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Done it yet?
You’ll not be picking your nose for awhile verses glad it’s sorted.
If you go to MIU when you should have gone to A&E, that's not a failing either of your decision or any advice you received, it's a failing of the MIU in not referring you straight to A&E. And if I'm being cynical, a symptom of of the under-resourced NHS in general.
OP, glad you got it sorted. How you managed not to DIY it with a needle I don't know, I wouldn't have been so restrained.
Cat puss
The bad kind
That's an impressive bandage....
Which needs eyes and a smiley mouth.
Too late to suggest amputation from the neck down
Middle child had something g similar few weeks back. Used magnesium sulfate and savlon sorted it in a couple of days. It piped on its own and kept it clean.
Well done op. Looks gnarly. What did they say caused it?
Did it turn out to be cat aids?
We've seen before and after.
Disappointing lack of during.
Bit more detail.
- Had to wait less than 2hrs - Sun eve def seems a good time to visit A&E. Our MIU closed about 10 years ago
- Had to choose between anaesthetic or keeping my wedding ring - the anaesthetic would make the finger swell up even more than it already was. I decided to keep the ring - and just use gas and air. Ow...
- Gas and air does sod all, I'm fairly sure it's just there to give you something to bite down on while Wolverine slices your finger to ribbons
- I chose to look the other way while he milked my finger (euphemism patent-pending) but the state of the cloth my hand had been on was horrific. There was a good 10inch splatter of brown-ish/red-ish gunge - I didn't Instagram it...
- Doc confirmed to me that it was too far gone to pop of its own accord and A&E was the right choice
What did they say caused it?
Can't be certain, but prob either;
- Me cutting my nails too short and the sharp edge of the nail piercing the skin
or
- Me cutting/biting the loose bits of skin that you get by your nail
Either would leave enough of an open wound for bacteria to get in. I'm guilty of both
Bandage removal update...
Significantly less pain and swelling, still not looking great though.
In my professional opinion, an alien is going to burst out of that and infect the rest of us. I’m afraid we have no other choice but to vent you out the airlock.
Nuke me from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
Nuke from orbit? It’s the only way to be sure!
Too slow
I had this happen on my neck a few years ago. I think an ingrown hair started it. I flew to Germany for work for a week and it got worse a and worse
I was so Ill when I got back on the Friday. Went to A&E at 11pm and was booked in at 2am. Pumped full of anti biotic but that didn’t help.
A doc sat me down next day to “milk it” he anaesthetised it then set to work slicing and scooping out the crap. I could feel every slice and his little scooper going down into my neck. It was only after he told me infected skin doesn’t numb very well. I was left a sweating wreck after!
A couple of days of no change and I was readmitted, they put me under and sliced the whole thing off. It went well but I was left with a keloid scar that was massive, horrible thing! It’s taken years to get it to go down! Loads of bio oil and occasionally the pedegg foot sander!
I think I was fairly close to blood poisoning etc, not a good time really
In fairness; your example of poor treatment from an MIU nurse doesn’t mean all MIUs are bad
It doesn’t but the majority are not great, as the talented good staff are all working in A&E
That’s from being on the patient end of MIU’s and experience of a surgeon dealing with mopping up lots of poor MIU diagnosis.
I wouldn’t have mucked around with a finger like that. Mate of mine nearly died from similar. Finger started to swell, thought he’d be ok, 6 hrs later in A&E with it tracking up his arm, 7hrs later in emergency surgery for compartment syndrome and having half the muscle in his arm removed. 9hrs later hanging on to life by a thread with full on Sepsis.
He was in hospital for 3 weeks. Luckily he’s ok now just missing chunks of his arm
It doesn’t but the majority are not great, as the talented good staff are all working in A&E
Jeepers that is so much bolox
My local hospital the MIU is superb and a much better bet than going to A&E
It doesn’t but the majority are not great, as the talented good staff are all working in A&E
Well that’s a load of shit given they all have the same training, some work between both, some age even located on the same site but above all it’s load of bollocks
Anyway that seems to be healing well verses.
I had this happen on my neck a few years ago.
We can save you from the neck up.
Yeah, no one has a definitive answer why inflamed skin resists local anesthetic.
Possibly something to do with the change in ph.
Some interesting work on mixing lidocaine, capsaicin and cyclodextrin which has shown great potential in mouse studies.