Behold my manky toe! PIC

[KrabbyPatties]

So.

According to a podiatrist, this isn’t fungal (no wonder if would never go!) but I’m is caused by bunion and pressure from overlapping ties.

Yet My toes don’t overlap.

I have always been highly sceptical of this diagnosis ....
how can this be the case?

Sorry photo attached

Perhaps it is psoriasis? I have a smaller patch on left big toe that I thought was fungal but doesn’t spread nor grow out and seems to be psoriasis

Sorry, can’t send a picture it is covered by nail varnish

Mine was like this all over! As mad as it sounds the only thing that appears to be working is putting vicks vaporub on it - the yellow bit is starting to go pink again

@AuditAngel

You’re a genius! I have psoriasis!

Psoriasis? How so.?
NB I have matching manly big toes. I've treated them for fungus and they've never changed. I've also done the vicks thing and nada.

MANKY! I typed manky, not manly!
DYAC.

My Dad has got a toe like this. It got so thickened that he was under the chiropodist but of course Covid put paid to that.

He is diabetic, and we just assumed that was why.

That's fungal.

The reason it 'wouldn't go'? Did the person go on at least 6 months of anti fungal tabs? If not a couple of years?

Slapping cream on it, say, won't cure that amount of fungal infection; you have to do it systemically. Via oral drugs.

Have a look at psoriatic arthritis. DH's toes are like this.

@Miljea
It’s not fungal, I had it tested, she was right on that

@TheSpottedZebra

Because I do have psoriasis, it never occurred to me that it could be nail psoriasis

I wouldn’t rush to take oral antibiotics Fungals like terbinifine. They’re incredibly slow to work, and the 12 months you’d be taking them they’ll probably damage your liver.

Have you had any clippings sent off for mycology?

That was meant to say “oral antifungals”.

Sorry, OP, my 'How so' was poorly phrased. It wasn't meant to imply that you're wrong or lying!
It was more a 'How has no one ever mentioned that to me and my manky toes, with my history of 'eczema' which could actually be psoriasis'

Both my large toes are similar and didn’t respond to anti-fungal topical thingies. I’ve a separate illness that means I cannot use the anti-fungal tablets. Interesting thought about psoriasis. I’ve had it mildly on my skin for years, on and off. I must find out more .....

[quote KrabbyPatties]@Miljea
It’s not fungal, I had it tested, she was right on that

@TheSpottedZebra

Because I do have psoriasis, it never occurred to me that it could be nail psoriasis[/quote]
How did she 'test' it, re fungal? How deep did she burrow that swab-on-a-stick?

I don't know about psoriasis at all, but that photo looks identical to mine, with a fungal infection.