Splinter under cuticle!!! HELP!!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Splinter under cuticle!!! HELP!!

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:18:41 PM EDT

Water boarding my ass! They should try this with the insurgents. Believe me they would talk! This evil little bastard is under the middle finger cuticle on my left hand so I can use my right hand to get it out. So far I've used a needle and a sharp pointed Exacto knife. It ain't sliding out like most do. I cut a little slit so I could get to it and still no dice. I can see the dark tip of this thing and it's at least another quarter inch deep. It's got to go soon but how?? It may involve whisky if I keep picking at it!!!!

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:20:42 PM EDT

[#1]

Amputate below the chin.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:21:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Yur gonna die.

Dibs on your guns!

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:24:55 PM EDT

[#3]

It's getting sore. I may have to soak my finger in boiling water. I'm seriously considering a quick hit with an angle grinder and real coarse disc.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:27:35 PM EDT

[#4]

pics or BS

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:27:39 PM EDT

[#5]

Well... since you refuse the amputation method, smash it with a hammer, the nail should fall off in a week or so and the splinter will be free.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:35:08 PM EDT

[#6]

Step one: Stop whining like there is a rusty nail through one of your nads.

Step two: Dig it out with something sharp.

Step three: Get a tissue, dab your eyes, look up man in the dictionary.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:37:16 PM EDT

[#7]

Call a Yakuza enforcer.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:38:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Step one: Stop whining like there is a rusty nail through one of your nads.

Step two: Dig it out with something sharp dull. Like a spoon you pansy.

Step three: Get a tissue, dab your eyes, look up man in the dictionary.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:40:43 PM EDT

[#9]

Sounds painful. I'd sic a termite on it.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:41:05 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Amputate below the chin.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:42:44 PM EDT

[#11]

cider...soak

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:42:55 PM EDT

[#12]

Wife had one under her cuticle (ran the length of the nail) - we tried everything and couldn't get it. She said it was painful as hell and her finger started to swell. She ended up having to go to a hand surgeon. The total bill was $1K before insurance. Good luck.

Posted: 6/8/2009 3:44:48 PM EDT

[#13]

Real funny.

I'm taking a drill to it. It's stuck in there good!!

Posted: 6/8/2009 4:09:26 PM EDT

[#14]

I had a sliver of bamboo get under my thumbnail while cutting with a mechete years ago... I gotta tell you, that fucker hurt. No lie, it took 5 years for the nail to grow entirely back. I feel your pain.

Posted: 6/8/2009 4:14:48 PM EDT

[#15]

I bet you cry yourself to sleep when you cut yourself shaving your legs too, Nancy

Surgery with an exacto knife and a good pair of tweezers should do it. That sumbitch is gonna be sore as hell tomarow if you dont get it out. If you cant get to it, it should build up enough pus around it in a day or two that a good squeeze should pop it out. Of course, thats gonna hurt like mad too.

Posted: 6/8/2009 5:34:55 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I bet you cry yourself to sleep when you cut yourself shaving your legs too, Nancy

Surgery with an exacto knife and a good pair of tweezers should do it. That sumbitch is gonna be sore as hell tomarow if you dont get it out. If you cant get to it, it should build up enough pus around it in a day or two that a good squeeze should pop it out. Of course, thats gonna hurt like mad too.

That won't hurt! That will be fun. Fester up baby. Since it's on my bird finger if it festers up real good I'll try to post my first picture ever. It will make a fine addition to the Arfcom Journal of Medicine.

Posted: 6/8/2009 5:36:03 PM EDT

[#17]

You guys hold him down, We will hit him with some starting fluid to take the edge off, then we are removing the limb

Posted: 6/8/2009 5:38:49 PM EDT

[#18]

Leave it alone. It'll come out in due time.

Maybe poor some alcohol or hydrogen peroxide on it.

Posted: 6/8/2009 5:40:45 PM EDT

[#19]

Warm water and soap sok after that peroxide on cotton, later sterile needle to remove

Posted: 6/8/2009 5:43:39 PM EDT

[#20]

Hold an ice cube on area until it goes numb then hack away. Its not like its brain surgery. Its a splinter for crying in the beer.
Then hand in your man card.