Yesterday I had “surgery” for an ingrown toenail.

old drinking injury

Did she cut the root and burn it at the base? I’ve had to do that before, had one toenail that just never could grow straight. They cut it out at the base and burnt out the growth area so it couldn’t grow again

I tried digging it out, but my problem was way down by the nail bed. There were limits to my surgical skills and my pain tolerance.

I had a bad ingrown toenail and did my own surgery a few years back.

It hurt like shite doing it but you just have to dig the side out and keep the skin pulled back for several days until the nail grows out past where it was embedded.

Then a year later I dropped a bookshelf in a box on my big toe and the toenail popped of so that would have taken care of it too. That sure hurt. My shoe filled up with blood.

Did both my big toes in 9th grade. Best thing ever. I do have skinny toe nails now, but holy hell they hurt like a muther. All good now. That was a long time ago.

We had to do the same thing on our oldest, cleats over the years have done a number on his feet.

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never to return

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Don't be so sure.....I had thisdone in my teens and they were supposed to kill the nail bed. Sonuvabeech if a new and seperate nail did not start growing. Had a split nail for years until they started fusing back together

I used to be plagued with ingrown toenails. I would perform my own "surgery", but despite dousing the area and tools with alcohol before and after, it would constantly get infected. Puss, swollen flesh, bloody socks, the whole bit. Finally had the surgery and haven't had one since

I’ve had ingrown toenail “surgery” 4 times. One for each side of each big toe.

Before that I got them all the time.

Haven’t had one since.

My 6 year old is already starting to get them. Poor bastard got my toenail genes instead of his mom’s

I had one removed once, it was wild.