DIY Surgery?

a fat guy

Cutting ingrown toenails down as far as they'll go and having them bleed all over the place... It hurts when you get right down to the 'stem' of the toenail and you can't cut down into it any further with the scissors. You just have to kinda... wriggle it out. I talked to a doctor about getting it fixed and I'm using epsom salts, cottom bud tips under the nail, and letting the nail grow longer to sort it out at last.

I also cut about half an inch into my thumb before and it just refused to clot for days. The kitchen paper worked well for it though. Shame that it really hampered my playstation skills...

thomasj

I remember when I was in School I had cut my finger with a chisel!

I tried to hide it so no one would notice but it was hard not to when there was nearly half a litre of blood on the floor :pac:

I wouldn't trust myself using instruments I think I'll leave it to the professionals!

Sleepy

Ingrown toenails can be cured by cutting a V into the middle of the nail, it causes the nail to grow inwards

a fat guy

Sleepy wrote: »

Ingrown toenails can be cured by cutting a V into the middle of the nail, it causes the nail to grow inwards

I really appreciate that you're trying to help, but wikipedia says that that's actually a myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrown_nail#Prevention

Thanks for the good intentions though!

Sleepy

Funny. It's worked for me a few times in the past.

So either it's an urban myth and I've had 3/4 coincidences or it works to some degree. Perhaps it just works for mild cases or something?

kowloon

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

Girl in the Striped Socks.

Thats the second time now on boards youve personally called me out in a thread and insinuated I'm a liar. Give it a rest. I know there are people who completley fabricate stuff online but Im not one of them - despite my username

That's just what a liar would say! :eek:

Calibos

You don't need to painfully dig a whole wart out. Just enough to make it bleed. The Wart virus hides from the immune system. A nice bloody wart or cut near it will have the immune system send antibodies to the area to protect the cut site. While they are there, they finally cop onto the wart virus so to speak and usually the wart will disappear at the same time as the cut is healing.

This was a theory I developed as a kid when I accidentally sliced the top off a stubborn wart that resisted conventional treatments. It bled profusely for a while but disappeared within a week. Chuffed when I read a decade or more later about some study that warts near injuries disappeared and the theory the scientists came up with was the same as mine.

Rabies

I got a fiber from a snapped tent pole stuck in the palm of my hand one day at work. Couldn't get it out with a tweezers and it got fully embedded.
Took the knife out of my pocket, cut an incision in my palm and got it out. It fecking hurt, but the following infection was worse Was squeezing yellow pus from my hand for the next day or two after it got inflamed and red.

JohnMearsheimer

I tied a thread around a skin tag on my back. It took a few days and it fell off. You'd never even know it was there now.