I just performed minor surgery on myself (waaay TMI)

Well, I was certainly nervous about embarrassing myself when the really pretty practise nurse was preparing to remove my vasectomy stitches. I just put my mind in a whole nother place for a few minutes.

Of course, i was the one who impressed my friends on my stag night by not *reacting * to the two strippers who had just removed my underpants, and who were doing their best to get a rise out of me.
That was some stag night. :smack:

As for personal surgery, my tool of choice for skin tags are side-cutters. Just took off a big un on my inner thigh - tied it off with dental floss for a day before the snip. No problem.

Si

I just performed a thorough inspection. I could have sworn I had something similar to what everyone was explaining, but alas it is gone.

Do these things occasionally go away on their own?
BRB: doing a google image search.

Yes, they can occasionally go away on their own. http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WS/9339/9779.html

What… balls?

I thought matrimony was usually involved…

d&r

Wait you mean you’ve pierced your scrotum on purpose? And … clamps … ? :eek:

I think I made a mistake. The flesh around the wound is red and throbbing. There is a greasy discharge leaking out from under the scab that has the smell of rotting meat and battery acid. I think I may have inadvertently introduced some noxious pathogen into my sensitive scrotal tissue. Perhaps there was some backwash in that bottle of ketel one.

Nah, I’m justing kidding. It’s totally fine.

How else would you suggest someone pierces? Professional piercers clamp the area about to be pierced, be it a tongue, navel, or scrotum. At least, from what I’ve seen - only my ears are done.

Edit: According to Google Ads, only Democrats are piercers. Or something. I have four ads for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

ALAS? You’re disappointed at having lost an opportunity to hack away at a sebaceous cyst on your own scrote? You, sir, are made of sterner stuff.

I think I actually felt safer in the “mysterious alien menstrual discharge” thread, and that’s saying something.

Sterile needle (as in autoclave), sanitized clamps and jewelry (boiled for some long time and then alcohol). I don’t see the problem! Why would I pay someone to pierce me there? By the time someone gets to that point they have other things they should be focusing on.

The current trend seems to be moving away from clamps, for what it’s worth. There’s some indication they cause more tissue damage than they save. My piecer doesn’t use them anymore for that reason.

This would make a great signature!

How interesting. I’m glad you described what the cyst looked like.

I have (what I recently found out) the same type of cyst on my neck, in the hairline, right on top of my brain stem. It’s been there for about 6 or 7 years and grew a little bit in the beginning then stopped. I pinch it occasionally and I can feel it underneath.

I didn’t really have a problem with it but my fiance did, so when I was at the doctor last time I asked, and that’s what he told me it was. I just mentioned to someone about a week ago that I’d cut it off and see what it looks like if I could maneuver my arms like that and had the proper mirrors.

I’ve offered to do this for my husband’s scrotal cysts, but he’s a big friggin baby. :smiley:

I’m very anti-bump myself – if I have a zit or ingrown hair or anything, I’m busting out implements and hand mirrors to deal with it – so I don’t know how he walks around knowing he has two of those things on this balls. His OCD must manifest elsewhere.

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I simply love the fact that a pimple thread on this board **has **298 (and more!) posts.

And, uh, ow.

I’ve got an awful image in my head of those big G-clamps that carpenters use. And I would have thought the last thing a bloke would want is someone applying one of those to his nutsack. Still, whatever floats your boat :smiley: .

Heh. No, closer to a pair of small wire kitchen tongs, only with a locking mechanism. The piercing needle goes through the metal loop. Since it’s locked in place and holding the skin still, you don’t have to worry about your client trembling at the last moment and screwing up your aim.

Naval piercing clamp.

What did these guys do to you that they need piercing?
:smiley:

As I found out when I removed the clamps before the jewelry insertion, scrotal tissue spreads out a lot, and the first time I did the piercing, I couldn’t find the exit hole with the jewelry. :smack:

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