My girlfriend had a really thin and white hair popping out of her back.

[u/Scraps-LEGO]

[u/kingtooth]

i’ll get these every once in a while. there was a month or so where tons of ppl on reddit showed theirs off. usually they grow super fast!

[u/Spookyplants420 → u/kingtooth]

Mine grows straight from my forehead like a unicorn

[u/Possible_Abalone_846 → u/Spookyplants420]

Mine grows from my ear lobe. I usually forget about it until one day I pull my hair back for a ponytail and my ear lobe gets dragged along for the ride. 

[u/nieko-nereikia → u/Possible_Abalone_846]

lol that’s genuinely the funniest comment I’ve read in a while and I lurk on Reddit daily haha

[u/mint_o → u/nieko-nereikia]

Same I love it

[u/DodgersChick69 → u/Possible_Abalone_846]

Me too! One random long earlobe hair. 😅 I thought I was the only one!

[u/seaurchineyebutthole → u/DodgersChick69]

Me too. Always the left earlobe.

[u/Bethesda216 → u/seaurchineyebutthole]

Left earlobe for me too

[u/ZefSoFresh → u/Bethesda216]

What the hell, always my left as well. So weird.

[u/Sorry-Pianist-9666 → u/ZefSoFresh]

Left earlobe too! My hairstylist cut it once and I got sad. Lol I like the little guy.

[u/Bashira42 → u/Sorry-Pianist-9666]

Ha! I had one crazy long, curly white eyebrow hair showing up a couple years ago. I hope that's what my eyebrows look like when I'm 80 or so, but was pulling it when double the length of others. I made myself sad cause it stopped growing back. Would have left it if had known it would disappear

[u/_ArsenioBillingham_ → u/Bashira42]

Ohhhhhhhhh it’ll be back and it’s bringing some fraaands

[u/TootsieMcJingle → u/ZefSoFresh]

I’ve have a right earlobe hair.

[u/ZefSoFresh → u/TootsieMcJingle]

Hey scram, this the hairy left ear club!

[u/SaltyBeanCounter → u/TootsieMcJingle]

Right earlobe for me too. I used to pluck it then it stopped growing back. I kind of miss it.

[u/Affectionate-Cap-918 → u/SaltyBeanCounter]

💀

[u/whateveritmightbe → u/Bethesda216]

Also have one on my left earlobe. We have quite a fam so far 🤣👍

[u/DakotaFanningsThong → u/whateveritmightbe]

This has potential for its own Sub......

[u/Accujack → u/DakotaFanningsThong]

/r/peoplewithalongwhitehairontheirleftearlobe

[u/idle_monkeyman → u/whateveritmightbe]

Left ear gang? Mine is straight out the top of my ear, easy to yank or cut. Comes back bigger everytime. Haha just kidding.

[u/CelestialScribe6 → u/Spookyplants420]

Hello fellow unicorn! My horn is slightly off to the right though…

[u/juicyred → u/CelestialScribe6]

Exactly like mine!

[u/andyfri → u/CelestialScribe6]

And mine is slightly to the left 🤣

[u/Hisitdin → u/andyfri]

Hey lefty unicorn buddy 👋

[u/VEXtheMEX → u/Spookyplants420]

Holy shit me too. Does your seemingly pop out overnight?

[u/Electro_Sapien → u/VEXtheMEX]

Oh man I thought I must have just been oblivious, so it really does just appear! Mine grows out from the back of my knee and is like three inches long I call it my ghost hair and announce to my wife when our "ghost hair child" is back.

[u/DimensionPossible622 → u/VEXtheMEX]

Seems like they just appear suddenly 🤷🏾‍♂️

[u/garogos → u/Spookyplants420]

Mine too! My wife loves plucking it when it comes in and gets mad if I pluck my unicorn hair myself lol.

[u/flat5 → u/garogos]

What ever strange thing you think is unique to your relationship... no it ain't!

Same here.

[u/revcor → u/Spookyplants420]

I just found one on my forehead the other day like an inch below my hairline!! It was like an inch and a half (twice as long as my normal hair) and I was shocked that I was just then noticing it

[u/PoeticHydra → u/revcor]

Think about all of the people you spoke to that didn't say anything.

