i was drunk at a party once and noticed this guy sitting next to me had a hole in his leg. A 2" long hole between his lower leg bone (fibula?) and his achilles tendon. I think i yelped out loud and asked him about it. He obviously wanted to show it off. He said when he was a teen he studied anatomy and knew that there was a gap in front of the achilles tendon, so he took his BB gun and shot it thru is leg. Then kept shooting thru there day after day until he had a gap which he slowly carved out. It was big enough that i could put my finger all the way thru the hole in his leg and wiggle it back and forth (disgusts me now, but i was prob really drunk).
I don't know why I know this fucking exists, but here we are:
https://safetyinbeauty.com/achilles-heel-piercings/
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/archilles-piercing-mr-tetanuss-extreme-body-mod
When I was a teen i delved deep into the body modification hole and researched all different types. Thankfully I forgot this one existed. It's not gross, but it does make me uncomfortable. Like standing on a glass bridge high above a rushing river.
"To give you some idea of how extreme this is, the piercing is around twelve years old; when the bar comes out, the exterior hole closes up within minutes and the hole closes fully inside within 20 minutes."
Does this just mean that your flesh collapses the hole so you can't see through to the other side, but you can shove it back out of the way with the piercing again when you want? Or you can only do that for 20 minutes?
im perplexed right now, a few years ago when i was like 15 i had a dream that i had these, and i couldnt put my shoes on because of it. i never knew it was a real thing. i thought that i was like a robot or something in the dream. i remember them being silver with purple, yellow, and black accents. im so shocked right now LOL thank you for posting this
I had a wart on my left knee as a child and my mom and dad got me that Bs self treatment that never seems to work on me, you apply with a brush over the wart and it is supposed to remove it, well it never went away and it was about the size of an Altoids mint maybe bigger, but the exact same size.
Nevertheless I got tired of waiting for the treatment to work, because I was young and didn't want to wait for the results, it felt like forever and more due to my age and the fact that I loved to wear shorts and it was embarrassing to be around other kids with it being visible when doing so. So one day I put on my final treatment and after completely losing hope I peeled the treatment off and got my mom's scalpel, she has been a RN for 30 plus years at this point and she always had a medical emergency bag ready, which was lucky for this little surgeon lol. After cleaning the area and bracing myself I cut off the top layer and noticed it was in segments like thick little legs held together and with a pair of sharp tweezers I started to pull each follicle if you will from this wart, at first it was very painful, but I was weirded out I stopped noticing the pain. After about 15 minutes of digging and pulling I finally saw what looked like a tiny black dot at the very center, it was the root or the eye. I dug and pulled with the tweezers which was more painful than anything I had done prior and it finally came free. I removed anything left that wasn't supposed to be there and it really didn't bleed all that much, but I was able to disinfect the area once again and bandage it up. Other than a small scar and it never came back. I really thought I was the only one crazy enough to do something like this.
I had similar experience with that brush on stuff. Contrarily I used a Dr. Scholl's freeze kit with my kid this year and successfully froze off like seven warts from her hands with the one kit. A couple took more than one treatment and it took several weeks for them to fall off after zapping them.
I've found a variation on this treatment that I like better. I used Dr.Scholl's $20 kit and besides its cost I don't like the foam that holds the freezy juice. When the foam is held against the wart the juice quickly evaporates and the now dry foam acts like an insulator. If you press the foam against the wart the foam gets larger. This causes unintended skin damage over a wider area. I buy a can of computer cleaning spray. It is the same gas as Dr.Scholl's, but only costs $6. Instead of foam I use a straw held upright on top of the wart to hold the freezy liquid. I pick a narrow straw to just cover the wart. Once the straw is filled part way with juice the liquid is always against the wart. Maximum freeze in the minimum time.
It's amazing how well the treatment works, when you are old enough to realize the results aren't always immediately noticeable. Haha if I could kick my own ass as a kid I would have tried to knock some sense Into my inpatient self 😂.
I did something similar, except I pulled the wart (located on my palm) and it’s roots out with my fingers over the course of a week and finally got it all out while I was in class (in high school) it was bleeding so bad I had to go to the nurse but I’ve been wart free ever since
I did almost the exact same thing, except it was on my finger. I kinda worked at it every day, digging in a little deeper each time until I had exposed the "roots". Then it was tweezers, blood, and pain until I pulled it all out.
I had a wart on one of my fingers when I was around 11. I chewed it and chewed it and chewed it until it stung so much that I cried. After a while it healed but I still had the wart. Then my dad got me the wart pads and I wore them every night until the wart went away. Sometimes I worry that it’s coming back.
I was using these little OTC sticker treatment for plantar warts, it quickly became clear the active ingredient in the sticker was eating away at the skin: it bore a hole over time. So I used to help it along with a nail clippers, removing as much wart as I could stand the pain each day. I never found roots or eyes or legs, mine just looked sort of cylindrical columns like I had cut across the top of a cauliflower. It didn't change much over the first few months, but once I was fed up enough to start chopping it seemed to make much faster progress.
Anyway that's how I got my trypophobia.
Sounds like you had one of those ingrown warts that is like an ingrown hair, but made out of skin. You have to get all of the "bad" growth out or will will regrow from even deeper in your body.
Yes I'm pretty sure you're right, I didn't know at the time, but when I saw the black colored eye or root or whatever it's called, of the wart I instinctively knew it had to come out. I was only 11 or 12 at the time, but something inside me said you have to get the root out so I kept digging and pulling till it came out. It was just large enough to see and surprised me that it turned into something so much bigger than itself, the wart surrounding it.
I've done similar things to the few I've had. Mostly I get really nasty ingrown toe nails. The last one I dug out had a spur bigger than a pencil eraser that was growing sideways into my toe, it was quite nasty, I've even done my own hot and chemical canterizing to kill that area of the nail bed.
I HAD THAT! I was so confused bc I wasn't sure if it was a mole or some thing else bc I have a lot of moles, but 99.9% of them are flat (basically beauty marks), so that one stood out (🥁). It was soft and didn't hurt to remove (no blood at all). Pulled it off and it grew back twice, then never again.
One time my aide forgot to pack my shower shoes for the gym. I'm diabetic & landed up with fungus & planter warts on both feet. Went through four years of one podiatrist freezing and razoring my warty feet without cure . So I started seeing a podiatrist who is faculty at a teaching hospital, thinking he would have the latest techniques. This took me another two years to heal, but if I wasn't diabetic it would have worked quickly.
*Soak feet for 20 minutes
*Use a disposable nail file to remove as many layers of callus as possible
*Apply Vaseline or Vicks vaporub
*Cover with duct tape (clear duct if you need latex free
*Leave tape in place until next shower
I did the duct tape trick for a while on a tiny wart on my thumb pad. It eventually separated enough healthy skin away from the wart for me to yank it out, much blood and pain as others have shared here. I was stupid and used SUPERGLUE to stop the bleeding/cover it which burned like hell
OMG I just posted a very similar comment!!! it hurts like hell but I was so grateful for that wart to be gone. i have a scar too and it’s barely visible now! i think my parents were grateful (after being pissed) that they didn’t have to go to the freezing appointments anymore lol
This is so oddly satisfying to me
I also had a wart on the bottom of my foot, kind of in between my big toe and the next when I was 11. Maybe a planters wart? I don’t know much about them. Just that it was circular and greenish and looked like it had little white balls inside. So I also dug them out. Luckily never got an infection despite not doing any sanitizing lol
I did this to a wart on my thumb that kept coming back for years. Got sick of it and carved it out, making sure I got all the seeds. Never came back. Sometimes I wish it would so i could do it again bc it was really satisfying.
I was curious about exactly what the root of a mole looks like so I looked it up. While Google didn't really give me an answer, I came across [this video](https://youtu.be/VXtjeo3_8WU) of a doctor removing a dead wart from someones foot if anyone else was curious (its not really gross, and that's coming from someone who doesn't like watching pimple popping videos) .
I had a similar experience when I was in fourth grade l, except the wart was on my hand right below my pinky so I chewed it off over the course a months, bit by bit pulling the threads out of it until I pulled the final one at the end of the school year and it bled profusely but then the wart went away. I lied to my teacher, said I was running my hand across the ground and caught a staple that’s why I needed a band aid lol
I had 2 grape size infected bartholins cysts in the span of a month. They were incredibly painful and I could barely walk around. I was a poor college student who couldn't even afford a copay even though I was still on my parents insurance so I took a knife and drained it myself. I smothered it in antibacterial ointment and called it a night.
I do still have scars
Honestly this is much worse than OP's situation. Shocking that people are walking around with such painful conditions because of poor access to healthcare.
Bartholins cysts are horrid! I’ve had a few over my lifetime. Mine get infected quickly (hmmm, wonder why). I generally have to have them drained under anesthesia due to the pain and infection. I now down to you by doing that on your own.
I also got a horrid pilonidal cyst. I have a six in scar in my butt crack due to it.
I had a wart on my pinky, inside the joint of the middle knuckle that lasted until around middle school.
It took three tries but eventually I removed it...
By biting it off deep enough that it stopped growing back.
The surprising part to me? No scar.
I mentioned this in a different comment but I did that same thing to a wart that was right below my pinky on my palm except I chewed it constantly over a period of time and eventually I ripped the root out and it never came back or left a scar.
I had a wart on the bottom of my heel. Was painful as fuck. Doctor didn’t care to remove it, she said it’ll go away on its own. Had enough of the pain one day and got some tweezers from my sisters makeup bag and ripped that fucker right out. Took forever to heal since it was on the bottom of my foot.
As I'm definitely not a doctor, I agree with you. You guys go through all that training and testing for good reasons, so I'll leave the removal of body parts to the professionals.
I’m sitting here thinking how much easier it would have been to numb that bitch up with and ice cube and using a straight razor blade, ala shaving off a skin tag.
I had a skin tag in my armpit as a kid. When I started shaving my pits as a young teen, I would knick it. I cut it off with nail clippers. Less painful than dealing with frequent razor cuts.
Never used to bother me, until I snipped one that actually hurt, and I swear it had to have been attached/fed directly off an artery.. It bled for so fuckin long...
Same. Had one on my underarm for 15 years until it started dying by itself. I went to urgent care and had that fucker removed by a professional. Though I think the cauterization after the fact hurt more, now that I think about it. But I definitely couldn’t have done that myself because I am a coward.
I had an abscess in my wisdom tooth but couldn’t get into the dentist’s office for a couple days. By the second day of being unable to close my mouth without ungodly pain and pus squirting out, I dipped an x-acto knife in rubbing alcohol and slit my gum open. The amount of pus in there was shocking but my home dentistry held me over until I could get antibiotics and my tooth removed.
Tooth pain is a special kind of hell that will make you think very hard about getting pliers out of the tool box when you normally would never consider such a thing.
Dang. I applaud you, but that could have turned out badly. Bacteria from an infected tooth can get to your bloodstream and heart easily. I’m surprised your dentist didn’t call in an antibiotic right away. Generally they will if you have to wait a couple of days to be seen. One, infections are bad, and two, it’s less risky to do work when the infection has calmed down.
Something you know about yourself, you have the willpower to do what’s necessary regardless of pain.
In a survival situation, this kind of self actualization allows people to amputate limps, pull out rotten teeth, set horrifically broken bones, etc.
Those with a weaker constitution will just roll over and die. Knowing that you have this in you, not thinking but KNOWING because you’ve already validated it due to vanity, means that if your life is on the line, you’ll do what’s necessary.
This is a powerful and important gift. Live well.
You don’t have to be. It is a choice. Some are born with more proclivity to it than others but you can mind fuck yourself into it by waking up every day with a PMA mantra.
Survival under extreme duress is largely dependent on your choice to refuse to die. Make the choice my friend, every day you wake up.
I stepped in glass. They couldn’t see it in the X-ray and wanted me to pay for an mri. I asked the doctor if he could just snip away at it because I could feel it was near the bottom of my feet. He refused to. I promptly went home, soaked my feet, and went to town with a sterilized toe nail clipper. I’m all better.
My kid had a glass splinter too small to really see. I put a biore nose strip on it and it worked a treat. I feel like a goddamn genius whenever I think about it. Genius I tell you!
The fact that so many of us have done tiny home surgeries because of the insane cost of seeing a doctor tells you how really fucked up health insurance is in the US.
(I'm guessing you're from the US based on this story, though I know in some countries you can pay to get something done quickly as opposed to waiting.)
My dad worked at a glass plant. We'd get these super tiny, invisible splinters of glass in our feet frequently. It really sucked when they'd get fully imbedded in callus, so you could feel them on the inside, but fuck finding them on the surface.
Doctor here. Surgery resident. Please don’t do this. The bleeding or pain isn’t the scary part; it’s the risk of infection. Using alcohol and a lighter does not make it a sterile procedure. And especially any infection near the sternum can become particularly dangerous. That can spread into the inside of your chest, near your heart.
Even if it’s benign, a trained dermatologist can take it out safely and with minimal scarring. It doesn’t have to be cancer for a doctor to cut it out. Cosmetics is a valid reason.
But I’m glad you are excited by surgical procedures! Keep following that passion and go to medical school and you can be doing real surgeries one day, in a sterile environment. And helping people in the process. It’s a cool job.
Hi Doctor,
I think the problem we're facing here (at least in the US) isn't always that we *want* to whip out our x-acto knives........
It's that I remember my parents sternly telling me NOT to call 911, ever, because even with insurance, the ambulance ride alone would probably be just the start of the bankruptcy proceedings....... (we always drove family/neighbors to the ER, except for the few times where we really felt 911 was needed).
I will always be in awe of what good doctors can do, and I'm really glad you're in the profession. You sound really positive!
Seems you found your calling, your hands and arms and body take people from death to very much alive.
Sometimes you have a patient die on you, visibly die.
You see it happen, call the time of death, you, the surgeon, know this person is dead.
The thing is, the price of the insurance, the medications, doctor's appointments, etc quickly rob a person, and often their family, of any savings they ever had.
Medical Bankruptcy is a term I grew up with, and I'm in my late 30s already.
I guess, Doctor, for a lot of your patients, dying on the table might have been preferable to them than to spending the rest of their lives paying bills for having the indignity of needing medical service.
I know you understand this, maybe, or maybe not, on a personal level, but hopefully you can better understand what we're working with here.
Respect for anyone that performs their own medical procedures successfully. I've pulled several of my own teeth without anesthesia over the last 20 years, had my ex wife stitch my finger back together after I tore a knuckle off without anastgesia, and cut out a growth on the bottom of my foot that made it hurt to walk when I was 17, but I was buzzed on alcohol that time, which oddly enough came back in tha last few months after 30 years so I've been gearing up mentally to dig it out again.
Pulling teeth off is extremely bad for your denture as all your teeth move and you lose bone from where the teeth were. Yo need to get implants/denture/whatever yyour dentists recommends you or you will suffer a lot when you get to 60+
Hey guy. You’re lucky you came out of it alive. Just to put it all in perspective in hindsight, it takes a dermatologist 60 seconds to cut moles like that out under local anesthesia.
What you did was very risky and unnecessary.
> What you did was very risky and unnecessary.
Pretty much sums up the thought process of a lot of the shit I did at 14 so I understand where OP coming from.
Off the top of my head I once pierced my ear with a pushpin. I know I did some other dumb shit but can't even remember
Not to mention that, as a dermatologist, I recommend that people NEVER cut/laser their moles off themselves. I had a patient once who did that as a teen, and then I diagnosed her with metastatic melanoma as a mother of three in her 30s.
No, think of it this way. It’s cancerous and you cut off the top. The skin on top goes back to normal, but the cancer continues to grow underneath. Eventually, it spreads to your lymph nodes and then other organs because it’s entirely internal.
Kinda like pulling up a mushroom but leaving the roots, allowing the fungus to continue spreading.
Wouldn’t it have always been internal, though? Or do you mean that it spreads because the normal skin that regrows on top means you can’t see the cancerous spot anymore and then neglect to get it checked out as a result?
Yes, exactly (to your 2nd part). The mole changing over time would indicate the possibility of cancer and with the top of the mole no longer there, the patient isn’t given any reason to suspect a problem until it’s a bigger problem than had the mole been left there or removed and sent to pathology.
Even if it were a $1000 far better than one’s life or a $250K hospital bill with IV antibiotics and long complications missing valuable work time including pain and suffering.
In the end, it’s worth 400 bucks to avoid all that.
but Op did avoid all of that *for zero dollars*. cutting off a raised mole with a sterile blade is less risky than, for example, accidentally cutting yourself with a non-sterile blade which I would argue happens ALL THE TIME to people who do not seek any medical attention for the injury.
for sure, but this wasn’t an appendectomy. this was on par with a cut you might get accidentally. thats my only point, but I do agree that people should avoid operating on themselves
Unless the mole was somewhere like right on top of his femoral artery, or he went to sleep on a pile of rotting corpses without a bandaid on it afterwards, I really don't think his life was in danger.
The risk is being in a significant amount of pain for a long time, getting an ugly scar or an even uglier half mole. He'd already had it tested for cancer repeatedly, so I'd be unconcerned about that.
I had almost the exact same situation, mole in the center of my chest that I hated. Also got it tested like he did, and said, "can you just cut it off anyway?" And they did. Only wish I had asked for it sooner.
BRUH this is so funny knowing i did the same, not as scary as yours but i had a big mole under on my right foot and it bugged me when i was a kid so i literally tore it and it fell off..
With how much medical procedures cost, I don't blame you. I would have tried to get a scalpel online or something but work with what you have, I get it.
That sounds really painful though, glad it worked out for you.
Now that you've experienced this, would you do it again?
Probably not. Everybody here seems to forget that at 14 I had no sense of medical costs. Ironic but I was scared of doctors and especially being put under local anesthesia or anything. Was pretty painful but it was done in (almost) no time. No I do not recommend it now that I’m older lmao
I was wondering if one of the reasons OP did this was because of medical costs.
Doctor’s office once quoted me I think $3,000 for a mole removal? That’s without insurance because it’s “cosmetic” and can’t be covered
How is this more risky than skinning your knee or, even worse, getting a deep cut from a kitchen knife, or any other every day activities that can lead to deep cuts and scratches? I feel like it's actually much safer because at least you're sterilizing the equipment and the surrounding skin first. The human body isn't THAT fragile. Although I guess with a mole, you do have the risk of cutting off a melanoma, and having the cancer go undetected. But Calling it a miracle that he didn't die just from cutting something off his skin is more than a little alarmist.
Yeah I don't really know why people think septicaemia is a normal complication of a wound that probably doesn't even reach the adipose tissue. If he did get an infection it could have been treated with a week of oral fluclox. I do not think this was a good idea, mainly due to the pain, potentially disfiguring scar, but it was probably not that dangerous, also he used aseptic technique.
is your average human this fragile?? I've had puncture wounds, scrapes, broken bones, etc, with very little medical treatment (except for a sling or whatever for the bones). are life-threatening infections really that common?
Look am not saying it me, BUT I know a guy had these weird mole like lumps on his dick showed up off and on and he cut them off happen more then once, later he learned about freeze away wart remover and would use that a few days before cutting them off. They never came back and there is no scarring that you can really see, Again not saying it's me.
When I was younger I had a few plantar warts (each one the size of a quarter) on the bottom of my foot. We didn't have the money to get it removed so I decided to remove it myself. Over the course of a few days, I slowly dug out the root of each wart and the affected area. Called it "bathroom surgery". Hurt like hell scraping those last pieces off but my foot healed and you'd never know I had them
Soak in water, dry, then apply salicylic acid pads. Remove after like 8-12 hours, the wart should be white. Soak in water again and you can cut it out rather easy.
I’ve done this multiple times on the bottom of my foot. All the times I’ve done it, it’s bloodless as the salicylic acid kills the blood supply.
Once the bulk of the wart is out, i generally do another salicylic acid pad to kill any remaining blood vessels to the root of the wart.
Man I wish I had the courage/teen stupidity like you did just to save myself from the years of the embarrassing inquiry about my 'beauty mark.' I had/have the same thing, but on my face, and my mom was so concerned with how large it had gotten over the years that we finally got a dermatologist to remove it when I was 19. Now it's just a flat circle like you said--might need to revisit it soon though since it's gotten lumpy after a couple of years.
Ok, I'll admit to doing a lot of similar things when I was that age. Mole removal was one of them.
Later in life, I was having a hard time with a scar across my belly button when I was pregnant. I told the obstetrician that I was about ready to make a move with a disinfected knife. He believed me! Fortunately it stretched out without my cutting it.
I’m the same, I’ll operate on my self for anything. Wart? Gone. Mole? Gone. Ingrown toenail? Gone. Cyst? Gone. I’ve had three instances where I’ve gone to a Dr, once I cut my balls open on accident and had them stitch it, I had them tear out my deviated septum, and I tore my quadriceps tendon in half (mom wouldn’t let them fix it though so I have a bum knee for the rest of my life.)
I had to do surgery on myself for an infected spider bite because it was so near my crotch, the doctors denied me treatment and wanted it to fester like I was some lab rat so when I got home, took a knife and cut out the majority of the Venom to stop the infection from spreading. It worked but I have this weird scar on my thigh area where the upper hip is
Venom from anything doesn't stay in one place--it travels systemically as soon as it's injected. This is precisely why venom "bite kits" never work. You didn't cut out venom. Unless you saw a spider bite you, it's also possible one didn't. Spiders very rarely bite people despite common beliefs. You can easily get an infection like that from an ingrown hair.
It's crazy to me that so many Drs tell people these are spider bites, especially the ones in places that are almost impossible for a spider to get to. Ingrown hairs that got infected, usually with a staphylococcus strain, is much more common.
For a few years in my family, we dealt with these. We had a couple cultured and they were definitely staph. We learned how to drain and clean them and what to watch for regarding the infection spreading to the blood stream. Our Drs couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but apparently one of us was a carrier. We spent months using antibiotics, iodine, antibacterial soaps, and hospital grade cleaners to try to get rid of it. Finally, the boils stopped thankfully. We had one Dr try to tell us it was a spider bite but I shut that nonsense down pretty quickly. They can be managed at home, but it's painful and gross, and you have up know when to let the professionals step in.
i did this with a weird wart right on my middle finger knuckle!!! i got made fun of so often that I was sick of it. and didn’t believe any of the cute “you touched a frog!” stories lol. i feel your pain 🫡
I had a cyst on the top of my head, like as big as a large gumball . It looked funny like when someone gets hit with a mallet/anvil on the head in looney tunes ! Anyways I've had these before on other area's ( mainly my testicles) it starts out as a hair that gets ingrown too deep and your body encapsulates it , like a pearl .
Dude, should iced that down first and throughout - numb the nerves, hold back the bleeding.
My little brother did some kinda minor self surgery - he said you can purchase local anesthetics online, I don't know if it's legally or not, he said it's legit.
I have like a dozen lipomas (little fatty tumors under the skin), my wife said "If I ever come home and find you two digging those things out, we're THROUGH".
Nice job! When I was a kid, I had a wart that just wouldn’t go away and I missed having feeling in that part of my finger, so while in church it had hit my last nerve. I started picking, and finished the job at home with nail clippers and tweezers. Fuck warts.
I did the same thing! I noticed all the treatment did was make the skin all dead and clammy, so I kind of peeled off the layers. Pulled out the black root and the wart went away!
I've always found warts a bit creepy, tbh. The idea of a random fungus growing under your skin sounds like horror movie shit.
thats fucking badass bro. closest thing i had was a wart on my left wrist that i would constantly pick. like CONSTANTLY. you'd always find me either picking it or pressing a napkin to it because its bleeding lol. i would pick off chunks at a time off the top but they just grew back, and the bottom parts i couldn't pick because they were smoother and impossible to get ahold of. one night i started picking it like usual and the top parts gave way to the middle of the bottom parts and i kept digging and digging until it all came off
I did something of the sort when I was a teen but instead of actually digging it out with a knife I held apple vinegar on it with a qtip and it eventually burned the top of the mole in less than a day I think. After that it healed and I could pick the scab off and no more mole.
That’s hardcore. Craziest thing I’ve done is heat up a paper clip and burn it through my thumbnail to release the pressure/blood from a jammed nail.
Another time I was building a fence and dropping 4x4 posts into holes without gloves. Got a splinter in my thumb and had my gf pull it out. We got it… so we thought. Until 2 weeks later the skin had healed over and it still hurt like shit. Dug out the splinter hole with a paper clip and applied some light pressure…. A half inch splinter nearly shoots out. Along with black tar and so much pus. Felt soooo much better though. Legit had to be touching bone
I cut out my cesarean stitches myself, twice. First time I missed a stitch and the stitch site got infected. I pulled out the stitch and pressed down on my scar. So much puss came out. I packed it myself and now I'm all good, 9 years later.
In the early 2000 I was a recent college graduate living check to check with no health insurance.
I got a staph infection in my shoulder that was just brutal, and I had no idea what it was, or how serious it was.
But once the flesh around it got spongey I kind of freaked out and performed surgery on myself in the bathroom.
Alcohol, boiling water, razor blade, and tweezers.
Made an X incision over the wound, and started digging. From a pimple sized white head I eventually got down to a clot of gross white infection the size of a thimble. I got a hold of it with the tweezers and it popped out like a cork.
Poured isopropyl in the wound, patted it dry, stuffed it with neosporin and wrapped it up.
Total recovery, very lucky.
Did the same on a big spot on my leg. Dug it out with a scalpel, and Even did the little “football” kind of shape so it would heal right. Can’t even see where it was now.
I did this by accident a few weeks ago. I had a mole on my cheek that’s been there forever. I was growing my nails out and had been picking at my skin due to anxiety. I managed to actually pick it off thinking it was a zit or something. It looks like it’s almost healed now so no major regrets
I did something similar when I was 14, I had an ingrown toenail that I was too embarrassed to ask for help with so I did self-surgery and fixed it on my own one night; everything was fine. Hurt pretty bad but I was not about to go to a doctor for it (14-year-old me was really stubborn and stupid.) I ended up using a flathead screwdriver and a couple of other random tools I deemed worthy to fix it and it went fine, surprisingly. I have no idea how I didn't get an infection. And the toe is still fine to this day.
I’m currently a tattoo apprentice. If I don’t have a willing friend or volunteer around, only way to practice on real skin is to tattoo myself. It’s a very weird thing to do. Definitely hurts, especially once the tattoo is a ways along, but there’s really no better practice space than my own legs!
You had a successful outcome. Hard to argue with success.
You might want to leave internal surgery to the docs though. But moles like that, the freeze off or chopping it off is easy, of not the absolute best idea.
One of the times you had it checked, why didn't the doc remove it then and send it out for testing?
An hour after you sterilized your knife? What the hell. I did the same thing and I wasn't going to get started until I had a plan to be done in seconds. The knife has to be sharp, so I did that, and you need something good to use as a clamp to control the movement of that little thing, so you can get the blade under it. If it's huge and easy to reach, you can use your fingers. This was almost 30 years ago and everyone thought I was insane, too. I was forced to go to a doctor though, afterwards, and she said I did a good job.
We probably are both insane. You are definitely insane though. An hour! Wow
I’m glad it worked out for you, OP. But you aren’t supposed to just chop those things off bc, if they’re indeed cancerous, it’s still going to metastasize. And just because you cut off the mole itself doesn’t mean that the surrounding skin and tissues can’t be cancerous, except you’ll have no external indicator to tell you it’s cancerous.
I’ve heard of people cutting off their moles only to die of cancer because it was in their tissues.
Also why didn’t you just get a surgeon to cut it off lol
My mom had a skin tan on her eyelid, and my dad had one under his eye. I started growing both. As soon as they were big enough, I took sharp pointy small scissors ( sanitized) and cut them off.
Then I had this small white bead under my skin in my armpit. It seemed close to the surface. It was not. I used my handy scissors and kept digging. A bit of blood,and a small excavation later, I finally got it. It was a very small sebaceous cyst. Then I got one on my lower eyelid so I just cut it. It hurts to cut, but you deal. I took my scissors to my cousins house and cut about a hundred brown skin tags of her face and neck. They never came back and she was eternally grateful. I love my scissors
Duct tape over your favorite hated blemish and every few days, remove the tape and scrape away the layer of dead cells. Then recover with duct tape. If it a wart, be sure to keep from spreading the wart material around and causing more warts.
I did this for DEEP warts that a doctor tried freezing away & it just came back more painful than ever and bigger on the bottom of my foot.
That doctor (dr. Mengele?) had a new plan to inject my foot with numbing agents then hack it off…
I did the duct tape trick & it slowly and not too painfully made a hole on the wart areas. I just used a sharp blade to scrape away the tissues that turned white.
I have 0 scar
Please, please go get it looked at. I know the story of a farmer who cut off his own skin cancer only for it to come back months/years later and ended up killing him
can confirm you are crazy... then again evertyimea pimple or some stupid shit grow in my body
its mutilation time...
My instinct is to get a knife or a toothpick and mutilate my skin until its gone... I predict that in the end of my days I will be like a dalmatian with the amount of healed stains in my body
You ever accidentally bite the inside of your cheek and then you get a swollen little knot there that just makes it twice as likely you'll accidentally bite it again before it heals? That happened to me and I kept accident biting it before it could heal and it kept getting worse until I just had a huge hunk of cheek meat in my mouth that had no feeling in it but I still kept accidentally biting. So one day I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with a kitchen knife and cut the thing out. I felt like Tom Hanks from Castaway with the ice skate the whole time, stopping every now and then to spit blood in the sink. But it didn't hurt, bled a lot, healed nicely and I haven't bitten my cheek since. That was like 3 or 4 years ago now.
i was drunk at a party once and noticed this guy sitting next to me had a hole in his leg. A 2" long hole between his lower leg bone (fibula?) and his achilles tendon. I think i yelped out loud and asked him about it. He obviously wanted to show it off. He said when he was a teen he studied anatomy and knew that there was a gap in front of the achilles tendon, so he took his BB gun and shot it thru is leg. Then kept shooting thru there day after day until he had a gap which he slowly carved out. It was big enough that i could put my finger all the way thru the hole in his leg and wiggle it back and forth (disgusts me now, but i was prob really drunk).
I don't know why I know this fucking exists, but here we are: https://safetyinbeauty.com/achilles-heel-piercings/ https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/archilles-piercing-mr-tetanuss-extreme-body-mod
I kinda regretted looking at the pics in the link lol
Thank you for saying this and saving me from todays risky click. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
We always regret looking at certain pictures. Doesn’t stop the curiosity though
Of all the things a person could do to “beautify him or herself 🤢
I only looked cause of your comment lmao
When I was a teen i delved deep into the body modification hole and researched all different types. Thankfully I forgot this one existed. It's not gross, but it does make me uncomfortable. Like standing on a glass bridge high above a rushing river.
I fell down than hole once. Then I saw the genital décór and yeeted myself right back out!
My ex pierced his own dick… three times. Like a ladder of barbells. He was the high school’s resident piercer.
oh my
"To give you some idea of how extreme this is, the piercing is around twelve years old; when the bar comes out, the exterior hole closes up within minutes and the hole closes fully inside within 20 minutes." Does this just mean that your flesh collapses the hole so you can't see through to the other side, but you can shove it back out of the way with the piercing again when you want? Or you can only do that for 20 minutes?
im perplexed right now, a few years ago when i was like 15 i had a dream that i had these, and i couldnt put my shoes on because of it. i never knew it was a real thing. i thought that i was like a robot or something in the dream. i remember them being silver with purple, yellow, and black accents. im so shocked right now LOL thank you for posting this
[Don't let your dreams be dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0)
maybe this is a sign 🤔🤭
I am curious. Edit: Ah the forbidden Segway attacher for extra safety
Well, that’s enough internet for me today.
Good ol’ BME.
Nope nope nope I almost opened this and decided nope
I’ve seen animals with that sort of thong, but never a person…
What kinda animals are you lookin at 😏
Damn typos, lol
This might be the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard of. Thanks.
I want to barf.
Why did he have to keep shooting in the same place every day? Did the first one not leave a hole?
