DIY surgery

Red Porsche · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:20

penski said:
At xmas, I managed to bend one of my nails back halfway down it's length. Within a couple of days it had become infected...So I prepped a sterile area and used hypodermics to drain it and a scalpel to cut out the bad parts.

Now the nail bed has receded about 8mm on one side of the nail. Delicious.

*n

Natural born surgeon. You made it sterile and everything!

gumbald · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:21

Yeah, bit a wart off my thumb. Saved me biting my nails that day. Bled quite a bit though.

Solari · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:21

penski said:
Yikes

*n

On a side note, it seems you've had some sort of accident with some candy floss

penski · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:24

redporshe said:
Natural born surgeon. You made it sterile and everything!

It happened a couple of years back to the finger next to it...That time I just snipped a hole with nail clippers and stole my gf's eyebrow tweezers to pull the rot out.

*n

fozter · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:32

I had about 4 verrucas on my big toe once. And I accidenly stood on a plug barefoot, hurt like hell but the cut was so deep the verrucas didn't grow back

My stepdad works in a sheet metal factory, he had warts on his fingers and used the electric sander to take them off haha.

My mum was in A&E recently and when she got home they hadn't taken the drip out of the inner of her elbow so I pulled it out for her. That was fun...

mattyprice4004 · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:35

Justin said:
My girlfriend 'fixed' both of my ingrown big toe nails. Saved me going to the doctors and getting it cut out.

How?

Solari · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:36

fozter said:
My mum was in A&E recently and when she got home they hadn't taken the drip out of the inner of her elbow so I pulled it out for her. That was fun...

I ******* hate needles there.... I feel ill now

Raikiri · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:51

Hades said:
Years ago I got fed up with a huge wart on my finger which would simply not go. I tried everything. In the end I just bit it off. Bllod everywhere too but it never came back.

When I had one (I was about 11 at the time) on my finger I just got a lit ciggarette from someone and burnt it off... seemed to work and no scar.

Margaret · 11 Jan 2009 at 12:58

Popped into this thread, now I'm leaving it after cringing quite a lot.

Thanks guys.

ash_scotland88 · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:10

aaaargh!

a flame does not steralise!

arknor · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:52

Ahh from what you describe its a skin tag, my mum said they can be removed by wrapping string around them and tightening it. I'll go the docs sometimes when i'm free as it isn't painful or anything.

do it yourself, fishing line is best aparently.

it was on ethat embarrasing ilnesses program once and they said its perfectly safe to do it yourself.

NightSt@lk3r · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:54

Justin said:
My girlfriend 'fixed' both of my ingrown big toe nails. Saved me going to the doctors and getting it cut out.

I get them occasionaly on my big toe's, pair of small sharp scissors and a few screams of agony later job's done

placeholder · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:56

I circumsized myself with a blow torch and nail clippers

Soulja · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:58

When i was about 11 i had a wart on my hand(no it didn't spread elsewhere

) I would just sit in class and pick at it, it did keep growing back for a while but after a few month of picking it gave up and stayed away forever.

NightSt@lk3r · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:59

Soulja said:
but after a few month of picking it gave up and stayed away forever.

No it just moved to where you cant see it, i suggest you go chack your backside.

atpbx · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:01

I tend to slice anything off or open thats bothering me, its usually blisters that i have to sort out.

Soulja · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:02

NightSt@lk3r said:
No it just moved to where you cant see it, i suggest you go chack your backside.

Found it!

aproctor · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:16

I ripped a wart off my finger with my teeth about 6/7 years ago and it never returned.

Tombo · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:20

I had a Verruca that I dug out with a pen knife.

Septh · 11 Jan 2009 at 15:17

placeholder said:
I circumsized myself with a blow torch and nail clippers

Anyone see the long way down where they went to a village in africa, and they were circumsizing all the boys in the village with nothing but a knife, and the boys weren't allowed to show pain otherwise it would look bad on their dads!

I've dug out many verrucas with tweezers and things in my younger days.

And in my previous job I was talking to a surgeon who performed his own vasectomy with a mirror

obviously in a hospital tho, still thats pretty hardcore if you ask me