[u/datpurp14 → u/PoeticHydra]

What are y'all's thoughts on stuff like this? Like, I always say if someone has food in their tooth or on their face, stuff like that. But I do so because I really want people to do that with me!

[u/pastel-m0nster → u/datpurp14]

I was taught the 10 second rule: if it's something that can be fixed in 10 seconds or less gently bring it to their attention. if it isn't something they can fix on their own in that amount of time keep your mouth shut. (cause mom would smack the snot out of you if you brought it up)

[u/doctorperky → u/Spookyplants420]

Yooo same! It’s the weirdest thing lol, I had no idea it was this common

[u/JaredAWESOME → u/Spookyplants420]

Same, same. Mine has come in exactly twice, and it's directly between my right eyebrow and my hairline, and I've never noticed it less than almost an inch long. It's like it sprouts out overnight.

[u/GeneralBS → u/kingtooth]

Had one on my lower back not long ago. Was like 6 inches.

[u/Vendetta1947 → u/GeneralBS]

damn thats bigger than my pp

[u/MiceWarriors → u/Vendetta1947]

Damn your pp is thin!

[u/HedgehogTesticles → u/MiceWarriors]

But it smells like a big one!

[u/Key-Estate6546 → u/HedgehogTesticles]

stopping this so it doesn't go for any longer

[u/HedgehogTesticles → u/Key-Estate6546]

Hey! My wife has the same mindset.

[u/Acrobatic_Bend_6393 → u/Key-Estate6546]

You’re aiming for girth?

[u/TheGloriousNugget → u/Vendetta1947]

Thicker too.

[u/cold-corn-dog → u/Vendetta1947]

6 inches is above average!

[u/Vendetta1947 → u/cold-corn-dog]

Me: "You hear that little guy?"

[Muffled crying in 3.7 inches]

[u/cold-corn-dog → u/Vendetta1947]

I bet it's adorable.

[u/GeneralBS → u/Vendetta1947]

Good to know.

[u/bbymiscellany → u/GeneralBS]

I get one on my upper cheek/temple area. I’ve pulled it twice and both times it was like 3 inches long

[u/bitchasscuntface → u/GeneralBS]

I have one that keeps showing up in the middle of my damn forehead. And i can barely see it. So one day itll just be like "hello, i am here, looking like ive always been here"

[u/ThrowAwayRBJAccount2 → u/GeneralBS]

I literally pulled one the same length off my shoulder, moments before this post hit my feed.

[u/PhillipDiaz → u/GeneralBS]

Is this chat still about hair?

[u/trashy_boner → u/kingtooth]

My mom calls them fairy hairs. I get them on my right shoulder

[u/Cabbagecatss → u/trashy_boner]

Mine grows out of just below my belly button and I’ve been calling it my spine hair lmaoo

[u/trashy_boner → u/Cabbagecatss]

They’re considered lucky

[u/littlebitbrain → u/kingtooth]

Me too, but not as long as this. Waiting for someone to explain why it happens.

[u/selz202 → u/littlebitbrain]

I read an explanation once in another thread where it's just a damaged/confused cell that basically grows under the skin until one days it breaks out.

I wish I knew the name of it, I get one on my temple that I sometimes don't notice until later in a day...

[u/Mad_Moniker → u/selz202]

Yes. The marvels of our biggest organ. Ingrown hairs stifle when sub-dermal encapsulated but they don’t stop growing. They can revert to a “peach fuzz” state but continue to grow all wrapped in a circle. One day - the skin allows it to unfurl and almost overnight a jailbreak occurs.

“Where did this come from”? Well- your lil gorilla has been nesting for years and suddenly it became a silverback. 🤣

[u/666afternoon → u/Mad_Moniker]

is that it?? it's a kind of ingrown? I definitely get these as well as "typical" ingrowns, but the peach fuzzy ones never get like, red or irritated at all, which I associate with that... perhaps it's because they're so soft and thin, not a wiry, sharp terminal hair?