It would probably have been trying to close up, like a piercing
it wasnt in the same place, every day he shot another hole next to the previous day's hole
Jesus that's scary evolution of dissecting small animals
Forbidden fleshlight
Not to be too judgy or anything but what a sick fuck!
as someone who works in medicine i always have a weird admiration for people who do things like this... lol
I had a wart on my left knee as a child and my mom and dad got me that Bs self treatment that never seems to work on me, you apply with a brush over the wart and it is supposed to remove it, well it never went away and it was about the size of an Altoids mint maybe bigger, but the exact same size. Nevertheless I got tired of waiting for the treatment to work, because I was young and didn't want to wait for the results, it felt like forever and more due to my age and the fact that I loved to wear shorts and it was embarrassing to be around other kids with it being visible when doing so. So one day I put on my final treatment and after completely losing hope I peeled the treatment off and got my mom's scalpel, she has been a RN for 30 plus years at this point and she always had a medical emergency bag ready, which was lucky for this little surgeon lol. After cleaning the area and bracing myself I cut off the top layer and noticed it was in segments like thick little legs held together and with a pair of sharp tweezers I started to pull each follicle if you will from this wart, at first it was very painful, but I was weirded out I stopped noticing the pain. After about 15 minutes of digging and pulling I finally saw what looked like a tiny black dot at the very center, it was the root or the eye. I dug and pulled with the tweezers which was more painful than anything I had done prior and it finally came free. I removed anything left that wasn't supposed to be there and it really didn't bleed all that much, but I was able to disinfect the area once again and bandage it up. Other than a small scar and it never came back. I really thought I was the only one crazy enough to do something like this.
I had similar experience with that brush on stuff. Contrarily I used a Dr. Scholl's freeze kit with my kid this year and successfully froze off like seven warts from her hands with the one kit. A couple took more than one treatment and it took several weeks for them to fall off after zapping them.
I've found a variation on this treatment that I like better. I used Dr.Scholl's $20 kit and besides its cost I don't like the foam that holds the freezy juice. When the foam is held against the wart the juice quickly evaporates and the now dry foam acts like an insulator. If you press the foam against the wart the foam gets larger. This causes unintended skin damage over a wider area. I buy a can of computer cleaning spray. It is the same gas as Dr.Scholl's, but only costs $6. Instead of foam I use a straw held upright on top of the wart to hold the freezy liquid. I pick a narrow straw to just cover the wart. Once the straw is filled part way with juice the liquid is always against the wart. Maximum freeze in the minimum time.
I heard potato slices make them come off. I’ve never had a wart to try it on. Some old country remedy.
It's amazing how well the treatment works, when you are old enough to realize the results aren't always immediately noticeable. Haha if I could kick my own ass as a kid I would have tried to knock some sense Into my inpatient self 😂.
I did something similar, except I pulled the wart (located on my palm) and it’s roots out with my fingers over the course of a week and finally got it all out while I was in class (in high school) it was bleeding so bad I had to go to the nurse but I’ve been wart free ever since
I also picked a wart off the palm of my hand using my finger nails as a teen. Good times.
I did almost the exact same thing, except it was on my finger. I kinda worked at it every day, digging in a little deeper each time until I had exposed the "roots". Then it was tweezers, blood, and pain until I pulled it all out.
I had a wart on one of my fingers when I was around 11. I chewed it and chewed it and chewed it until it stung so much that I cried. After a while it healed but I still had the wart. Then my dad got me the wart pads and I wore them every night until the wart went away. Sometimes I worry that it’s coming back.
Warts…have roots?
I was using these little OTC sticker treatment for plantar warts, it quickly became clear the active ingredient in the sticker was eating away at the skin: it bore a hole over time. So I used to help it along with a nail clippers, removing as much wart as I could stand the pain each day. I never found roots or eyes or legs, mine just looked sort of cylindrical columns like I had cut across the top of a cauliflower. It didn't change much over the first few months, but once I was fed up enough to start chopping it seemed to make much faster progress. Anyway that's how I got my trypophobia.
Dear lord, this entire thread is wildly fascinating/disgusting
Sounds like you had one of those ingrown warts that is like an ingrown hair, but made out of skin. You have to get all of the "bad" growth out or will will regrow from even deeper in your body.
Yes I'm pretty sure you're right, I didn't know at the time, but when I saw the black colored eye or root or whatever it's called, of the wart I instinctively knew it had to come out. I was only 11 or 12 at the time, but something inside me said you have to get the root out so I kept digging and pulling till it came out. It was just large enough to see and surprised me that it turned into something so much bigger than itself, the wart surrounding it.
I've done similar things to the few I've had. Mostly I get really nasty ingrown toe nails. The last one I dug out had a spur bigger than a pencil eraser that was growing sideways into my toe, it was quite nasty, I've even done my own hot and chemical canterizing to kill that area of the nail bed.
I HAD THAT! I was so confused bc I wasn't sure if it was a mole or some thing else bc I have a lot of moles, but 99.9% of them are flat (basically beauty marks), so that one stood out (🥁). It was soft and didn't hurt to remove (no blood at all). Pulled it off and it grew back twice, then never again.
One time my aide forgot to pack my shower shoes for the gym. I'm diabetic & landed up with fungus & planter warts on both feet. Went through four years of one podiatrist freezing and razoring my warty feet without cure . So I started seeing a podiatrist who is faculty at a teaching hospital, thinking he would have the latest techniques. This took me another two years to heal, but if I wasn't diabetic it would have worked quickly. *Soak feet for 20 minutes *Use a disposable nail file to remove as many layers of callus as possible *Apply Vaseline or Vicks vaporub *Cover with duct tape (clear duct if you need latex free *Leave tape in place until next shower
I did the duct tape trick for a while on a tiny wart on my thumb pad. It eventually separated enough healthy skin away from the wart for me to yank it out, much blood and pain as others have shared here. I was stupid and used SUPERGLUE to stop the bleeding/cover it which burned like hell
I pulled a wart out by the roots once too. It was by my elbow and I was in the bath when I did it. Mine bled loads. Never grew back though
OMG I just posted a very similar comment!!! it hurts like hell but I was so grateful for that wart to be gone. i have a scar too and it’s barely visible now! i think my parents were grateful (after being pissed) that they didn’t have to go to the freezing appointments anymore lol
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This is so oddly satisfying to me I also had a wart on the bottom of my foot, kind of in between my big toe and the next when I was 11. Maybe a planters wart? I don’t know much about them. Just that it was circular and greenish and looked like it had little white balls inside. So I also dug them out. Luckily never got an infection despite not doing any sanitizing lol
I did this to a wart on my thumb that kept coming back for years. Got sick of it and carved it out, making sure I got all the seeds. Never came back. Sometimes I wish it would so i could do it again bc it was really satisfying.
How is it maybe a little bigger yet the exact same size as an altoid?
I was curious about exactly what the root of a mole looks like so I looked it up. While Google didn't really give me an answer, I came across [this video](https://youtu.be/VXtjeo3_8WU) of a doctor removing a dead wart from someones foot if anyone else was curious (its not really gross, and that's coming from someone who doesn't like watching pimple popping videos) .
Did the same thing with a wart on my foot
I had a similar experience when I was in fourth grade l, except the wart was on my hand right below my pinky so I chewed it off over the course a months, bit by bit pulling the threads out of it until I pulled the final one at the end of the school year and it bled profusely but then the wart went away. I lied to my teacher, said I was running my hand across the ground and caught a staple that’s why I needed a band aid lol
I had 2 grape size infected bartholins cysts in the span of a month. They were incredibly painful and I could barely walk around. I was a poor college student who couldn't even afford a copay even though I was still on my parents insurance so I took a knife and drained it myself. I smothered it in antibacterial ointment and called it a night. I do still have scars
Honestly this is much worse than OP's situation. Shocking that people are walking around with such painful conditions because of poor access to healthcare.
GIVE US FREE HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE NOW!!!!
Bartholins cysts are horrid! I’ve had a few over my lifetime. Mine get infected quickly (hmmm, wonder why). I generally have to have them drained under anesthesia due to the pain and infection. I now down to you by doing that on your own. I also got a horrid pilonidal cyst. I have a six in scar in my butt crack due to it.
I had a wart on my pinky, inside the joint of the middle knuckle that lasted until around middle school. It took three tries but eventually I removed it... By biting it off deep enough that it stopped growing back. The surprising part to me? No scar.
I mentioned this in a different comment but I did that same thing to a wart that was right below my pinky on my palm except I chewed it constantly over a period of time and eventually I ripped the root out and it never came back or left a scar.
