DIY Surgery?

Stinicker

So anyone ever get a bit over enthusiastic with the toe nail clippers? After my shower this morning I went a took a scissors and a box cutters and cut out a verruca out of my right foot, I had tried freezing it a dozen times and even used acid before but go nowhere.

Last week I was told I'd have to wait 15months for a consultant dermatologist to see me. Today I bit the bullet today and got out a scissors and and new box cutter, scalded both and went to work cutting out the horrible thing. It was very painful and I rubbed vodka on the bleeding wound afterwards before rubbing a red hot nail into it to cauterize it by burning it and that stopped the blood.

Its not a sore now as I took two paracetamols but I have been hobbling around all day. I had the verrucca for two and a half years as I caught from a German swimming pool in a hotel whilst I was there before.

aidan_walsh

You going to do the inevitable amputation yourself too?

mattjack

Every so often , I despair of AH ... I get fed up and make my mind up to close my account .. and then a thread like this comes along.

AnonoBoy

Once I was trimming the hair on my scrotum with a scissors while stoned.

I snipped some of my ball sac off.

It hurt.

mattjack

Stinicker wrote: »

So anyone ever get a bit over enthusiastic with the toe nail clippers? After my shower this morning I went a took a scissors and a box cutters and cut out a verruca out of my right foot, I had tried freezing it a dozen times and even used acid before but go nowhere.

Last week I was told I'd have to wait 15months for a consultant dermatologist to see me. Today I bit the bullet today and got out a scissors and and new box cutter, scalded both and went to work cutting out the horrible thing. It was very painful and I rubbed vodka on the bleeding wound afterwards before rubbing a red hot nail into it to cauterize it by burning it and that stopped the blood.

Its not a sore now as I took two paracetamols but I have been hobbling around all day. I had the verrucca for two and a half years as I caught from a German swimming pool in a hotel whilst I was there before.

Any chance of a pic of the verrucca ?

galwayrush

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Once I was trimming the hair on my scrotum with a scissors while stoned.

I snipped some of my ball sac off.

It hurt.

Reading that gave me instant pain...:eek:

Stinicker

mattjack wrote: »

Any chance of a pic of the verrucca ?

Nah, I cut it out and flicked the bloody bits in the bin, I have it dressed with cotton wool and sellotape

mattjack

Stinicker wrote: »

Nah, I cut it out and flicked the bloody bits in the bin, I have it dressed with cotton wool and sellotape

Have you heard of them things they have now ? plasters, I think they call them...sellotape's gone outta fashion ,I hear .

Stinicker

mattjack wrote: »

Have you heard of them things they have now ? plasters, I think they call them...sellotape's gone outta fashion ,I hear .

Cotton wool and sellotape works better as it allows to soak more blood and by wrapping the sellotape around the foot it keeps it in place.

AnonoBoy

Don't forget to cauterise the wound with a lighter.

mattjack

Stinicker wrote: »

Cotton wool and sellotape works better as it allows to soak more blood and by wrapping the sellotape around the foot it keeps it in place.

Ahhh I see, you've obviously put a lot of thought into this.

mattjack

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Don't forget to cauterise the wound with a lighter.

You and me are just mere amateurs .

DublinWriter

Stinicker wrote: »

I rubbed vodka on the bleeding wound afterwards

F*cking insanity.

Chucken

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Don't forget to cauterise the wound with a lighter.

He stuck a red hot nail into it!

DublinWriter

Chucken wrote: »

He stuck a red hot nail into it!

Paging Dr.Norris...

dermiek

A real man would've taken the vodka and made a Bloody Mary.

Pensivepuca

I was tempted to rip out my tooth last night because it was in pain. Decided against it, gonna let the dentist have a go. I did pull a splinter out of my ear once in fear.

Jen Pigs Fly

OMG, this thread made me shudder

gdavis

please tell me this is true,pure gold

Gummy Panda

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Don't forget to cauterise the wound with a lighter.