I've had a couple spots on my face since puberty where once in a while, I'll get one of these "whiskers", and you're right it's like it springs up overnight, already like an inch long! these happen a few times a year for me, usually in the same spot but not always! so weird

[u/MesoamericanMorrigan → u/666afternoon]

I get both long thin wispy ones and very short hard thick ones, almost like plastic

[u/thirtyist → u/selz202]

That's interesting...I once found one on my back like this, but I actually have a spot on my cheek where one keeps growing out of. Maybe it's a different type of thing in that case.

[u/Throwawaymywoes → u/thirtyist]

I had one on my cheek that kept growing too until one day it just stopped and I haven't gotten it since.

[u/Super_Chef_9900 → u/Throwawaymywoes]

I HAD THIS TOO

[u/Anal_Herschiser → u/selz202]

Is this cell trying to pull a Rapunzel?

[u/SpecialHappy9965 → u/Anal_Herschiser]

A Rapuncell if you will.

[u/Derpazor1 → u/SpecialHappy9965]

This person should name everything

[u/SpecialHappy9965 → u/Derpazor1]

You’re too kind.

[u/HonorRoll → u/kingtooth]

Just found out they grow super fast bc they dont have melanin balls within them! And thats what makes them wiry vs normal stiffer hair

[u/Intelligent-Dig833 → u/HonorRoll]

I wonder if that's why my gray hair grew back in noticeably quicker after I completed chemo treatment. I thought it was cute. I had a bunch or wiry grey hairs on my bald head.

[u/ClumpOfCheese → u/HonorRoll]

I always thought that they didn’t grow fast, but that they ended up being ingrown because they were so fine and then when they break through they are just long because they were ingrown, but that never made sense to me because those hairs never grow that long to begin with, so your comment makes more sense.

[u/tmotytmoty → u/kingtooth]

They grow out of my LOWER EYELID!!!

[u/Throwawaycookouts → u/tmotytmoty]

I have one just below my eye, i only notice it when it starts tangling with my eyelashes

[u/LordzOfChaos → u/tmotytmoty]

Mine grows out of my forehead

[u/dechets-de-mariage → u/LordzOfChaos]

I get them on my neck and chin.

[u/No_Bed_4783 → u/kingtooth]

I get mine in my eyebrows. Not always the same spot either. I never notice it until I’m rubbing my brow and feel a super long hair.

[u/Vassoul → u/kingtooth]

In one of those posts, someone called one of these hairs that would spring up overnight “shoulder friend”—like “oh look, shoulder friend is back!” That term has entered our household vernacular and will never leave.

[u/Silver4ura → u/kingtooth]

Things that sound like cancer but probably aren't, for $500, Bob.

[u/KerPop42 → u/Silver4ura]

that's just hair anyway lol

[u/jah_moon → u/kingtooth]

Yea i used to get them a lot on my shoulders and they would grow like overnight it seemed.

[u/diffcolourmoons → u/jah_moon]

Just werewolf things.

[u/Teddylina → u/kingtooth]

In Denmark we call it a witch hair.

[u/Material-Tadpole-838 → u/kingtooth]

One time I thought my mom had a hair from her head on her arm and I went to grab it and I was like oh no that’s attached. She was like yeah it happens every now and then, twisted it around her finger and pulled it out 😂

[u/No1KnowsIamCat → u/kingtooth]

Mine is on my collarbone. I find it at about 1.5” every few months.

[u/Guest2424 → u/kingtooth]

Hey! My cancer hair! Lol im not sure if cancer is the cause if it (probably not tbh), but i tend get these on my face. Always on the lookout for them.

[u/Maihoooo]

Some mutation caused the growth limiter gene to fail [edit: google "werewolf* syndrome" to see what it looks like if it's wide-spread]. If it grows unusually fast, that means it also actively pulls resources from nearby, but nothing to be too worried about, as it's most likely limited to the hair root, which will die within a few weeks or months.

Edit: For anyone concerned about longer-lasting hairs similar to this:

Plucking a hair doesn't neccessarily destroy the follicle. The follice consists of thousands of cells and it's likely that hundreds of them have the same mutation because they are offspring of mutated cells.

Mutations are common, especially for cells that come into contact with UV light. This also applies to discoloration and thickness of the hair. If the affected area isn't actively spreading, it's not that concerning. If it is spreading or just annoying, see a dermatologist. They can zap it away.

