bad boo boo

Soak it inside her....I mean in cider.

Ouch. That nails comin off soon.

You need to get a hole in the nail to relieve the pressure.

Be a man and grab it with a pair of pliers and rip it off.

Or keep it for entertainment purposes. I hammered the index finger on my left hand when I was in high school. It turned black like that and eventually loosened and started flapping before it fell off. I would flap it up and down to gross out my sister.

I have done it using a brand new Xacto knife. Hand on a flat surface, nail up. Place the Xacto point on the center of the nail straight up and down. Slowly rotate the Xacto, do not press it down, let the weight of it do the work. Quickly a micro hole will appear and the blood will escape.

it looks like the blood has already dried under the nail, how long ago did you do it? If it still fresh, I have used a small paper clip, bend one end straight and heat it up, then drill it through the nail to release the presure Either way you are going to be living with it for six months or more.

Better a finger nail, than the black eye I had from catching a medicine ball to the face........everyone felt they needed to ask how I got it.

That may be how he got it..........

I use a soldering iron right at the heart of the nail, blood usually hits the ceiling but instant relief!

Ha ! so I guess I'm not the only one....I did this a month ago tomorrow...they had to do some stitching to hook the end back on.
Looking better today...nail will be pushed off, but some nerve damage resulted....at least for now

Yep..... soaking in 'maiden oil' cant hurt

i didn't feel a thing.............. [as my old man always liked to say to me]

Dad would take a small drill bit, and work it on a nail when he did that to make a hole. When I worked at the IH dealer, we were stocking tractor trailer springs on a rack, and I dropped one on one of my big toes (no steel toes shoes there). Hurt like nothing else, but I worked the rest of the day. When I got home, the wife saw me limping,and when I took my shoe and sock off, the front half of my foot was purple. So she said come on,we're going to the ER. Doc wanted to give me a shot in my foot for the pain, but I said I did this this morning, and had been on it all day and didn't need the shot. Came back from x ray, and I had shattered the bone in the toe. Doc said he was going to make a few holes in the nail to relieve the pressure ( I remembered dad's drill bit trick and expected the same kinda thing) Wife asked the Doc if it would hurt...Doc said "small pinch....Next thing I knew I thought he dropped another spring on me. I looked down and he had a soldiering iron. He did it again and another scream outta me. Doc said I need to to do this again....The wife ripped into him. The Hell you are, I thought you said it wouldn't hurt!

Good thing he started with a finger first then. Yikes.

Just bang the other 9 fingers and then you can just tell people your going 'goth' as the new trend.

clean it with lacquer thinner to keep any infection from taking place

I got smashed like that one time, my whole arm turned white.

Ive a friend who whacked off three finger tips cutting the Easter ham. This past Easter.

Heat up the tip of a needle. It will go thru it like hot butter.

Even a clean 1/16 drill bit in your fingers will bore a hole and it will feel 100x better with the pressure off.

I'm really reluctant to recommend anyone do "bathroom surgery"... the finger, nail AND drill bit all have to be surgically clean, not just wiped off on your pants!

The best tool I've ever used to trephine (the technical term) a fingernail or toenail is essentially a fancy disposable soldering iron. It has a plastic sleeve containing a couple of batteries, and a tiny filament tip. Hit the button, tip heats orange, burn through the nail, blood comes out (sizzles on tip), patient feels better immediately.

It only hurts them if you are careless and go too deep. The fingernail has no nerves - but the nail bed and fingertip sure do, and are already angry.
(It's also silly to make them single-use. Nothing infectious could survive the 1700F temp).

3 week update

like my old man always said : "feels better when it quits hurt'in"..........

My grandfather taught me to "thump it" when you smash a finger nail.

It keeps the blood flowing. It makes you about wet yourself but never turns black and never falls off.

Can you be a bit more specific on the "thump it" ?

Use your middle finger on your opposing hand like you would if you were going to "thump" a watermelon or someone on the head.

WOW, never hear of that How long should one keep thumping it ?

I don't think it would of helped any on mine, it went instantly black ..lol , it doesn't even hurt anymore now..

feels better, yes ? see, my old man was right !

flesh wound , its fine

i'm just messin' with ya dad.
my old man always gave it to me when i would mash my finger. he thought it was funny.

Lost my nail like that TWICE last year.

First time getting a window air conditioner out of a 2nd story window (our central air was down for a coupe weeks0> Started falling. I grabbed the cord and pinched my pointer finger against the sill.

Like 6 months later after the nail grew back I did something stupid again and new RIGHT away I was gonna have to grow a new one AGAIN.

Ladder slipped off the edge of the roof , broke 4 of the 5 metatarsal bones ... pins in all 4 hanging out the bottom of my foot so the pieces will mend somewhat straight ...

ouch

You said it , good thing I had a steel toe boot on , waiting on results of MRI on the shoulder I used to drive the ladder into my foot ...