Although I wasn’t in too much pain it was still swollen so I thought I’d try the needle through the nail thing. I was worried that I’d stab myself in the nail bed. But then I thought if there’s a bit of blood behind the nail there’ll be some leeway to stop before stabbing myself. Well, there wasn’t. Stabbed myself in the nail bed. Also, whilst poking about I could feel that the back of the nail is detatched already and wobbling about. Bugger.
Honestly, once the initial pain goes, it’s really not a big deal going nail-less. The area under the nail kind of toughens up once it’s exposed to the world and a new nail grows over it slowly.
The whole point of relieving pressure with a needle / paper clip is that you do it if the pressure build-up causes pain btw, not if you’re ‘not in too much pain’… a bit late for that I guess.