Self surgery

[bancrobba]

I, for the first time in my life, had a verruca on my left foot. Tried everything on offer in chemists with no joy.
Resorted to cutting it out with the small blade on my Swiss Army knife and a pair of pointed tweezers. Hurt for a few days, but job done.
My wife was horrified! Then I explained my other dabbles in surgery, including super glueing my right ear when I was attacked and had it ripped at the top. This has just confirmed her worst fears that I am actually quite strange!
Am I alone in this, or has anybody else "repaired" themselves?

 

[slowmotion]

I too have only had one verruca in my life and that was 30 years ago. I was assembling some quite delicate electronics at the time and had a needle point electric soldering iron at my disposal. Emboldened by an evening of excessive ethanol consumption, I jammed the 370 degree tip very hard into the heart of the beast, like Van Helsing slaying The Undead One. There was a smell quite like pork crackling but the pain was quite bearable due to the self-administration of oral analgesic. It worked a treat.

 

[PK99]

I, for the first time in my life, had a verruca on my left foot. Tried everything on offer in chemists with no joy.
Resorted to cutting it out with the small blade on my Swiss Army knife and a pair of pointed tweezers. Hurt for a few days, but job done.
My wife was horrified! Then I explained my other dabbles in surgery, including super glueing my right ear when I was attacked and had it ripped at the top. This has just confirmed her worst fears that I am actually quite strange!
Am I alone in this, or has anybody else "repaired" themselves?

Dealt with a few skin tags by tying them off with fine nylon thread and letting them die and drop off.

Dealt with a few minor cuts with super glue

 

[bancrobba]

^^^^^^
Yeah man, we got the tools, why burden the already overstretched NHS?

 

[Profpointy]

I have dug out a verruca too, albeit after a good bit of treatment with the special stuff first. It had kind of "hairs" in it which I pulled out. It was a gradual digging and more gloop over time rather than surgery.

I have done the burning a hole in a squashed fingernail to le the blood out. Really works too

 

[slowmotion]

I have dug out a verruca too, albeit after a good bit of treatment with the special stuff first. It had kind of "hairs" in it which I pulled out. It was a gradual digging and more gloop over time rather than surgery.

I have done the burning a hole in a squashed fingernail to le the blood out. Really works too

The red hot needle through the nail when there is some blood swelling up in the nerve below is the only way to go. It takes a bit of courage the first time but the pain relief is instant. A thin needle is best. I wouldn't attempt it with my soldering iron.

 

[bancrobba]

The red hot needle through the nail when there is some blood swelling up in the nerve below is the only way to go. It takes a bit of courage the first time but the pain relief is instant. A thin needle is best. I wouldn't attempt it with my soldering iron.

Wuss!

 

[Profpointy]

The red hot needle through the nail when there is some blood swelling up in the nerve below is the only way to go. It takes a bit of courage the first time but the pain relief is instant. A thin needle is best. I wouldn't attempt it with my soldering iron.

Best with a paperclip - the blunt end means the hole is right size straightway, and it has less tendency to stick into the fleshy bit if it isn't quite hot enough.

 

[slowmotion]

Best with a paperclip - the blunt end means the hole is right size straightway, and it has less tendency to stick into the fleshy bit if it isn't quite hot enough.

Good point....as it were.... With a needle there is a tendency to go too deep. A paper clip would be ideal. Top tip.

 

[bancrobba]

I propose an NHS direct hotline type freefone service at Cycle Chat.

Callers would be played 25 minutes of ITV's Tour de France theme before being connected to my esteemed colleagues Dr Slowmotion & Dr Profpointy.

 

[slowmotion]

We are all pretty minor league compared to Leonid Rogozov. Chapeau that man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481442

 

[Profpointy]

Good point....as it were.... With a needle there is a tendency to go too deep. A paper clip would be ideal. Top tip.

and because it's bendy you can't press hard, so you are so-say "forced" to burn through not jam it through. Red hot is the trick too.

 

[bancrobba]

View attachment 115294 We are all pretty minor league compared to Leonid Rogozov. Chapeau that man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481442

2 hours!!!!!!!!
Ok, now feel a bit inadequate with my verruca and ear glueing!
Off to bed but have a horrible feeling I'm gonna dream of operating on myself, cheers!

 

[growingvegetables]

View attachment 115294 We are all pretty minor league compared to Leonid Rogozov. Chapeau that man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481442

I had a friend in Yemen who did pretty much exactly that. Scary story.

 

[Cubist]

Only yesterday morning my dentist was telling g me about one of his uni tutors who did his own dentistry because he didn't trust anyone else to be as good as he was.