My toe!

I thank whatever Gods are watching over me that I have never had an ingrown toe nail. Those are just nasty things. I am sorry that you have to undergo such a pain.

I wouldn't let anyone cut my finger nails even the ingrown.

Yes, I have! A little over a year ago, I had an infected ingrown toenail and wound up taking 4 courses of antibiotics for it before the doctor could do surgery on it, so I sympathize. It can be very painful. I couldn't wear shoes for quite some time and it was winter, so I couldn't go outside because of the snow. The foot doctor took off the entire side of the toenail and "killed" it so it wouldn't grow back. So far, so good. Not fun, but I'm glad it's done.

My husband cuts out his ingrown toenails all the time. I cut them before they get ingrown. Our ex-daughter-in-law had an ingrown toenail removed and the base of th e nail killed, or so she said. I never saw it.

My SIL has troubles with ingrown toenails quite often. I understand they can be quite painful. When she goes to the Dr, he cuts of part or her toenail. This is why my mother always use to tell us to cut your toenails straight across. She was a RN...so she has probably seen lots of people with sore ttoes. Hope all goes well for you.

I hate ingrown toenails. I have had quite a few. I normally let my feet soak in hot bath water and dig them out then. Doesn't seem to hurt as bad either.

I had one many years ago and I mean many Years lol I know they hurt very much I hope that your Toe is better and it does not happen again

I used to get them, when I was a pre teen. Never told my family, I figured they could not afford to take me to the doctor. I would end up jerking it out. Rinsing thhe swollen part with peroxide. That worked for awhile. When I was 21 I had it happen again. Again I pulled it out, then we went to the beach on a really hot day, and it made it all better. I guess I just resist seeing the doctors so much that I will do almost anything to avoid it. When I had the bunion surgery last year the doc said I should have had it done a long time ago, like when I was a teen. I used to stub that toe a lot and I am sure it was a cause of the bunions and the spurs and bone chip.

hi elicbxn oh yes I had one ingrown big toe and it was infected and I bumped it while we were sleeping in the basement of this familey who put us up for the fourth of July roundup.The sac of pus broke opne and the thing quit hurting luckily., My granddad was with me. So I had to wait til the day after the Roundup and got to' my foot doctor who did that he deadened my toe and did the cutting and when I got home and the numbing wore off I was ready for the pain pills. but I was young then and it healed in a couple of days. now It would take more than that.I am 84 and diabetic. I now have thismess on my leg and my referral has not come through so am calling my doctors office in the morning to find out where they sent it as it did not come to me here at Gold Crest. I also need to make a drs appt for my diabetic checkup next month.

i HAVE them all the time but try to keep the corners cut out before they get infected. tHAT DOES HURT TO DO THAT BUT IF I DON'T THEN I'M IN TROUBLE. oNE TIME I GOT SUCH A HORRIBLE INFEVTION & THE NAIL came out the end of my toe. I suffered w/that for weeks so try to keep them cut out so i don't have a mess like that gain. Hope yours continues to get better.

I just recently had my third and fourth toes done like that! Yep, I've had four ingrown toenails. Because they were getting infected so often, I had to do something permanent, so I had my big toes done a few years ago and the toes right next to my big toes done just recently, after the surgery on my neck. Each side of each toe had to have the nail bed killed. I was tired of the infections, the antibiotics, the pain always coming back so I had to do something permanent and I'm so very glad I did! The nails don't look terrific after this procedure but I don't care. It's funny but the doctor who just did the last two toes seemed very concerned about how I would deal with the nails not looking great after the procedure. I had to tell her, more than once, that I don't care what my nails look like; I'm at the age where comfort is placed WELL above looks. I just don't want pain anymore. I'm VERY glad I had this done. Oh, my oldest son had to have his ingrown toenails surgically fixed when he was in high school for the same reason... they kept getting infected.

Yikes! You poor thing! How are you feeling now?

I usually go to a nail salon and have them remove my ingrown. Usually if your ingrown was removed for the first time, you would have to maintain it. However, we should make sure that the stuffs that they use for your toe is sterilized. Another is that the person that doing it is an expert and taking every step of the cleaning very careful. I have an uncle who was diabetic and when he had his toe cleaned it was wounded and for some reason it spread all throughout his feet and the doctor have to remove his feet to avoid spreading it throughout his leg.

I've never had ingrown toe nails but my son did his senior year of highschool. It wouldn't heal even soaking it in salt water. The doctor ended up having to remove part of his toe nail.

well hope it gets all well from doing this. My hubby had them and someone told me to make and v shape in the middle and it would have to grow togethre and get rid of he ingrowing which I did and it got where he had no more ingrown toenails

I have ingrown toenails, one worse than the other. I have had the sides of my toe nails removed, both at the same time. It was very painful once the anaesthetic wore off and when the toenails grew back, there was no change. Both have a fungal growth under the nail now that I cannot get rid of. I've been dressing the nails for months and months with an anti fungal liquid, the nail is supposed to come off and the fungus is then supposed to die or something. It all looks very gross but nothing is happening. Hope you are pain free soon.

Ouch! I've never had to do that. My husband occasionally has problems with ingrown nails but never had to do that either. I know that does happen often though.

Grrr mylot did NOT post the response the first time I have a similar problem, for 2 years now. I was with a bus trip of 3 hours and slept in it with snickers on and one side of my nail was affected since then and it started hurting me. I visited a work doctor this year and he told me i should go to a surgent which i did not as i don't see WHY i should remove the WHOLE nail, when just a part is affected (the right side) and even that one is affected by what is under the skin not the nail - whatever. I visited a foreign general doctor in Greece and told me he has one as well, treated me with some substances and antibiotic and teached me how to do this myself, and advised me not to go unless it gets worse to have it removed. am i to understand that a doctor can just kill part of it and not all in order to fix it ?

I have never had an ingrown toe or finger nail. I hope I never do either. I hope that you are doing better now and that you have no infection.

Well, i experienced the same, where i had infection on my toe because of an ingrown, cut so deep by the pedicurist. I took an antibiotic for 7 days and after 7 days, the pus just simply dried out! From then on, i take care of my toenails myself, not a pedicurist anymore. Yours is a much more serious one. But am glad it didn't hurt that much when it was "operated " on.