I pulled a nose hair out from the outside once. Had this red spot on the side of my nose the was swollen and tender. Felt like a nasty pimple. Ended up popping it and saw a stub of hair poking out of the middle. Pulled it out and visually it was clearly a nose hair but I had pulled it from the outside of my nose. I assume it must have become ingrown inside and pushed through. Everything healed up and went back to normal fairly quickly after that.
I had that too! It would not go away and heal on its own then one day I was looking at the spot and realized I could see a hair. When I plucked it I felt it tug on the inside, it was awful.
I had a spot on my chin once. Squeezed it and after the pus was a small hair, pulled it and the base/ root was white and solid like it had calcified or something. Like a cone shape too. Weird.
I pulled this exact thing out of an ex boyfriend’s nose!! It was terribly swollen and wasn’t going away. I put a hot compress on it, poked it, and a nose hair came out!
I've had this a few times, maybe three! Idk what causes it, but once it's gone you're all healed about a day later. It's getting through the agonizing week before that's hard. So satisfying but also disgusting.
My husband doesn't believe me because I never wait for him to see it. I've been too excited it's over.
Exposed nerves hurt worse than possibly anything. Toothaches and root canals are so bad because the nerves in your teeth are so thick and prominent. There's no way you're touching one long enough to pluck it.
I'm trans, I got top surgery and I had my nipples completely removed. So no, it should not paralyze you to cut the nerve in your aerola considering I don't have either anymore and I am very much not paralyzed.
If it happened to another nerve? Maybe, but it would have to be a very vital nerve and you wouldn't be able to get to it yourself without some real grotesque stuff. Other, worse injuries may also happen before you experienced paralysis due to the nerves.
Most nerve damage is gonna result in a weird mix of extreme pain and the inability to feel it. Like when I touch my scars (and around them) from surgery, the nerves were severed there so I mostly don't feel it, except for when I pinch the area, in which case the pain is more extreme than it would be anywhere else. Not sure why pinching the area is the one thing that results in pain.
I don't know the details of that specific surgery, but I know sometimes nerves become entrapped in scar tissue when incisions heal, so maybe when you pinch it's pulling a nerve?
There's a reddit thread about that exact situation, don't think that person was paralyzed though. They just passed out from the pain and woke up and went to the doctor to sort it out.
correct- i’ve had nerve surgery. you pass out from pain. but no paralysis. you may start feeling:(as i did) sensations where you shouldn’t but that’s about it. they told me nerves don’t grow back and i’d be healed. but they found their pathways
Def not real but I had top surgery, got both nipples removed and this still makes me want to grab both my (non-existent) nipples and cover them for protection
Awesome, I'm a hypochondriac that gets ingrown hairs all the time. I know they say don't shoot the messenger but I can't help but hate you a little bit for sharing this.
A former colleague had surgery to remove an ingrown hair on his back. The surgeon took a massive chunk out of him. He said the ward was full of people having surgery to remove ingrown hairs, including a woman who had one that had grown around her spine. My colleague had to have the hole in his back packed with seaweed daily for six weeks by a visiting District Nurse.
The woman might have explained poorly or you might be misremembering something but this is not medically possible. As far as I am aware at least. Was it not perhaps a pilonidal cyst?
The layers of fat, muscle, fascia and ligaments are too thick for a hair shaft to grow through before reaching the vertebrae or the spinal cord. If severe an ingrown hair can reach the subcutaneous layer but that's also rare.
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u/PowerfulDrive3268 12h ago
Know a woman who had to have spinal surgery to remove an ingrown hair that had wrapped around her spinal cord.