Earlobe issues

[Tuomas]

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 I just though it was a pimple, but dunno anymore.

[Paper Carnival]

I thought they were zits.

[Gregjazz]

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.

[LGM]

I had one on my chin... I tried popping it, but now it's just a huge red blotch that hurts like a mofo.

[Gregjazz]

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.

[Raggit]

And all this time I thought we only had awkward discussions around here.

[Kinoko]

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

[SSH]

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"

[shbaz]

'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.

[Kinoko]

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.

[Gregjazz]

In terms of names for my earlobe cyst, I'm leaning towards "Horace" or "Wallace" or perhaps "Winston." Suggestions?

EDIT: Or maybe "Clarence?"

[Tiki]

"Horace" or "Jasper"

[big brother]

The henchmen from 101 Dalmations?

[Phemar]

None other.

How ab out naming something cool, like 'Bob', or 'Frank'? Nixon had a hedgehog called Frank ...

[Gregjazz]

Frank.

If Kinoko can have a thread about naming her cat, can't I have one about naming my earlobe cyst? :

[Gilbert]

Call it Robocop.

[Nacho]

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.

[Gregjazz]

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...

[Andail]

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!

[Nacho]

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...