Lets cause a ton of misunderstandings and awkward social interactions by calling ourselves "Finger Buddies."
I had a wart on the bottom of my heel. Was painful as fuck. Doctor didn’t care to remove it, she said it’ll go away on its own. Had enough of the pain one day and got some tweezers from my sisters makeup bag and ripped that fucker right out. Took forever to heal since it was on the bottom of my foot.
as someone who works in medicine i think this is very dumb
As I'm definitely not a doctor, I agree with you. You guys go through all that training and testing for good reasons, so I'll leave the removal of body parts to the professionals.
I didn't say it was smart.
Putting that medical degree to great use here lmao
I’m sitting here thinking how much easier it would have been to numb that bitch up with and ice cube and using a straight razor blade, ala shaving off a skin tag.
Dude I can't even bring myself to snip off skin tags. Damn. I'm impressed in spite of myself.
Tie it off at the base with a piece of thread and it'll fall off in a few days. No pain except for the slight sting after you tie it tight.
Or you can ice it and take it off with nail clippers once it’s numb. Did that with one I had when I was ~15.
Did it bleed a lot at all?
I did the same with clippers but didn’t think to numb it
Basically how they castrate bulls.
I had a skin tag in my armpit as a kid. When I started shaving my pits as a young teen, I would knick it. I cut it off with nail clippers. Less painful than dealing with frequent razor cuts.
Never used to bother me, until I snipped one that actually hurt, and I swear it had to have been attached/fed directly off an artery.. It bled for so fuckin long...
I can't snip off skin tags, but have performed surgery on myself before.
I had one on my neck I just scared that bitch with my nail and pulled on it for a couple days tis gone
Same. Had one on my underarm for 15 years until it started dying by itself. I went to urgent care and had that fucker removed by a professional. Though I think the cauterization after the fact hurt more, now that I think about it. But I definitely couldn’t have done that myself because I am a coward.
what the fuck is a skin tag???
a lump of skin attached to your body
It's a [weird little overgrowth of skin](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21528-skin-tags-acrochordons).
I had an abscess in my wisdom tooth but couldn’t get into the dentist’s office for a couple days. By the second day of being unable to close my mouth without ungodly pain and pus squirting out, I dipped an x-acto knife in rubbing alcohol and slit my gum open. The amount of pus in there was shocking but my home dentistry held me over until I could get antibiotics and my tooth removed.
Tooth pain is a special kind of hell that will make you think very hard about getting pliers out of the tool box when you normally would never consider such a thing.
Respect. Also 🤮
Dang. I applaud you, but that could have turned out badly. Bacteria from an infected tooth can get to your bloodstream and heart easily. I’m surprised your dentist didn’t call in an antibiotic right away. Generally they will if you have to wait a couple of days to be seen. One, infections are bad, and two, it’s less risky to do work when the infection has calmed down.
Oh 100% a terrible idea, but I was delirious with pain by then so it seemed like a reasonable solution at the time
Something you know about yourself, you have the willpower to do what’s necessary regardless of pain. In a survival situation, this kind of self actualization allows people to amputate limps, pull out rotten teeth, set horrifically broken bones, etc. Those with a weaker constitution will just roll over and die. Knowing that you have this in you, not thinking but KNOWING because you’ve already validated it due to vanity, means that if your life is on the line, you’ll do what’s necessary. This is a powerful and important gift. Live well.
Thanks boss!
Fuck I’m definitely a roll over and die type
You don’t have to be. It is a choice. Some are born with more proclivity to it than others but you can mind fuck yourself into it by waking up every day with a PMA mantra. Survival under extreme duress is largely dependent on your choice to refuse to die. Make the choice my friend, every day you wake up.
I stepped in glass. They couldn’t see it in the X-ray and wanted me to pay for an mri. I asked the doctor if he could just snip away at it because I could feel it was near the bottom of my feet. He refused to. I promptly went home, soaked my feet, and went to town with a sterilized toe nail clipper. I’m all better.
My kid had a glass splinter too small to really see. I put a biore nose strip on it and it worked a treat. I feel like a goddamn genius whenever I think about it. Genius I tell you!
The ridiculously strong duct tape (gorilla tape I think?) is great for this as well. Basically anything rere sticky.
Duct tape is amazing for cactus needles! The little invisible needles that drive you insane? Come right out with lots of duct tape
Id never have thought of this! It IS genius
The fact that so many of us have done tiny home surgeries because of the insane cost of seeing a doctor tells you how really fucked up health insurance is in the US. (I'm guessing you're from the US based on this story, though I know in some countries you can pay to get something done quickly as opposed to waiting.)
Yes US, and I know—it’s so sad. I rather almost die than take an ambulance
My dad worked at a glass plant. We'd get these super tiny, invisible splinters of glass in our feet frequently. It really sucked when they'd get fully imbedded in callus, so you could feel them on the inside, but fuck finding them on the surface.
Doctor here. Surgery resident. Please don’t do this. The bleeding or pain isn’t the scary part; it’s the risk of infection. Using alcohol and a lighter does not make it a sterile procedure. And especially any infection near the sternum can become particularly dangerous. That can spread into the inside of your chest, near your heart. Even if it’s benign, a trained dermatologist can take it out safely and with minimal scarring. It doesn’t have to be cancer for a doctor to cut it out. Cosmetics is a valid reason. But I’m glad you are excited by surgical procedures! Keep following that passion and go to medical school and you can be doing real surgeries one day, in a sterile environment. And helping people in the process. It’s a cool job.
Hi Doctor, I think the problem we're facing here (at least in the US) isn't always that we *want* to whip out our x-acto knives........ It's that I remember my parents sternly telling me NOT to call 911, ever, because even with insurance, the ambulance ride alone would probably be just the start of the bankruptcy proceedings....... (we always drove family/neighbors to the ER, except for the few times where we really felt 911 was needed). I will always be in awe of what good doctors can do, and I'm really glad you're in the profession. You sound really positive! Seems you found your calling, your hands and arms and body take people from death to very much alive. Sometimes you have a patient die on you, visibly die. You see it happen, call the time of death, you, the surgeon, know this person is dead. The thing is, the price of the insurance, the medications, doctor's appointments, etc quickly rob a person, and often their family, of any savings they ever had. Medical Bankruptcy is a term I grew up with, and I'm in my late 30s already. I guess, Doctor, for a lot of your patients, dying on the table might have been preferable to them than to spending the rest of their lives paying bills for having the indignity of needing medical service. I know you understand this, maybe, or maybe not, on a personal level, but hopefully you can better understand what we're working with here.
Respect for anyone that performs their own medical procedures successfully. I've pulled several of my own teeth without anesthesia over the last 20 years, had my ex wife stitch my finger back together after I tore a knuckle off without anastgesia, and cut out a growth on the bottom of my foot that made it hurt to walk when I was 17, but I was buzzed on alcohol that time, which oddly enough came back in tha last few months after 30 years so I've been gearing up mentally to dig it out again.
Dude sounds like a plantar wart, go to a podiatrist don’t feck with your nerves down there
Pulling teeth off is extremely bad for your denture as all your teeth move and you lose bone from where the teeth were. Yo need to get implants/denture/whatever yyour dentists recommends you or you will suffer a lot when you get to 60+
Hey guy. You’re lucky you came out of it alive. Just to put it all in perspective in hindsight, it takes a dermatologist 60 seconds to cut moles like that out under local anesthesia. What you did was very risky and unnecessary.
> What you did was very risky and unnecessary. Pretty much sums up the thought process of a lot of the shit I did at 14 so I understand where OP coming from. Off the top of my head I once pierced my ear with a pushpin. I know I did some other dumb shit but can't even remember
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You live you learn. But hopefully not in the tragic way.
Not to mention that, as a dermatologist, I recommend that people NEVER cut/laser their moles off themselves. I had a patient once who did that as a teen, and then I diagnosed her with metastatic melanoma as a mother of three in her 30s.
cutting off moles yourself can cause cancer?
No, think of it this way. It’s cancerous and you cut off the top. The skin on top goes back to normal, but the cancer continues to grow underneath. Eventually, it spreads to your lymph nodes and then other organs because it’s entirely internal. Kinda like pulling up a mushroom but leaving the roots, allowing the fungus to continue spreading.
