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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 03:48 PM
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I have a humongous zit .....
Edited on Sun Dec-10-06 03:49 PM by Bullwinkle925
right underneath my eyebrow (ouch) which is causing the surrounding tissue to swell and sort of overlap into the corner of my eye. Weird. How long must one go through PUBERTY for crissakes??
Must go put some ice on it, I guess.

If that's the worst that happens to me right now, I guess I'm damned lucky.

edited for grammar (sheesh)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 03:48 PM
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1. Puberty stops somewhere around your 7th decade, I think
:D
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 03:52 PM
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2. Good grief.
I still have a couple of decades to go then. Hmmm - probably would be a good thing to invest in companies that produce acne products.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 03:56 PM
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3. I Don't Think Puberty Ever Ends
until we're toes up!

So be glad?


:rofl:



I hate zits too, I get one once in a while on my nose, or my forehead, or my cheek that drives me crazy. I should be well past puberty too.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:00 PM
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4. The one I have now seems to be my new 'best friend' - and I think it has
its own zip-code.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:02 PM
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5. Should We Send Mail To It And See?
:rofl:
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:19 PM
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6. Try some of the Neutrogena salicylic acid gel.
It knocks those guys right down.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:31 PM
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8. Okay - I'm off to Target now. Thanks.
The sucker hurts - actually throbs. Dammit.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:28 PM
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7. You must have a date
Never fails that I get one right before a first date or some sort of event where pictures will be taken. Never. Fails.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:32 PM
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9. If only I could be sooo lucky.
hahahahahaha
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:07 PM
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10. I was lucky as a teenager
I had no acne at all. Now? I swear over the past year, I've gotten more zits (usually at the tip of my nose - lovely-, the bridge of my nose or along my hairline than I have in my entire life. :wtf:
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:24 PM
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11. Wet a washcloth with very warm water, squeeze it out, and hold it against the zit
several times. You want to increase the circulation to the area, not decrease it with ice application.
Your blood will carry white blood cells that attack the bad guys responsible for the localized infection. The pain will be soothed, too, and it may allow the zit to heal from within or surface and dry up, aided by salicylic acid stuff.
I admit I'm in that awkward stage where I have to peer through my trifocals to inspect a pimple!
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:27 PM
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12. Just another way of keeping us humble, I suppose.
I'm off now for the warm compresses.

aarrgghhhhhhhhh
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firefox_fan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:30 PM
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13. It's gonna go away...
Don't worry. It happens. It's worse if you get one of those right in your eye :)
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:30 PM
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14. I never got zits as a teenager
Once I hit about 30, I started getting them. Not a lot, thank goodness, but enough to say :wtf:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:34 PM
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15. I can't believe nobody's copycatted this
:shrug:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:35 PM
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16. I resisted for as long as I could...
:spray:
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:46 PM
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20. Kudos to you for holding off as long as you could.
and I KNOW it was such a struggle for you.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:46 PM
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21. You do?
:rofl:
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:05 PM
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23. We are talking about 'Copy-catting' aren't we?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:43 PM
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19. HEY!
I SAW THAT. And I'm going to sic my zit on you, too.


:P
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:49 PM
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22. Do your worst!
I used to draw targets with lipstick on the bathroom mirror, then try to pop 'em onto the bull's eye.

:P
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:51 PM
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31. Uhm, ewww
And what where you doing with lipstick? ....interesting....
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:38 PM
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17. Toothpaste or mint alcohol
apply liberally - zit gone in hours.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:39 PM
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18. Not ice. Absolutely NOT ice. A HOT washcloth. Repeat until it bursts.
Redstone
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:13 PM
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24. Me too! But I can't tell you where it is.
Yeah, it's right THERE.
:-(
Does Clearasil work on your...you know?
What a pain in the...you know.
Literally.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:19 PM
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25. Good Grief -
Been there, done that, too. These damned zits do not show any mercy, do they?
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QMPMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:31 PM
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26. No they don't. I'm 49 and had one today that hurt like hell.
It no longer exists. I killed it.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:53 PM
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27. My skin has been so fucked recently
I had pretty bad acne as a teenager, but I was mostly clean throughout my 20's.

But ever since my 33rd birthday my skin has been a disaster. I just can't get it healthy.

I swear, you can see my pores from frickin outerspace.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:55 PM
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28. Are you sure it's a zit? If you pluck your eyebrows, it might be an ingrown hair.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 10:52 PM
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32. that's what I was thinking... possible ingrown hair
if it's that close to your eyebrow.

Either way, a warm cloth will bring it to point where it will drain or you can help it along a bit. DO NOT SQUEEZE IT if you can't see the 'head' of the pimple - you can damage the tissue, esp. such delicate skin around the eye.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 11:08 PM
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33. True - there is not a chance that I would even try to squeeze this little
bugger right now. Much too tender. I'll keep using the warm compresses and keep trying the salcylic acids. Egads.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 11:10 PM
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34. but the warm compresses are trying to bring
it to a head so it can pop and drain, and the salicylic acid is used to diminish it. You're confusing your skin. One or the other.
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:14 PM
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29. Are you using your mask?
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:49 PM
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30. Of course not ....
however, I WAS thinking about doing so last evening. perchance tonight - who knows???
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