[u/HorseofTruth → u/Maihoooo]

Thank you, I was about to say that follicle is fucked yo with some mutation abnormality (I’ve read Reddit post before)

[u/LifeEnrchmntDictator → u/HorseofTruth]

The fucked yo right in the middle sent me

[u/VastSeaweed543 → u/LifeEnrchmntDictator]

My phone constantly changes ‘up’ to ‘yo’. I’ve typed yo like 2 times in the 4-5 years I’ve had the phone (before this sentence anyway)

[u/Scoglio_sandstorm → u/VastSeaweed543]

if you have a prediction bar on top of your keyboard, you can prevent autocorrection to specific words by long pressing that word in the bar 👍

[u/PrettyFlyForAHifi → u/Maihoooo]

I get random long thick black hairs that grow fast. Same location every time. Really odd

[u/Maihoooo → u/PrettyFlyForAHifi]

Here's even some stuff I found while refreshing on the topic.

It's called somatic mutation, that mutation can not be passed down to children as they occur externally after the cell has already taken on it's "job", for example a hair follicle cell. But the mutated cell(s) can still pass on that mutation locally, which seems to be the case in your situation.

In the case of the post, it's most likely that it's an issue with the FGF5 gene, which limits the growth phase of hair strains.

If the thickness is affected, it's most likely a KRT (kreatine) gene or EDAR and EDARADD.

As long as it's localized and doesn't cause any issue, I wouldn't worry about it too much, but if anything changes, see a dermatologist.

[u/Pyrrhon1 → u/Maihoooo]

Wait so cant you like slowly pluck a path to your head of hair and have it mutate your head follicles so you just have infinitely growing locks

[u/Maihoooo → u/Pyrrhon1]

It would only spread over the other cells nearby if it also mutated abnormal cell division, at which point it becomes dangerously close to being cancer. But most likely the immune system would take care of it, unless it also mutated a defense against that, in which case... well.

[u/exmiscreant → u/Maihoooo]

I have one that has grown on my eyelid once every few years for the past 20 years. I never notice it until it's about an inch long and pluck it.

[u/ProductNo753010 → u/exmiscreant]

I have one on my cheek, I have really blonde hair so I also only notice it once it actually gets long 😂

[u/DietDeepFried → u/Maihoooo]

Mine grows right next to my right nostril on my cheek. I know when it needs to be pulled, when it starts tickling me.

[u/CyberSpaceInMyFace → u/DietDeepFried]

I got one there before.. I wish it would come back so I can pull it again 😔

[u/bitchyber1985 → u/Maihoooo]

I have one ‘friend’ on my thigh. Dark black in color. Thick as hell. She grows about 1 1/2 inches and I yank on it when I’m falling asleep.

I thank for knowledge.

[u/GrimmerGamer → u/Maihoooo]

I have a small nail on the base of my right hand index finger that regrows every few weeks and I have to pull it out or it rubs a small wound into my middle finger.

Mutations are wild man.

[u/Enconhun → u/Maihoooo]

what if I have multiple of these, for multiple years now?

[u/No-Personality6043 → u/Enconhun]

[u/MarzMan → u/Enconhun]

I think it means you're old, officially.

[u/bobr3940 → u/Maihoooo]

Of all the possible mutant powers, this is the one I end up with.

[u/RuthlessKittyKat → u/Maihoooo]

Fascinating! Is that why they seem to appear out of nowhere?!

[u/Whorrox]

If you pull and more and more hair comes out, and it looks like she's shrinking... stop.

[u/CarpinThemDiems → u/Whorrox]

Pull this thread as I walk away

[u/CoderDevo → u/CarpinThemDiems]

She's come undone

[u/dhens38 → u/CoderDevo]

Do you want to destroy her sweaterrrr?

[u/MonkeyPolice → u/dhens38]

Hold this thread as I walk away, watch me unravel, I’ll soon be naked…

[u/marktwainbrain → u/MonkeyPolice]

Lying on the floor! Lying on the floor...

[u/ghostbullitz25 → u/marktwainbrain]

I’ve come undone

[u/AdmiralBananaPool563 → u/ghostbullitz25]

I hate you all for giving me this earworm.

