So I have oily skin. That's old news...but eating low fat etc, my skin's been looking great! Also, cutting out the cigs, definitely looking better!

Well, I've chronically had pimples appear behind my ears. You know, in the crease of the ear? Where the ear meets head in the hard cartelidge (however you spell it) area?

Well I had a doozy of a pimple behind my right ear. I am normally able to squeeze them when they get out of control. This guy however is being a stinker and not budging. Even after hot compresses, dunking that ear for 1hour in the hot tub, etc.

It's hard to see, as you can imagine, and over the past couple of days, it got to a point where it's actually sore in the area all around, and a bit now down to my neck.

So, clinic time again! I got in telling them "I have a sore ear" (I didn't specify it was an EXTERNAL issue, I knew they would have told me to go to the ER). So I went in thinking the doctor would look, see the white head, I'd suck in a big breath and he'd squeeze the bejebus out of it...

With a smile he says "Oh, you have a cyst! Nothing to worry about, it may go away on it's own, but it's not infected terribly to worry about right now".

I have another CYST? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Yes it's true. I guess my trying to get rid of what I imagined to be a pimple behind my ear, in fact, was me irritating the crap out of a soon to be cyst.

SIGH. Here we go again.

(I may smother the area in toothpaste though, at night... I know it works for draining pimples!).

You are now all welcome to point and laugh at me for yet another cyst.

Least the doctor was nice enough to prescribe some Tylenol 3. They go nicely with my Clonazepam.