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If you want to see spot squeezing, popping or videos showing the removal of blackheads - this is the place for you.

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

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NoEffingWay · 01/04/2021 19:06

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

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MrsAvocet · 01/04/2021 23:24

Post op infection in my ankle. It swelled up like a balloon and was excruciating but when the doctor took the stitches out there was a spectacular green fountain that spewed out all over the floor and everyone jumped backwards. Quite dramatic! 🤣
I then had to have 2 more operations, months of antibiotics and a suction dressing on for weeks which wasn't so much fun. Though I did keep a daily photograhic record of the dressings for a while which is interesting in a slightly repulsive kind of way.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 01/04/2021 23:32

Placemarking to read tomorrow - haven't seen one of these for ages Grin

Midwife1997 · 01/04/2021 23:32

I'd had a lump removed from one of my boobs. Developed a post-op infection - the abscess popped while I was shopping in Sainos. It looked like I'd been shot in the chest.

Midwife

Nat6999 · 01/04/2021 23:33

My ds age 6 had a cyst just above his knee, it started as a pea sized lump that you could feel almost all the way around but never got inflamed, ds played with it & it got closer to the skin surface. One morning he asked me to feel it, I gently squeezed & got covered in a lime green line from my glasses to my boobs. We both thought it would shrink & disappear after that but it suddenly blew up again, this time when I squeezed it a lump of what I can only describe as string came out, at least 6 inches & as thick as a round shoelace, it did this two or three times before it disappeared. He is 17 now & the cyst has come back but he won't let me near it this time.

Kona84 · 01/04/2021 23:34

A few years ago My eye was irritated and I couldn’t open/close it without pain.
Went to doctors and they found a yellow spot/boil under my eyelid scraping against my eye. The doctor tried to squeeze it with 2 cotton buds but didn’t really try too hard before sending me home with a cream.
I couldn’t cope with leaving it there so sterilised a sewing needle and popped it. The puss was petty epic and lucky for me it didn’t return.

Also I had a toe nail infection when I was 13 that caused a build up of puss behind the nail. I always got a needle in there and never went to the doctors dont think I even told my parents. One day nail dropped off- never grew back normal it’s like a hard almost nail but soft like a scab i pick it of a few times a year . I’m 37 now

rabbitwoman · 01/04/2021 23:36

Maybe not quite what your looking for but....

For ages, weeks, I had an itchy spot right between my shoulder blades. It felt as though it would pop if I pressed my shoulders together but I could not quite reach it and it was becoming more itchy.

I decided to gift it to my husband as it was so hard to reach. So one night at bedtime I said to him, can you squeeze that spot between my shoulder blades? It's driving me mad, been there for weeks!

So he excitedly had a look and burst out laughing. 'what, this?!' he said, pressing down on the spot. 'yup' I said - then there was a very satisfying peeling sound and it felt great, a huge relief, and my husband presented me with one of those stick on plastic googly eyes.

God knows how it got there or how it had stayed on, for weeks, and I do bath and wash my hair!!! I still have it stuck to my bedroom wall.....

Teddybelle · 01/04/2021 23:36

When I was at university my flatmate’s boyfriend came back from travelling in South America. He had a few big boils on his back and my flatmate was having a good look at one of them when a huge maggoty grub popped out. Sure enough the other boils were maggoty too... He had picked up the bites while trekking through the rainforest.

SicParvisMagna · 01/04/2021 23:38

Just wanted to say this thread....

Chefs kiss.

Perfection.
Thank you mumsnet Grin

RaspberryCoulis · 01/04/2021 23:39

My Fibroid. Nothing really in the image to indicate scale, but it was measured as 15-20cm in length before the op.

Mamanyt · 01/04/2021 23:40

A boil on my clitoral sheath. Had to go to hospital and have it lanced. Screamed like a banshee. Apologized to the (thank God, female) doctor, who told me I was fine, the last one had kicked her in the head. LAST ONE? THIS IS A THING? OH HELL'S BELLS!

RedcurrantPuff · 01/04/2021 23:41

When I was in my early 20s I had a horrific case of chicken pox. I was covered, couldn’t get a finger between all the spots all over my head.

When I was ill it was miserable but when the ones on my head in my hair scabbed over - it was sheer unbridled joy brushing my scalp and them all coming off in handfuls

VettiyaIruken · 01/04/2021 23:59

@Mercedes519

One summer I got a bite on my leg and it developed a bubble over the top. Ended up being about 3 inches across and wobbly filled with clear yellow liquid.

I ended up in the walk in centre and they decided to drain it as it was in an awkward place. The nurses were fighting over who got to drain it. Sporners the lot of them... apparently it was very satisfying.

Do you weirdos want pictures?

YES!!!
NeverDropYourMoonCup · 02/04/2021 00:04

I'm undecided what would be the most spectacular.

