Enormously satisfying do-it-yourself surgery

[Jacksmama]

OK, I'm not talking about anything like the "amputate your own haemorrhoid" (which was bloody brilliant) but smaller things...

For me, it's cutting off skin tags. One snip with sharp cuticle scissors and they're gone. I hate them. I became festooned with them while pregnant. Gah!!!

Anyone else want to share?

Oh yes, whiteheads with a pin. It's quite challenging - intermediate DIY surgery,definitely not for the casual hobbyist or beginner: you have to get that pin into a pore. Then when you squeeze the white bit is solid.

Actually describing it has made me rather bilious though.

do skin tags with a piece of cotton tied round them - it works quickly and painlessly

My skin tags aren't big enough to tie a piece of string round, they're about 1 mm by 2 mm long so I just snip them off with cuticle scissors (which I wipe with alcohol). It doesn't hurt, only stings for a second. I was a bit about doing the one on my eyelid, but it was fine.

i cut mine off too, i use nail clippers.

removed my own coil

removed my own stiches x2 lots

burnt my own wart off

What's a skin tag?

ouch at removing your own coil. how did you do that?

sit on toilet, one leg up on seat. feel up to cervix, grab little strings, pull slowly, et voila one coil

you really need to be able to use a thumb and finger to pinch the end of the strings

ouch - though i am tempted to sometimes remove the blinking thing myself

i removed a wart from my finger as a teen... took some fecking digging.

occasionally have to dig out ingrown hairs from my fanjo area... really should start waxing instead of shaving

once got a huge abcess behind a 3 month old scar... it was half the length of my forarm. took a razor blade to the scar and had great fun squeezing all the thick pus out.

once got an infection in my nipple piercing and had to remove the ring and squeeze all the pus out the holes... good practice for mastitis a few years later tbh!

i've done a few of my own ear piercings, as well as pierced dd's ears.... far less painful than the gun and safer.

after dd was born my stitches didn't dissolve so 3 weeks after the birth i had to take a nail scissors to my nether regions and dig around for the stitches and remove them.

the cats and dp hide from me if they have spots or abcesses as they know i'll get all surgical on them.... have been known to take tweezers and blades to people and animals... mostly myself but occasionally i'll pin down someone else in need of surgery

Errr sorry... Tulips kicks sherby's arse to the wall in DIY surgery... although I have also taken out my and other people's stitches.

By the way Trillian, this is a skin tag.
Mine are tiny, about 1 mm wide and max 2 mm long (the big ones) but apparently they can grow longer [eeewww emoticon]. See why I just snip them off with sterilized cuticle scissors?

I didn't know that you could remove your own skin tags. My under arms are a mass of these, as is the area under my breasts. Right - i need a fortnight in the bathroom with some sharp scissors. I am not faintheated, being an expert whitehead remover and ingrowing toenail puller - ohh, and I gave birth to my coil in the bath - had been feeling unwell for a number of days, started having weird contractions and out it came - yeuck!!

Absesses & Bartholin's cysts have both been solved over the years using nail scissors/compass/steak-knife from room service.