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...actually it really really hurt !
Putting shoes on this morning at 7.30 and somehow must of rubbed hand on floor boards and a rouge splinter went under my finger nail, tried to get it out on my own with help of son holding torch and swiss army penknife tweezers, no joy.
Went off down to the walk in centre waited 20 mins and saw the doc who laughed and said no chance getting that out on your own ! He got his pliers and lifted my nail and had a good try at getting it out, this was painful enough, he had another go but having your nail lifted off your finger was just to much by then...it hurt...a f lot. so two injections later and one very numb finger he went to town digging and pulling, he got it out and was shocked at the size of the splinter...so was I !
Apparently when the anesthetic wears off its going to really hurt...
I've had a nice relaxing day so far !
Ouch!
I've just been a little bit sick.
Thanks for that. 😛
I caught my fingernail in a spinning brake rotor while aligning a wheel. It split the nail clean in half. They had to cut it off and stitch up the nail bed underneath. Fairly painful to begin with, but not too bad. When the anaesthetic wore off in the middle of the night, I woke up and almost screamed in pain. Enjoy!
Put the QR lever on the non-disc side kids.
You know the rules... Pics.
Mrs Seadog had to have her big toe nail removed because of really cronic ingrowing toenail. When the anastetic wore off she equated the pain to about 95% of the pain of childbirth.
Photos? Then we can collectively decide if you have been tough or a bit of whinger.
I was running along in the dark, about 13 years ago, when I tripped over a hole that I hadn't seen and landed on my hand with all my weight jamming my fingernail between a rock and the car-keys I was holding. And all of my weight on top..
I got home to find my nail peeling off, finger swollen and black, and lots of blood. A trip to A&E my new girlfriend, now wife, decided. (Before we had a minor injury unit.)
The doc peeled my nail off, put some stitches in, and then suggested that a lot of people might have put a plaster on it and taken some painkillers and not bothered A&E. He seemed to be joking, but to this day I wonder. Whatever, it hurt like hell - I thought I'd broken my finger. No scar as the nail grew again, of course.
When I was about five, I caught three fingers on my left hand in the sliding door of a Bedford Dormobile. In those days you could set the lock before you closed the door. My dad did that then locked the drivers door tossed the key into one of four or five identical brown paper bags of messages and trotted off into the house.
As I jumped out of the van my mother simultaneously slid the door closed trapping my fingers into the now locked door.
With a screaming five year old they searched through the bags of messages for the key, unlocked the door and found two of my fingers tips were still attached, my ring finger nail bed was pulped. I still remember the pain. They managed to stitch the two tips back on but my ring finger still has a split nail bed and is grotesquely deformed.
A few years ago I had a metal roof member slide off a trailer crushing the middle finger nail bed. That was close to the hardest kick in the nuts possible. It killed the nail from the bottom of the bed up and took a couple of years to fully recover. Nail pain is like no other, I feel for you OP
Some years ago I was standing at the back door talking to my then wife who was in the garden, end of conversation and I went to close the the door, except it was reluctant to seal, so I tried harder. I suddenly became acutely aware of my youngest daughter (aged 2 at the time) having placed her fingers in between the door and frame just above the lower hinge.
Mrs Taxi tore my big toe nail of with a sofa we were moving. Easily the most painful thing that I've ever experienced !!!@ I went into proper shock, grey, sweating low blood pressure the lot.
One of my Nan's closed the living room door on their Council Semi when I was 4.
Remember the days when those things were built by tradesmen with pride in their work? The 2p gap test, etc?
Yeh... well.... two of my fingers were in the 2p gap... and it was properly closed..... with the old round bakelite handles... my Grandad had to run down from the veg patch at the end of the garden with a path big enough that I learnt to ride my bike on it...
41yrs later I still have 2 nails that grow in way that looks like folded paper.
Thumb on same hand has a nail that grows but is only attached to 2/3rds of the nail bed after a greasy glove/chain pulled it into the 10T chainblock I had 6T of counterweight hanging off.
Had to reverse the block with the other hand, had a quick look, thought "ya ****er that smarts".
Then carried on for another 3hrs - well we were 90mts in the air at the time 😳
Abseiled down once we'd got the change over done and promptly left the nail in the glove.
the surgeon at QA told me I was lying until I explained it again to her in spanish as she hadn't quite got the context of how it happened first time round.
I won't say what she said back/names she called me or the banhammer will come out 😆
My girls stopped counting the number of scars around the age of 9-10 - all I get now is "ohh Daaaaaaad"
When I was 5 I trapped my finger in a collapsing deck-chair, which smarted a bit and went black straight away.
After I'd gone to sleep my dad came in with a pair of pliers and pulled the nail off, I only noticed after being up for a bit next morning.
Done it twice once was a metal shard from an RSJ I'd just cut 😳 bumpfff right down the middle all the way in, done it with wood too, makes you swear a lot, can still remember the pain it was rather sharp.
Harvesting turnips by hand using a tapner, a kind of curved machete used to chop off the roots and soil clinging to the bottom of the turnip. During one chop I somehow managed to drag my thumb down the side of the turnip forcing a sliver of turnip skin under the full width of the nail and about halfway up. Luckily (?) there was enough sticking out to pull it out but I very nearly fainted with the pain.............