The funniest video ever .... but slightly disgusting...

[Falcon1]

Sebaceous cyst. A good one!

- OS

I'm guessing more likely a boil, as in the biblical plague. This may have been related to MRSA, maybe not....

[Oh Shoot]

I'm guessing more likely a boil, as in the biblical plague. This may have been related to MRSA, maybe not....

You must never have had a boil.

Boils are inflamed, infected, and hurt like holy hell. Think sharpest most painful zit you ever had magnified 100 fold.

That was simple sebaceous cyst. Full of sebum. They don't hurt at all.

I've had a couple of small ones myself.

What de hale is MRSA?

- OS

[ftncityfatboy]

a few points need to be made here:

1) That was just plain ole GROSS!!

2) I can't believe I actually watched the whole thing

3) I don't know which was more, er, entertaining: the girls or the cyst

4) I'm feeling a little light headed

5)

6)

[Guest walkingdeadman]

believe it or not. i have been through that...it is true hell

[dats82]

That was the funniest thing i have seen in a while.

[Oh Shoot]

believe it or not. i have been through that...it is true hell

You must have had a boil, then, cause those cysts don't hurt at all, as the guy in the video showed.

- OS

[Guest tadams]

ACK! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I've seen alot of these videos - but one question: I've never had anything like this happen to me. How do these people let this go this far? How does this happen in the first place? I mean - everyone gets zits - but Christ! To have a cyst like that, and just deal with it on a daily basis until it gets that big... wow.

Sebaceous cysts do not necessarily start as "zits". They can begin their growth in the under layers of the skin and, in fact, you may never be able to bring it to a head and force any of the contents through the skin without some sort of incision through the sac.

Life without insurance for a couple years, when money is tight and you're trying to feed your own face and pay bills, is how this happens. It didn't bother me badly until it got inflamed. Every so often I would have muscle spasms similar to tendonitis or I would temporarily lose circulation if I sat at funny angles, and feel pin pricks in my hands and fingers... but I lived through that stuff.

believe it or not. i have been through that...it is true hell

I am still in the recovery stages from one. If I can find them on my wife's old phone, I've got pics of what mine looked like before it was removed. Let's just say the surgeon and my MD both said it was the largest they had ever seen. Nurses were called in for show-and-tell at both offices. It looked as though someone embedded a softball within my back and it WAS even larger, once, when it got inflamed.

They did it at the outpatient center, but they had to completely put me under for several hours. The actual incision covered nearly 6 inches in length, and about 5 square inches of my skin had to be completely removed. It had entangled around nerves up and down my spine, as it was located just between my two shoulder blades. The scar looks like the stitches on a football. (correct scale, even)

The wound was so large and the interior damage was so extensive that it took 2 weeks for it to heal enough for them to actually close it up. For the first week, I had a tube sewn in to allow for drainage and it would drain into packs of gauze which had to be frequently changed. Following that, it was to remain open but without a tube.

I had to go back in for the most excruciating follow up visits you could ever imagine. The only thing I've even encountered that came close was when I had a nerve exposed on my leg. Every time anything barely even grazed it, it was nearly enough to make me pass out.

Well, this draining process and subsequent follow up visits were like that, every time. Except the doc wouldn't just "graze" by, he would squeeze on it like all holy hell, pressing his weight down on my back to force it to bleed and cleanse the inside of the wound... for several minutes at a time. My eyes rolled back in my head more than once. The last time, it was all I could do not to insert my fingers in his neck and cure my pain.

That's been over a year ago, and I constantly have nerve twitches as they regrow and associate in my back; less now than it used to be. However, I still get the most amazing itches. They just hit all at once and you HAVE to scratch them. Sometimes, my back goes itching for hours at a time until I can get home and have my wife scratch it for me. When I finally get it scratched, it never seems like it can get scratched hard enough.

