(04-04-2021, 05:57 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: It's probably been 20 years ago that my husband had something under his skin that was irritating him badly. I used a needle to prick the top layer of skin and used the tweezers to pull out something like a very, very course hair. It kept coming and coming; didn't think it was going to end.
It was much thicker than any hair. Yes, I would call it a fiber.
We were both amazed at the thickness and how long it was. No wonder it was irritating him.
I don't know if he had MD, but I wouldn't be surprised.
No more fibers afterwards that I know of, so I'm not sure what caused it.
That sounds like an ingrown hair. I used to get them all the time when I was still shaving. Sometimes two or 3 would intertwine and sort of "bond" together. If you don't get them out soon enough, they can just keep growing and growing, under the skin. I extracted one once that was about 8" long, meaning it had been growing there for over a year. I've extracted shorter ones that looked almost like black splinters, where 2 or 3 were growing together.
The problem went away when I stopped shaving.
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