Why do some spots/pimples hurt like hell while others are painless?

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As an example; a facial pimple.

I’ve experienced it render half of my face slightly swollen and sting to touching anywhere near it. Yet I’ve had other spots burst-through-cleaning and not felt a thing?

I can’t get my head around it.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There’s a few factors

The amount of skin available. In a fatty, fleshy area the pimple will have room to pimple with less pain. In a thin, less fleshy area the pimple has no where to grow which causes more pain.

There’s also more nerve endings per area in thinner skin. Fatty areas the nerves get spread out more. So pimples will hurt more where there’s less skin available.

Then the size of the pimple. The more swelling, the more nerves it hits and more pain you feel.

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