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Posted: 6/7/2013 8:23:16 PM EDT

Fuck thes things suck!

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:26:09 PM EDT

[#1]

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Posted: 6/7/2013 8:26:56 PM EDT

[#2]

Choot it

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:28:21 PM EDT

[#3]

The worst part is that damn rubber band tourniquet they put on before cutting.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:30:50 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Choot it

Grab your toenail clippers. Open up the file with hook shaped end, Take the hook shaped end and shove it into the sunken part of the nail.

Pry the sunken part of the nail out. Trim the nail.

Dowse with Hydrogen Peroxide.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:32:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Stop being such a pussy and cut it out yourself. Getcha some of these. They sale a similar pair at Wal-Mart for ~$15.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:35:28 PM EDT

[#6]

I had the surgery about 5 years ago and no recurrence.

Even when the local was wearing off my feet felt better than before and they have ever since.

They basically numb you up, cut the nail back, then kill the nail bed with phenol. That last step keeps the nail from growing fucked up.

H

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:37:01 PM EDT

[#7]

Fuck 'em. I hate them so goddamn much. I've had like 3. You have my sympathy OP.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:40:53 PM EDT

[#8]

i dug one out once a month or so for almost 5 years... then about 6 months later i split the nail on the other foot and had to start doing it again... just couldnt wrap my head aboud wearing boots while splitting wood

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:44:11 PM EDT

[#9]

Fingernails, and toenails are absolutely useless on modern humans. Why do we still have them?

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:46:16 PM EDT

[#10]

I would dig mine out approximately monthly for years and years. Just go to a podiatrist and have him extract it and kill the nail bed. It's worth it.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:47:02 PM EDT

[#11]

You got nothing.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:48:13 PM EDT

[#12]

I never had one until earlier this year, then all of a sudden I got one atleast once a month!

I couldn't even sleep a couple times because of it.

I watched a video of the surgery... holy fuck does that look like it sucks!!!

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:48:14 PM EDT

[#13]

Get ya a pair of cutical trimmers, google it. Run them right down the side of toenail cutting as far down as you can stand to shove it, grab cut sliver with tweasers and pull out, do it about once every 3 months.

Trick is don't wait till their sore as Fuk u can't touch them!

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:48:58 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
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Posted: 6/7/2013 8:51:28 PM EDT

[#15]

I have had upwards of 15 surgeries for ingrown toenails, the first was about 5 weeks into basic. Yep, medical discharge, never got to be a Marine

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:53:09 PM EDT

[#16]

If you get some of the pointy nail clippers, you can usually dig out the little spike on the very edge of your nail that is cutting into your toe. Hit it with h202 early and often, and awhile after you get the spike out. I have averted 3 or so ingrown toenails doing this. Though...If you have insurance, the procedure I had to fix one isn't bad at all.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:54:39 PM EDT

[#17]

Used to have them a lot when growing up from cutting my nails too low. Now when i cut them too low and it digs in i put a piece of cotton under the corner and it lifts up the nail.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:56:14 PM EDT

[#18]

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:56:22 PM EDT

[#19]

People really have surgery for these? Don't be a pussy and shove something in there to pull the damn thing out.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:57:38 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Trick is don't wait till their sore as Fuk u can't touch them!

This. And deal with them like you mean it. I had to have the surgery when I was 14, when both corners of the toenail on my big toe became infected simultaneously. It wasn't as bad as a root canal, but still no fun.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:59:02 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

People really have surgery for these? Don't be a pussy and shove something in there to pull the damn thing out.

I'm no pussy. I would jam a flat edge all the way down to the base and twist the whole ingrown mess out. It would bleed like a stuck pig, and it sucked to do every five to six weeks. The surgery is fixes it right up so that I don't have to mess with it any more.

Posted: 6/7/2013 8:59:19 PM EDT

[#22]

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You guys are weird......

Fine.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:00:25 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

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You guys are weird......

Fine.

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy213/SAIGAMANTX/photo9_zps46946c86.jpg

Yeah that's no fun.

If you are in the Denver area I can refer you to my podiatrist, I like him a lot.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:01:47 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Picture

You guys are weird......

Fine.

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy213/SAIGAMANTX/photo9_zps46946c86.jpg

Two suggestions:

1: Cut that shit off.

2: See a doctor.

Edit: That fucker is infected.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:01:52 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

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Picture

You guys are weird......

Fine.

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy213/SAIGAMANTX/photo9_zps46946c86.jpg

Your big toe kind of looks like a thumb.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:02:11 PM EDT

[#26]

I used to deal with an ingrown toenail for the longest time. It happened from tripping the corners of the toenail too far back. In response I'd try to trim it back even further. Finally I just said fuck it and let it grow out. It healed on it's own and now I just don't cut the toenail all the way down on the corners.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:09:50 PM EDT

[#27]

I DARE YOU TO SMELL IT

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:12:06 PM EDT

[#28]

Make sure your shoes are not too tight in the toe area (big culprit in this).

Cut a "V" notch into your big toenails. Helps prevent ingrowns.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:17:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/7/2013 9:21:12 PM EDT

[#30]

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http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc111/bennnn-fromgunsites/toekin1-1.jpg

Smells like Sao Paulo.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:25:06 PM EDT

[#31]

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That needs some fire!!!!

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:25:19 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Make sure your shoes are not too tight in the toe area (big culprit in this).

Cut a "V" notch into your big toenails. Helps prevent ingrowns.