Pussies do that. The trick is open shells and use the gunpowder to cauterise the wound

Stinicker

gdavis wrote: »

please tell me this is true,pure gold

It is

Photos may disgust some people!

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/319676/216724.jpg

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/319676/216725.jpg

LoYL

I love operating on splinters caught in the hand. A red hot sewing needle and a good rummage.

TheBody

This is a leg-end of a story!! (Do ya see what I did there....legend...leg end=foot)

Clareman

Real men bazuka that veruca

shopaholic01

Stinicker wrote: »

It is

Photos may disgust some people!

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/319676/216724.jpg

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/319676/216725.jpg

It doesn't look like you removed it all! Time for the stanley knife - any chance you can film it and post the footage?

shopaholic01

TheBody wrote: »

This is a leg-end of a story!! (Do ya see what I did there....legend...leg end=foot)

That's sole destroying:p.

cynder

If you put duct tape over it, it will draw the verucca out, it also stops air getting to the verucca the skin goes white and its easier to dig the verucca out.


Been there and done that

KilOit

Did a small bit of DIY surgery as well. had 6 skin tags that i ripped off with a pliers, couldn't be arsed with oil treatments, wanted something instant.
another was athletes foot that wouldn't go away with all the creams i put on my feet so pissed off one day i went out the back in my bare feet and kicked the ground in a fast sliding motion for about 5 mins till most my foot was bloody and raw and top layer of skin was gone, athletes foot gone and never returned!

cynder

This guy had fluid on his knee and did a diy job to release it...


Its a bit nasty and the language it bad bad bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEZyNDn3lU&feature=plcp

W.Shakes-Beer

I had a wart on a knuckle on my left hand for a few months, decent size too.

Tried putting duct tape over it for a while and it would get a little smaller but would come back again.

Finally, after being fed up looking at it I just butchered it off with a nail clippers.

It bled for hours but when I eventually stopped the bleeding I whacked more duct tape onto it, after a week it was more or less gone and a small scab remained.

Scab fell off and all thats left is a tiny scar but completely smooth knuckle is once more.

*kisses knuckle*

senorwipesalot

I sliced a wart off my knuckle with a stanley knife once.
And any time I got stitches I removed them myself rather than queue in hospital a second time.
When I worked on building sites running repairs with insulating tape for cuts were the norm.

mattjack

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Pussies do that. The trick is open shells and use the gunpowder to cauterise the wound

The gunpowder works well with a blow torch.

Krieg

My DIY story; Had a lump behind my lip, pretty big. It was there for around 6 months until i decided I had enough of it. Used a razor blade, tweasers and nail scissors. Lots of blood when i got it out but soon stopped. The lump was a white thing that crumbled to bits in my hand. Google told me benign lumps fall apart after removal, so all good..

jsd1004

mattjack wrote: »

You and me are just mere amateurs .

What a waste of vodka.

Chucken

This guy got the missus to pop a little cyst for him

SERIOUSLY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEeMJgV75nQ

shopaholic01

Chucken wrote: »

This guy got the missus to pop a little cyst for him

SERIOUSLY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEeMJgV75nQ

Cottage cheese, anyone?:pac:

blacklilly

Bloody hell never thought I was squeamish but feel a little I'll after all of this.
When I was about 4 I had a very rare strain of ring worm on my head (I looked like a cone head)
Operation was booked but the day before I decided to stick sowing needles in it (thought it would burst) it didn't

FairytaleGirl

This threads awesome!

OP its just a scratch so! I was expecting a hole in your foot!

I have warts all over my hand that wont feck off, Im tempted to go get a razor and some vodka...

I know a man who stapeled a cut on his 4year old daughters head closed with a wall stapler and also removed them himself. Hmm didnt realise how wrong that was till i typed it out..

crosstownk

Chucken wrote: »

This guy got the missus to pop a little cyst for him

SERIOUSLY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEeMJgV75nQ

I don't know whether to laugh or puke

:eek::eek:

ladypip

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

I know a man who stapeled a cut on his 4year old daughters head closed with a wall stapler and also removed them himself. Hmm didnt realise how wrong that was till i typed it out..

