Do you ever get those "balls" (for lack of a better word) in your earlobes?
I have one in my right earlobe and it just recently got bigger. It doesn't really hurt too much, but it's hard to get my mind off of it.
These earlobe balls have always been very mysterious. What are they? What do they do? How did I get them? Will I live? This evening I set out on a journey to seek the truth on the matter.
I did a little research and the common name for them are "earlobe cysts", which is a sebaceous cyst. Supposedly they are very normal to have, although some people never get them. Sometimes they hang on for a month or two, but they eventually go away. However, if you are concerned about your earlobe cyst, you can have a doctor lance it or get a dermatologist to inject it with medication. Or, if you're a "do it yourself" kind of person you can do it at home (though I probably wouldn't recommend this unless you are extremely desperate). If you squeeze it hard enough it will pop, and then you can take a needle and make a small incision in the spot where the earlobe cyst was and drain out all the puss.
Interesting, is it not?
I don't think I'm going to try to operate on it or go to the doctor, so I guess I'll wait this little fellow out. And as long as I'm waiting I may as well name him. Suggestions?
Robocop
I second that....
I think it's interesting that people have different earlobes... like mine are just kind of circular and hanging. you know, normal earlobes? :P
Yeah. Some people seem to have NO earlobes. I myself have this waffle thick earlobes, and they would be very hard to pierce, but that's ok. I wasn't planning to.
Larger earlobes in general means, you have good luck throughout your life, if only one of them grew bigger, well... you have half luck.
Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Mon 07/11/2005 07:27:05
Larger earlobes in general means, you have good luck throughout your life
This means I've had these big earlobes my whole life for NOTHING? GOD NO!
Yeah. :=
Most people misunderstood that for long life, but a very talented singer here who had large earlobes died several years ago, at a relatively not very old age.
Regarding the balls in your ears... I hear you can get them out with peanus butter. Any Tom, Dick, or hairy knows that. If you're really feeling nuts, just squeeze one out! You'll get the wang of it!
Now I'm just getting cocky. This has gone on too schlong...
Definitely name it Pustulio.
An alternate suggestion is to use astringents like anti-acne topical medications or witch-hazel.
I don't have them in my ears but I get them very regularly in my breasts. Has led to a few panics about breast cancer, and as with the lobe thing, I can squeeze them myself if I want to.
Fuck. That.
I just leave them be. I won't even let a doctor squeeze them. I don't need my two favourite body parts put through such an ordeal.
Quote from: Kinoko on Mon 07/11/2005 08:37:45
I just leave them be. I won't even let a doctor squeeze them. I don't need my two favourite body parts put through such an ordeal.
How about trying the Peanus butter solution?
I have a sebaceous cyst on my elbow. Lets start a support group \o/
Yes, this also caused a cancer scare with my mother, waited for an hour to see the doctor for about 30 seconds
Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Mon 07/11/2005 09:50:13
Quote from: Kinoko on Mon 07/11/2005 08:37:45
I just leave them be. I won't even let a doctor squeeze them. I don't need my two favourite body parts put through such an ordeal.
How about trying the Peanus butter solution?
Mm ^_-
Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Mon 07/11/2005 09:50:13
Quote from: Kinoko on Mon 07/11/2005 08:37:45
I just leave them be. I won't even let a doctor squeeze them. I don't need my two favourite body parts put through such an ordeal.
How about trying the Peanus butter solution?
I'm not so sure that would be the breast solution.
Well, that wouldn't hurt to try, unless you use radioactive genetically modified peanus butt er that can turn it into real cancer. :=
Heh, I just was reading the "recent posts" thread which had the previous two posts from this thread, then:
Quote from: InCreator on Mon 07/11/2005 10:41:06
...though you could focus onto face, not breasts
from this thread: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?board=4;topic=23420.5#msg289461
I get 'em sometimes. I scratch 'em to death. I live. Sometimes.
My earlobes point completely forward, making a sort of comma out of my ears, that faces forward. I'd like to think they help me hear better, but it doesn't seem to be so.
I know what you are talking about.
I get them but they go away on their own for me.
They also seem to alternate ears when I do get them.
Very odd.
I'd say, no big deal, but if it's growing, maybe get them checked out.
I've popped those before. They leave massive spots that make it look like a failed piercing. If you leave them be, they get huge and red anyway. I never realized they were cysts though..
No winning.
That thing in my nose, that's definately a polyp (tumor). I hate that thing too. I intend to get it removed eventually. Anyone else have one of those?
I had this terrible acne 2 years ago, just for you to know... and it took a year for it to heal, though I still have scars... but it left a lumb of somekind in both my earlobes. The other one left, but the other onein my right earlobe still is there. Has been for 2 years now... weird thing that one :P I just though it was a pimple, but dunno anymore.
I thought they were zits.
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Mon 07/11/2005 19:05:10
I thought they were zits.
Earlobe cysts are essentially zits -- a blackhead within your earlobe, except it doesn't surface. So you weren't far off with your assumption.
I had one on my chin... I tried popping it, but now it's just a huge red blotch that hurts like a mofo.
Quote from: [lgm] on Mon 07/11/2005 22:01:04
I had one on my chin... I tried popping it, but now it's just a huge red blotch that hurts like a mofo.
Well, if you do pop the cysts, I imagine it's important to drain them, too. They are, like zits, bacteria in your skin, so if you don't drain 'em the bacteria is loose.
And all this time I thought we only had awkward discussions around here.
shbaz: My fiance actually had a BIG problem with polyps in his nasal cavity, which stopped him from smelling/tasting properly for -years- before we finally got it checked out by a specialist. It's actually somewhat common, he had to go to hospital and have surgery to remove them. Once he recovered, the difference was amazing. He occasionally gets a little bit of regrowth so he just goes back to the guy who pulls it out (with a local anaesetic) on the spot and he's good to go for another 6 months or so. I hope one day they stop coming back altogether but for the benefit he gets from it, a trip back to the specialist every now and again isnt so bad.
'Course, yours may not be -that- serious, but you did ask :)
Quote from: [lgm] on Mon 07/11/2005 22:01:04
I had one on my chin... I tried popping it, but now it's just a huge red blotch that hurts like a mofo.
Too. Much. Information.
LGM has invented the "zlog"
Quote from: Kinoko on Mon 07/11/2005 23:49:15
'Course, yours may not be -that- serious, but you did ask :)
I got it checked out by a clinic, he told me it was common/nothing serious and to go to a specialist and I haven't yet.
I was just curious exactly
how common this was 'cause I'd never heard of it before. For the longest time I thought it was some booger that wouldn't go away, then I looked. Ugh.
I'd recommend you get it taken care of ASAP. Otherwise it -could- be a bigger problem. The biggest problem with my fiance was that it was looked at too late, and so the polyps grew like buggery and now he may never be able to get rid of them completely. If you only have one, or a small amount, get rid of them as quickly as possible and you may save yourself a lot of pain and annoyance.
In terms of names for my earlobe cyst, I'm leaning towards "Horace" or "Wallace" or perhaps "Winston." Suggestions?
EDIT: Or maybe "Clarence?"
"Horace" or "Jasper"
The henchmen from 101 Dalmations?
None other.
How ab out naming something cool, like 'Bob', or 'Frank'? Nixon had a hedgehog called Frank ...
Frank. :D
If Kinoko can have a thread about naming her cat, can't I have one about naming my earlobe cyst? ::)
Call it Robocop.
I once had a polyp, in my occiput. At the beginning it was not very big, but then it started growing, and reached my size, approximatelly 5 meters. My familly get used to it, and we named him after my granmother Elvira (We named him Julian) because the polyp and her were born in the same day, 32 of february. I spend nights talking with him, soccer specially, but then she felt in love with a female cyst called Francisco González, they went to a Wintermute meeting in Greece and they get married by a buddhist bishop in a mosque. They had three cats in a multiple birth, and one of them became a hero of the first world war. One day Julian started to feel bad. He and Francisco went to an homeopatist who said them that he was going to die in the next ten minutes. He died and he was made the authopsy 15 years before his decease.
And that's the amazing history of Julian, the polyp.
Quote from: Farlander on Wed 09/11/2005 09:53:37
I once had a polyp, in my occiput. At the beginning it was not very big, but then it started growing, and reached my size, approximatelly 5 meters. My familly get used to it, and we named him after my granmother Elvira (We named him Julian) because the polyp and her were born in the same day, 32 of february. I spend nights talking with him, soccer specially, but then she felt in love with a female cyst called Francisco González, they went to a Wintermute meeting in Greece and they get married by a buddhist bishop in a mosque. They had three cats in a multiple birth, and one of them became a hero of the first world war. One day Julian started to feel bad. He and Francisco went to an homeopatist who said them that he was going to die in the next ten minutes. He died and he was made the authopsy 15 years before his decease.
And that's the amazing history of Julian, the polyp.
What a tragic Gordian knot your history is. Suddenly you have made the notion of naming my earlobe cyst very unappealing. Thanks, Farl...
;)
Quote from: Geoffkhan on Wed 09/11/2005 17:00:25
What a tragic Gordian knot your history is. Suddenly you have made the notion of naming my earlobe cyst very unappealing. Thanks, Farl...
Yeah, thanks a lot, Farl!
It's slightly based on a spanish humorist called Luis Sánchez Pollack, "Tip", probably the best Spanish humourist in XXth century, even compared with Groucho Marx. He died some years ago, but I've recently found a book of him which gathers this ultra absurd short stories he told in the radio. It was funny, because the program was full of the best humourists (smart humourists, not just "I fart in your face *recorded laughs*) but they were like waiting for the last sketch of the "master"... He made everybody ROLF with the stories, I am not so good, but hope to have archieved a little smile on you... :)
Quote from: Farlander on Wed 09/11/2005 17:24:50
He made everybody ROLF with the stories, I am not so good, but hope to have archieved a little smile on you... :)
Yup, I rolfed alright.
Quote from: Geoffkhan on Wed 09/11/2005 02:26:28
In terms of names for my earlobe cyst, I'm leaning towards "Horace" or "Wallace" or perhaps "Winston." Suggestions?
EDIT: Or maybe "Clarence?"
no no pringle is so much better, once you pop...
Speaking of ear problems, I am constantly plagued by ear infections....not just the panzy-ass kind that make your ear hurt a bit, I get total deafness in the ear, and a pocket of pus in my lympth (?) nodes and inner ear, often along with bleeding in the ear....
I have it right now, and it frigging sucks.
Rolf is my first name
Wasn't ROLF something like "Roll on laughing at the floor" or something like that? O lord, have I pissed it again with the English? :'(
Heh. it's Rolling On the Floor Laughing. LAMO!
Yeah... I knew it was that, but then I realised it didn't matched with "ROLF" and I've changed it the best way I could! ^_^
What is LAMO? And excuse my "out of topic"...
But I have an eccema in my leg!
Maybe I should name it Rolf..... :D
Eczema on your leg? Gross.
Quote from: Farlander on Thu 10/11/2005 20:36:42
But I have an eccema in my leg!
Use a soap with urea in it. Works wonders.
LAMO was just me mispelling LMAO (Laughing my ass off). Sorry about that lame joke :P
I thought LAMO was a pun combining LMAO and lamer.
Use windex, windex cures everything!