'Dr. Pimple Popper': 10 Most Satisfying Cyst Pops
Long before Dr. Sandra Lee took her Dr. Pimple Popper show to TLC, her Popaholics fanbase grew to [...]
Meatball Cyst
This cyst was the size of a doorknob or a meatball. It was located in the patient's upper arm. In the 20-minute video, Lee extracts all the gunk from the patient's arm. The 2016 video is one of Lee's most popular, with 15 million views.
prevnextBlackhead Back Extraction
This is a short video, showing Lee extracting a blackhead from a patient's back. Uploaded in 2015, it has over 14.4 million views. Notably, Lee states in the description that the video was uploaded for educational purposes to avoid being kicked off YouTube.
prevnextCyst on the Back
This 2016 clip shows a man getting the cyst on his back removed. It has over 13.2 million views. The man in the video said he took a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to visit his family in California. During the vacation, he scheduled an appointment with Dr. Lee.
prevnextEruptive Vellus Hair Cyst
In January 2016, Lee took on the case of an Eruptive Vellus Hair Cyst. She had never done this type of extraction before. In her description, Lee wants that a "cosmetic" and time-consuming extraction like this would likely not be covered by insurance and could be too expensive for most people.
"Well, I chose to do this because I wanted to see if these type of cysts could truly be 'popped out' successfully, and I offered to treat these for free if she consented to my videotaping the procedure for you all to learn from and enjoy," she wrote.
prevnextUpper Back Cyst
This patient has a big epidermoid cyst on his upper back. The patient had a tattoo in the area, which made things interesting. She had to figure out a way to make sure the scar did not go against the tattoo. The video has over 8.6 million views.
prevnextNose Cyst
This video was posted in September 2015 and already has over 47.7 million videos. Lee shows every stage of the process as she helps this patient with a nose cyst.
prevnextSteatocystoma Multiplex
This patent traveled from the East Coast to see Dr. Lee. The woman learned about her unusual condition, Steatocystoma Multiplex, and saw other dermatologists. Lee later learned that the patient is a physician.
"What is most striking to me is that this interaction reinforces to me the fact that is whole "popping" phenomenon is not for entertainment sake," Lee wrote in a long statement about the video. "This is a patient who happens to me a physician who saw many dermatologists in her area who could help explain her condition but who were not helping the patient to extract these growths. And this is what she really wanted. She knows there is no treatment for this condition. She only wants me to help remove some of them because it's difficult, and in many instances impossible for her to do it herself. And I realized this as I was filming this video, that she travelled across the country because she just wanted help getting some of these OUT. That is all. And I was happy to help in the end."
prevnextScalp Cyst
This patient had a cyst in a really unfortunate spot: his scalp. Oddly enough, the material inside the cyst came out like a pillar. In the end, the man's hair proves challenging because it gets in the way of Lee stitching. This shorter video has 2.5 million views and was posted in December 2015.
prevnextLower Back Cyst
This patient had a cyst on her lower back. It was very big, and Lee was not sure of what it was at first. "This is one of those blackheads that you were waiting to see! I thought this was a blackhead, or a Dilated Pore of Winer, but it proved to be an epidermoid cyst. It was flattened and disc-shaped because it's in a very tight area of the back and it couldn't grow down or up easily, so it spread out very flatly, which makes it look more like a large blackhead," she wrote.
prevnextThe Baby-Faced Cyst
One of Dr. Lee's most unforgettable pops is the "baby-faced" zit. This is one you want to watch on an empty stomach. Lee was even surprised it was a cyst, since she thought it was a lipoma at first.
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