Leaned down in my shed and had hands flat on floor. Hydraulic car jack rolled off shelf from about 4ft up, and landed right on the tip of my pinky. OOOWOWOWOWOWOWWW...It hurt to much to even scream. i didnt see stars , I saw my father, my grandfather, my old cat, my first halloween costume, LLMMAAAOAOOo....Now its all swollen and unless I keep my hand above my heart its throbbing like crazy. People are telling me to drill a hole thru the nail to relieve the pressure!!!! How the hell can I do that when I cant even touch it????
Holy SSHHH that hurt
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Leaned down in my shed and had hands flat on floor. Hydraulic car jack rolled off shelf from about 4ft up, and landed right on the tip of my pinky. OOOWOWOWOWOWOWWW...It hurt to much to even scream. i didnt see stars , I saw my father, my grandfather, my old cat, my first halloween costume, LLMMAAAOAOOo....Now its all swollen and unless I keep my hand above my heart its throbbing like crazy. People are telling me to drill a hole thru the nail to relieve the pressure!!!! How the hell can I do that when I cant even touch it????
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Yup i did something similar and it hurt for about an hour ... nearly taking my breath away at times.. but it finally stopped.
Garage door came down on it , and my pinky looked like something out of a cartoon , it was FLAT for a while.
Garage door came down on it , and my pinky looked like something out of a cartoon , it was FLAT for a while.
If your fingernail is black, find the smallest, sharpest drill bit you have and use it to bore a tiny hole in your nail to relieve the pressure.
Just twist it in at the center of the darkest part of the trauma by rolling between your thumb and index finger on your good hand.
It won't take much force to go through...just deep enough to get through the nail itself, not into flesh.
It may save your fingernail and it will relieve a lot of the pain.
I've had to do this a few times myself. I pulled the handle down on our big brake once on my own thumbnail. Hurt in more ways than one.
Just twist it in at the center of the darkest part of the trauma by rolling between your thumb and index finger on your good hand.
It won't take much force to go through...just deep enough to get through the nail itself, not into flesh.
It may save your fingernail and it will relieve a lot of the pain.
I've had to do this a few times myself. I pulled the handle down on our big brake once on my own thumbnail. Hurt in more ways than one.
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Maybe if you drop it on your finger one more time it will split it open.
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Just drill a hole in it.
Thirty years ago, I was doing some homework project on a Sunday afternoon. Whatever I was doing, I decided I needed some sheet metal strips. Was working as a service man for a company, and they did sheet metal. Took my key to the shop and found some scrap pieces in the bin, layed them out on the shear and proceeded to stomp my left big toe onder the treadle of the shear. Was wearing sneakers at the time, so needless to say, I got the full effect of the stomped treadle. The pain was instant, and severe. In retrospect, I think a little drop of sweat ran down my leg. I took my pieces of metal, and beat a hasty retreat home, where I tried evreything from cold water, hot water, dancing, jumping, crying, cussing,,even tried burning some incense to help with the pain. To no avail.
By morning, the toe was fashionably purple and throbbed painfully every time my heart beat. I cut the toe out of an old sneaker, and managed to fit my foot in it and shuffled off to work. Questioned by my boss, about my injury, I chose to mumble something about dropping a motor on my foot or something.
As luck would have it, the job we were doing was in a foot Doctor's office. Installing a new split system heat pump and air handler. I was limping down the hall when the Dr. passed me, and asked about the limp, and the open toed shoe. I explained to him that I had mashed my toe and it had turned tha nail a pretty shade of purple. I asked him what the proper procedure was for this type of injury. He produced a drill very simular to a dentist's drill and made it go "Zoopa Zoopa." Told me he just drills a hole in the nail, and relieves the pressure. "Makes it quit hurting almost instantly." I asked what the cost of this major surgery was, and he told me $35. I pondered the needed operation, and the cost while finishing up the low voltage at the AH, and then went to my truck for something. Arriving at the truck, I spied one of my cordless Skil drills. Sat down in the sidedoorway of my van, removed my custom made orthopedic tenny runner, and sock, and took a look at the throbbing toe. It was doing the throb really well, in fact resembled the ones you would see in the cartoons where it would bulge with every heartbeat. I chucked in the smallest drill bit I had in my index, and proceded to drill my toe nail. Now, for the benefit of the younger people reading this post, back in the olden days when cordless drills first came to the workplace, there were no drills with changeable batteries, or voltages above 3 volts. They weren't reversable, nor were they variable speed. The power was sufficient to turn a swizzle stick and mix your cream and sugar in your coffee, but wouldn't turn a 1/8" drill bit through 18 ga. sheet metal. They turned at a phenominal rate of 18 RPM. Oh yes, the batteries lasted about 3 minutes. I would have bit on a stick, had one been available, and proceeded with the drilling operation. I assumed a hunkered over position, and hit the trigger. The pain was intense, and every revolution of the drill bit, along with my heartbeat, was a mind blurring throb that I thought was going to make me pass out! I became aware of the bit smoking a little, and thinking " I gotta stop pushing when the bit goes through the nail." Eventually, about the time the bit pierced the toe nail the battery started going down. The drill bit finally went through to the blood, and a geyser shot up over the top of my head! RELIEF!!!! Instant wonderful, no pain. It was gone! The pain was gone! Felt so good, I drilled two more holes alongside.... Bandaid on the holes, sock and shoe back on and returned to work. Ran into the Podiatrist in the hallway an hour or so later. He asked about the toe. I told him I had taken care of it myself, and he said "Yeah, I watched you through the window."