There was the very first chin hair. Massive, painful lump about the size of a 10p piece on my chin. After about 3 months, I'd had enough and heated up a needle to try and find a way for the nastiness to come out - it seemed like the top 2mm of it was weeping plasma, and then I felt the needle point catch 'something'. A bit of (painful) fishing around and out came a four inch long, jet black, 1mm thick and totally flat hair that I could feel uncurling from somewhere just underneath a tooth, going by the sensation.

The abscess on my inner thigh that extended through the crease and eventually made it as far as the side of my fanjo. GP said 'nothing we can do, it'll go down in its own time'. The then boyfriend took it upon himself to assist and lanced that fucker/speared it with a tapestry needle, as it felt like I was sitting on a spike. The pain and the relief all at once was amazing - and there wasn't a single trace of where it had been afterwards, as it apparently erupted yellow, green and red and then snapped shut up like a wormhole collapsing.

Or the lifelong sinus problems, still undiagnosed after years of agonising headaches 'You're just stressed'. Thought I'd try this thing I'd read about in a book in the place where I did yoga. Used a plastic teapot from the children's play set, filled it with warm, salty water and poured loads up there with no effect. The following day, I was right in the middle of being bollocked by my boss as I felt a nosebleed starting. I ran to the toilet to find half the water had still been trapped up there and a full handful of snot, scab and crusts came out of my right nostril. It felt like somebody had just smashed my face with an axe and cold air was getting in there for the first time in my life as I could have sworn that my eyeball dropped half an inch in the process. Bit embarrassing coming out beaming when the boss was still pissed off and I had no proof of the 'nosebleed'.

One sore bit on my heel I'd had since I was about 8 revealed what looked like a cat claw upon digging at it aged 22.

The Wimbledon Bank Holiday Sunburn where a failure on the part of the olive skinned and olive oil sunbathing ex as he believed you couldn't get sunburn ever again if you got it once, so lied about packing the new bottle to prepare meant I had to use the last of the sunblock on the redhaired child whilst we waited 4 and a half hours for the AA to turn up as 'they were busy'.

About a fortnight later when the pain from the blisters had stopped, the top of my ear itched. I rubbed it and dry skin in the shape of both the inside and back of my ear popped off in one crispy piece. Unfortunately, I was at work and had to dispose of it quickly before anybody noticed.

Then there's the POTS/EDS bowel dysfunction where, for no apparent reason, my gut had completely stopped working for about 2 weeks. Again, 'nothing we can do'. I caught a stomach bug (or I'd filled every last scrap of space). Two days of puking but looked 9 months pregnant with the usual bloating - and still hadn't gone to the bathroom 5 days later. DP gently almost, but not quite tickled his fingers along my bulging side following the line of the ascending colon as I lay in bed. 24 minutes later, I felt something 'drop' against my pubic bone and coccyx. I swear what came out in the bathroom was three foot long and not much lighter than my second child (whose labour had become a major thing because progress was halted by an equally uncooperative digestive system blocking her way out 'we don't do enemas, everything moves out of the way when you push'. No it fucking didn't.).

Not related to me, it's a toss up between the cat with the tiny spot of spiky fur on his head which turned into an outpouring of death 4 times a day as I gently picked off the fur and massaged out the abscess contents from all the way down his neck out and flushed it with saline - and the adorable best cat who developed a cyst on her head that constantly refilled to the size of a hen's egg each month.

Rather than put her through the distress of a vet visit every time as she was too old to risk anaesthesia on, I would pierce it with a sterile needle each time it became translucent. If I left it a day too late and was too slow with the kitchen towel, she'd spray a fountain of amber liquid out of her head for ten minutes. She still sat on my lap purring whilst I made sure as much as possible was out, though. Actually, the pair of them never protested when I did something to them. Which had been fun on a previous occasion about a year after she'd had a partial thyroidectomy - I'd been fussing her and she was purring deeply and pressing her throat into my hand. I suddenly felt a tiny thread - and slowly pulled out a four inch long, bright blue stitch, at which point, the purring volume went to explosive volume.

Nothing excitingly gross has happened to me or my pets in years.

boxingdayagain · 02/04/2021 00:07

Dentist here. At my practice we fight over the emergencies. We all want to treat the "fat face." Usually it's an upper front tooth that's the cause if the swelling ( but can be anywhere, it's just the front teeth look most dramatic. There is usually a large swelling in the gum above the tooth that tracks across that section of the mouth. The trick is to find the head so to speak. Then we freeze the gum with ethyl chloride and get a scalpel to slice open the skin. A small wound, maybe 3 or 4 mm in length.
Usually there's a dramatic explosion. Yellow or green pus first. Then more of an orange tinge as it mixes with blood. Sometimes it can be cheesy as well. You then need to massage the tissues around the affected area and usually get more out. My nurse needs to use suction to clear it all away.
Sometimes it can be disappointing and the swelling too hard, and we can"t get anything out.
Patients are always so grateful and notice and immediate improvement

