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 Just like Phil Collins, I could feel it coming in the air tonight, well, last night, and it wasn't pretty. The entire left side of my chin throbbed as I fell asleep, and this morning, I awoke to a scene that may best described as the antithesis to some fairy princess shit with a bird singing on her shoulder. That's right, I trudged to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and faced my fate: Indeed, a large, grotesque-looking red bump had formed on my chin, so large and bright in fact, that it resembled that horrifying scene in Alien, where at any moment a hideous something might pop out and attack the nearest living creature (me) or anyone else unfortunate enough to get a close look at my chin without cowering in fear or turning to stone. Question: Where do we go from here?
The thing about a cystic blemish is that there's no head per se. Unlike a whitehead or blackhead, the area is so very inflamed that it defies the logic of pores (the pustule is too large and deep below the skin's surface--disgusting, I know). And because this is the type of situation that can lead to a serious acne scar, you would be better off not even thinking about squeezing it, which would also probably be extremely painful. Let us not overlook the fact however, that as tragic as this is when it occurs on a teenager, there is a special form of humiliation that this causes the grown-ass woman.
So here's the sad, not so dramatic or amazing truth: There's basically very little you can do. You must not poke and prod the cyst in some desperate attempt to "coax" it into bursting. Gross, but anyone who's ever had one knows exactly what I'm talking about and it's freakin tempting, ok? The problem is that busting that ass would be fruitless in the grand skin scheme of things, because you will never get so deep as to clear out all the commotion, which means you'll have another white pustule the next day, which you will pop and at that point you'll definitely have a nice little scar working. It will actually take longer for all this to heal than it would for your body to naturally break the thing down. Now, because it is so very deep, all the benzoyl peroxide in the world won't have some significant effect, but it doesn't hurt to help try and destroy some of the bacteria brewing below. If the redness just kills you, you could Neosporin or Visine that bad boy, but again, are you really fooling anyone? Obviously, keep it as clean as possible, but I wouldn't blame you for one damn second if you wanted to paint a little Amazing concealer over that bitch. PS. Almost forgot to mention that you could get a cortisone shot from a derm to help it clear up faster. But since it costs about $200, that's for like, a serious emergency like you're about to get married or something... Unless, I don't know, is it worth a few hundo to get rid of a zit? You tell me. 7 CommentsLeave a comment |
 
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From the first sentence (holy phil collins!), to the very end, you had me delighted and actually laughing. Who knew tragedy could be so damn funny? Are you available for parties?
Oh girl...go get that shit injected. When they get that deep ( I SO know how you feel) and are close to your mouth, you can't even TALK without feeling it......I don't know about you but it takes my big 'uns a few WEEKS to go down and "heal' on their own....and you know if you get that shot it will be gone in a week.
It' SO not fair.....to turn 30 and now have acne from hell on top of WRINKLES......
But I got an appt. with my derm and will be starting the whole Obagi px thing soon...and I will keep you posted...
Hang in...and remember an ice pack will help with some of the pain and inflammation.
I've also had some success with the new Neutrogena Acne-Stress Control Power Scrub (in fact, I bought my second tube of it yesterday...)
I bow to thee. That Phil Collins reference is absolutely golden. And I can so relate to the under-the-skin zit.
Your writing is delightful,the problem is frightful. Not to mention painful,ugly,humiliating, and alway worst at the least convenient time (is there ever one!!!)I am one of those(how did you so quaintly put it?) "grown-ass women" who have put up with this problem off and on for lets just say too long. I used to pray for just a few clear years between(cystic) acne and wrinkles. This is what I've learned after a myriad of pills,capsules,creams,lotions and potions both prescriptions and over the counter junk,Doctors &Wizards.Some people just are plain oily,causing sebbacous cysts.The faster you move the faster your circulation will chase these nasty critters away. Also check out your diet, eliminate fried as much as your wllpower will allow eat tons of fruit and yes veggies,and drink lots of water!
Cystic pimples are the worst! I had one on the side of my nose near my eye a couple of months ago. I couldn't look down without seeing the thing and I could feel it whenever I smiled of talked. Yuck! Anyway, I found that - for me -
using a warm compress on the ginormous pimple each evening and sathering cortizone cream on it each morning, evening, and night, as well as cleaning the pimple well worked wonders. That puppy was DRASTICALLY reduced (to the size of your average tiny pimple) in two days.
I have 2 coming on right now, I can feel it! I so try to take care of my skin take care of myself but they just keep coming. I don't really know what to use, what covers them and the redness that they leave behind which last a lot longer then I thought it would. It's so embarrassing, I have been battling this for a while. IT SUCKS! I always thought that after puberty it was over, not that we have kids, get married or in the dating scene, so on and so forth, get on the PTA and bring an addition like acne. SO NOT FAIR! Thanks for the article, I don't feel like I am so alone now :)
O.k., I really needed to read this! The funny thing is that at one point I misread what you wrote (or perhaps it was just my subconscious talking). When you suggested, "we paint a little Amazing concealer over that bitch", I read, "we should paint the WORD bitch over it!" I am still laughing about it! I think I like my idea better, because lets face it, we aren't fooling anyone with concealer. This way at least we would be saying to the world, "YEAH, I know it's there, and I'm just calling it like I see it!" Thanks for the laughter!