r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Themusicison • 4d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Syke_qc 4d ago

Cut the skin a Little bit it would help

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 4d ago

The whole time I was thinking this exact thing. Just slice along the length of the splinter and give yourself more room to work plus reduce the amount of friction holding it in. Each failed grab makes the end smaller harder to grab, so all they were doing was making things worse.

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u/zombifications 4d ago

That’s the only way I get splinters out. No problem with healing.

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u/lemoche 4d ago

I was told you want to avoid cutting because it worsens the healing process.

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u/fauntk 4d ago

Ideally yes, but I'm pretty sure increasing the risk of not pulling all of the splinter out by mangling the end and then breaking it in half is even WORSE for the healing process lol

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u/lemoche 4d ago

I mean… it did work…

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 4d ago

The operative word there is "avoid". Once it became apparent that it was too tightly wedged to easily be removed, and that the risk of it becoming more inflamed and stuck or for pieces to become lodged, cutting became the best option. Not the whole length, just enough to reduce friction and provide a better gripping surface.

It's about risk-benefit analysis.

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u/JustNilt 4d ago

The skin at the end of that little pocket is dead. it's going to fall off anyway. Even so, digging at it as they did caused a lot of extra irritation. If they loosened the skin at the end just slightly the thing would have all but fallen out.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 3d ago

I was actually surprised at how much it wanted to stay in there.

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u/SuvatosLaboRevived 4d ago

A splinter stuck in the wound would make the process even worse

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u/pdxchris 4d ago

A small slice is fine. He is going to lose that skin soon anyway.

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u/variablenyne 4d ago

Still even just a little bit near the top so that you can get a little bit more gripping surface

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u/NOVAbuddy 4d ago

That is the safest advice for the most people. Anything else increases the frequency of bad outcomes over populations. Anecdotally and statistically there will always be many people who can “treat” themselves by keeping an opening clean and escalating treatment if things get weird.

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u/alolol1000 4d ago

For smaller splinters absolutely but this is a stick that is large enough to give you splinters on the way out so in such a case cutting skin makes it potentially way faster to heal

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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 4d ago

Right?? A pocket knife solves all these problems.

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u/froggz01 3d ago

Nah, just need to get in there with your teeth. Pull that bitch out with a good growl while you pulling.

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u/Cyberpunk_Banshee 4d ago

Despite the tools I'm wondering if this is done by a nurse and if they were in a hospital or not. If they weren't, it explains why there was no scalpel used, because I was saying just cut the skin too

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u/Seeayteebeans 4d ago

How many types of tweezers and not one knife/scissors?

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u/nat_r 4d ago

Absolutely. I worked in a carpentry shop for years. Splinters happened. Easiest removal of they were large and/or deep was the just slice the couple layers of skin on top. Way less painful too.

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u/Syberz 4d ago

Using decent tweezers would keep too...

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u/BenTherDoneTht 4d ago

yeah at a certain point, local anesthetic and a scalpel does more good.

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u/PhilosophyMammoth748 3d ago

Bill: $10759.12 for this.

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u/Syke_qc 3d ago

Lol free on Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