I lost my big toe nail several times when I did marathon for 3yrs. Toe felt naked, and very sensitive without the nail protection. Hopefully, I do not need to go through experience any more.
Hope our Raccoon recover soon.
Pro tip: Jason is not a real doctor, stop going to him.
Ouch!!! I think.
I always had a habit of ignoring my toenails for as long as I could. In my dotage Iāve discovered a new kind of pleasure palace. I simply walk across the street to the āNail Spaā for a regular pedicure. Those girls do wonders for your feet, and I come out like Iām walking on air. I usually go for the ādeluxeā.
Yikes! Thatās gotta hurt! Feel better my friend.
Thats an ouchy foot in the true sense of the meaning. :cry:
This is mutilation and perfect example how doctors ācureā.
All you need to do is file your nail to make it thinner, but only in the middle.
Oh that close , huh ? You must be a regular customer ! How much does it cost :money_mouth_face: and what do they āDELUXEā ?
still got red blood, not zombie yet :+1:
I have had many ingrown toenails, and your words make no sense.
Mutilation, standard operating procedure.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Ingrown toenailsā¦and still havenāt learned your lesson and trimmed the others
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Not trimming toenails is not a cause of ingrown toenails.
Also, I have only gotten ingrown toenails on my big toes.
Ahh I see, thanks for the heads up! I just researched it, did you have tight shoes on or cut your nails too short or something?
Iāve never had it before thatās all
I do not wear tight shoes, and I do not cut my nails short.
I am just prone to ingrown toenails.
You arenāt alone, RC. I had to have both my big toe nails removed permanently in my teens. Pulling them out temporarily never worked for me. They always grew back ingrown. Other than some odd looks I get when wearing sandals I donāt mind it at all. No more clipping!
The worse part of the surgery is when they scrape the nail root off of the bone. No pain but you still feel the whole thing.
I had several of these when I was in the Marines. Corpsman would chop it off and Iād be good for about 6 months then theyād do it again. Mine started when I was in bootcamp, the corpsman said it was probably due to getting the wrong size boots and cutting my nails too often. She suggested I go a size larger on the boots, start doing āVā cuts when I trim my nails and just file off the top of the āVā. That definitely slowed down the recurrences. Apparently cutting your nails stimulates their growth. Thatās why they had me stop cutting the sides of the nails and just file them down a little. When I was off active duty but still in the reserves I had a civilian podiatrist do an IGT removal and havenāt had another one. I still do the āVā cut and filing but since I donāt beat up my feet like I used to there have been fewer issues.
Good Luck with yours!
SMM
Any problems involving the feet are no fun. Best wishes for a full recovery!
I was thinking about becoming a foot model. What do you guys think?
The worse part of the surgery is when they scrape the nail root off of the bone. No pain but you still feel the whole thing.
That sound mighty painful and very drastic for a ingrowing toe nail, I was shocked by the picture the op posted too, looked like theyād operated with the end of a 6 cell maglight.
Seems almost like how they might of done it in medieval times.
I had to have one done when I was a teenager, so know how painful they are, but it was done nothing like that, they just slightly trimmed the nail and used an acid down the side to stop it ingrowing again, you canāt even see it unless you pull the skin to one side and the nail is perfect and never had a problem since with them ingrowing
how much does a toenail removal cost in the USA?