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I accidentally tore my toenail clean off. Fuck.

Who has gross fingernail/toenail loss stories?

JESUS FUCK

i get really bad ingrown toenails, so i've had crazy bad infections, had them removed with scalpels the whole 9. Every time they would bandage my toenails, the wound would scab into the gauze and i would have to soak my toes and tear off the healing scab. it's rough.

When I was 15 I wore shoes with a platform that were slightly too small for me for an entire day. This day included running for the bus a number of times. I guess the pressure and impact from running pushed my big toe nails back into the nail beds and broke them. I only really noticed that something was seriously fucked up when my toenails started growing out and they were only connected on the sides. It took forever for them to grow out and my normal, non-goblin toenails to come in. At one point I had this huge gap between the nightmare nail and the normal nail. Not pretty.

I get ingrown toenails so much that I don't even go to the doctor anymore, I just cut them out myself. It's amazing how much tolerance for pain you can achieve.

Best story though: about five or six years ago, I stubbed my little toe and broke the nail right off. Said "fuck it" ripped it the rest of the way out and moved on. Only, because I'm a fucking idiot, I didn't really do anything to take care of it. Three weeks later I passed out at work and ended up in the hospital with blood poisoning. That was a fun time. No. Really.

Have you guys who get ingrown toenails tried the "V" trick?

Andrew wrote:Have you guys who get ingrown toenails tried the "V" trick?

doesn't work for me. my nails are super brittle so they tend to break so that shit doesn't work for me.

weirdie wrote: pushed my big toe nails back into the nail beds and broke them. I only really noticed that something was seriously fucked up when my toenails started growing out and they were only connected on the sides. It took forever for them to grow out and my normal, non-goblin toenails to come in.

Damn!

Hollow wrote:Best story though: about five or six years ago, I stubbed my little toe and broke the nail right off. Said "fuck it" ripped it the rest of the way out and moved on. Only, because I'm a fucking idiot, I didn't really do anything to take care of it. Three weeks later I passed out at work and ended up in the hospital with blood poisoning. That was a fun time. No. Really.

Damn!

Crucified wrote:

Andrew wrote:Have you guys who get ingrown toenails tried the "V" trick?

doesn't work for me. my nails are super brittle so they tend to break so that shit doesn't work for me.

You ever try a nail hardener?

Andrew wrote:

Crucified wrote:

Andrew wrote:Have you guys who get ingrown toenails tried the "V" trick?

doesn't work for me. my nails are super brittle so they tend to break so that shit doesn't work for me.

You ever try a nail hardener?

nope, just nail polish to try.

posting in a nail thread!

I keep both my fingernails and toenails obsessively short. Basically to the point of just about bleeding. I like the feeling of any part of my nails "sticking out". I bite my fingernails and it's a bad habit. Every week or so, I'll attack my toenails with a pocket knife. Nail clippers creep me out. They would be ingrown if they had a chance to grow, and have gotten like that, but it works to just slice off the sides (sort of like that "V" thing I guess you guys are talking about). I have accidentally sliced off my entire nail on my pinky toe and the one next to it before. I just throw a bandaid on and it hurt to walk for a day or two. I am starting to realize that, as I write this, that I might be insane.

tylerp wrote: I'll attack my toenails with a pocket knife... I am starting to realize that, as I write this, that I might be insane.

Sounds about right.

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what is this V trick? i clip my toenails when i get bored and i get little ingrowns every so often.

stumped. wrote:what is this V trick? i clip my toenails when i get bored and i get little ingrowns every so often.

This doesn't work for everyone, but try cutting a slight V in the front center of your nail (but not so deep as to cause pain or bleeding). It should cause the outer corners of your nail to retract from becoming ingrown as the nail works to close the V in your nail.

Andrew wrote:

stumped. wrote:what is this V trick? i clip my toenails when i get bored and i get little ingrowns every so often.

This doesn't work for everyone, but try cutting a slight V in the front center of your nail (but not so deep as to cause pain or bleeding). It should cause the outer corners of your nail to retract from becoming ingrown as the nail works to close the V in your nail.

insanity!

I try to cut/file my nails often. Seems to keep away any ingrown crap from happening.

Jordan f. wrote:I try to cut/file my nails often. Seems to keep away any ingrown crap from happening.

Clean livin' man, clean livin' style.

Andrew wrote:

Jordan f. wrote:I try to cut/file my nails often. Seems to keep away any ingrown crap from happening.

Clean livin' man, clean livin' style.

This is obviously the fourth X in straightedge: good body care and grooming.

Hollow wrote:

Andrew wrote:

Jordan f. wrote:I try to cut/file my nails often. Seems to keep away any ingrown crap from happening.

Clean livin' man, clean livin' style.

This is obviously the fourth X in straightedge: good body care and grooming.

eat meat, hit the gym son!

Crucified wrote:

Hollow wrote:

Andrew wrote:

Jordan f. wrote:I try to cut/file my nails often. Seems to keep away any ingrown crap from happening.

Clean livin' man, clean livin' style.

This is obviously the fourth X in straightedge: good body care and grooming.

eat meat, hit the gym son!

Oh yeah, brah. Gonna eat some burgers, hit the heavy bar, do some siq reps brah. Gonna look fly for the ladiezzzzz.