Rant - DOCTORS ARE USELESS!

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**Lord Scythican**

Get some wider shoes. New balance makes some wide and xtra wide shoes that help a lot with ingrown toenails.

**rubiksnoob**

NO! Don't get new shoes, get RID of your shoes!

**SilverMK2**

rubiksnoob wrote:NO! Don't get new shoes, get RID of your feet!

That's a bit extreme

**daedalus**

SilverMK2 wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:NO! Don't get new shoes, get RID of your feet!

That's a bit extreme

On the other hand, I think it's not extreme enough. Don't just stop with your feet, you could end up with ingrown shins.

**SilverMK2**

daedalus wrote:On the other hand, I think it's not extreme enough. Don't just stop with your feet, you could end up with ingrown shins.

Perhaps below the C1 vertebra would be most appropriate?

**daedalus**

SilverMK2 wrote:
daedalus wrote:On the other hand, I think it's not extreme enough. Don't just stop with your feet, you could end up with ingrown shins.

Perhaps below the C1 vertebra would be most appropriate?

Hehe.

Bizarro Sparks: "Lets cut his ENTIRE body off!"

**Soup and a roll**

SilverMK2 wrote: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.

There's a guy at the lab I work at doing a PhD developing a machine to tell if a patient has been taking their meds. Not curing cancer, not caring for the dying, trying to test compliance. Stupid patients.

**SilverMK2**

Soup and a roll wrote:There's a guy at the lab I work at doing a PhD developing a machine to tell if a patient has been taking their meds. Not curing cancer, not caring for the dying, trying to test compliance. Stupid patients.

Sounds pretty cool. Just a shame the resources have to be commited to that rather than actually helping cure things...

**Monster Rain**

I think the point is that if people complied with the treatments they would actually get better.

There's no point in coming up with cures and whatnot if people can't be arsed to follow through with their treatment.

**Thaanos**

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.

I do cut the nail's straight, although I didn't when I was child. I do wear boots with lots of toe room(although they are hard to find for me, my feet are really wide). I also go barefoot when possible, and prefer to wear sandals then closed toe shoe's/boots
I have never heard of that cotton thing, I'll have to try that again. The problem is usually that the nail will grow into the skin, before they are long enough to cut.
And this rant was more due to the fact that I keep being told the nail will NEVER grow back(it has been chemically teated), yet two months later the nail is back again. And when I go see the surgeon again, he's dumbfounded.

**Melissia**

Avatar 720 wrote:
Phototoxin wrote:As a diabetic[snip]
Bake them a cake? Eveeryone loves cake.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Phototoxin wrote:The cake haz carbz, carbs mean sugar

So what, you only eat fatty foods and protein supplements?

Without carbs or sugars, the only thing left for you to eat for energy is fat and protein.

**Ma55ter_fett**

Thaanos wrote:
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.

I do cut the nail's straight, although I didn't when I was child. I do wear boots with lots of toe room(although they are hard to find for me, my feet are really wide). I also go barefoot when possible, and prefer to wear sandals then closed toe shoe's/boots
I have never heard of that cotton thing, I'll have to try that again. The problem is usually that the nail will grow into the skin, before they are long enough to cut.
And this rant was more due to the fact that I keep being told the nail will NEVER grow back(it has been chemically teated), yet two months later the nail is back again. And when I go see the surgeon again, he's dumbfounded.

When I had mine done the doc said that if the toe was inflamed the acid had a smaller chance of working.

**rubiksnoob**

SilverMK2 wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:NO! Don't get new shoes, get RID of your feet!

That's a bit extreme

I doth believe thou hast misquoted me.

**Monster Rain**

Have you considered robotic legs?

**notprop**

Monster Rain wrote:Have you considered robotic legs?

Thats a bit over the top!

Robotic Feet prehaps?

**Avatar 720**

Just go the whole way and get your brain implanted into a robot.

**Lord-Loss**

notprop wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:Have you considered robotic legs?

Thats a bit over the top!

Robotic Feet prehaps?

You could kick some serious ass with that!

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Robotic feet could be worse.
If the nails go rusty and start in growing you could end up with Tetanus

**rubiksnoob**

Try painting your ingrown nails to make them look prettier. And start wearing dresses and make up. Annd buy youself a nice purse. With sequins.

Should do the trick.

But don't wear shoes; that'll just feth everything up.

**snurl**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Robotic feet could be worse.
If the nails go rusty and start in growing you could end up with Tetanus

What does an elf have to do with ingrown nails?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Is Tetanus a Pratchett character as well as being lockjaw?

or is Lockjaw the name of the elf.
(Gonna have a character called Lockjaw if not! Bagsy the IP)

Rusty nauls ate an elf and safety issue if that is what you mean