20to%20cause%20underarm%20odor.

Interesting study -however it doesn't float the hypothesis that a % of women who don't have smelly armpits are using deodorant because they think it's working.

So unless we know whether they KNOW they don't produce the bacteria, or whether they are using it in the mistaken assumption that it is masking BO, it's not an accurate representation.

I was more interested in the link with earwax type, really.

I used to work in animal rescue and we had a batch of guinea pigs that regularly got puss filled abscesses on them. We would bathe them and try and see if we could sort them before a vets visit. Some of them were glorious!

I was going to post the same link lol.

It’s actually quite well documented now I’ve looked into it. It’s to do with having a rare version of the ABCC11 gene

The human body is fascinating!

Not me, but a good friend. In an attempt to give up smoking, he got a prescription for apixaban from the GP. He was warned that a possible side effect was constipation, and sure enough he was clogged up to the point of feeling really unwell. I tried to help with offers of home remedies, stewed prunes, Fybogel etc., but he was almost at the point of going back to cigarettes. To take his mind off his troubles, he came along with me to the British Museum, going round the Egyptian Galleries while I prepped for a school trip. He'd tried four or five remedies by this stage. In the cafe, I remembered a time when a cup of strong black coffee had worked for me, and he tried it as a last resort.
This seemed top be the trigger for all the laxatives he had tried to finally start taking effect.
I still remember the desperate trotting round the museum looking for the nearest gents, passing seemingly endless arrays of mummies, until he found one, just in time.....he emerged ten minutes later, ashen-faced and shaky, but much relieved.

The most perfect thing was a spotlike mound that appeared exactly between the top of my breasts. So perfect access and perfect visibility. No pain at all, just a gradual crescendo of pus building up until the moment of truth arrived. Two thumbs, one either side, a massive crack and explosion of thick pus. A very small crater remained, which closed up within a day or two.

In my early 20s I had a small, red sore patch on my cheek, A very small, yellow head came out after about 36 hours. I got a mirror and strong light and sat down. I gently stabbed the head with a fine needle. First of all a bit of clear fluid leaked out. I gently pressed it and out came a hard, yellow core (which hit the mirror) quickly followed by a long, long line of cheesy pus. Eventually blood came to clean it all out and I was left with a tiny hole in the skin.

My first attempt at a MN photo attachment. I do hope it works and all of you can share this Valentine's night. I know you'll appreciate this beauty.

High up in the air over the Irish Sea, all of a sudden my little one nudges me and hands me what can only be described as an early birthday present of dreams. In my hand is placed a large piece of ear wax. Goodness knows how long it had been browning and hardening in her little ear. Far too long tbh, and if only she'd allow me to help out these beauties, she'd be far lighter. Alas. Back to the day of dreams. Knowing how much I'd treasure this gift, I gazed longingly at it with a mixture of awe that I'd managed to birth a child who could produce such dark, hard wax and envy that it didn't come out of my own ear. I've kept it somewhere safe (so safe, I can't remember where) but here is a photo from its early days last year. Enjoy. Sigh.

That is a thing of beauty! DD produced something similar to that, it was a joy to behold.

Back in 2007, I had to have my gallbladder removed. My mom and brother had already had theirs done, so were full of advice.

Had it done, came round in recovery. My mom came to visit as I was kept in overnight. She did ask where my drains were, as she had woken up with some inserted but I didn't appear to have any.

Was discharged the next day, went home and over the next few days, I started to feel uncomfortable about the lumps forming under the incisions. So much so that when my in-laws came round, I had to support them with my hands in order to sit down/stand up. Unfortunately I'd never had surgery before so wasn't sure if this was normal, etc...

Anyway, after about 4 days my partner had to return to work after taking a few days off to help me. This coincided with the first day I was allowed to have shower, so just after he left, I decided to get into the bath for a shower. I had to hold the lumps in order to do so and I don't know if it was the hot water hitting my abdomen or the fact that I stretched up to wash my hair or a combination of both, but I heard an enormous popping sound and an absolute RIVER of pus, blood and fluid gushed down and hit my feet. It was the worst stench that I've ever smelt in my life and would rather stick my nose in dog shit than ever smell it again.

After grabbing some towels (which were immediately soaked through) , I called my partner and he came back and rushed me to the nearest A&E dept. I took 3 bath towels and before I got seen not too long later, they were all soaked through and the stuff was dripping through onto the waiting room floor.