MyGrassIsBrowner · 02/04/2021 00:11

Pics or non of these ever happened 🤣

My contibution is that I got 11 tonsil stones out of my tonsils the other day.. probs my record. (I have fairly deep pits in my tonsils) PURE BLISS. No pics though sorry lol

Preservethewood · 02/04/2021 00:15

I once grew a spot in that tight fold of skin in the ear above the ear canal. I had no idea it was there until I absentmindedly touched it with a finger and it cracked audibly and splurged gunk onto my finger

I had one of these but I thought I had ear ache. I was having dinner with my bosses trying to mask the pain so I put it hand over my ear and pressed gently to try to soothe it. Suddenly I heard a pop and the pain released. I went to the loo, felt the wetness and realised it had actually been a spot, the pain was from the stretched skin.

tricky29 · 02/04/2021 00:22

I had a sebaceous cyst on my face when I was small. One of my earliest memories is my mum pointing it out to our gp when he did a home visit when she’d just had my sister. He burst it and my memory is like it coming out like a squeeze of savlon. Have been obsessed since and have always had an innocent crush on that gp even though he’s retired now.

MrsMaizel · 02/04/2021 00:23

@RaspberryCoulis

My Fibroid. Nothing really in the image to indicate scale, but it was measured as 15-20cm in length before the op.
🤮🤮🤮 your name and that pic !!

I had one of these too but I've never seen a pic of what it looked like . OMG 😂😂😬

Preservethewood · 02/04/2021 00:26

My neighbour had a sebaceous cyst in her back. Go offered to have it removed but she declined. Her husband used to squeeze it but he passed away. She asked me to try. It was very wide and low so would have taken a massive amount of squeezing. Still regret not trying harder

StellaAndCrow · 02/04/2021 00:31

@rabbitwoman

Maybe not quite what your looking for but....

For ages, weeks, I had an itchy spot right between my shoulder blades. It felt as though it would pop if I pressed my shoulders together but I could not quite reach it and it was becoming more itchy.

I decided to gift it to my husband as it was so hard to reach. So one night at bedtime I said to him, can you squeeze that spot between my shoulder blades? It's driving me mad, been there for weeks!

So he excitedly had a look and burst out laughing. 'what, this?!' he said, pressing down on the spot. 'yup' I said - then there was a very satisfying peeling sound and it felt great, a huge relief, and my husband presented me with one of those stick on plastic googly eyes.

God knows how it got there or how it had stayed on, for weeks, and I do bath and wash my hair!!! I still have it stuck to my bedroom wall.....

Whilst it may not be what people though they were looking for, this is surely the best surprise addition to the thread - brilliant story, thank you for sharing it! :)
cissyandbessy · 02/04/2021 00:35

I once had some medication for a kidney infection which made me constipated and I didn't poo or about 10 days. Was in pain and deeply uncomfortable and when I eventually went it was about the size of my arm and blocked the loo. Just couldn't believe the size of it came out of me ( this was before I had a 9lb baby a few years later) And the relief felt amazing.
Another time I had an itchy eye, scratched it and rubbed it loads and it went bright red. Though they would go down by itself but a day or so later had excruciating pain in eyeball every time I blinked. Felt like being stabbed with a needle. Had a good look with a mirror and bright light and saw an ingrowing eyelash that had grown under the skin of the rim of my eyelid backwards in to my eye. There was a tiny part that had emerged in the other side of the rim and was stabbing my eye. Was in such pain that I hooked it out with a needle myself. Which was very satisfying indeed.

Dyra · 02/04/2021 00:40

@RaspberryCoulis

My Fibroid. Nothing really in the image to indicate scale, but it was measured as 15-20cm in length before the op.
I can actually help there. That swab it's laid on is an abdo swab, which measures 30x30cm. A most impressive fibroid indeed.
Rosecottage888 · 02/04/2021 00:53

@MaudTheInvincible

Thank you all for this thread Thanks

My contribution is a small lump near my hairline which produces a tiny little wriggly cheesy worm if squeezed. I don't know what I'll do if it stops refilling. I'm sorry it isn't more impressive. Some of these stories are flipping magnificent!

My 16 year old get the same from one hole near his ear... I look forward to squeezing time, he doesn't
OysterMonkey · 02/04/2021 00:54

I had eye surgery. A sedation/numbing tablet was put in my eye. It didn’t work (not the point of this thread).
About three weeks later, post surgery, I was applying eye shadow (ie pressure) on my eye for the first time and in the corner of my eye out popped the undissolved little tablet.

notangelinajolie · 02/04/2021 00:57

Last week a nurse practitioner at the hospital surgical unit that my GP referred me to said I'd made her day when I turned up with the biggest cyst that needed draining [think Dr Pimple Popper) she'd ever seen Blush I have 8 follow up appointments to pack and dress the hole Confused
Just glad it's gone - sorry not sharing before photos they are too gross. Slightly concerned that my GP was so grossed out that she couldn't to do this herself.

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