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I am plagued by foot problems, namely ingrown toenails. Now I don't mean "Ow this hurt's, it's rather annoying" kind of ingrown. I mean any little tap sets me off into a berserker rage of screaming profanities. It looks like it's possessed by Nurgle. And it doesn't matter how many times I get the nail completely removed, it will still grow back, and each time, it will dig into my toe again. Over the past 10 years, I have had them removed about 7 times(some visits will be both feet, others just one), by four different surgeons, at three different hospitals. Each time they have told em the nail will not grow back. Well they have been wrong EVERY SINGLE FREAKING TIME!!!! I'm sick of it!
/Rant

That sucks. Sounds like you're a mutation however. Do you have healing powers as well? Have you ever heard of the wonders of adamantium?

maybe you need to see a skaven surgeon who can rip out the offending nails and replace them with blades.
seriously though mate thats a harsh set of feet you have there,i hope you can get over it before you hulk out on someone.

Doctors are not surgeons, surgeons are surgeons and doctors are doctors.

Doctors are not useless, it is your feet and the lack of care that you take over them.

Better fitting, wider shoes help as that is a popular cause having said that though there is no common known cause in some cases.
The most important aspect is how you cut them. Naff all to do with doctors, it is how you treat them. Everyone ignores their feet until they start getting grief then it's too late.
You can destroy the nail bed so the nail won't grow back but Doctors tend not to do such procedures as Phenol, the substance used, is not worth the effort to store.

Cut your nails straight across. Not curved. Most important.

Once the nail starts to grow follow these steps:

1. Soak the toe in water for 10 minutes to soften the folds of skin around the affected nail.

2. Then, using a cotton wool bud, push the skin fold over the ingrown nail down and away from the nail. Do this starting at the root of the nail and move the cotton wool bud towards the end of the nail.

3. Repeat each day for a few weeks, allowing the nail to grow.

4. As the end of the nail grows forward, push a tiny piece of cotton wool under it to help the nail grow over the skin and not grow into it. Change the cotton wool daily.

5. Do not cut the nail but allow it to grow forward until it is clear of the end of the toe. Then cut it straight across and not rounded off at the end.

If your shoes don't fit with longer, properly cared for, toe nails then that means you have ill fitting shoes.

@ Elmodiddly SOmebody's a doctor hahahahaha, anyways, the man is correct, I have had ingrown toenails on both feet, on both sides of my right big toenail, and have found ways to deal with them, and the main cause of instigating them I found is my peeling my toenails which I stopped long ago. take good care of your feet, they take you places!

As a diabetic foot care is hyper important to me. Soak your feet, love your feet take care of your feet. Pamper them.

Phototoxin wrote:As a diabetic foot care is hyper important to me. Soak your feet, love your feet take care of your feet. Pamper them.

Bake them a cake? Eveeryone loves cake.

I used to have this problem. A doctor fixed it for me.
He numbed my toes and used a scissor to cut down the ingrown side of the nail, pulled it out, and used some sort of acid to "burn" the nailbed. Now my toenails grow in a straight "blade" down the previously problimatic side.

Elmodiddy nailed it

oops sorry Thaanos

hope it gets better this time.

Bake them a cake? Eveeryone loves cake.

feet prefer Toed in the Hole.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:feet prefer Toed in the Hole.

Are you gunna get your coat, or do want me to get it for you?

My Mackintosh is already donned and buttoned up

The cake haz carbz, carbs mean sugar, sugar means sticky, sticky means hurt blood vessels, that means hurted toes. THE CAKE IS A LIE.

Actually I had some cake today with a friend because I carb count and can adjust the dose to match the cake to insulin ratio to make sure there's not too much blood in my sugarstream...er cake stream.. er... blood stream <.< >.>

10/10 thread, would read again

Lose the shoes. I'm serious. Shoes cause more problems than they are worth.

rubiksnoob wrote:Lose the shoes. I'm serious. Shoes cause more problems than they are worth.

Shoes kill kiddies. True story.

Brogued to death at such a tender age!