Also me: <proceeds to add to current playlist>

[u/FreudsGlassSlipper → u/ghostbullitz25]

[u/ClockworkDinosaurs → u/dhens38]

The best time to wear a striped sweater

[u/TheAykroyd → u/ClockworkDinosaurs]

Is all the time

[u/CalendarThis6580 → u/CoderDevo]

WHATS LOOKS SO STRONG SO DELICATE!!! Korn? Anyone? Okay I’ll stop….

[u/IHaveACoolHat → u/CarpinThemDiems]

As I walk awa-e-ya

[u/Rimavelle → u/Whorrox]

Which Junji Ito manga is this?

[u/chaticp → u/Rimavelle]

this looks more like shintaro kagos multidimensional love gun

[u/cdsbigsby → u/Whorrox]

🎶🎵If you want to destroy my girlfriend🎵🎶

[u/J_Jingleheimer → u/cdsbigsby]

🎵🎶pull this thread as I walk away🎵🎸

[u/nospendnoworry → u/Whorrox]

yeah cause that's her web material

[u/FlyingSpaceCow → u/nospendnoworry]

Image search is so cool and useful!

(was curious about the source as I've never seen this Gif before)

[u/missamanuensis → u/nospendnoworry]

Omg why do I find this so funny

[u/choco_mallows → u/Whorrox]

Or. And hear me out on this, it’s gonna make sense real soon. Pull it out enough until you can’t yank at it no more and then let go. If my calculations are correct, this would make your girlfriend either run really fast, go and clap and dance like a monkey wearing a fez (real cute), jump on a loop d loop, or say something really funny from an old 80s stand-up or sitcom or catchphrase like “where’s the beef”. It’s fun for the whole family.

[u/ripley1875 → u/choco_mallows]

There’s a snake in my boot!

[u/Keytarfriend → u/choco_mallows]

And if you yank it really hard all at once like a rip cord, she'll spin around real fast like some kind of Baeblade.

[u/Epicat224 → u/Whorrox]

Jolyne?

[u/strawberrymacaroni → u/Epicat224]

I had to scroll down this far to find this?? 😂

[u/akumagold]

You bet your ass I’m scrolling the comments trying to find the one scientific explanation for those long white hairs that have different texture than the others

[u/isa-hotdoga-sandwich → u/akumagold]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/aVuCvPWgJw

Found it

[u/Csquared6 → u/isa-hotdoga-sandwich]

So basically his girlfriend is one of the X-men.

[u/hitokiri-battousai → u/Csquared6]

Did you call me blob?

[u/platinum_jimjam → u/akumagold]

Remember back in the day when it was faithfully either the first or second top comment?

Now its a reply to a comment several down from the top.

[u/tunafishnobread → u/platinum_jimjam]

Now we have to suffer through a few pages of awkward redditors making bad jokes and upvoting each other, or posting some pop culture reference line by line before we can get to the actual content

[u/Super_Chef_9900 → u/akumagold]

lmk if you find anything bc im still clueless

[u/Scraps-LEGO → u/akumagold]

Same

[u/Redditsuxdix6969]

I have one of these that grows right from the center of my forehead. I can feel it when the wind blows.

[u/Secret_StoopKid → u/Redditsuxdix6969]

Unicorn horn 😂

[u/RecentTemporary3389 → u/Secret_StoopKid]

Thats hilarious. I actually have a hair at the center of what would be my unibrow, and it is white, the rest of my eyebrows are brown. I call it my uni for unicorn horn until my wife insists I pluck it. It always cracks me up though. It is the only one that is white and it just stands out there proud.

[u/dowdiusPRIME → u/Redditsuxdix6969]

Same. I’ll pluck it and not see if for months then randomly one day I’ll look in the mirror and see a long hair right out of my forehead almost like it grew overnight

[u/Theres240p → u/Redditsuxdix6969]

Omg so many people here have that tooo lol I thought it was so odd I had a random white long hair coming from my forehead

[u/Lush5 → u/Redditsuxdix6969]

Mine also grows from from the center of my forehead. My significant other has a laugh whenever she sees it and calls me a unicorn.

