Popping milia?

I had a little white pimple under my eye and I figured it would go away. I wash it everyday.

It’s literally been there for months. I have had one before and I went to the doctor and asked him to pop it because it was so close to my eye and the skin there is so thin and he said “Pop it yourself?” He called it milia. It’s a build up of keratin under the skin.

So I went home and grabbed it with tweezers and poked it with a disinfected pin needle and popped it.

I thought how in the hell did I manage that? I couldn’t bring myself to do it until someone pointed out that it’s been there forever and I finally lost my mind and did it again. That SOB would just not go away! I saw it everytime I looked in the mirror and it made me insecure. I was amazed at it coming out because I had tried to use my fingers and it never worked. I squeezed it out with tweezers a while ago.

Then I looked it up and apparently you’re supposed to go to a dermatologist to have them popped because they can cause infection. I cleaned the needle and I also cleaned under my eye and put antibiotic ointment on it but I literally had a doctor make me feel so stupid the last time I had one and asked to have it popped.

I’m so scared my eye is gonna get infected now 😕 does anyone else get these and remove them at home?