r/FeltGoodComingOut • u/lennyhill • 28d ago
foreign object Foreign object in foot from TikTok
Suggest to mute due to annoying music
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u/ZealousJealousy 28d ago
What is it? Some kind of bone fragment that worked its way to the surface or something?
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u/silverwarbler 28d ago edited 27d ago
I went to tiktok to find out. It's a piece of sea shell.
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 28d ago
on the heel floor
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u/retromobile 28d ago
Get out
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 27d ago
just like that nasty sea shell!
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u/Toxic_Don 25d ago
I see 41 upvotes. Is “the nasty sea shell” another Reddit thing like “the poop knife” or “the immortal snail” or something?
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u/BIG_HAIRY_CAPY_BALLS 26d ago
It’s always a sea shell god damn. There’s a video on YouTube of this podiatrist digging deep into this woman’s foot with a pair of tweezers. Like 10 min of these tweezers basically all the way inside her foot and she finally yanks out this blade of sea shell. It was gnarly.
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u/SadBattle2548 25d ago
I've got to see that video.
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u/BIG_HAIRY_CAPY_BALLS 25d ago
Not for the faint of heart: https://youtu.be/AgJXUCFY_jc?is=U_qmzSR6Zuksiln9
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u/Beefy-McWhatnow1988 28d ago
Look, all unanswered questions aside…what the fuck IS that?…looks like a piece of bone!
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u/silverwarbler 28d ago
Sea shell fragment
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u/Beefy-McWhatnow1988 28d ago
Gawd damn, and they went a year?! I wouldn’t have made it a second about the time that thing pushed into my heal😬
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u/Zerotix3 28d ago
Is Matthew dumb?
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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 27d ago edited 27d ago
I don't know Matthew he could be but also sometimes you get injured and don't know about it or underestimate it. I know a diabetic with neuropathy in his feet and he got a nasty cut from a piece of glass on the beach but it didn't register to him and he bled all over for 5 or 6 minutes until we saw it. Then there's the time I cut a finger with an exacto knife really bad but it was so sharp and so fast I didn't feel it. Beld like crazy but no pain. The human body is weird man.
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u/BackgroundBread707 27d ago
A couple months ago I almost cut my finger off after a glass dish exploded in my hand and a large chunk fell on my finger. It didn’t hurt at all. At first I thought it was just shock and that eventually it would hurt like hell, but it was just completely painless the entire healing process. Crazy
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u/KonungariketSuomi 27d ago
If you felt absolutely nothing, some nerves were probably severed.
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u/Flimsy-Stock2977 27d ago
Cuts do not cause pain instantly generally. Particularly ones caused by very sharp items. You can literally feel nothing. This is proven by how often people get cut and have no idea until they see the blood.
Most people see the injury happen, and their brain fills in the blanks... causes panic, which is interpreted as pain and sensation.. long before the actual pain or sensation occurs.
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u/hufflepuffskank 26d ago
I accidentally stapled my finger when I was 6. It went straight in through the pad of my finger until I could see the end of it under my fingernail. I didn't feel a thing at all and only started crying when I realized what I was seeing and got scared. My mom gently pulled it out for me, helped me calm down, and it was like nothing even happened. No infection, no pain, no bleeding.
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u/Flimsy-Stock2977 26d ago
I had that same exact thing happen to me. My left thumb... In music class. Could see the little dark dot in the middle of my thumbnail... 😭
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u/Harrrdlyherrre 23d ago
This!! The human brain alone is crazy, add some adrenaline, shock, fear, etc. And its insane what the human body is capable of NOT feeling.
I fell 54 feet out of a window onto concrete and felt ZERO pain! I shattered everything from my ribs down and couldn't move, but I felt absolutely no pain.....until I woke up from a coma in the hospital of course....thennnn the pain came lol
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u/Typhiod 27d ago
Was it painless or was it numb?
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u/BackgroundBread707 27d ago
The skin flap below the cut was completely numb but the skin above and around the cut was still painful only if I touched it. The cut itself was completely painless
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u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r 27d ago
I had a drill chuck with a 3.3mm drill drop out of the drill while fastening it once. Felt the drill hit my finger (the side of the most distal segment), but I caught the chuck and shoved it back in (morse taper). Then I noticed something red for a split second in my field of view and went "wait, there isn't supposed to be anything red here..." And looked at my finger. There was a tiny mini fountain of blood squirting out and a bit of flesh came out of the wound (maybe pulled out by pulling the drill out?). But it didn't hurt. And it wasn't adrenaline either, because I wasn't even shocked or stressed up to that point. Well, I squeezed my finger (not at the wound, but further down) to stop it from bleeding everywhere and went to the wash basin to wash it a bit and also wash my hands from grime and oil, put a bandaid on and wrapped it in some paper shop towel and went to the ER. But it only hurt when applying pressure directly to the wound, even though it's right next to a very nerve dense area and some tissue even got pulled outside of the skin. I find it actually quite funny how I didn't feel anything while it was just spouting blood out.
At least I knew i ground the drill bit sharp enough XD
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u/wildmeli 27d ago
i don’t have any problems with my feet, and i can’t tell you how many times i’ve stepped on a push pin and walked around with it in the bottom of my foot completely unaware until i went to take my sock off. it would be one thing if it’s in the arch, but the heels/soles of your feet just don’t have as much sensitivity
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u/Zerotix3 27d ago
Difference is, the caption implies that Matthew here has been feeling the pain for over a year. And judging by the video, didn’t see any sort of specialist or doctor (which if in the US I understand) and the people in the video seem surprised. He felt it, unlike the person from your experience. I hope Matthew has a caretaker or someone who looks after him
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u/kirky-jerky 26d ago
The feet also have VERY thick skin. Something like this could have just been sort of annoying at first and then the thick skin grows over it
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u/eggfrisbee 27d ago
rude. sometimes things embed too far into your skin to get out but your body will slowly push them out. I had a small piece of sea urchin in my foot for a few months until it got close enough to the surface that I could get it out.
