/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2712203
It's not that big of a deal, humans have done self surgery for thousands of years. Here's my story.

>have an ingrown toenail on my right big toe
>ignore it for months
>it gets worse and worse and my toe is huge, red, and swollen
>hurts every time I walk
>get tired of it
>watch some youtube vids of how doctors cure it
>gather some surgical tools, rubbing alcohol, and a lighter
>also some alcohol
>sit down in the bathroom, drink booze, and sterilize the toe
>also pour rubbing alcohol over the scalpel then light it on fire
>now it's sterile
>slice deep and clean down the outside edge of my toe
>fold back the flesh and reveal the nailbed
>heat up the scalpel with the lighter, then push it against the edge of the nailbed for a moment
>it smokes and stinks
>pour hydrogen peroxide over it
>fold the flesh back
>hold it together while pouring an iodine solution over it to prevent infection
>hold it together until the bleeding stops (the bleeding is good, the bloodflow pushes out the bad shit)
>wrap some gauze around it
>replace the gauze as needed for a couple days, then tape it together
It healed good as new, no scars, and I never had that problem again. Here's a picture for something else but you can see the toe I worked on.

The biggest hurdle is the mental block for cutting yourself open, but once you're past that, the rest comes easy.

I don't have any pictures, but I once performed surgery on my left big toe to cure an ingrown toenail, and I was successful.

I watched youtube videos of how hospitals treat it, surgically. Basically, they cut down to the nailbed, and kill the edge of it, so that it won't grow anymore. And that's what I did. I drank a fair amount of alcohol and then went to the bathroom, and sterilized my scalpel by coating it with alcohol and then lighting it on fire. After the fire went out and it cooled, I sliced open the edge of my toe, just outside of the nail and parallel with it, down to the base of the nail. I folded back the flesh and, seeing the exposed nailbed, I heated up a butter knife with a lighter, and then cauterized the edge of the nail bed. Once this was done, I sterilized everything with more alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, folded the flesh back into place, sterilized it again, and then taped the whole mess back together.

It healed cleanly, no scars, and I have had no troubles with the ingrown toenail since. My description here is simpler than it was really, because it was quite painful and bled quite a bit. If I were to do it again, I'd use a tourniquet, not only to reduce the bleeding but also to numb the area, because that would have helped me quite a bit. I also drank more alcohol than I should have (I shouldn't have drank any) but I was scared, and it still hurt a lot despite the alcohol, and I got blood all over the floor and one wall.

btw I'm American, pic is of the foot and toe I worked on. I did this a few years ago and it hasn't troubled me since.