What to do about an ingrown toenail??

[dballer]

Get it over with. Cut it out.

 

[Frackal]

I will but I'm eating a meal and I have to leave for work soon.

 

[Michael Gigante]

If you had clear fluid come out then you have an infection, and chances are that you have reached the point of no return - - have a doc treat the nail. I had an ingrown nail for a better part of a year - - I messed with it on a weekly basis and the bastard never healed. Trust me when i say that 30 minutes in the doctors office and I was running a 10K three days later with no pain.

 

[JohnnyO]

ewwww!

 

[Lao Tzu]

i had an ingrown toenail. the doctor doesn't laugh at you for it. he may try to rip you off though (mine did, the asshole).


if it is a long term one (one that will not go away when you cut it) what they do is this. at least they did this for me.


1. put you on a course of antibiotics to clear up the infection around the nail.

2. anesthatize the toe, then cut the edge of the nail out

3. put acid on the edge of your toenail to kill off all the cells that would let your toenail grow out sideways again.

 

[dimitrios]

Place your toe into a cigar cutter and let it fly

 

[theoak01]

this is what my doctor told me to do,dig it out and put triple action polyspourine on it or some other kind of anti bacterical onitment,mine was gone in about a week