I just performed surgery on myself. Am I insane?

[Gringo]

Poll question: I just performed surgery on myself. Am I insane?

I got a little growth on my tongue a couple years back, where my tongue was rubbing a rough part of my tooth. I got the tooth fixed, but the polyp never went away. Sometimes it was very annoying.

It would have been a hassle to have a doctor do it so I chopped it off myself with a well-disinfected set of nail clippers!

It seems to be doing fine so far, very little pain or bleeding.

[SOteric]

1. Other. And get AlienGirl to tell you

all about the joys of the oral cancer she's battled. Maybe a doc should take a look at what you've done, just to be safe.

[Gringo]

5. A doc has seen it before I whacked it.

He said it looked benign. Now you've made me worry a bit, tho.

[pfitz59]

2. I lived in remote places for much of my life.......

and anything short of broken bones or guts hanging out we pretty much took care of ourselves. Folks go the the E-Room for hangnails these days!

[SoCalDem]

3. I cut my hand once and put stitches in myself

Anything to avoid waiting around the ER..I do have insurance..just an impatient patient :)

I put 4 stitches in and had no infection.. IT healed just fine..no scar :)

The thread was even pretty..purpple.. I soaked it it alcohol first:)

[Terwilliger]

4. Other. Equal combination of 1 and 2

OK...more towards 1...maybe a piece of string to tie around it

[Gringo]

6. Too late- All gone!

Feels so nice and smooth now!

[umcwb]

7. Did anyone see the ending of Nip/Tuck where that kid.....

Eww, anyways. Wow, brave guy to take a pair of nail clippers to your own tongue, and if you've survived this long, I think you are in the clear.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. Ahhh, you had to go there.

And what is with that kid anyway, how old is he supposed to be? He looks 30 and he has a pretty good five o’clock shadow going.

[Pert_UK]

8. So long as it wasn't trepanning or a vasectomy, you're OK......

:-)

P.

[KCDem]

12. lol, that was my initial thought!

I think my husband's done that (skin tag removal, not vasectomy) and has survived.

[TXlib]

13. You beat me to it.

Yes, I did exactly this to remove a couple of skin tags on my neck. They were small, and didn't bleed much at all. I soaked the clippers in alcohol for 10 minutes beforehand, swabbed the region with alcohol, and immediately applied Neosporin and a Bandaid afterwards. (And I took a couple of shots of bourbon to make sure everything was sanitised internally, as well.)

No scar, no trace of the tags.

I have a couple of larger ones, which I'd prefer to have removed professionally.

[KCDem]

15. I thought you said

that you wouldn't get a vasectomy? :evilgrin:

[Loonman]

16. Trepanning

Bunch of hooey.

But then again, people who trepan probably need another hole in their head, so the rest of their brains can leak out.

[TXlib]

21. Smart ass!

:P

[TrogL]

10. Did you get enough

Ahknaten just had surgery for a cancerous somethingorother on his nose and had to have it re-done because they didn't trim enough good tissue as a barrier.

[short bus president]

11. Eh, you'll be fine.

The tongue is a very resilient muscle. But did you even once get to use the "stippled, for your pleasure" line that goes so perfectly with benign lingual nodules?

[Drifter]

14. You are insane ...

and it probably has nothing to do with the fact that you have performed surgury on yourself.

Cheers
Drifter

[NewYorkerfromMass]

18. but may have everything to do with the previous self-procedure

which must have been a lobotomy. :)

[wyldwolf]

17. I've dug out an ingrown toenail with no painkiller before...

...just a little ice, a whole lot of blood, and a savings of over $500.00

[JNelson6563]

19. wise move

It is really remarkable how much we can doctor ourselves if we want or have to.

14 years ago I had a C-section. Did the delivery downstate with family etc. Came back home "up north" got infection in incision. No doctor, no money, plenty of intestinal fortitude, tolerance for pain and determination though, and voila!! All better!! (I'll spare you the gruesome details)

Don't get me started on how to lance and drain one's own abcess tooth....haha

Julie

[Nikia]

20. I have

I removed a small, but bigger than a zit, growth on my arm about six years ago. The only thing that remains from it is a small white spot.