12 Examples of DIY Surgery Gone Wrong
DISCLAIMER: The following examples of home surgery disasters are the acts of private individuals and highlights the need for professional advice before considering any form of surgery. Do not attempt any form of self-surgery at home (or anywhere else).
What could compel someone to try to perform surgery on themselves at home? Being someone who once cut into my hand to try to remove a splinter, I can only say that it has to contain a big part of stupidity, and anything that follows after that can be merged into the same thing.
1- Home Botox Fail
The latest story has a 54-year old California woman who decided she could inject botox into her lips as easily as her plastic surgeon could. So she bought some botox and did the deed. Turns out she didn’t buy medical grade botox, which is much different than regular botox, and the results weren’t pretty, as you can see.
2- Cooking Oil Injections?
Another home plastic surgery story from last year didn’t go so well either; as a matter of fact, it went much worse. This woman, who at 28 was a very pretty woman, thought that cooking oil could do the same type of thing that botox would do, and decided to inject herself with it. All that swelling didn’t stay, but her face is now permanently damaged and will involve serious facial reconstruction.
3- Nose Job Clips?
The aim to be better looking can consume many people, but there has to be a point at which common sense takes over and people are either happy with their looks, or will go to a professional to get help. However, home kits that provide things like this one, which is supposed to alter the look of one’s nose, don’t help. At least this one doesn’t cut into the skin, or give anyone needles to inject themselves.
4- Antique Breast Enlargement Contraption
There have always been home remedies for things such as increasing one’s breast. They may not have been effective, but at the time they were considered relatively safe with no cutting, that’s for sure.
5- Cigarette Box Body Patching
We’re not saying that sometimes a person might not have what they consider a good reason for doing self surgery on themselves. A lack of cash had this man getting creative on himself and deciding to use cigarette packets to cover up
this nasty hole in his chest. Poverty can bring about some of the most creative things you’ve ever seen; luckily, this guy is now ready to have something better done for himself.
6- Abscess
This man had an abscess on his arm and wasn’t anywhere close to a doctor. At least he had the common sense to call a doctor and have a doctor talk him through it, but can you imagine taking a picture of it while the blood is oozing out of your arm?
7- Cesarean Section Surgery
Sometimes we’re lucky that there are no pictures of certain surgeries. There was a story of a woman who was home by herself giving birth, and decided to perform her own cesarean section surgery. We at least have a picture of her, the knife, and her little boy. And another story about a man who decided to perform kidney stone surgery on himself with a razor. He dug out three stones; I might have passed out just thinking about doing it.
8- Homemade Gender Change Surgery
Another story where we’re lucky that there were no pictures or video of happened recently, when a man who wanted to be a woman decided to try to remove her own genitals with a home surgery kit. Luckily, her lover was home and able to call for an ambulance.
9- DIY Ankle Surgery
This guy was lucky enough to be able to make it to the hospital on his own. He tried to remove a metal plate from his leg that was put there after a car accident years earlier. He got four of the screws out before realizing he couldn’t get to the fifth, so he stitched himself back up.
10- DIY Emergency Amputation
There are times when home, or at least emergency surgery has to be done on yourself. In Adam Ralston’s case, if he hadn’t amputated his own arm, he might not be alive today, as he was pinned under a boulder.
11- Home Laser Eye Surgery
We’re glad we don’t have pictures of someone actually trying the procedure, but trust me, do NOT do home Lasik surgery if you ever want to see again.
Maybe we should be glad it came with a pictorial instruction page.
12- Homemade Tattoo Removal
As we end our story, we’d like to say that even home tattoos and home tattoo removal are DIY (do-it-yourself) surgeries that should be done by a professional. This may not be rocket science, but it’s more important than rocket science.
All examples shown above are examples of home surgical mistakes with a lack of professional advice and experience. Anyone considering or requiring any form of surgery should speak to their doctor or a professional surgeon.