tanyatriangles

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I've just done it: about two years ago I got a plant spine of some sort lodged in my left forfinger tip, just on the pad. I thought I'd got rid, but I hadn't, and the skin healed over it.
Every now and then, pressing, or squeezing with that finger gave me sharp pricking pains.

Today, having nothing better to do, I've got rid

I sat with my finger tip on a freeezer pack for half an hour until it went numb, then, with my finger tip on a clean paper towel, quickly cut an "X" over the spot that hurt with a new scalpel blade, (I use scalpels in my model building)

I could SEE the end of the spine, but it was way deep, so I had to dig further,and eventually freed the end enough to grab it with a pair of tweezers and pull it free. It was around 6mm long.

The wound bled quite a bit, but I first poured aftershave into it, then kept pressure on it until it stopped, finally covering with a plaster.

I've taken my own stitches out before, (even once after surgery for a vasectomy, and let me tell you, boys, it takes guts to close the scissors blades on a stitch in THAT vicinity), but not anything like this.

Anyone else done surgery on themselves?

IWatkins

Removed my own head once, just for kicks you understand.....

EddScott

"But I'm your friend Johnny! I was there with you knee-deep in all that blood and guts. I covered your *** more than once. Seems like baling you out of trouble's got to be a life-time achievement for me. "

HankScorpio

I've removed a whole ingrowing toenail with scissors and a small pair of needle nosed pliers.

Ray T

Be careful, mate of mine "stubbed" his big toe last year in the garden, turned out to be an insect type bite, he thought nothing of it apart from putting TCP onto the area, bad move, he ended up in hospital for 6 weeks caught mrsa and had to have the toe amputated.

ps would suggest you see your quack, just in case.

tanyatriangles

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For real? If that's true, then RESPECT is due

J4CKO

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I see a course of Antibiotics in your future.....

HankScorpio

Yep, snip, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, pull, wiggle, pull, wiggle wiggle pull and it's done. Surprising how much nail comes out from the side and underneath, there's probably as much as there was on top.

But for respect, the scalpel and brut on top has to take it, nails fall off all the time but digging around with a blade and then making sure it smelled nice?

chocolate_o_brian

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So I don't come round today, and you perform surgery on yourself

Jeff, you are not THAT bored, please tell me

Closest I get to surgery is when I take out my Prince Albert piercing once in a while to let the hole close a bit so it's a little tighter Thats done with a pair of surgical pliers. I'll post a pic in the adult forum one day, maybe, possibly

Lee247

OMG :shudder:

tanyatriangles

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

rossyboy

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There's a distinct smell in here:

http://joebrower.com/PHILE_PILE/PIX/...e_bull****.jpg



Or at least there would be if the swear filter didnt block my link

subaruturbo_18

I once removed a tooth with a pair of pliers...

It hurt

dunx

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So I come round Tuesday, and you perform surgery on yourself

Christ mate you should have told me I was boring you to the point of self-mutilation....

My two penneth, pain in foot, ignored....
(P.S. ((for you young'uns)) in the old days use ordinary folk burned coal to keep warm ).

A fortnight later it seemed at bit tender/smelly, so got a mirror and a scalpel (parents were medics) and dug a piece of razor sharp coal out of said foot.

Leaving a gooey smelly hole about 1 cm deep ! Antiseptic and a gauze pad, 'twere fine.

Also had a habit of smashing my little toes as a teenager, , both a bit of a mess despite my best attempts to align the broken bones....

LOL

dunx

P.S. I also do dentistry, but that's a story for another time....

slipstream_uk

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I once removed a broken tooth with a pair of pliers and screwdriver while on a 12hr nightshift

The Rig

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Nothing mahor really, i get rid of milk spots on my face,doesnt sound much but when they are under your eye area and you have to cut the skin to get the calcium lumpy bit out it kinda smarts !!!

Moley

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Have done an ingowing toenail several times now, am becoming quite an expert!!!

carlos_dfc

I've done that too.

Had some codeine pills left over from a knee injury, so I necked 150mg (the usual self-administered dose is 60mg max), and gave it 20 mins to 'kick-in' before I started.

Even through a mild opiate haze, it still hurt like hell - but after nearly a week of nagging toothache, the relief was well worth the minute of agony.

HankScorpio

Not at all, once the nail separates off the nail bed (wiggle wiggle bit), it pulls out quite easy with the buried bit.

Ask Moley

Moley

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I didn't take the whole nail off.... i'm not that brave!!!!

chocolate_o_brian

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Mrs did both of mine one day when she came home and I was pissed up, passed out on the sofa. She said there was a little blood. And I was there not even flinching dreaming of bewbies

howellsy42

ive dug around in my hand before to get metal spliters out also removed my own stitches after a wrist op the skin had healed over it and pulled them in side i did that in hospital while waiting for the doctor to come and do it!! removed a ingrowing toe nail onces you starting diggin the pain does away

Leslie

Your name is not Worzel is it?

Tou are a brave chap TT.

Les

StickyMicky

Lmfao!

i did the same, only with beer to numb the pain, some jewellers screwdrivers to help force it away from the skin and a scraper/razor blade

StickyMicky

is that what them little white things are>?

the ones that look like normal spots but are complete hell to actually "pop" ?

popped a few of them, but usually leave them alone as its to much hassle

dpb

Foreign bodies are usually expunged from the body sooner or later

mykp

I do that about every 3 months when it grows back, have since I was 16 when they supposedly removed it!. Finally went to see the GP and surprise, surprise got refered. In the time i've been waiting i've pulled it out again and sods law says they'll want to see me next week now theres nothing left to see.

magepaster

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I've done the same thing. Hurt like hell and bled like buggery but was so satisfying when done.

RobJenks

A mate of mine had a vasectomy and the surgeon told him he did his own operation - with the aid of a mirror.

Matteeboy

Dug out a few nasty splinters but the best one was when I had a wart - I HATE warts and keep slicing it to bits, digging really deep to try and remove it with blood all over the place - but to no avail.

So got drunk (very drunk) one night and stubbed a couple of lit matches out on it - worked a treat!