I occasionally get what feels to be pimples or boils in my nose. They never come to a head but are painful to touch and usually go away after a few days. They can’t be seen and can’t even be felt as a lump or anything.
I’m 28 and haven’t had pimples since I was a teenager but these zits in my nose are very annoying and sometimes embarassing when a light tap during kung fu has me doubled over in pain with tears in my eyes.
I suffer from hayfever and use a steroid nasal spray very occasionally.
Anyone else have the same problem and how to deal with it?
Press the corner outside the nose near the wall. Push in and slide the skinin place up to pressure the dead lymph through. Is what I prefer and what I think it is.
Clearing that clears other stuff. Good to do for my health, my say.
I’m going to put on the zit cremes out of business: wash with Betadine Surgical Scrub. Usually you have to order it, but it’s non-perscription foamy version of that brown sh!t they wipe on you before an operation. It won’t hurt you, I use it all the time, and it’s cheap, unlike Betadine solution which I do not recommend. I went from zitty to nothing fast. Some common knowledge from my wife’s country…
ouch, in nose pimples?
sounds troublesome. As for those painful non-pimple things, I get them on occasion. Dont know what to do, just usually let them work their way out.
As for the “pain is our friend”, reminds me of a quote on some Marine dude’s coffee mug…
“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
hehe… Gave me a good chuckle…
was nice to see a thread on zits in the nose started by sticky fingers.
now, in all seriousness, that could actually be your problem. picking out the occasional booger isn’t a bad thing, but aside from proper timing (not during a date) make sure you don’t stick your fingers up your nose without having clean hands. the last thing your nostrils need is the grease from a bucket of KFC.
ok, this is weird for a kung-fu site, but…did you ever pluck out nose hairs? Even if you use those little sicissors, they still end up pulling out hairs. anyway, they will sometimes develop zits on the inside=probably from ingrown hairs, not really sure. Anyway, if you haven’t , then you probably have a shrub hanging out of your nostrils by now. Hey, it’s maintenance. I can’t wait till I start gettin hairs growin out of my ears! (Things to look foward to in your old age)we lose hair where we want it and grow hair where we don’t want it!
Originally posted by IronFist
[B]Dude, I’m serious. What’s steroid nasal spray?
IronFist [/B]
There are severl steroid based nasal sprays available, but they are not anabolic steroids. As prana said, they help to reduce inflammation in the nasal tissues due to allergies, sinusitis etc. I once asked my doc about them and basically they are supposed to be a hormone the body normally produces anyway, but people with allergies and sinus problems sometimes don’t produce enough of it.
I think mine are stress related, some ppl get cold sores or pimples on their face when they are stressed, I get them in my nose…
guohuen, I don’t fancy walking around with a purple nose for 2 days!! I do get nosehair pimples sometimes but I also get ones that are ‘in’ my nose, in the fleshy part but they never surface. So I don’t know if any washes or paints can help with those.
Ironfist - I can nose-press 300lbs! just kidding. I meant corticosteroids which are anti-inflammatory eg cortisone and prednisolone. They are found in many drugs, from asthma puffers to skin creams for psoriasis. Anabolic steroids on the other hand…well you probably already know.
I used to think I got pimples inside my nose, but I’m pretty sure it’s cold sores (aka herpes simplex.) Your steroid nasal spray might be depressing the cellular immunity in your nose and allowing the latent virus to become active. Stress can do that, too. Lay off the spray and/or try some acyclovir. And it might be a good idea not to go down on your girlfriend when you’ve got one of these.
As you know, steroids are basically hormones. Different hormones have different functions, so it stands to reason that there are steroids with different uses.
Your body normally maintains a delicate balancing act between anabolic hormones, such as testosterone, growth hormone, and insulin, and catabolic hormones like prednisone and cortisone. One reason artificial hormones, like anabolic steriods, can be bad for you is they can upset that balance. Your body has to control the anabolic (building up) versus the catabolic (breaking down).