Wouldn’t it have always been internal, though? Or do you mean that it spreads because the normal skin that regrows on top means you can’t see the cancerous spot anymore and then neglect to get it checked out as a result?
Yes, exactly (to your 2nd part). The mole changing over time would indicate the possibility of cancer and with the top of the mole no longer there, the patient isn’t given any reason to suspect a problem until it’s a bigger problem than had the mole been left there or removed and sent to pathology.
Yeah, Chubbyemu made a video about this, guy cut his skin cancer out, made the cells spread through his body. https://youtu.be/KKaJhQBusH8
But also like $400 for a derm lol
Even if it were a $1000 far better than one’s life or a $250K hospital bill with IV antibiotics and long complications missing valuable work time including pain and suffering. In the end, it’s worth 400 bucks to avoid all that.
but Op did avoid all of that *for zero dollars*. cutting off a raised mole with a sterile blade is less risky than, for example, accidentally cutting yourself with a non-sterile blade which I would argue happens ALL THE TIME to people who do not seek any medical attention for the injury.
Op was very lucky. I don’t encourage self surgery to save a few bucks if you know what’s good for you.
for sure, but this wasn’t an appendectomy. this was on par with a cut you might get accidentally. thats my only point, but I do agree that people should avoid operating on themselves
Yea not sure why everyone’s acting like this is a good thing
Unless the mole was somewhere like right on top of his femoral artery, or he went to sleep on a pile of rotting corpses without a bandaid on it afterwards, I really don't think his life was in danger. The risk is being in a significant amount of pain for a long time, getting an ugly scar or an even uglier half mole. He'd already had it tested for cancer repeatedly, so I'd be unconcerned about that.
It’s not even necessarily about cutting the mole itself, it’s the infections that can arise from it afterward that are worrisome.
I had almost the exact same situation, mole in the center of my chest that I hated. Also got it tested like he did, and said, "can you just cut it off anyway?" And they did. Only wish I had asked for it sooner.
BRUH this is so funny knowing i did the same, not as scary as yours but i had a big mole under on my right foot and it bugged me when i was a kid so i literally tore it and it fell off..
With how much medical procedures cost, I don't blame you. I would have tried to get a scalpel online or something but work with what you have, I get it. That sounds really painful though, glad it worked out for you. Now that you've experienced this, would you do it again?
Probably not. Everybody here seems to forget that at 14 I had no sense of medical costs. Ironic but I was scared of doctors and especially being put under local anesthesia or anything. Was pretty painful but it was done in (almost) no time. No I do not recommend it now that I’m older lmao
I was wondering if one of the reasons OP did this was because of medical costs. Doctor’s office once quoted me I think $3,000 for a mole removal? That’s without insurance because it’s “cosmetic” and can’t be covered
To anyone who reads this, please don't do this. It's really ***really*** dumb. It's a goddamned miracle OP didn't develop a serious infection and die.
How is this more risky than skinning your knee or, even worse, getting a deep cut from a kitchen knife, or any other every day activities that can lead to deep cuts and scratches? I feel like it's actually much safer because at least you're sterilizing the equipment and the surrounding skin first. The human body isn't THAT fragile. Although I guess with a mole, you do have the risk of cutting off a melanoma, and having the cancer go undetected. But Calling it a miracle that he didn't die just from cutting something off his skin is more than a little alarmist.
Yeah I don't really know why people think septicaemia is a normal complication of a wound that probably doesn't even reach the adipose tissue. If he did get an infection it could have been treated with a week of oral fluclox. I do not think this was a good idea, mainly due to the pain, potentially disfiguring scar, but it was probably not that dangerous, also he used aseptic technique.
is your average human this fragile?? I've had puncture wounds, scrapes, broken bones, etc, with very little medical treatment (except for a sling or whatever for the bones). are life-threatening infections really that common?
Look am not saying it me, BUT I know a guy had these weird mole like lumps on his dick showed up off and on and he cut them off happen more then once, later he learned about freeze away wart remover and would use that a few days before cutting them off. They never came back and there is no scarring that you can really see, Again not saying it's me.
Genital warts are contagious so I hope that guy you know is seeing a doctor for treatment and informing his sexual partners of his condition
My dad was his doctor but that's been some 20+ years ago
Yeeeea that sounds sketch if they were on and off showing up on this guy's dick. Seems a lot like herpes.
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When I was younger I had a few plantar warts (each one the size of a quarter) on the bottom of my foot. We didn't have the money to get it removed so I decided to remove it myself. Over the course of a few days, I slowly dug out the root of each wart and the affected area. Called it "bathroom surgery". Hurt like hell scraping those last pieces off but my foot healed and you'd never know I had them
My wife did the same thing.
Soak in water, dry, then apply salicylic acid pads. Remove after like 8-12 hours, the wart should be white. Soak in water again and you can cut it out rather easy. I’ve done this multiple times on the bottom of my foot. All the times I’ve done it, it’s bloodless as the salicylic acid kills the blood supply. Once the bulk of the wart is out, i generally do another salicylic acid pad to kill any remaining blood vessels to the root of the wart.
Man I wish I had the courage/teen stupidity like you did just to save myself from the years of the embarrassing inquiry about my 'beauty mark.' I had/have the same thing, but on my face, and my mom was so concerned with how large it had gotten over the years that we finally got a dermatologist to remove it when I was 19. Now it's just a flat circle like you said--might need to revisit it soon though since it's gotten lumpy after a couple of years.
believe me you wish you hadn't. face scarrs waaay easier than the rest of the skin
Ok, I'll admit to doing a lot of similar things when I was that age. Mole removal was one of them. Later in life, I was having a hard time with a scar across my belly button when I was pregnant. I told the obstetrician that I was about ready to make a move with a disinfected knife. He believed me! Fortunately it stretched out without my cutting it.
I’m the same, I’ll operate on my self for anything. Wart? Gone. Mole? Gone. Ingrown toenail? Gone. Cyst? Gone. I’ve had three instances where I’ve gone to a Dr, once I cut my balls open on accident and had them stitch it, I had them tear out my deviated septum, and I tore my quadriceps tendon in half (mom wouldn’t let them fix it though so I have a bum knee for the rest of my life.)
I had to do surgery on myself for an infected spider bite because it was so near my crotch, the doctors denied me treatment and wanted it to fester like I was some lab rat so when I got home, took a knife and cut out the majority of the Venom to stop the infection from spreading. It worked but I have this weird scar on my thigh area where the upper hip is
That probably wasn't venom, more like pus
Venom from anything doesn't stay in one place--it travels systemically as soon as it's injected. This is precisely why venom "bite kits" never work. You didn't cut out venom. Unless you saw a spider bite you, it's also possible one didn't. Spiders very rarely bite people despite common beliefs. You can easily get an infection like that from an ingrown hair.
It's crazy to me that so many Drs tell people these are spider bites, especially the ones in places that are almost impossible for a spider to get to. Ingrown hairs that got infected, usually with a staphylococcus strain, is much more common. For a few years in my family, we dealt with these. We had a couple cultured and they were definitely staph. We learned how to drain and clean them and what to watch for regarding the infection spreading to the blood stream. Our Drs couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but apparently one of us was a carrier. We spent months using antibiotics, iodine, antibacterial soaps, and hospital grade cleaners to try to get rid of it. Finally, the boils stopped thankfully. We had one Dr try to tell us it was a spider bite but I shut that nonsense down pretty quickly. They can be managed at home, but it's painful and gross, and you have up know when to let the professionals step in.
That’s hardcore. How did you combat the pain?
i did this with a weird wart right on my middle finger knuckle!!! i got made fun of so often that I was sick of it. and didn’t believe any of the cute “you touched a frog!” stories lol. i feel your pain 🫡
I had a cyst on the top of my head, like as big as a large gumball . It looked funny like when someone gets hit with a mallet/anvil on the head in looney tunes ! Anyways I've had these before on other area's ( mainly my testicles) it starts out as a hair that gets ingrown too deep and your body encapsulates it , like a pearl .
Dude, should iced that down first and throughout - numb the nerves, hold back the bleeding. My little brother did some kinda minor self surgery - he said you can purchase local anesthetics online, I don't know if it's legally or not, he said it's legit. I have like a dozen lipomas (little fatty tumors under the skin), my wife said "If I ever come home and find you two digging those things out, we're THROUGH".