Thirty years ago, I was doing some homework project on a Sunday afternoon. Whatever I was doing, I decided I needed some sheet metal strips. Was working as a service man for a company, and they did sheet metal. Took my key to the shop and found some scrap pieces in the bin, layed them out on the shear and proceeded to stomp my left big toe onder the treadle of the shear. Was wearing sneakers at the time, so needless to say, I got the full effect of the stomped treadle. The pain was instant, and severe. In retrospect, I think a little drop of sweat ran down my leg. I took my pieces of metal, and beat a hasty retreat home, where I tried evreything from cold water, hot water, dancing, jumping, crying, cussing,,even tried burning some incense to help with the pain. To no avail.
By morning, the toe was fashionably purple and throbbed painfully every time my heart beat. I cut the toe out of an old sneaker, and managed to fit my foot in it and shuffled off to work. Questioned by my boss, about my injury, I chose to mumble something about dropping a motor on my foot or something.
As luck would have it, the job we were doing was in a foot Doctor's office. Installing a new split system heat pump and air handler. I was limping down the hall when the Dr. passed me, and asked about the limp, and the open toed shoe. I explained to him that I had mashed my toe and it had turned tha nail a pretty shade of purple. I asked him what the proper procedure was for this type of injury. He produced a drill very simular to a dentist's drill and made it go "Zoopa Zoopa." Told me he just drills a hole in the nail, and relieves the pressure. "Makes it quit hurting almost instantly." I asked what the cost of this major surgery was, and he told me $35. I pondered the needed operation, and the cost while finishing up the low voltage at the AH, and then went to my truck for something. Arriving at the truck, I spied one of my cordless Skil drills. Sat down in the sidedoorway of my van, removed my custom made orthopedic tenny runner, and sock, and took a look at the throbbing toe. It was doing the throb really well, in fact resembled the ones you would see in the cartoons where it would bulge with every heartbeat. I chucked in the smallest drill bit I had in my index, and proceded to drill my toe nail. Now, for the benefit of the younger people reading this post, back in the olden days when cordless drills first came to the workplace, there were no drills with changeable batteries, or voltages above 3 volts. They weren't reversable, nor were they variable speed. The power was sufficient to turn a swizzle stick and mix your cream and sugar in your coffee, but wouldn't turn a 1/8" drill bit through 18 ga. sheet metal. They turned at a phenominal rate of 18 RPM. Oh yes, the batteries lasted about 3 minutes. I would have bit on a stick, had one been available, and proceeded with the drilling operation. I assumed a hunkered over position, and hit the trigger. The pain was intense, and every revolution of the drill bit, along with my heartbeat, was a mind blurring throb that I thought was going to make me pass out! I became aware of the bit smoking a little, and thinking " I gotta stop pushing when the bit goes through the nail." Eventually, about the time the bit pierced the toe nail the battery started going down. The drill bit finally went through to the blood, and a geyser shot up over the top of my head! RELIEF!!!! Instant wonderful, no pain. It was gone! The pain was gone! Felt so good, I drilled two more holes alongside.... Bandaid on the holes, sock and shoe back on and returned to work. Ran into the Podiatrist in the hallway an hour or so later. He asked about the toe. I told him I had taken care of it myself, and he said "Yeah, I watched you through the window."
LMAO..Now theres a reply that i would only expect from you....HEHEHEHEMaybe if you drop it on your finger one more time it will split it open.
they should have a law that you wear steel tipped gloves, that's the problem, no regulation
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You know I love ya man
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you hit the nail on the head. drill it and get the meds to make sure you don't get it infected.
Thats pretty damn hardcore!
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I burn holes through the finger nail vs a drill... seems easier. Just use a very small pin, get it nice and glowy hot, press it through.
A racer buddy of mine was removing the studs from his hub, some how he got his thumb between the rotor and the stud when he proceeded to beating it. Needless to say, in a much similar fashion as you have described he let us know it hurt... bad...
His method was to drill a hole through his nail, so he proceeded to chuck a semi tiny drill bit (probably 1/16") in his air drill. That thing must turn 10k RPM. He stars easing the bit into his nail, wincing in pain as he's doing so, and as soon as the drill bit almost broke through the back side of the nail, it broke off... just barely above the nail.
Now he's got an almost hole, so still plenty of pressure, and now he's prying on this bit that's kinda threaded into his nail with a pair of wire cutters trying to grab it out. The whole time he's cussing and dancing around, with absolutely no concern for his coworkers who are in tears and barely able to breathe from the laughter.
A racer buddy of mine was removing the studs from his hub, some how he got his thumb between the rotor and the stud when he proceeded to beating it. Needless to say, in a much similar fashion as you have described he let us know it hurt... bad...
His method was to drill a hole through his nail, so he proceeded to chuck a semi tiny drill bit (probably 1/16") in his air drill. That thing must turn 10k RPM. He stars easing the bit into his nail, wincing in pain as he's doing so, and as soon as the drill bit almost broke through the back side of the nail, it broke off... just barely above the nail.
Now he's got an almost hole, so still plenty of pressure, and now he's prying on this bit that's kinda threaded into his nail with a pair of wire cutters trying to grab it out. The whole time he's cussing and dancing around, with absolutely no concern for his coworkers who are in tears and barely able to breathe from the laughter.
i just had my thumb slammed in a tailgait last week. i had the same type of reaction you did. i heated a needle and pushed it through the nail untill it bled. it was instant reliefe. the hot needle takes less pressure so it doesn't hurt as much. oh yeah, the booze may have helped too!!
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would love to see some pics
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