Giant Spot - help needed

[PrivateBenjamin]

I get spots quite often (adult acne), however i currently have the mother of all spots on my chin. I don't want to pop it because a. i don't like popping spots in case of scarring and b. it isn't one big head. I have studied it closely and it seems to be about 5 heads all joined into one mega spot (sorry - it's disgusting).

It has been brewing for about a week and now it is huge, green and has its own heartbeat.

Is there anything commonly found in a kitchen or bathroom that i can put on it to make it disappear? I would like to leave the house at some point and i feel like Baldrick from Blackadder with this on my face.

Help!

PHOTO!!! Then a good squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

We really do need a photo and then we can advise on the most suitable treatment

Sudocrem?
Or benzoyl peroxide gel?

There is an expert group in chat, PrivateBenjamin - -the pus porners. The rest will be along shortly ... to mention magnesium sulphate to draw it out ...

and a hot flannel...

... and a steady hand for the filming

you can get really strong stuff from behind the counter at the chemist

Duac ointment is AMAZING, think it's on prescription tho ..

wonder if OP is scared yet?

Another who would enjoy a picture and a squeeze - DP gets these cluster spots (often he declares he's managed to "get it all out" by himself, but he's actually only done 1/5 of it).

I find a cotton pad soaked in TCP wiped over it helps calm things down overnight. It stings like buggery for a few seconds, but it really does help.

I purposefully put this in S & B instead of chat in the hopes that the pus porners wouldn't notice and I wouldn't be peer pressured into popping it...

Where do i get benzoyl peroxide gel from? Or magnesium sulphate? I have sudocrem, will that make it (gently and painlessly) explode and take all the gunk out with it? I have been putting clear iodine on it but that actually just stings and makes it throb harder.

there-there OP.

It's ok, just give it a squeeze and we'll go away quietly yet satisfied [devil]

You need to give it a really good squeeze while someone films it. Then put it on YouTube.

We found it!!!!

hot flannel, as hot as you can bear.

Leave it a few days to ferment.

And then a really good squeeze with very clean hands...

.. while someone films it.

'Throb harder'

ohhh. OP. You are spoiling us.

no way could I resist squeezing that.

Hot bottle trick

don't forget the video camera

Ha! Found you! There's no hiding from the pus-porn gang

Well my suggestion is to

1. Take a picture asap for 'day 1'in your Boil Blog
2. Apply magnesium sulphate (or whatever it's called) I saw some in my local chemist the other day but have sadly never had any need for it, hence me loitering about on threads like this to get my pus fix

3.Update after 12/24 hrs (12 pref) with another photo to show progress.

1. Keep applying more stuff to 'bring it to a head'
2. Repeat step 3 until large head has formed.
3. Once the pus-gang are in agreement and ONLY when you get the unanimous go-ahead...
4. Film and
5. SQUEEZE
6. Post to YouTube

10. Cover in a bandage/get yourself to hospital/whatever.

Oh yummy. Didn't know there were threads like this on here! Is there a whole section devoted to people who like to pick things?
Sterilise a needle on a flame and attack it. Then book a week off work!
:)

Ha ha and you thought you could hide from the porners. You poor misguided soul. I am serious advocater of a good squeeeeze i am afraid.

I apply TCP or Tea Tree Oil when I get bad spots. Stings like mad at first but tends to help within a day or two.

After I watched that YouTube clip of that woman 'draining' that giant boil on a blokes back, I realised that squeezing really is the only answer.