My dad always said this. I asked 2 different Dr's and they said its an old wives tale. If your nails are long enough to cut a V they are long enough to not get ingrowns

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:27:18 PM EDT

[#33]

If you didn't cut your toe nails so short that probably wouldn't have happened.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:27:50 PM EDT

[#34]

Whoops

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:28:53 PM EDT

[#35]

Had mine removed by the Doc. It has healed up nicely.

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:42:14 PM EDT

[#36]

I had surgery 5 times, get the side of the nailbead cut out!

My first two times they used silver nitrate?... Didn't work

Last ones, nail bead was cut down to the bone!

A true ingrown nail will grow in waves, adding to the side of the nail. And cuts threw the skin as it grows.
It's fun to watch the doc cut your nail down the center and pull it out, and not feel a thing.

Worked for me!

Ben

Posted: 6/7/2013 9:49:03 PM EDT

[#37]

Real men fix it with an exacto knife and bourbon. Then sober up the next morning with a limp and discover a murder scene in their bathroom. Not that I've ever done such a thing.

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:33:48 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Make sure your shoes are not too tight in the toe area (big culprit in this).

Cut a "V" notch into your big toenails. Helps prevent ingrowns.

My dad always said this. I asked 2 different Dr's and they said its an old wives tale. If your nails are long enough to cut a V they are long enough to not get ingrowns

You mean to tell me the free advice I dispensed here is worth exactly what the OP paid for it?

(The shoes not being too tight IS sound advice. It was given to me by my own doctor when I had an ingrown a few years back).

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:35:52 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Picture

You guys are weird......

Fine.

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy213/SAIGAMANTX/photo9_zps46946c86.jpg

That's the ugliest God damned toe I've ever seen posted here.

That's all I got.

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:38:16 AM EDT

[#40]

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Fingernails, and toenails are absolutely useless on modern humans. Why do we still have them?

to pick and flick boogers with.

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:46:21 AM EDT

[#41]

Had the "surgery" when I was younger. Didn't work. Hurt like a mofo.

Now I just nut up, douse the toe, cuticle scissors, and tweezers with rubbing alcohol and go to town. Cut straight back as far as you can towards the nail bed. Slowly start to pull out offending foreign body with tweezers. Can't emphasize "slowly" enough. If you break the nail and there's a tiny piece left, you're fucked.

You should pull out not just the nail but some soft tissue from the nail bed as well.

Douse several times w H2O2 until the fizzing stops.

Douse w rubbing alcohol

Let dry

Apply neosporin with a clean q tip

Wash 2X daily with warm water and soap. Repeat H2O2/alcohol/neosporin treatment.

It'll be GTG in a week.

The above is for demonstration purposes only. I am not a physician. I have performed this procedure several times a year on myself with no infection.

Sterilization of everything is of utmost importance.

YMMV

This is not medical advice

I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:55:44 AM EDT

[#42]

i've had the surgery 3 times now.

twice on my left big toe, once on my right big toe. each time the surgeon said, there was a 99% chance the ingrown nail wouldn't grow back. each time it did.

i've resorted to just doing it myself now. it's painful as shit, but free and i can get it dont quick now.

what i do is:

soak the shit out of my toe in a big bowl of hot water and epson salt. (get's it nice and clean and softens up the skin so you can make it more manageable

i have a few pair of tweezers 1.) a tweezer that comes to a thin pointed tip for digging 2.) a very stiff tweezer i need to pull the nail up once i have it 3.) a clipper if necessary.

i dig and grimace in pain until i find the piece of toenail thats grown away from the rest of the nail and give it a good tug.

Posted: 6/8/2013 7:59:19 AM EDT

[#43]

Had one at basic. They took me to sick call, had it removed, and then I had to run a PT test the next day. Hurt like a bitch and was bleeding through my damn shoe by the end of the run, but still ran under 15m

Posted: 6/8/2013 8:04:13 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

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Fingernails, and toenails are absolutely useless on modern humans. Why do we still have them?

to pick and flick boogers with.

Yeah, plus, sometimes you can use your thumbnail as a screwdriver in a pinch.

Posted: 6/8/2013 8:04:53 AM EDT

[#45]

Also: as others have mentioned, it hurts like hell the first few times you do the self surgery

If you squeeze the ever living fuck out of the toe with your other hand while you're cutting, you don't really feel it much.

Posted: 6/8/2013 8:08:09 AM EDT

[#46]

If any of you go to the doctors (unless your toe is massively infected and/or about to fall off) or have surgery, you are suckers. Man up and go to a nail salon and get a pedicure. Those little asian women will fix that shit up for you like it never existed and when you're done you get a sweet massage.

Posted: 6/8/2013 8:12:05 AM EDT

[#47]

worst part of having the toenail border permanently removed is the shot. I have done it to myself. In 3 weeks it will be healed and no more ingrown nails. (assuming you dont smoke and no Die-a-beat-us)
go see a podiatrist

Posted: 6/8/2013 8:13:47 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

If you didn't cut your toe nails so short that probably wouldn't have happened.

Once I learned how to cut my toenails, I never had a problem again.
1. Don't use large fingernail clippers. Toenail clippers are straight. If the blade on your clippers is curved, it is a large fingernail clipper, not a toenail clipper.
2. Don't cut too short. Let them grow out a bit.
3. Don't cut the edges. It causes the nail to grow that direction. Cut straight across, then use a file to soften the edges (careful not to over round.)