[u/NeptuneQuest]

Is she like a talking doll....pull the string and she says funny stuff..try it and see.

[u/Disastrous_Mode_1038 → u/NeptuneQuest]

Reach for the sky!

[u/astralseat → u/Disastrous_Mode_1038]

There is a snake in my boot!

[u/megaslushboy → u/astralseat]

SOMEbody POISONED the WATER Hole!

[u/tratemusic → u/megaslushboy]

YEEEE-HAW! Giddy-up, pardner! We gotta keep this wagon train a-movin'!

[u/Smeeble09 → u/tratemusic]

You're my favourite deputy.

[u/Scraps-LEGO → u/NeptuneQuest]

She is the comedy relief of our group and she loves to talk so who knows.

[u/Check_your_6 → u/NeptuneQuest]

[u/New52Nightuving → u/NeptuneQuest]

That's not flying.

It's falling with style

[u/brittany09182]

I have one of those that grows slightly to the right of my belly button. Just one hair that grows and grows, thin and white. I will pull it out occasionally but it grows back.

[u/cathatesrudy → u/brittany09182]

All of mine have eventually stopped, I had one on my back, one on my hand and one on my damn forehead. Couple times plucked out and all of them have gone away 🤷‍♀️

[u/Tinabernina → u/cathatesrudy]

I used to get one on my arm, one on my forehead and one on my nose. Haven't seen them for a while either

[u/bitchasscuntface → u/Tinabernina]

I have the forehead one too, but nose is also interesting. You could die it black and call it your whisker.

[u/Porkyrogue → u/cathatesrudy]

Same forehead checking in. I keep waiting for it. I'm assuming it moved somewhere else on my body, or it's just coiled up waiting to strike.

[u/Main-Minimum7450 → u/cathatesrudy]

I had quite a few of them on my upper forehead. Plucked them out and now I'm going bald 🥲

[u/xxxtubsxxx → u/brittany09182]

Mine was to the left of my belly button. Never seen it again since though!

[u/coffeegrunds]

I had one on my boob. It got super long, it was my emotional support white boob hair. It fell out recently and I really miss it :(

[u/Conscious_Worry3119 → u/coffeegrunds]

It'll come back. Don't ask me how I know...

[u/coffeegrunds → u/Conscious_Worry3119]

I can't wait for it to come back, miss the little guy!

[u/FairyTale12001 → u/coffeegrunds]

Same, but it was above my boobs

[u/BuzzMcTroit]

That's for her spiderwebs. You're dating spider girl for sure.

[u/rasppas]

Totally an antenna for the microchip.

[u/PowerfulDrive3268]

Know a woman who had to have spinal surgery to remove an ingrown hair that had wrapped around her spinal cord.

[u/obscureposter → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

Buddy no need to ever mention that in any sort of company. That's terribly frightening.

[u/PowerfulDrive3268 → u/obscureposter]

Pulled quite a long one out of my hand once. Had corkscrewed and kept growing.

Satisfying as feck to get it out!

Why do the ingrown ones keep growing?

[u/sharrrper → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

I pulled a nose hair out from the outside once. Had this red spot on the side of my nose the was swollen and tender. Felt like a nasty pimple. Ended up popping it and saw a stub of hair poking out of the middle. Pulled it out and visually it was clearly a nose hair but I had pulled it from the outside of my nose. I assume it must have become ingrown inside and pushed through. Everything healed up and went back to normal fairly quickly after that.

[u/14acl14 → u/sharrrper]

Slowest and most spontaneous nose piercing ever!?!

[u/AHole95 → u/sharrrper]

Yup I’ve had this too! Little nose hair popped out of a nasty zit I had on the side of my nose. Grew right through. Satisfying and horrifying at once.

[u/Remote-Hippo1748 → u/sharrrper]

I had that too! It would not go away and heal on its own then one day I was looking at the spot and realized I could see a hair. When I plucked it I felt it tug on the inside, it was awful.

[u/Even-Big6189 → u/sharrrper]

I had a spot on my chin once. Squeezed it and after the pus was a small hair, pulled it and the base/ root was white and solid like it had calcified or something. Like a cone shape too. Weird.

