Little piece of metal underskin

[RubenZ]

A while back I was hitting with a hammer a door pin. A piece of metal real tiny shot out and entered my thumb. Was bleeding, thought nothing of it. It heeled and thats that. Well the other day I came across a really STRONG magnet and just for ****s and giggles put it on my thumb, well my skin started to raise. LOL looks freaky but I guess the metal piece stayed in there. I want the sucker out but don't know what to do.

[mb_welder]

Go to the doctor maybe?

[Atomik777]

bigger magnet?

[prop-doctor]

go see the DOC
or if ya brave operate on your self

[DSW]

What to do? Go to the doctor and get it removed. I've lost track of all the wood and metal I have dug out of my hand and so on, with tweezers and a sharp utility knife. Keep a good set of both in the first aid kit along with alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and betadyne to disinfect every thing. I won't recommend that way for anyone else though.

I have several chunks of "foreign" material in my hands and knees. I've had the Doc dig out a few, one a 3/8" chunk of wood that was in my hand for several months before I finally F'd with it and irritated it to the point I had the doc go after it. (he didn't believe me that there was anything in there until he dug around and could feel the hard wood.) Usually they just seem to form a wart as the body attempts to remove the object itself. Doc generally just says that if it's not bothering me then just don't worry about it.

Currently I know of one small piece of wood deep in one hand, 3 small items in the other (most likely small metal slivers), and 2 in one knee, one in the other (most likely a small stone) that have all formed small warts.

One thing to be aware of is that embedded metal objects can cause issues if you ever need an MRI or some other electronic imaging. MRI's WILL try to pull metal from your body. If you do metal work be sure that they do an xray on your eyes prior to getting an MRI. Any small unknown slivers can seriously damage your eye.

[highplainsdrifter]

I have a buddy that got a piece of steel lodged under the skin in his forehead about 20 years ago, and never had it taken out.

When we are working in the garage together, I'll often reach over at him with the large telescoping magnet and the skin on his forehead will pull towards the magnet......pretty funny stuff.

Russ

[roadkillbobb]

Get a tetnis shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[denrep]

Originally Posted by roadkillbobb

Get a tetnis shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or just plain get shot:
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[joethemechanic]

Originally Posted by denrep

Or just plain get shot:
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Danm, and I thought I had an ugly gut

[DSW]

Originally Posted by denrep

Or just plain get shot:
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Hmm.... Just what did you try to take away from Alfred?

[gofaster]

shoulda gotten the magnet out while your thump was bleeding.

Get it out asap otherwise hard tissues going to form around it and getting out later is going to be pain.

I keloid scar like crazy. I have a piece of gravel in my shoulder from a motorcycle accident and what started out as a pebble is now the size of a 3 stack of nickels. Every time I hit it by accident it seems grow. Kinda like a grain of sand in a pearl.

[yammyman]

Had pain in my thumb for three months, could hardly grab anything. Finally grabbed a utility knife dug out a fish tooth!!! (Dont ask) Never grew out or nuthin, just a bump and pain.

[denrep]

Originally Posted by DSW

Hmm.... Just what did you try to take away from Alfred?

Not me, I'm getting 100% of the daily lead intake requirements from the auto-body solder, I'm trying not to take any supplements.

[DSW]

Originally Posted by denrep

Not me, I'm getting 100% of the daily lead intake requirements from the auto-body solder, I'm trying not to take any supplements.

I was trying to make myself a nice large pot of lead this afternoon, but I ran out of gas. Oh well, a nice hot pot should help me wake up in the morning.

[RWS WELDING]

use your PPE! (personal protective equipment)! gloves, safety glasses, resperators. i remember looking into one of those magnifying mirrors years ago, digging into the tip of my nose with a pair of tweezers trying to get a chunk of chisel out, and that truly brought tears to my eyes! and a couple months back at the day job, one of the guys was holding a drift while another hit, a pc. shot off and entered his lower stomach, he had to get it surgically removed as it had traveled down by his hip like a bullet!

[JC'sWelding]

I have one exactly like that Denrep!

Hey RubenZ, what it out quick, fast, and in a hurry? Go get an MRI.

[farmersamm]

Show and tell JC

[Mondo]

Some metal chips got tracked into the house from the attached garage recently. I got one in the bottom of my foot and holding my foot over a mirror managed to fish it out with tweezers. A few days later the same area of my foot hurt like it still had a splinter in it so I went to the local "urgent care" (not ER). They took X-rays of my foot and two small shards of metal showed up in the picture. The doctor dug at the sore spot for several minutes, pulled three or four tiny pieces out, and sent me back to X-Ray. The two pieces that showed in the first picture were still there. The doctor dug around again for several minutes and removed a couple more tiny shards of metal. Back to X-Ray for a third sitting and they found the original two were still in the picture. Carefull examination and measurments of the photos showed these two pieces were lodged in deeper than first thought, both are laying parallel to the skin on the bottom of the arch, just behind the little toe. The doctor said she (yup, she) would need to dispatch me to the hospital for microscopic surgery if I wanted them out. As they were not organic matter they wouldn't decay and cause infection. Unless they caused any more soreness or other problems it might be just as well to leave them in. I accepted the usual tetnus shot as I was due and paid the bill. My foot has been fine since.

A week later I gashed two fingers with a table saw but that's another story.


-Mondo

[lotechman]

Originally Posted by roadkillbobb

Get a tetnis shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is very good advice. For all of us it is important to get a booster every few years. It is not a nice way to die and once tetanus gets a hold of you there is little the doctors can do.
Several years ago my wife saw the result after an elderly resident in a care home refused the shot.

[JC'sWelding]

Originally Posted by farmersamm

Show and tell JC

I don't know if you can see the scar. It was almost 15 years ago. But it was the same type of incision. I had part of my colon removed.

[Atomik777]

Originally Posted by JC'sWelding

I don't know if you can see the scar. It was almost 15 years ago. But it was the same type of incision. I had part of my colon removed.

Dude you seem to have misplaced your belly button.

[roadkillbobb]

Originally Posted by JC'sWelding

I don't know if you can see the scar. It was almost 15 years ago. But it was the same type of incision. I had part of my colon removed.

is that a brillo pad?????lol

[weldbead]

looks like the medicalestablishment has learned how to raise the cost..if they took your colon out through your belly, i guess soon they'll be doing brain surgery through yer ahole........

[tresi]

Originally Posted by weldbead

looks like the medicalestablishment has learned how to raise the cost..if they took your colon out through your belly, i guess soon they'll be doing brain surgery through yer ahole........

You could do brain surgery that way on some of the folks I work with.

[yammyman]

Hear hear!!!