Performing Surgery on myself (kinda)

I've never had one, as I'm a big fan of trimming my nails good, but in junior high I went with a friend who had some bad ones and the podiatrist cut his nails and dug them out or whatever. She showed him how to cut them so it wouoldn't happen again. Just cut them really good and often.

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

I've never had one, as I'm a big fan of trimming my nails good, but in junior high I went with a friend who had some bad ones and the podiatrist cut his nails and dug them out or whatever. She showed him how to cut them so it wouoldn't happen again. Just cut them really good and often.

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i was told by my podiatrist that, some people are just a prone to having them.......for example there is no right way for me to cut my nails to prevent them from happening! i guess i have feet like this guy =======> :taz:

I had a girlfriend who was prone to really bad ingrowns...not just on her big toes, but on any toe. Eventually, she had surgery to permanently remove ALL her toenails. Icky stuff!

Yea, digging that thing out definatly hurt. The toe doesn't hurt near as much as it did yesterday, and I have to press on the toe to get any pain. I can walk again! I'll probably have to have someone go in and clean it up nicer because I did a horrible job. But let me tell you, getting that piece out was the most painful thing I've had to experience all year. It was a pointed piece digging into the side of my toe. Talk about pain. But once I had it up and out of there, the toe felt much better. I'm going to keep ice on the toe for the next few hours to get the swelling and redness down. I feel soooooo much better. And yes I am insane.

Soak it in saltwater, might take the soreness out.
I'm prone to them too. I just cut them out really often before they become a problem. I htought about going in to have the doctor fix them, but after reading the accounts here... I don't THINK SO!! AAAHHHH!!!!
Wolfy

My father gets them A LOT. I know he normally just goes to the Dr and gets them taken care of. This past last one he bought some kind of med at like Target and said it's been helping. If it will clear it up I don't know but he's able to walk again on that foot without limping.

Ack! Do you actually remove the whole nail? Mark had a nail that fell off after one of the horses stepped on his toe.. I have an abscess under one of my fingernails fro, months ago when I slammed it in our truck door; now there's a little space under my nail that dirt gets caught in.. argh! But it is sloooowly growing out..
Now, has anyone gotten athlete's foot? I am getting over it for the second time in 2 years; that lotrimin powder spray is THE stuff to get; kills the stuff! THAT is an itch though!! The spray causes severe pain but kills it dead. I only ever got it between two certain toes, same spot this time also.

I didn't remove my nail, but some people have to in order to prevent a repeat problem.

There was only one time I ever lost a toenail. I was walking from the dining room into the kitchen and there was a metal piece that seperated the carpet from the tiles of the kitchen. Well lucky me, my toe hits part of it that was sticking up and it hurt like :mad: :mad: :mad: :O :O :O :taz: :taz: :taz: :irkd: :irkd: :irkd: :angered: :angered: :crying: :crying:

Well anyway, it throbbed and throbbed and the nail began to turn blue. And we are talking BLUE. My mom took me to the doctor the next day (couldn't sleep because of the pain) and they stuck a needle under the nail. BOOM, the blue turned red in a split second. All that blue was blood that wasn't exposed to oxygen and had been building up under the toe. It drained out and was an instant relief. A few days later the nail popped off and regrew. I found it all to be very interesting, but painful to begin with.

I just cut down the side of the nail, yank!! Then cuss like hell as I dance around. :taz: :taz: :taz: Then I'm fine for a month or two!

when my (now) husband and i were dating he got a really bad ingrown toenail right before his birthday. i came home one night to find him soaking his nasty, puss-filled toe in the brand new cake pan i had just bought to bake him a birthday cake in. (it was just the right size!) needless to say, he had a nice cake from the publix bakery that year. :grabbed: