I read about this, years ago. My nephew had a similar situation so I had him try the potato poultice and it worked to draw out the sliver.

but I don't remember how deep it was. I think oat meal has some drawing properties, too. And I just read about something else that really works, but DAMN, I can't remember what it was. If I can find it, I'll send it your way.

It's unfortunate that glass doesn't usually set up the kind of swelling and, well, pus that lubricates things like wood splinters to push out.

Gross but true.

I wear gardening gloves, most of the time but sometimes I am too lazy to look for them. I finally bought a big magnifier on a stand so that I can hone in with tweezers.

My eyes are pretty good, especially for my age, although a magnifying glass would come in handy for this one.

Worked as a porcelain restorer for twenty years and had glass shards a lot. This worked for me.

Wallmart? Or grocery store with a sizeable pharmacy.
Over the counter, no prescription.

I'll try one and then the other if no luck.

This is me right now --

Maybe it will be come a meme! "Pick some up with a potato."

It's always great to have several alternatives, and one suggested by an expert takes priority!

Also, when you hobble down to rite aid, Aldo pick up those blister bandaids. Again, that will keep it moist.

Dr. Scholl's makes them. It may help me walk until I can get this thing out.

pick away from the glass sideways to widen the hole, only pick at dead skin, don't go slicing live skin.

Plus, it's so small I feel it when I hit it, but I can't see it. Thx for suggestion, though.

good luck

It might be a matter of what angle they look at it. I did this for my husband's foot recently. Small shard of glass in the ball of his foot. I had a tweezers with a very sharp tip and got a good look at it in a sunny window. Poked around and could feel it but not get it for a while. Then suddenly it did pop out. It was very small but I could tell it was glass.

Good luck!

chance of infection. I would maybe give it another day to work itself out and then give the doc a try. Meanwhile there may be some type of drawing salve at your pharmacy that you could leave on overnight.

Sometimes, when I get a splinter which is often, a piece of duct tape can do the trick. Just lay it over the spot, smooth it down to make contact with the splinter then pull up a little quickly. sometimes you have to keep trying and sometimes it doesn't work but it often does.

next time I encounter this problem. TBH, usually, I just let it alone and it goes away. But this sounds much better.

You need to have that removed! It can travel into a vein and move to your heart and kill you!

I had a half of a needle embedded in my grand toe years ago. I went to the hospital with my mother and she did not want to wait for 8 hrs. so we decided to go home. When I got into her huge heavy car, I hit the toe on the side of the door rim and wowza, it hurt bad but the needle popped out and she grabbed it. End of that story.

Seems you won't be so lucky is my thought so deal with it! Please! You don't need a big infection or cellulitis setting in!

Hopefully it's superficial enough to avoid becoming an embolus.

were me--see a doc or nurse--now.

Don't risk an infection or making a minor problem a major one.

And part of the problem is I'm not sure how long it is.

I had the same and even with my foot right in front of him, with bright spotlight and a giant magnifier, it took a lot to get it out.

Walking, often under appreciated.

Yeah, I tried drawing salve, soaks, etc. it’s a small piece of glass but it has got to go. A good podiatrist will have all the tools and skills to deal with it for you. It does hurt but just for a little while, and of course it hurts now too.

Good luck.

I'm walking on the side of my foot now and it's really getting sore. This whole thing is just so stupid. Such a tiny thing causing so much hassle.

and hurt every time you walk.

Sterilize your tools and douse the area with hydrogen peroxide. Then bite the bullet and carefully start digging it out, keep dripping H2O2 on it periodically while working. Take your time. Deep breaths.

It helps to have some very sharp pointy tweezers.

That is what I do, anyway. Good luck.

She's got some topical lidocaine. Might try that, too. I have a high pain tolerance, the problem is more the bleeding obscures my focus and I can't see what I'm doing.

That needs to come out before getting further embedded in your foot.

In any event, hope it's remedied soon. That must be very painful.

They won't reimburse for that. I'll go to doc in a.m. if it's still there. It will be a zero copay for me.

Sterilize please, then apply antibiotic cream.

It's exactly what a dr., Or ER will do.

like that several years back. I got a tiny sliver of glass stuck in my foot and could not get it out. Eventually i stopped noticing it. A little more than a year later, my foot fell off.

Just kidding. But the tiny sliver of glass did come out one night while i was sitting on my couch watching t.v. It was weird. It had been more than a year and i guess it just worked itself out.

And I would totally put up with the discomfort if it was any place else on my foot.

Go to a doctor STAT

The iodine acted as a dye so you can see where it is.. Then get it with fine nose tweezers and pull in the direction it went in, not against the "grain".
Black salve works for me also but takes some time.. Best bet is to get someone to dig it out for you with a magnifying glass.. If that does not work, go to the doc... YMMV works for me..
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Thanks.

You certainly got a lot of suggestions. Did any work or did you go to a emergency clinic?

No luck. I have an appointment with a trauma NP at 1:00 today. I feel stupid for having to go in for this but I don't know what else to do. The appointment is right upstairs from where I work and right before my shift starts, so it's convenient and I'm looking forward to removing this annoyance!

Thanks for asking

Our next-door neighbor was a physician, so the myriad 'issues' such as you describe were addressed by her, and she correctly told me to go to the ER when it was appropriate!

Good Luck!

It's also just a $10 co-pay so why not? I'd pay $100 to get the darn thing out, LOL.

"Scary Movie 4" in this case: