There's a piece of thread stuck in my elbow...

[E equals MC2]

I had a stitching on my elbow when I got it cut by a shard of glass as a child. I just noticed several weeks ago there's something hard stuck in the skin. Upon further inspection with squinting over the mirror and fondling it, I found out it's a piece of stitching leftover.

I guess they didn't take it out all the way. It's a size of a larger grain of sand, which is small but annoying nonetheless. It seems the skin has completely blanketed and healed over it. There's a pinhole of an opening where I can pick at the part of the thread but it's too small for me to pull the whole thing out through it.

Is it safe to take it out? If so, how? Can I cut and break the skin?

 

[bonkers325]

your skin has grown around it and it will probably hurt and tear if u try to pull it out. if its not really bothering you, dont take it out.

 

[intogamer]

Doesn't seem like a dissolving stitch. I would check with the docs.

 

[Anubis]

yes you can take it out, you can prob just use some nail clippers and cut it out all at once

itll prob hurt like hell if you are cutting live skin but yea you can do it

 

[Gilligansdingy]

Go rambo on it and slice it with a hunting knife.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

its probably the first symptoms of morgellons disease

 

[steppinthrax]

Call the Cochran firm.

Somehow link it to diminished income and loss of sex drive.

Sit home get paid

Oh Yeah!!!!!!

 

[MrWizzard]

Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy
Go rambo on it and slice it with a hunting knife.

Be sure to have the gunpowder and candle ready to close the wound!

To be most effective you have to have your shirt off and a headband made out of torn cloth on.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
I had a stitching on my elbow when I got it cut by a shard of glass as a child. I just noticed several weeks ago there's something hard stuck in the skin. Upon further inspection with squinting over the mirror and fondling it, I found out it's a piece of stitching leftover.

I guess they didn't take it out all the way. It's a size of a larger grain of sand, which is small but annoying nonetheless. It seems the skin has completely blanketed and healed over it. There's a pinhole of an opening where I can pick at the part of the thread but it's too small for me to pull the whole thing out through it.

Is it safe to take it out? If so, how? Can I cut and break the skin?

how long ago did the stitches take place? call that doc and tell him/her about it. they should retrieve it for you b/c they f*cked up by leaving the stitch there in the first place.
(are you sure it's not a piece of glass?)

 

[MyThirdEye]

Go to the doctor.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons