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Bad finger tip pain!!
- Thread starter magic8161
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- Jan 1, 2014
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- Decendant from the Clovis culture. "Emitting that wonderful bass effect since 1970".
Most likely you have bruised your finger padding. It takes a few days to heal but it goes away.
You can try applying a little arnica gel or cream on it (see your health food store or Pharmaca type outfit).
Once this has happened, it's likely to happen again unfortunately if you continue playing hard.
Your alternative is obvious: lighter touch or pick.
You can try applying a little arnica gel or cream on it (see your health food store or Pharmaca type outfit).
Once this has happened, it's likely to happen again unfortunately if you continue playing hard.
Your alternative is obvious: lighter touch or pick.
Yeah agree it’s happened to me, and it happens a lot more on used instruments I should’ve changed strings on. It pretty much has to be this.
I don't know from your post how old you are, but when people reach a certain age, and when they live in a winter climate like you do, some of them start getting minute cracks in the skin on their fingertips that you can hardly see but hurt like hell and refuse to heal. Take a magnifying glass and see if that's what's happening. Then if so, lay in a supply of several gallons of Liquid Bandage. I pretty much keep that company going almost by myself; I'm sure they'd appreciate another fingertip skin crack victim.
sorry, but I'm no poet
malus digitus
Musica dolore fit
ah, subsidio
Edit because this is funny.
Google Translate originally made 'Music becomes painful' into 'Musica dolore fit'. But translating that back into English becomes 'Music is made of pain', which is pretty danged true.
Musica dolore fit
ah, subsidio
Edit because this is funny.
Google Translate originally made 'Music becomes painful' into 'Musica dolore fit'. But translating that back into English becomes 'Music is made of pain', which is pretty danged true.
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I have a aspie kid who loves science but i figured he'd just get mad at an optical microscope. So i got him a digital microscope with a 7" screen on amazon.
I have used it for splinter extraction more than all other single uses combined. Even stuff like this where... something just hurts but you don't know why. Its quite common IME for that wierd "fingertip hurts for no good reason" to be a metal sliver
I highly recommend having one around if you can come up with even the remotest excuse. It cost less than a tube screamer.
I have used it for splinter extraction more than all other single uses combined. Even stuff like this where... something just hurts but you don't know why. Its quite common IME for that wierd "fingertip hurts for no good reason" to be a metal sliver
I highly recommend having one around if you can come up with even the remotest excuse. It cost less than a tube screamer.
If you think it's a splinter, use furnace or surgical tape on it overnight.
Otherwise, put yer finger inna warm place, where you have permission to.
Otherwise, put yer finger inna warm place, where you have permission to.
Do *not* use hydrogen peroxide as an antiseptic. Its use is a persistent piece of erroneous medical information not backed up by the science. It damages tissue and delays healing.
Not sure it's just a picture I got off the web. But it certainly looks like that or possibly cellulitis. Whatever it is I'm glad it's not me.
