I found a lump on my lip the other day. Like literally on the lip-lip. Not the edge where I’ve had them happen before. I’ve NEVER had that happen. A zit ON the lip which I squeezed a yellow lump out of.
How does that happen? AFAIK the lip doesn’t have pores? It’s a mucus membrane?
That’s like getting a zit on your eye ball…
How? Am I going to die? Has anyone else had this?
Don’t tell me to see a doctor about a lip zit!
Ooooh, buddy, you got any new smoochin partners lately? Or share a drink with someone new? I’m no doc but ya might have gotten one of the most common STDs on the earth, oral herpes.
It’s fairly manageable, my boyfriend has it and I don’t, (and we’ve been kissing on and off for like a decade and a half) you just gotta be really careful about when you have sores and make sure not to kiss anyone or share drinks until the scabs FULLY heal.
Edit: I might be wrong, though. I usually see herpes manifest as cold sores (ya might call those ulcers in the UK, i dunno), not a pus-filled zit. But, and sorry to say, ya might wanna ask a doctor about it.
Don’t tell me to see a doctor about a lip zit!
Go and see a doctor, I doubt it’s a “lip zit”.
It’s called Herpes or HPV. There’s two types, one below and one above.
The one above can pop up on your lips and even inside your nose (yeah, imagine that). It usually happens when you have a weakened immune system, so they can be considered a warning that you’re more susceptible to every kind of infection.
Congratulations though. You are now part of the 70% + of the population carrying the virus. Yay.
*HSV
Herpes simplex virus
HPV is human papilloma virus which is equally mundane as the immune system can usually get rid of it without medical intervention.
Thanks. I always confuse all the abbreviations.
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! 😂
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.