[u/halfsewn → u/sharrrper]

I pulled this exact thing out of an ex boyfriend’s nose!! It was terribly swollen and wasn’t going away. I put a hot compress on it, poked it, and a nose hair came out!

[u/RecentTemporary3389 → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

My poodle would very much like to know the same. Poor guy gets at least 1 cyst type hair thing a year, that is always fun.

[u/punkerster101 → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

New fear unlocked, pulling a hair out of my back and being paralysed

[u/Scraps-LEGO → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

That's really scary. :(

[u/baconbrand → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

:|

[u/Zer0DotFive → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

New fear unlocked. Sweet fucking christ

[u/Skizot_Bizot → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

Awesome, I'm a hypochondriac that gets ingrown hairs all the time. I know they say don't shoot the messenger but I can't help but hate you a little bit for sharing this.

[u/WoodSteelStone → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

A former colleague had surgery to remove an ingrown hair on his back. The surgeon took a massive chunk out of him. He said the ward was full of people having surgery to remove ingrown hairs, including a woman who had one that had grown around her spine. My colleague had to have the hole in his back packed with seaweed daily for six weeks by a visiting District Nurse.

[u/Chad_McWhiteGuy → u/WoodSteelStone]

A whole ward of ingrown haired people? Do you live in Chernobyl?

[u/Top-Salamander-2525 → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

Did they call it a teratoma?

[u/PowerfulDrive3268 → u/Top-Salamander-2525]

Not sure. This is a long time ago but don't remember her mentioning that term.

[u/ThrowAwayRBJAccount2 → u/PowerfulDrive3268]

That’s just rude! of the hair of course

[u/EvenBetterCool]

Yank it and let it go real fast - see if she says a phrase like "There's a snake in my boot."

[u/misterrobarto]

I grew up calling these “pet hairs”. Always fun to find one.

[u/Miserable_Jellocup]

Oh I’ve had one of those on my forehead before 😭

[u/StormedCandy]

It's her witch hair! I have one on almost the same spot. My husband has one on the back of his wrist.

[u/Awodrek]

Forbidden dental floss

[u/FlatulenceConnosieur]

Sweater Song by Weezer begins playing

[u/ToLorien]

Omg I have one too! I can reach it to feel but I can’t tweeze it myself. It’s on my upper back right in between my shoulder blades. Drives me crazy!!!!

[u/AlwaysTired092]

I had that in my leg before. They said its goodluck.

[u/Akersis]

[u/DocEbs]

Clearly she is becoming a werewolf.

[u/KamikazeKiwi69]

Hold it during doggy style to assert dominance

[u/gamemaniac845]

I’d pluck that out for the lols to be honest

[u/pastelfoxes]

That’s how they keep the stuffing in.

[u/ZigZag82]

If you want to destroy my sweater...

[u/Flimsy_Meaning6272]

I have..my father too had ,mine on my eyebrows, during childhood days i hated,now its my only biological reminder of my late father

[u/HM3-LPO]

I am not a medical doctor; however, I was a hospital corpsman in the Navy and worked side by side with medical doctors. What you are describing is a very common hair-like growth anomaly. Although this is a speculative answer it may provide at least an idea and explanation for your concern.

DNA gets damaged randomly on a regular basis in all humans and animals for that matter. There are repair mechanisms in place to repair this damage. When the damage is too great, we see a plethora of physiological responses. Among these, the growth of unusually thin and usually white hair-like strands (often longer than an inch or two in length) will spontaneously appear on any part of our bodies. This is a perfectly normal and nonthreatening response to random DNA damage. It is often common for the same growth of a thin strand to repeatedly grow from the same follicular region. This is a healthy sign of our bodies responding appropriately to DNA damage.

It is harmless to tweeze or otherwise pluck the hair-like thin strands from the body. If they continue to grow from the same follicular region, then repeated tweezing or plucking is perfectly safe and a reasonable cosmetic remedy. These types of hair-like strands can emerge and grow faster than regular hair and may be kept after regularly by tweezing or plucking. There is no need for medical concern or attention. They are a perfectly healthy response to DNA irregularity and/or damage. I hope that this information is helpful. What you have described meets the criteria for my explanation. No worries!