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A zit ON the lip - not the edge?
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Wait- You squeezed something out of it? Not just pus? What was the consistency- dried pus, waxy fat, oily lump, or something else? Did you experience a terrible cold/flu-like episode recently?
That's what's kinda weird. If it popped out of any other part of my body I'd say it was a lot like an infected hair follicle.
It was a solid-waxy pus ball/sack.
Even getting it out was weird - I couldn't use my fingers cos it just disappeared into my lip. So I had to push my lip into my mouth and use my teeth behind it to push this pus-ball out onto my tongue!
Probs difficult to picture but imagine the move you do if/when picking bits of your lip off with your teeth. Biting your lips basically but instead emptying what looks like a sebacious cyst onto your tongue below.
I'm gonna keep an eye on it since some seem to say it's HPV/cold sore.
No ones mentioned cancer or something exotic so I'm feeling better for my chances! ๐
Yeah, it sounds more like a cyst to me based on your (absolutely disgusting, though I guess I did ask for it) description. I've got both oral herpes and am prone to both sebaceous and fluid-filled cysts. Did it leave a rapidly-closing cavity? A herpes outbreak would leave a painful, hot, yellow-brown crust that leaks pus when broken. And you definitely haven't had any cold/flu symptoms recently? I'm not a doctor, and i think it's a good idea for you to see one about this, but my personal suspicion is a sebaceous cyst.