Ingrown toenails - your counsel ? (Guzzi content)

[Pancake]

. Take a nail file ( i use a dremel with sanding drum) and file down the nail in the center from the cuticle all the way to the end of the nail, making it thin in the center about a 1/4" wide swath. the nail being thinner in the center will make both edges lift up and grow out, instead of digging in at the corners. I used to suffer from ingrown toenails until I started doing that trick. I just routinely when cutting my nails, file down the center section, and it kinda caves in, in the center a bit, but the nail edges will not grow inwards. 

Yes this works very well, immediately taking pressure off the sides. I don't file it quite so thin in the middle but this does work and is easy.

[gearman]

After reading this I went to a DPM and he did one toe.I was fearful of the big needle he stuck twice in the base of my toe.Snip and phenol poison and it was over.He sprayed first with something very cold while he stuck the needle in.  NO pain at all. wish I had done it thirty years ago.I have had no pain in 30 hrs. I called this morning and have a Tues. apt. to do the other one..

[normzone]

Wow - that's encouraging.

Friday morning I leave for AZ, then I'll deal with my toes when I return. I'm taking a camera and will craft a ride report when I return.

I have taken a dremel, then a file to my big toes based on advice above, but I can't really detect any response from that yet. Of course, my nails are so thick that I may need to be more aggressive.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 The real cure is this.

 


 Smarts a bit until it heals but I don't regret it.