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Looking sus.
This is so disturbing lol 😵💫
Luckily I ripped my toenail’s arms off, so he can’t pull this shit.
how do I perform this
Do not rip a toenail’s arms off. Only a paid professional toenail armripper should perform the procedure.
OP might be talking about a procedure where a podiatrist or dermatologist kills the mis-growing edges of the nail root. The remaining root grows a narrower nail, but hopefully a straighter one. Sometimes the process doesn’t work the first time (hard to judge how much cell-kill stuff will get just the edges and not damage the middle) and has to be repeated.
If you hit it hard enough you will lose the toenail. Normally this does also break and or fracture the digit.
Or you could soak it in prescription strength urea for a couple of days to get the nail to fall off. Less collateral damage that way.
what about amputation
Never had this problem. I have that annoying little nail splitting out from my little toe. Gets snagged on socks all the time.
Same, I’ve never had this happen either. I only used to get the splitting in my hands but it hasn’t happened in a long while and I suspect it was because of the cold.
I just looked it up. We’re freaks with a 6th nail! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_nail_of_the_fifth_toe
Huh! TIL. I had that for years and years on both feet, then one day it snagged on a pair of jeans as I was putting them on and the one on my right foot got ripped out. Hurt like crazy and bled like you wouldn’t believe. Still have the left one, but the right never grew back. Always wondered why, and I guess the answer is it had its own nail bed and I ripped that out
Well now you’ve given me ideas! I hate these things. They’re ok untill suddenly and unexpectedly they’re not!
Why does this even happen?
this stopped happening to me when i heard i shouldn’t round the edges of the nail when cutting them
For me, the only thing that really fixed it was surgery :/
That’s so counter intuitive. Like, the things at the sides are those that hurt you. But as long as you let them do their thing it’s fine.
You see I have heard this multiple times and read it online too, nonetheless I had to ask my pedicurist to round my toenails, otherwise by next day it’s in my flesh and hurts.
Okay I’m going to try that
You’re lucky, I’ve never done that and still get them.
For me it stopped when covid hit and I started working from home. I am barefoot 90% of the time.
My back pain has also gone since then.
Being barefoot (specifically not even wearing socks) for some of the day actually made a noticable improvement on a few funky things about my feet that bothered me. So maybe those weird toe shoe people were onto something after all…
I don’t think they were on the right track, lol. Those things always stank.
I think the main part of the barefoot benefit is the neural feedback from being able to feel with your feet. The many many muscles in your foot and legs can make the micro adjustments they cant do when in a shoe.
It’s sort of like wearing gloves, sure you can type on a keyboard or write with a pen, but you are going to do a lot better when your fingers can feel directly.
Any damage to the nail can cause it to do this. I broke my toe and after it healed I started having this problem, probably because the nail bed got disrupted when the toe got broken.
This happened to me when I used to trim the nail too short. That let the nail dig into the skin and caused all the issues. After letting it grow out long enough that the nail wasn’t able to dig into the skin did the problem go away. It’s a little weird looking having longer big toe nails but it beats the pain of accidentally stubbing your toe and living in agony.
For me it’s cutting the big toenail too short. I cut it straight across on the inside edge. Leaving about 1/8-1/4 inch of white. Toe builds a callous under it that never goes away. If i cut it short it hurts for a month.
shoes and stuff. but maybe festering ingrown toenails just killed a certain percent of the population until modern times. how did prehistoric humans trim their toenails anyway? did they chew it off?
Like most claws from animals they’d probably just wear down naturally.
They let you cut down along the edge. Cut straight down, as far as you can, then yank out the piece by the root (yes, ouch). Over time, the nail will stop growing along the edge. I can’t tell you how long it takes, I don’t remember. It wasn’t that long, I did it decades ago. It’s a permanent solution.
Do those have a special name? I wanna try
I would highly recommend having it done professionally. It is a permanent change, and you don’t want to have it grow back incorrectly like this commenter
While getting it taken taken care of by a doctor is the more prudent option, the cotton trick can temporarily help in the meantime.
You pull a small strip of cotton about 2.5cm long from a cotton ball and stuff it under your nail, as if you were flossing your nail, with the ends of the cotton acting as a sort of cushion and softening the edges of the nail. You would then use a bandaid to keep it in place for the day. (also, you should use some antibiotic ointment before stuffing in the cotton if you have any broken/torn skin)
Again, it’s only a temporary solution, but it really does help with the pain.
This also helps if you have short nails, and just want to make sure it doesn’t grow in before the nail gets longer again. Can raise the nail up enough that it will grow out forward without cutting in, then you can make sure you clip it properly so it isn’t rounded at the edges, and it can sometimes stop it from growing in later.
I’ve had those and it sucks. Had to go to a doctor.
my fingers do this all the freaking time and i hate it :(
To anyone who gets this:
do not let the podiatrist convince you to do the partial removal. Ask your podiatrist if a full nail avulsion could be preferable to a partial avulsion if minimizing chance of reoccurence is the most important factor to you. Ie, removing a tiny strip from one or both sides of the nail.It is HIGHLY likely it will get bad again.With a full avulsion, you have basically zero chance of nail problems ever again. With a partial, you have a nonzero chance of future complications as I did (3 times) Have them do a full phenol cauterization and remove the entire nail. You dont need it, and you’ll be better off without it. However, I’m no doctor.gives medical advice explicitly in opposition to a hypothetical doctor
says they’re not qualified to give medical advice because they’re not a doctor
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Your personal experiences with procedures are valid, fam, you can just say it didn’t do you or a friend any good and you wish you’d done something else instead.
Oh, if you add phenol the nail won’t grow out again?
Yeah the science is above my head but I believe usually after they rip out the nail (be it whole nail or a strip), they will apply a cotton ball of phenol to the bed and that is supposed to stop the nail from coming back. It failed to do so 3 times in my case, albeit on two different toes.
