I am a pocket knife, tweezer and needle kinda guy.

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Just go to the dr and get it out, properly. You can probably just go to one of the doc-in-the-box places.

What is most liely to happen is you will get a localized swelling, puss reaction that brings the splinter to the surface and allows the body to expel it. If that happens, and the size is not enlarging, let it happen and let the body do its thing. Once the splinter is gone, the body will heal remarkably quick and you will be back to good before too long.

The end of an IV catheter is actually ground into a blade. 16 or 18 gauge can get some work done on a splinter. Apply betadine arond the splinter, on your skin. And also wipe ofd your tweezers with alcohol. Open up the tissue around it and pull the splinter out with tweezers.

similar example ... I stepped off my tractor back during Sept. and the side of my calf hit an old cedar stump, hurt like heck but didn't even bleed much. Wife looked at it but said didn't look like anything was in there but did a bit of digging with a needle. a week later, I had a knot the size of a hen egg and it was extremely sore to the touch and seeping clearish liquid. Started putting Neosporin and a band aide, changing daily, after a week still sore and swollen, switched to aloe vera and band aide, still nothing. Each time my wife would dig, DEEP, with a needle, but never found anything. Reverting back to my dad's miracle cure, Campho Phenique, soaked a cotton ball and put on with band aide, after about 4 days, the piece of stump started working it's way out to where my wife could do a bit more digging with needle and tweezers to get it out. We were amazed at the size of the chunk of wood that she pulled out ... all in all it was slightly over 5 weeks from time of injury to when we finally got it out.

Had a splinter one time from a golf tournament when I was in High school. I hit my ball in bush, it was a Par 5, didn't want to take an unplayable as I thought I could advance up the course a 100+ yards and reaching the green in 2 wasn't happening. So I took a 5i, punched the ball out but I had instant shooting pain in my R middle finger at the knuckle just under the finger nail. It bleed like hell. I looked and looked and didn't see any kind of splinter so I though I just cut it on that bush. A few days later I woke up to a pimple on that spot. Popped in and lots of pus came out, but no splinter. This went on for about a week, every morning would wake up and pop that finger. Went to the doc, he used a scalpel and opened it up, but said he couldn't see anything at all. Told me to keep an eye on it. No joke, this went on for 3 weeks, doc put in a ortho consult. So as I waited, one morning I woke up and popped the pimple again, but this time, I saw the beast. If I squeezed like hell, it would come up just enough that I could barely see it. As soon as I stopped squeezing, it disappeared. So I squeezed as hard as I could, my brother grabbed some tweezers and he pulled out what looked like the tip of a rose bush point and it was about 1/8 inch long. Finger was back to 100% by the next day.

Hang in there, the body will get rid of it after enough time.