Boil On Earlobe?!

I actually have a lump or boil in my earlobe that I just recently noticed. Any idea of what it is? Mine is more visible from the back of the earlobe. Its acually making my ear really red and kind of throbbing if I put pressure on it. I'll probably go see an md if it doesn't clear soon.

Your problem sounds like the exact same thing that has been affecting both of my earlobes for the past few years. Sometimes one, or both (usually both at the same time) of my earlobes will, over the course of two or three days, become red, swollen and hard. The lobes get to a point where they become quite painful, sometimes making it hard for me to sleep on the side of my head. I eventually get the nerve to just pick at them or squeeze them until a thick mixture of blood and puss oozes out. I generally get a lot of drainage. But after I squeeze most of the white stuff out of the lobe, it goes back to normal. This has been a recurring pattern for around three years or so. It happens maybe four or five times a year. I really wish I could find some way of preventing this, but nobody seems to have any good explanation of why this is happening. I am a 23-year-old male that has never had my ears pierced.

Thats strange because mine swelled back down after a few weeks. I can still feel some residual thats hard in texture. Its really tiny though. I actually had my ear pierced many years ago. Not sure if there's any correlation there, but i'm sure glad its gone.

My husband gets them all of the time. He complains that they are sore and hurt. Then eventually he tries to pop them like a pimple and sometimes it works. I just want everyone to know that it is called a sebacious cyst. They do not need to be popped!!!! It is dangerous to pop them yourselves. We just found this out yesterday..The cyst was on his earlobe and made it almost twice the normal size..He complained of it hurting and it went down into his neck right under his ear..And then he found one on the back of his head...Needless to say I took him to the emergency room and that is where we found out what is was. The doctor said it was uncommon to see it but she had seen it before and that it was a sebacious cyst. It is fatty skin tissue built up in the skin .. By my understanding. The only way to treat it is with antibiotics and this particular Dr. Cut my husbands open and drained the puss/blood out. She said that it would keep reoccuring until the "seed" was removed. No one can tell when the seed is removed but the Dr. Can cut, drain, and clean it and follow it with antibiotics. Most of the time they will continue to come back and if youre lucky they will drain the seed and it will go away. We were informed that it is nothing to play around with and by that I took it serious. Do not pop them! Just make a Dr.S appt. And let them take care of this sebacious cyst for you. I hope I helped someone out take care and if you find out anymore info let me know at rebe ccaramirez1@aol.Com and in the subject type cyst/earlobes ty

I'm 34 and i've been getting these for about 8 years.

A small lump appears in my ears, becomes swollen and painful, and then fills with fluid and finally after about a month it becomes slightly 'saggy' and bursts, releasing a think, smelly bloody discharge.

I've had one removed through surgery, but others have taken its place.

As far as I know they're little that can be done long-term, except for antibiotics.

The worrying thing in my case is that i've had similar lumps appear on the bridge of my nose and on the point of my jaw.

Wow I also get the same thing. I get lil boils once and while in my earlobe that are very painful but they always go down in a couple of day. I also suffer from boils on my chin area and nose and cheekbone that become red, painful and just look awful and I dont even want to go outside but I have no choice. I try to treat it and do the things that I should not be doing but I still seem to get boils. Docts are full of caca!

Hey kvocalist...


Yep...Chin, cheekbone and nose.


Sounds all very familiar.



Your handle suggests you sing...I writre music...Shall we wax lyrical about the joy of boils ?

Please help I got the same problem its the size of a grape I tried to pop it with a needle but nothing comes out just alittle blood and some white puss but its not goin away its been 4 days already I soaked it in perioxide it dont hurt its just huge its coming out the back of my earlobe please someone help what should I do?

I've had these same symptoms for over 10 years. Starting when I was about 16 years old and i'm 26 right now. I had it checked out by a doctor about 6 years ago. He said the lumps are benign (not cancerous). They're sebaceous cyst. He said he could remove them but they would likely return so I decided to just live with it. As the years have progressed they have become less an less of an issue.

I still have lumps but they don't get inflamed any more. So what happened? Why are they not getting irritated anymore? The two major things that I do are wash the area thoroughly with mild soap (i use "kiss my face" none scented olive oil soap) and avoid eating trans fats (hydrogenated oils, partially hygrogenated oils, fractionated oils, etc). I should point out though that i've changed a lot about my diet and life style -- I eat lots of fresh natural organic foods and avoid low quality fast foods and snacks with ingredients that sound unnatural. I also tend towards natural soaps, cleaners and detergents. Since all of these changes I still have the little lumps they just don't get big and ugly.

thomas10 im an 18 yr old male and i have gotten on both my ears exactly what you described since i was a young kid probly 12 or 13 and have had them grow pretty large and then go down, and even removed and stitched up several times from two differnet surgeons. As many times as i have had them treated by surgeons they still seem to re occur and i have found that it comes from sleeping on one side of your head all night long causes a fluid buildup in that area so my advice would try to watch the way you sleep if you can see a pattern in when they occur. hope i could help