A nose story

[effervescible]

Okay, so earlier this week I had a little bump on the inside of my nostril that was painful, and it eventually sort of migrated into a red tender bump on the outside, right atop the nostril. Almost on the very tip, but not centered. I just figured it was one of those occasional zits you get where it's big enough to feel on both sides. So, it grows enough to have a wee head on it and I figured pop this bitch because then it will stop being tender. Which I did. And I squeezed a bit more a second time to get all the gunk out, and I see a tiny black spot.

A deeply-buried blackhead, I wonder? No. I squeeze, and a NOSE HAIR EMERGES. Apparently, I had an in-grown nostril hair that worked its way to the OUTSIDE.

To be honest, it is kind of freaking me out. Inside things are supposed to stay inside! I keep thinking, if I get another zit, what else might come out?

Weird.

Comments

[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD ARE YOU KIDDING?

That is a fucking medical miracle.

You have blown my mind. Seriously.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I am still a little freaked out. It's just a hair (tiny, just like an eyelash) but still. INSIDE THINGS SHOULD STAY INSIDE.

[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

BREAKING NEWS! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

http://ask.metafilter.com/21600/My-nose-did-something-very-odd-potentially-icky-question

[jaina.livejournal.com]

That is it exactly! I feel better now.

[angstymcgoth.livejournal.com]

OH NO THAT SUCKS! DDDD:

I guess maybe this is incentive to pluck the inner-nose-hairs? I tried that once, it made me sneeze a lot. Maybe I just didn't have the proper motivation D:

[jaina.livejournal.com]

DDDDDDDDD: NO WAY. THAT IS TOO OUCHY. I CAN BARELY PLUCK MY EYEBROWS. Though plucking chin hairs is oddly satisfying.

Nothing like this has ever happened before, and I don't have any nose bushes, so I'm gonna cross my fingers and continue as normal. It's so fucking weird, though; it just looked like a normal deep zit. Still does.

[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

My husband attacks my chin hairs with tweezers and glee.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I keep reading that as tweezers and glue.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Ewww! And also I agree with your icon. Dear Jaina's nose: what up the fuck?

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Maybe all the Afrin I sprayed up it last month has caused it to mutate.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Ack, that's awful. I agree with you about inside things. And I hope your nose calms down now.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

It's much better now.

[cyanglow]

I've only ever had something similar happen with a chin hair, but coming out a millimeter or two away from the follicle is not at all on the same level of WTF as inside-to-outside! Brb, checking nose hairs.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Chin hairs are pretty crazy anyway. This was just...I don't even know.

DID YOU FIND ANYTHING?

[cyanglow]

Yeah with the chin, that was just a sign telling me to start shaving like everyone else...

OTHER THAN A FEW SILVER-WHITE NOSE HAIRS, ALL IS NORMAL. THANKFULLY. D:

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

Our bodies are weird, and yeah, that would freak me out. If it's any consolation, I have a friend of a friend whose tear duct rerouted itself and created an opening in her cheek...

my actual irl reaction

[enogitna.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

DID SHE CRY OUT HER CHEEK?

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

I don't know for sure. She noticed it because she was leaking what seemed like tears, went to the Doctor and he told her what happened. She blames the fact that she's a lab tech who works around a lot of chemicals.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

adfdsfsadsaasd

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

I know! I guess she's lucky she didn't come in contact with a irradiated spider or something...although the super powers would have been cooler...

[jaina.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty ace as long as she didn't start shitting silk.

[tigerlilyaj.livejournal.com]

BWAH! There are so many places I've been LMAO in this thread, but settled on jumping in here.
I'm glad the hair issue has been resolved, and can say that, as an unrepentant scab-picker, zit-popper etc., I would have done the same thing.

aevalin, I hope your pal is all healed. Gack!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

*bows* Glad I'm not the only one who can't stop poking at stuff.

[enogitna.livejournal.com]

Entries like these are the fucking reason I have a livejournal. I'm serious.

Hope your nose feels better soon!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Dude me too.

It's much better now!

[scathachdhu.livejournal.com]

FREAK.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

HO

[arafel.livejournal.com]

There is very little that is as satisfying as pulling out a hair that's not supposed to be there.

If it makes you feel any better, I once had a leg hair that grew out microns under my skin, like a snake under a blanket. It was about four inches long by the time I noticed. D:

[jaina.livejournal.com]

It was like "This is AWESOME" and "This is FUCKED UP" at the same time.

...I'm not gonna lie. That sounds kind of awesome, too.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Eww!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I tell you what.

[drcristin.livejournal.com]

whoa. that is crazy

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Super-crazy.

[kawree.livejournal.com]

*laughing helplessly* that is...quite a story! hope that's the strangest it gets!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Seeeeriously.