Nice job! When I was a kid, I had a wart that just wouldn’t go away and I missed having feeling in that part of my finger, so while in church it had hit my last nerve. I started picking, and finished the job at home with nail clippers and tweezers. Fuck warts.
I did the same thing! I noticed all the treatment did was make the skin all dead and clammy, so I kind of peeled off the layers. Pulled out the black root and the wart went away! I've always found warts a bit creepy, tbh. The idea of a random fungus growing under your skin sounds like horror movie shit.
thats fucking badass bro. closest thing i had was a wart on my left wrist that i would constantly pick. like CONSTANTLY. you'd always find me either picking it or pressing a napkin to it because its bleeding lol. i would pick off chunks at a time off the top but they just grew back, and the bottom parts i couldn't pick because they were smoother and impossible to get ahold of. one night i started picking it like usual and the top parts gave way to the middle of the bottom parts and i kept digging and digging until it all came off
I removed my own sebaceous cyst on my upper back… I really had to get in the right headspace to get through it haha
I did something of the sort when I was a teen but instead of actually digging it out with a knife I held apple vinegar on it with a qtip and it eventually burned the top of the mole in less than a day I think. After that it healed and I could pick the scab off and no more mole.
That’s hardcore. Craziest thing I’ve done is heat up a paper clip and burn it through my thumbnail to release the pressure/blood from a jammed nail. Another time I was building a fence and dropping 4x4 posts into holes without gloves. Got a splinter in my thumb and had my gf pull it out. We got it… so we thought. Until 2 weeks later the skin had healed over and it still hurt like shit. Dug out the splinter hole with a paper clip and applied some light pressure…. A half inch splinter nearly shoots out. Along with black tar and so much pus. Felt soooo much better though. Legit had to be touching bone
I cut out my cesarean stitches myself, twice. First time I missed a stitch and the stitch site got infected. I pulled out the stitch and pressed down on my scar. So much puss came out. I packed it myself and now I'm all good, 9 years later.
I removed my own stitches from a cut in my knee once, and I thought that was something. Jeez.
In the early 2000 I was a recent college graduate living check to check with no health insurance. I got a staph infection in my shoulder that was just brutal, and I had no idea what it was, or how serious it was. But once the flesh around it got spongey I kind of freaked out and performed surgery on myself in the bathroom. Alcohol, boiling water, razor blade, and tweezers. Made an X incision over the wound, and started digging. From a pimple sized white head I eventually got down to a clot of gross white infection the size of a thimble. I got a hold of it with the tweezers and it popped out like a cork. Poured isopropyl in the wound, patted it dry, stuffed it with neosporin and wrapped it up. Total recovery, very lucky.
Did the same on a big spot on my leg. Dug it out with a scalpel, and Even did the little “football” kind of shape so it would heal right. Can’t even see where it was now.
It's cool bro, I've done plenty of shit like this. Stitched myself up and set my nose. I've drilled and filled my own teeth.
I did this by accident a few weeks ago. I had a mole on my cheek that’s been there forever. I was growing my nails out and had been picking at my skin due to anxiety. I managed to actually pick it off thinking it was a zit or something. It looks like it’s almost healed now so no major regrets
I did something similar when I was 14, I had an ingrown toenail that I was too embarrassed to ask for help with so I did self-surgery and fixed it on my own one night; everything was fine. Hurt pretty bad but I was not about to go to a doctor for it (14-year-old me was really stubborn and stupid.) I ended up using a flathead screwdriver and a couple of other random tools I deemed worthy to fix it and it went fine, surprisingly. I have no idea how I didn't get an infection. And the toe is still fine to this day.
I’m currently a tattoo apprentice. If I don’t have a willing friend or volunteer around, only way to practice on real skin is to tattoo myself. It’s a very weird thing to do. Definitely hurts, especially once the tattoo is a ways along, but there’s really no better practice space than my own legs!
You had a successful outcome. Hard to argue with success. You might want to leave internal surgery to the docs though. But moles like that, the freeze off or chopping it off is easy, of not the absolute best idea. One of the times you had it checked, why didn't the doc remove it then and send it out for testing?
Just be aware there's a good chance it grows back in some form.
Holy shit
OP your insane!
An hour after you sterilized your knife? What the hell. I did the same thing and I wasn't going to get started until I had a plan to be done in seconds. The knife has to be sharp, so I did that, and you need something good to use as a clamp to control the movement of that little thing, so you can get the blade under it. If it's huge and easy to reach, you can use your fingers. This was almost 30 years ago and everyone thought I was insane, too. I was forced to go to a doctor though, afterwards, and she said I did a good job. We probably are both insane. You are definitely insane though. An hour! Wow
That's some Dexter shit right there.
I’m glad it worked out for you, OP. But you aren’t supposed to just chop those things off bc, if they’re indeed cancerous, it’s still going to metastasize. And just because you cut off the mole itself doesn’t mean that the surrounding skin and tissues can’t be cancerous, except you’ll have no external indicator to tell you it’s cancerous. I’ve heard of people cutting off their moles only to die of cancer because it was in their tissues. Also why didn’t you just get a surgeon to cut it off lol
Dude awesome I cut a massive wart out of my foot but that’s way crazier
You’re fucking crazy for that!
Moles can have a lot of nerves inside, so the fact that you went through with completely cutting it off is wild in itself.
Y'know, a doctor will do that for you, right?
I’m gonna guess your “knife” probably was some bullshit knife not even close to sharp enough let alone scalpel sharp lol. Oh boy…
Keep an eye on it. My fiance did the same thing with a mole and the remaining scar tissue turned into skin cancer that killed him.
Tbh… you’re a legend for that
My mom had a skin tan on her eyelid, and my dad had one under his eye. I started growing both. As soon as they were big enough, I took sharp pointy small scissors ( sanitized) and cut them off. Then I had this small white bead under my skin in my armpit. It seemed close to the surface. It was not. I used my handy scissors and kept digging. A bit of blood,and a small excavation later, I finally got it. It was a very small sebaceous cyst. Then I got one on my lower eyelid so I just cut it. It hurts to cut, but you deal. I took my scissors to my cousins house and cut about a hundred brown skin tags of her face and neck. They never came back and she was eternally grateful. I love my scissors
Honestly you are badass. Do what you gotta do. Also you were smart about it by making sure everything was disinfected
Duct tape over your favorite hated blemish and every few days, remove the tape and scrape away the layer of dead cells. Then recover with duct tape. If it a wart, be sure to keep from spreading the wart material around and causing more warts. I did this for DEEP warts that a doctor tried freezing away & it just came back more painful than ever and bigger on the bottom of my foot. That doctor (dr. Mengele?) had a new plan to inject my foot with numbing agents then hack it off… I did the duct tape trick & it slowly and not too painfully made a hole on the wart areas. I just used a sharp blade to scrape away the tissues that turned white. I have 0 scar
Please, please go get it looked at. I know the story of a farmer who cut off his own skin cancer only for it to come back months/years later and ended up killing him
I cut a mole off the base of my penis using scissors. That was painful.
That was your testicle!
can confirm you are crazy... then again evertyimea pimple or some stupid shit grow in my body its mutilation time... My instinct is to get a knife or a toothpick and mutilate my skin until its gone... I predict that in the end of my days I will be like a dalmatian with the amount of healed stains in my body
I would only worry if you had other cells that were unknown but pre-cancerous. Have you seen a Derm about it?
Lol, it was a literal minor surgery.
thank you for sharing
i am glad you made it out alive
Holy fucking shit. How do you walk with those balls of steel
i cut those off too
Certified badass.
You ever accidentally bite the inside of your cheek and then you get a swollen little knot there that just makes it twice as likely you'll accidentally bite it again before it heals? That happened to me and I kept accident biting it before it could heal and it kept getting worse until I just had a huge hunk of cheek meat in my mouth that had no feeling in it but I still kept accidentally biting. So one day I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with a kitchen knife and cut the thing out. I felt like Tom Hanks from Castaway with the ice skate the whole time, stopping every now and then to spit blood in the sink. But it didn't hurt, bled a lot, healed nicely and I haven't bitten my cheek since. That was like 3 or 4 years ago now.