We’ll never do it again… OK we probably will.
There are some strange people in the world, we know you’re one of them, who have an odd fascination with the popping of zits, pimples, spots etc.
If you’re one of these people, you will take perverse pleasure in watching the videos of Dr. Pimple Popper.
But this story from one Reddit user could dampen your popping spirit when you hear the close call he encountered after trying to squeeze a spot above his eye.
In the post, he explains how events transpired…
“So I had a pimple in my eyebrow that was annoying me and I decided to squeeze it. This seemed to work at the time, but the next day it had grown back twice as big,” he said.
So he took a standard course of action and attacked that unsightly bast*rd and initially thought his venture was successful, until it swelled horribly.
Here’s a picture of the progression…
“I went to the doctor and he told me it was probably a sebaceous cyst and gave me some oral antibiotics,” he continued.
“12 hours later it had prbably tripled in size and I has having difficulty opening my eye, so I went back to the doctor and he said I could go to the hospital “if I wanted”.
“I got to the hospital and they immediately freaked, started pumping me full of IV antibiotics and gave me a head CT.
“Turns out by squeezing the pimple I forced the infection deeper and ended up with periorbital cellulitis. If I had left it much longer it could have spread to the orbit and blinded me.
“I’ve just had surgery under general anestesia to clean it out, and that’s why I have that funny looking tube sticking out of my head.
“Looks like I’ve got at least another two days in hospital so I can get more IV antibiotics.”
This is what he looked like after the surgery…
But luckily for him, they managed to save his eye and following the surgery it had begun to return to normal size…
We’ll never pop another pimple again… damn we lied, we will be more careful about it in the future though.
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