- Joined
- Friday July 10, 2009
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Positive that the doc didn't don the black cap before speaking about it :lol:
andyjreid said:Well back from the Docs with more antibiotics than you can shake a stick at.
Blyth Spirit said:andyjreid said:Well back from the Docs with more antibiotics than you can shake a stick at.
Pus in Boots?
Blyth Spirit said::lol:
You'll be fine young man, give it a couple of weeks and you'll be laughing at this!
hunnymonster said:Think yourself lucky you're not in France, they'd all be suppositories (they're obsessed with them)
soapalchemist said:Can't they use local anaesthetic for these things?? I had a 'fatty deposit' in my abdomen some years back. It was like a hard lump under the surface with a tiny blackhead top. They removed it in hospital with local anaesthetic, and no pain was felt.
Paul_D said:soapalchemist said:Can't they use local anaesthetic for these things?? I had a 'fatty deposit' in my abdomen some years back. It was like a hard lump under the surface with a tiny blackhead top. They removed it in hospital with local anaesthetic, and no pain was felt.
Sadly local anaesthetics don't work in a low pH environment. ie They're no use in abscesses. You can spray them with ethyl chloride and lance them but you can't use standard local anaesthetics.