As benfield stated... true hell. The cyst itself is relatively painless until it gets inflamed. We think mine happened because I landed on something at an odd angle and burst the interior sac and it leaked out inside my back. The hell is in the aftermath.

[ShaunM]

kinda like opening a mayonaise pack.

All this talk about cysts and mayo........I will be back on later going to make me a ham sandwich.

[Guest tadams]

All this talk about cysts and mayo........I will be back on later going to make me a ham sandwich.

Well played. ROFLMAO :D:D:D

[Mr. Brooks]

I showed this video to a couple of guys at work today. I even managed to get one of them to start dry heaving.

[Chucktshoes]

You are a BRAVE man sir.

Nah, my wife likes gory crap like that. She enjoys popping zits and will admit to it even! this video is like a super sized zit. Gory, gross, yet kinda awesome.

[Guest docvantrease2003]

an it was done without gloves

[Oh Shoot]

Sebaceous cysts ...

As benfield stated... true hell. The cyst itself is relatively painless until it gets inflamed. We think mine happened because I landed on something at an odd angle and burst the interior sac and it leaked out inside my back. ...

Wow, my sincere condolences...I had no idea they ever got painful, let alone THAT painful. Guess as long as it stays encapsulated in its own sac it's not bad.

- OS

[Guest mustangdave]

MMMMMMMMMMMMM........I'm thinking Arby's

Yeh!!! Horsey Sause....

[Guest SUNTZU]

Yeh!!! Horsey Sause....

That guy had his own horsey sauce factory right there on his back.

Looks like it, doesn't it?

[Guest Ghostrider]

When in Germany I ran the dermatology clinic for a while. Once a week we had "bump clinic" - all day.

The docs trained us to do them as these are very common in GIs and they didn't want to do all the nasty stuff. The biggest one I ever did was on the neck of a CSM (Command Sargent Major). I kept getting the doc to come back in and look at it to make sure I wasn't cutting too much out of his neck. He ended up with a hole that you could drop a couple of fat hotdogs into with a drain in each end. And we ended up with over a cup of pus and goo. Took forever to finally heal it up. The CSM didn't like me much after that, but he did respect me

If you don't get the gland membrane out with these things they just grow back. It's sort of like a sausage skin and encapsulates the pus.

[et45]

I had the lymph node in my armpit burst once due to Cat Scratch Fever.Pus shot out and landed 5 feet away.I worked the rest of the day with a leaking hole,My shirt was covered with sweat and blood,got home called my Mother who is an RN she came over and made me go to the hospital.The doctor was able to insert a pair of bandage scissors all the way in the hole.They inserted a wick in the hole that had to be changed twice a day for a week.

[Guest mustangdave]

[quote=Ghostrider;335928

If you don't get the gland membrane out with these things they just grow back. It's sort of like a sausage skin and encapsulates the pus.

Oh...:puke:yummmm

[Motasyco]

I thought I watched the whole thing but I must have missed the funny part. Someone has a warped sense of humor. That was almost as bad as watching an Obama speech.

[Chucktshoes]

Showed it to the wife, and I was right, she loved it.

[Ghooge2008]

you guys have literally grossed me out...and I didnt even watch the video. Ohhh the visions in my head HAVE to be worse than the video...gotta wait till I get home to see it!

[strickj]

you guys have literally grossed me out...and I didnt even watch the video. Ohhh the visions in my head HAVE to be worse than the video...gotta wait till I get home to see it!

Its not that bad!

It starts out looking like a pastry with strawberry jam,and cream cheese

And ends looking like a bowl of

Man,now I'm gettin hungry!

[TripleDigitRide]

Any peaches to go with that cottage cheese?

[strickj]

Any peaches to go with that cottage cheese?

As in "I could eat a peach for hours" kinda peaches with cottage cheese?

You'll just have to look that up yourself!

[10Kilr]

I'm ready for mayonaise sandwich...mmmmmmmmmmm........mayonaise.