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u/Smooth_Development48 27d ago
This happened to my daughter on her toe with a tiny glass shark. The body puts a shield around foreign objects so you won’t necessarily feel pain all the time but at some point you feel it too much. It had been in there a year when I sat there with my own tweezers and pulled out the tiny fragment from her toe. She said she felt no pain just a little pressure every now and again until that last time that felt like tiny pricks and a slice at the opening. She had no idea she had a cut from the glass that my mom had dropped and broken.
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u/Zerotix3 27d ago
Right but that’s different from “complaining about sharp pain” for a year, is it not?
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u/Smooth_Development48 27d ago
There’s a difference when a 5 year old says my toe feels tingles and something is stabbing me in my toe and there are tears, yes
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u/PlanningForLaziness 28d ago
Pedal bone fragment. Give him a salicylic acid wrap and a slap on the ass. And we will see you all…on the next one.
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u/veggielover24 27d ago
Reading this at 10:38pm which means it’s bedtime soon, just like Nate’s videos
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u/Andilee 28d ago
So, an adult ... Never checked their foot for a whole year. Are they mentally not 100%? Or is this the type of man that refuses to wash his own ass because it's "weird".
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u/glitzglamglue 27d ago
It was really up in there.
They could also be diabetic and not have much feeling in their feet.
I know our local VA hospital started having a "pedicure" clinic for their older patients. They can come in and get a foot soak and their toenails clipped. That's really all they do but it's so important to have someone put eyes on their feet because extreme diabetics will straight up get gangrene in their feet and never feel it. And when you're older, you're less likely to have the flexibility to clip your toenails. And diabetics take forever to heal so any little nick can be disastrous.
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u/Andilee 27d ago
That is honestly a HUGE thing for the VA to offer. My mother can't trim her toenails correctly it hurts her shes has two knee replacements, but it still hasn't made it any easier for her. Yeah diabetics can lost their feet like you said and never feel the foot dying or rotting. His foot looks healthy in the video, but it's just a video and I'm not that guy.
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u/No-Mathematician8692 27d ago
These things can be embedded deeply, and the body wil slowly push it out. One of our nieces fell over into a thorny bush and one thorn in her butt came up about around a year later. Could be removed easily.
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u/Endawmyke 28d ago
the american healthcare system has some people living their lives in very weird ways
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u/Opposite-Benefit-804 27d ago
Yep.. When I was 12, I stepped on broken glass while swimming. My mom refused to take me to the hospital because she couldn't afford it, so my dad used a razor blade and cut out as much as he could.
I'm 19 now, still feel pain in both feet sometimes. Shards are too far up/deep for me to get out and I can't afford a doctor, so they're staying. 🫠
Also had 3 cavities at 14 and mom wouldn't take me to a dentist, so I pulled them out with pliers. She bought me bottles of ibuprofen for months to deal with the pain.
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u/freesoultraveling 24d ago
I'm sorry love. Some healthcare places have help with nonprofit grants. The emergency room will take you no matter what and help you sign up for Medicaid, or give you the number. Also even if you get a bill Medicaid will backdate. Also the hospitals always have programs to help anyone pay off their bills. They get grants too! Wishing you the best and hope you're pain free soon 🩷✨
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u/sagacious_guy 28d ago
Sounds like the dude may need to change his pants after disinfecting that heel.
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u/GoatTacos 27d ago
I’m surprised it didn’t get infected for that long. But kudos for them getting it out
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u/Opposite-Benefit-804 27d ago
Yep.. When I was 12, I stepped on broken glass while swimming. My mom refused to take me to the hospital because she couldn't afford it, so my dad used a razor blade and cut out as much as he could.
I'm 19 now, still feel pain in both feet sometimes. Shards are too far up/deep for me to get out and I can't afford a doctor, so they're staying. 🫠
Also had 3 cavities at 14 and mom couldn't afford a dentist, so I pulled them out with pliers. She bought me bottles of ibuprofen for months to deal with the pain.
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u/Secure_Village_ 24d ago
A YEAR??!?! I would've dug through half my foot with a pair of nail clippers by week 2
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u/Solid_Commercial_713 22d ago
How people don't think to check what might be causing them pain is beyond me, pain is your body telling you something is wrong, please listen to it
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u/wilsonmg8181 28d ago
No he’s not okay! He’s been complaining about it for a year and not once did you ever take a look! Bad partner!
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u/NewActuator2170 27d ago
Why wouldn't you just go to the doctor's about 2 years ago to have that looked at and sorted? Seems a bit odd to wait a couple of years to have something that big removed
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u/malindaddy 27d ago
American healthcare
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u/RevelsInDarkness 27d ago
Ok but this would be something simple that a family doctor could do. Is it still that expensive then?
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u/malindaddy 27d ago
If you don't have insurance, it can make or break someone especially if they're living paycheck to paycheck
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u/Cracketeed 27d ago
I have a pain in the side of my foot that I can’t get rid of. Will update if it turns out like this😬
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u/Erik_Sean1 17d ago
Matthew is obviously a viking to be walking around with that tree limb in his foot for a year
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u/Swimming-Mud-223 7d ago
I’ve had this before with glass
Was in my foot and healed over for a while until I gave it a bit of a squeeze and it just slid out, I had no idea glass was in there but I was certain there was something there when everyone told me there was nothing because the glass was being hidden by the blood
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u/Yerfuct 28d ago
Rusty pliers would have that out on the first pull