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Never had this problem. I have that annoying little nail splitting out from my little toe. Gets snagged on socks all the time.
To anyone who gets this:
do not let the podiatrist convince you to do the partial removal. Ask your podiatrist if a full nail avulsion could be preferable to a partial avulsion if minimizing chance of reoccurence is the most important factor to you. Ie, removing a tiny strip from one or both sides of the nail. It is HIGHLY likely it will get bad again. Have them do a full phenol cauterization and remove the entire nail. You dont need it, and you’ll be better off without it. However, I’m no doctor.gives medical advice explicitly in opposition to a hypothetical doctor
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Your personal experiences with procedures are valid, fam, you can just say it didn’t do you or a friend any good and you wish you’d done something else instead.
Fair, edited to bring the final choice back to podiatrist.
i went to a surgeon with mine, he just cut stuff out. didnt even mention the existence of cauterization. so y’know, depends on the doctor you find.
i suffered along for a while more until i found out about it. had to go to a private clinic and pay a lot of money for it, of course, but so far it seems to have worked. we’ll see. i’ll consider it fixed if i go a whole year without problems. i’m at 6ish months atm.
you can probably get away with having a strip cut out, as long as they cauterize the matrix. just cutting a strip out is useless, it’ll grow back exactly the same.
alternatively, just reach in there with a pokey thing and pull that fucking nail out. about once every month or two. forever. yum. ask me how i know.
