Why you should never pop a pimple: Aussie woman shares her chin spot horror story

An Australian woman learned the hard way why you should never do a DIY pimple extraction after she’s contracted a nasty infection.

Tyla Brimblecombe shared how her chin was so swollen she said she looked like ‘Buzz Lightyear’ after pinching a spot for a year and a half.

In a viral video posted on TikTok, the social media strategist said a doctor told her that the mysterious spot wasn’t a cyst, but that squeezing it may have caused an infection that would require her to take antibiotics to heal.

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She said she had a small spot on her chin for a year and a half that became severely infected and swollen after trying to squeeze it several times.

“If you ever have a pimple and you’re actually not sure if it’s a pimple and you really want to get rid of it, my advice is, don’t do it,” Tyla warned viewers in the clip.

She said she had spent the past 24 hours in “excruciating pain” after trying to clear a pimple she thought appeared on her chin about 18 months ago.

“I started noticing a little pimple on my chin, it never really had a head, something that was a little bit deeper in my skin and I was always like ‘oh it’s going away’ or ‘I’m going to pop it’ when it ready,” she explained.

“It never got done, it just stayed the way it was and to be honest I just ignored it.”

Tyla then revealed her chin in the video, which had a small but nasty wound, had “doubled in size” and was red and “stone solid.”

Tyla added around the time she noticed the “pimple” she had chin fillers and the spot seemed to be in the same place the needle would have gone.

“Come two nights ago, I decided, I’m going to squeeze this naughty boy a little bit, went in knuckles, went in super hard,” she said.

“The next morning when I woke up, instead of a white head, the speck was quite yellow, so I was like, ‘oh my god, it’s infected.'”

Later that night, Tyla tried to squeeze the spot even more, leaving her with a large bruise and swelling.

After many requests from viewers asking for updates, Tyla said in a follow-up video that she’d been to the doctor and the spot improved after being given antibiotics.

“And right now I’m embracing it, it gives Buzz Lightyear – infinity and beyond – but this got worse and worse, puffer and puffer,” she joked.

Her boyfriend also had a “good crack” when squeezing the spot with cotton swabs.

Tyla then revealed her chin in the video had a small but nasty wound, “doubled in size” and was red and “rock solid.”

Her video garnered more than 2.2 million views, shocking hundreds in the comments, while others said something similar had happened to them.

“No, but girl THIS HAPPENED TO ME and I got a facial abscess and became septic,” said one woman.

‘You should go to the doctor! Possibly infected/cyst, please don’t touch it again,” a second advised.

Days later Tyla’s chin was back to ‘normal’ and she said it ‘looks like nothing happened’

‘This happened to me, it turned out to be an abscess from having MRSA, or golden staph. I would definitely get tested,” wrote a third.

After many requests from viewers asking for updates, Tyla said in a follow-up video that she’d been to the doctor and the spot improved after being given antibiotics.

“I asked if it was a cyst, he said no and it’s gone down a lot today,” she said, showing her chin which still had a wound but was much less swollen.

“I think it was me who attacked what didn’t need to be attacked, it got worse, and then it obviously got really swollen and much worse by putting my own spin on it.”

Days later, Tyla’s chin was back to normal and she said it “looks like nothing happened.”