Eh call Social services?

cynder

My parents have removed fish hooks from head and fingers, also from the dog. picked glass out of
my brother's face n head with tweezers after a car accident.

My dad gave himself stitches, glued cuts.


The worst I saw was when my cousins skirts caught fire and burned her legs and bum and her mom n step dad didnt take her to hospital. She couldn't get out if bed for a week, they put wet face cloths over her naked rear end and legs. Bet her legs and bum have nasty scars. She was 16 or 17 at the time.

girl in the striped socks

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

This threads awesome!

OP its just a scratch so! I was expecting a hole in your foot!

I have warts all over my hand that wont feck off, Im tempted to go get a razor and some vodka...

I know a man who stapeled a cut on his 4year old daughters head closed with a wall stapler and also removed them himself. Hmm didnt realise how wrong that was till i typed it out..

There is absolutely no way I believe this happened. No way at all.

mattjack

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

There is absolutely no way I believe this happened. No way at all.

Her name.... check out her name, 'Fairytalegirl'

hellyeah

sliced open my thumb while adjusting a chainsaw chain. was pretty deep and knarly and really needed a few stitchs but i was working at the time(landscaping) and needed the cash so had some super glue in the van and it worked. I still have my thumb.
Have removed stitchs before, no big deal as i refused to give doctor 50 yoyos for the privilage.

FairytaleGirl

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

willmunny1990

Had a huge raised wart on my elbow a few years back that i couldn't get rid of.

I had it froze off twice but it came back and it was really pissing me off. It was so ugly looking i honestly couldn't stand it, well one day i got so pissed off i decided enough was enough.

I sterilized a razor blade, rubbed the wart with alcohol and just went at it.

It was painful and there was a lot of blood but i managed to slice it off. I found it was hard to see where i was cutting due to the blood but i eventually prevailed. It never came back although it did leave a small scar but id take that over a wart any day.

Adyx

cynder wrote: »

My parents have removed fish hooks from head and fingers, also from the dog. picked glass out of
my brother's face n head with tweezers after a car accident.

My dad gave himself stitches, glued cuts.


The worst I saw was when my cousins skirts caught fire and burned her legs and bum and her mom n step dad didnt take her to hospital. She couldn't get out if bed for a week, they put wet face cloths over her naked rear end and legs. Bet her legs and bum have nasty scars. She was 16 or 17 at the time.

When I was 5 I was racing around the kitchen like an ejit and I ran straight into my dad who was carrying a saucepan full of boiling water. The left side of my head especially my ear and my left shoulder were absolutely destroyed. Did I get brought to hospital? Not a chance. My mam was in hospital having my little sister at the time so I got brought up to my grandad's farm next door and my granny looked after me. Bizarrely apart from a minor scar on my shoulder I have no marks at all from it.

That reminds me actually I've only ever been in hospital once, when I was 6 months old I put my hand in a cup of tea. I still don't drink tea. :pac:

MarkR

I reset a dislocated toe. I knew it was dislocated, as it was pointing at 90 degrees to the rest of them. Quite sore actually.

Mayo_Boy

I once used a Belt Sander to try get rid of a wart from my finger........
Ended up in A&E

dermiek

Amateurs, all of you.
Whole piece worth a read, or skip about halfway down.
The guy is nuts, but also a legend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/oct/05/features11.g21

Wibbs

Set and splinted a couple of broken fingers over the years, ditto for a bust wrist once and stitched a gash in my hand and knee. Took wet and dry sandpaper to the raised scar on the hand. Worked a treat actually. No scar unless you're really looking. Lanced another infected cut on my leg and slapped a bread poultice on it. Sorted. Like cynder have removed fish hooks more than once. Fly fishing in a strong wind can result in that. Trick is to clip off the barb and eye and push it through.