Avatar 720 wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:Lose the shoes. I'm serious. Shoes cause more problems than they are worth.

Shoes kill kiddies. True story.

barefoot is the only responsible way to go.

Word. I miss those halcyon days of running barefoot through the forest, and of calluses as tough as kevlar...

My most favorite kind of useless doctors are therapists. In my mind, there are two professions who you pay to pretend to care about you so long as the money is good: Whores and shrinks. And in my experience, both leave you unsatisfied in the long run.

Ingrown toenail's....cry me a river.

Try having an 80-90% collapsed disk in between L4 and L5. Then come talk to me.

Suck it up.

Must have been the weight of all that human kindness that crushed it

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Must have been the weight of all that human kindness that crushed it

Nope, absolutely not.

No point in complaining about it though....one deals the hand dealt one.


Doctors arent helping? NOOOOO! Say it aint so.


Be glad you've got ingrown toenails...and not cancer.

Deadshane1 wrote:Be glad you've got ingrown toenails...and not cancer.

That right there is what we call perspective, boys and girls.

Learn it. Live it.


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Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Must have been the weight of all that human kindness that crushed it

Genius.

Vladsimpaler wrote:10/10 thread, would read again

U mad?

Monster Rain wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:Be glad you've got ingrown toenails...and not cancer.

That right there is what we call perspective, boys and girls.

Learn it. Live it.

That which doesn't kill me doesn't concern me in the slightest.

I have a car battery and a wire mattress frame.

Care to test that theory?

I know a few people who are missing legs, that would love to have ingrown toenails.

I found that cutting a "V" shape into my toenail, stopped me getting ingrown ones, and I used to get them really badly on both my big toes.

Lifehack's are great.

Elmodiddly wrote:Doctors are not useless, it is your feet and the lack of care that you take over them.

Better fitting, wider shoes help as that is a popular cause having said that though there is no common known cause in some cases.
The most important aspect is how you cut them. Naff all to do with doctors, it is how you treat them. Everyone ignores their feet until they start getting grief then it's too late.
You can destroy the nail bed so the nail won't grow back but Doctors tend not to do such procedures as Phenol, the substance used, is not worth the effort to store.

Cut your nails straight across. Not curved. Most important.

Once the nail starts to grow follow these steps:

1. Soak the toe in water for 10 minutes to soften the folds of skin around the affected nail.

2. Then, using a cotton wool bud, push the skin fold over the ingrown nail down and away from the nail. Do this starting at the root of the nail and move the cotton wool bud towards the end of the nail.

3. Repeat each day for a few weeks, allowing the nail to grow.

4. As the end of the nail grows forward, push a tiny piece of cotton wool under it to help the nail grow over the skin and not grow into it. Change the cotton wool daily.

5. Do not cut the nail but allow it to grow forward until it is clear of the end of the toe. Then cut it straight across and not rounded off at the end.

If your shoes don't fit with longer, properly cared for, toe nails then that means you have ill fitting shoes.

Thats all well and good but I still think we've got some mutation going on. We're missing a golden opportunity here. I guess the important question is:
"Do you like to wear 70s era spandex costumes and have an overinflated sense of self?" If so I have a new career opportunity for you.


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Monster Rain wrote:I have a car battery and a wire mattress frame.

Care to test that theory?

The quotes in this thread are epic.

The number of people who go into hospital (or to their doctors) for help and then utterly fail to comply with their treatment is staggering.

At the hospital where I used to work we would routinely provide simple devices to patients (costing from £20-500 typically) that would completely correct various problems they had with their feet, hands, wrists and backs and prevent degeneration.

These same patients would come back 6 months later having never worn what was provided (usually because "it would not fit in my totaly impractical shoes" or "it looked funny") and having completely ignored advice ("But I only want to wear this type of shoe with a 5 inch heel and pointy ends which squeeze all my toes together! I could not possibly go out and buy a £15 pair of trainers which would completely resolve all my problems!"). Often they would have deteriorated and sometimes would then require expensive surgery or other treatments in order to correct the problems they themselves had caused.