Toenail fungus, please help me how can I get rid of it? Panicking

Autoimmune disease too and an opportunistic fungal infection took hold of two toenails during pregnancy. I've used Nailner 2 in 1 and it cleared out. It took months, but it worked.

www.boots.com/nailner-anti-fungal-nail-treatment-brush-5ml-10185577

I haven't RTFT but my husband had one for quite some time. He tried ALL the recommendations, he tried so many things people claimed worked but for him they didn't absolutely nothing.

Nothing worked until his GP prescribed him medication, pill form. I can't remember the name but he had to have a few blood tests to check his liver before treatment. It worked! Pretty sure it was a 6 month course but he now has a completely normal toe nail and has done for about 3 years now.

Lamasil is the best OTC cure

You don't specify your autoimmune condition, but nail changes like this can be due to psoriatic arthritis rather than a fungal infection, they can look very similar but the treatment is different

I've been using Margaret Dabbs Foot hygiene cream on elderly parent's fungus feet and it works well. The big toe nail is growing out normally now and is pink at the base. I rub it into the whole foot and then smother each toe including under the nail.

www.margaretdabbs.co.uk/foot-hygiene-cream/

Laser treatment from specialist podiatrist - Google for one in your area. Expensive and over 6 weeks but worked for me - btw treatment doesn’t hurt.

Remedy For Nail Fungus - onlinecheappills.com/nailroxeu.html I've only used Nailrox for less than 2 months and I see big results...the fungus was bad really dark then the nails started to come off. They are growing back clear and healthy.

I had antibiotics from the GP. They made me
feel awful so I didn’t finish the course (it was weeks long)! Must have done the job though as for the first time in years I have lovely toenails.

She doesn't recommend the tablets though.

My podiatrist puts it down to trauma. She said one of my feet is slightly longer than the other, pushing a couple of the toes into the top of the shoe, hence trauma and fungal nails. She files them down every few months so they look less unsightly and I paint them. Not that bothered.

Mine had sort of separated from the nail bed and I cut it all back as far as I could, which was pretty much the whole nail, then treated it frequently with OTC stuff. When it eventually grew back it was fine

The laser (at a podiatrist) was an expensive waste of time. Terbinarfine tablets did the trick for me.

there is a terbinarfine cream as well that GPs can prescribe

I know how you feel, OP, as I had the same. I saw a podiatrist who said he couldn't help and to see my GP instead. I made an appointment with surgery, and a week later, we went into lockdown, so I never actually got seen, and you can guess the rest. Prior to a podiatrist, I, too, tried tea tree oil, but it made no difference. In the absence of a GP appt, I did my own research and decided to try Amolfine or Curanel from Amazon. I followed the instructions for Curanel and, within six weeks, saw a huge difference. As it lessoned, I used Vicks alongside, so I would recommend Curanel as it certainly worked for me. Good luck, I sympathise as I know how distressing it can be.

Your house is not contaminated, you’re really over thinking this, I wonder if you need to talk to GP about OCD/ intrusive thoughts. It’s just some manky toenails not bubonic plague lovey

@disgustingandashamed it sounds to me like you might have contamination OCD. Do you think that could be the case?

I'm sorry, I didn't ask her, my nails are not really nice enough to paint and now a couple of them are cut right down so there's nothing to varnish 😳
I have another appointment next week, if I remember I will ask her!

FWIW I really do rate the Gehwol oil stuff as I'd dried my poor nails and cuticles right out with tea tree oil so the skin was sore and cracking.

@VeronicaBeccabunga thank you!
I take it using nail polish is a no no?

I'm sorry if this has been said up-thread...

I recently saw a chiropodist/podiatrist [privately] about this.
She said that often you can kill active fungal infection, but the damage is done and the issue is constant reinfection.

Her advice was:
Hygiene -wash thoroughly and dry very carefully - use a hairdryer on a low setting, clean socks every day.
Use Lamisil cream on the soles of the feet, between the toes and on the infected nails every day for a week.
Apply Gehwol nail oil daily [got this via Amazon] It's anti-fungal and way less drying than tea tree oil.
Very important: Scholl anti-fungus shoe spray on all the footwear in the house to avoid constant reinfection. [also got this off Amazon]

She has trimmed the thickened nails right down, it didn't hurt much and I think they do look better, but I'm resigned to this being a long job.

You need to cut out added sugar from your diet as this feeds the fungus - you will need to be fairly ruthless. If you then crave something sweet, have a bit of fruit but not grapes or dates. Then just rub a bit of tea tree oil or neem oil into your toenails every day. Then wash hands. Easy. Don't worry.

@Ewock try your local podiatrist and see if they offer this service. If you are london based then there is Margaret Dabbs clinic, website worth a check out regardless to see that’s out there!
@Confortableorwhat yes doctor confirmed years ago. I never took the tablets but the varnish but they’ve got alot worse and I’m really embarrassed. I put nail polish on as don’t want DP to see 🥲

Have you seen a podiatrist for a proper diagnosis? I had what I assumed was a fungal infection for years and treated it as such. That's probably what it was originally, but the podiatrist tells me it's "just" nail damage.

It doesn't look any better, but it's not going to spread.

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I have a couple of fungal nails. I don’t have any autoimmune conditions. I have never heard anyone dying of fungal nails, so I just ignore them, cover them with nail varnish during the summer, not in the winter as they don’t show with winter shoes. No one else in the house, DH mainly, has been infected.

Hi I've never heard of a medical pedi. CannI ask where you go for this thanks

Thanks all this post has been very useful .., am dreading the summer and will get a medical pedi before I go on holiday as I’ve left it too late!