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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
As a kid I smashed my big toe and broke it in 11 places. The nail was black in no time, and it hurt like hell. My mom took me to Tripler Army Hospital. I knew I was in trouble when 4 LARGE orderlies walked in. The doc heated up a needle in a Bunsen burner to glowing red, and the four orderlies split up to hold either a leg or an arm and pin me down to the table and told me not to move. The doc pressed the glowing hot needle into my toe nail, and it squirted blood almost to my knee, and it was almost organismic at the instant relief from throbbing pain.
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Had a similar experience with the bunsen burner thing…finger was throbbing so bad my hand was bouncing off the bed that night so went to ER and got that treatment. As you said, instant relief. The next time the ER guy had a thing that looked like a ball point pen and with a little click it poked a hole in the nail and no more pressure. Finally graduated to using carburetor jet drill bits and doing it myself.