I was put into a cubicle and given strong painkillers whilst waiting to be treated, but then got really upset a while later as I overheard the nurses walking outside complaining disgustedly about the smell.

Secondary infections as it all leaked into my other wounds, a shit ton of prescription charges on charcoal bandages, allergic reactions to said charcoal bandages, sleeping on my front on towels to prevent ruining the bed, every-other-day dressing change appointments and 3 weeks later, it eventually healed.

Maybe I should have drains in after all 🤔

That’s awful! Did anyone ever say anything about it?

No, there was no follow-up after it had healed. I'm not sure if I should have had drains in, or if my body just reacted in a weird way. I remember the triage nurse kept asking me if I'd been pierced with anything in various ways and I snapped in the end and said yes, deep enough for an organ to have been removed! 🙄

ItsAStupidQuestion I used to work in theatres so I can explain about drains. Use of drains varies between surgeons. Some consistently use them, they think it’s essential. Some only use them occasionally - I remember one patient who had her appendix out having a drain because it was close to bursting - some use them. Research on the benefit of drains isn’t conclusive. Not an overwhelming amount of evidence to say they are beneficial.
Your situation sounds horrible though, I’m sorry that happened to you.

Not me, but our DDog, long departed.
A lump came up on her cheek over a few days, it didn't bother her but we made an appointment for her to see the vet. Just before we went she started scratching it, and a little hole opened up but nothing came out - she wouldn't let me near it!
We got to the vet and he diagnosed a cyst which would need an operation to remove. While he was examining her he gave it a slight squeeze, there was a loud pop and a while ball the size of a Malteser came out, followed by a river of pus! Sporntastic!
She had the operation to clean it all out - she made a full recovery and it never returned!

My 15 year old son doesn't get many spots but does get the occasional blackhead on his back, which he lets me squeeze.

I squeezed one a few weeks ago and it then turned into some kind of scab but felt like it had a spike there sticking out of it. My son said it felt itchy.

Yesterday I took tweezers to it and pulled out the 'spike' and it was probably about an inch long, and was like a fingernail in texture. I don't think it was a hair so I think it was maybe just 'blackhead contents'. It slid out so beautifully when I pulled it!

Today the scab has almost totally healed over.

And another one; I sometimes get a milia in my ears.

When this happens I scratch and pick the milia to disturb the skin, leave it a few days to form a scab and then pick the scab off.

The scab usually brings with it a hard milia looks like a sesame seed. Sometimes the milia is an orange colour.

God I love the ear milia!

My husband managed to poison me with an off-prawn-wonton soup. Vomiting the noodles so hard they came out of my nose was an experience I don't wish to repeat

These are wonderful!

I had a ex-boyfriend who had back cysts. Only good thing about him.

I passed a deciduous cast once - the doctor was most bemused by it. I heard her whispering "Surely it can't be retained products when the baby is 18 months old.... can it?"

My navel piercing obligingly produces a lovely piece of cheesy gunk every few months or so, but I do need to let it ripen. I am happy to wait.

My nose piercing was left to heal up but did oblige me by producing gunk if I pressed the underside of the nostril for a bit <happy sigh>

Finally, ds1 had an infected bit at the side of his toe. He had to soak it in hot salty water 3 times a day and it eventually sorted itself out, but for a while, if we podged it in the water, a stream of green pus would soar out. Ds hated it. He is emphatically not One Of Us 😂

I’m just wondering, as a non-sporner, do some people’s bodies just produce more “stuff”? All I can remember is a very congested nose as a teen. I have large pores and didn’t realise for ages you could squeeze out the bumps - first time I did it they were yellow/green waxy plugs of a fairly massive size - that left quite big holes. But that’s it?! I’m wondering if you need a degree of curiosity and intent… I may have been filled with other removable growths and I just didn’t realise?

Just re-read this thread from start to finish as a treat to myself.

@DanteThunderstoneI live in hope of more stories!

Thank you for commenting so this has come up my active threads! I'm going to re-read tonight! Christmas has come early 😂👌

I delved into my ear once after swimming with my daughter and doing handstands in the pool and pulled out a massive lump of brown waxy goodness. It looked like an oxo cube.

Just before I had my son, the midwife gave me a bit of a sweep and the mucus plug came out. That was quite grim and looked just like a knorr stockpot.

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