Ingrown toenail help!

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Sorry for the grim topic bjt
desperate

My big toenails grow downwards at the sides - involuted.

Occasionally they become painful and I trim them and cut the corner to relieve the pressure and this usually works but this time it keeps coming back and there is there nothing now to trim or an obvious nail spike. I bought a tiny file to file the edge, and a tool to clean underneath and some decent nail pliers and throughly cleaners the nail and used some Gerwhol solution. I seemed to remember a chripodist using this years ago. It is better today but I known the pain will be back soon.

I don’t want a nail avulsion. Is there anything else a podiatrist will do? Can they see if there is nail spike without a partial avulsion.

awkwardly I have gel polish on toes at the moment so have to wait u till that is removed on Tuesday.

Fellow sufferer here! I know see a podiatrist every 4 to 6 weeks to keep things under control. She is very good at removing the "spikes". I have had to give up pedicures unfortunately.

@Southeastlondonmum2they don’t remove the whole nail? Or do they somehow dig it out?

I can’t bear the u of not having a toenail!

Happy to go pedicure free. I can always just use normal polish

I had ingrown toenails for years, but a podiatrist sorted them out; I didn't have any toenails removed either. I now go every other month for maintenance. Make an appointment and see what advice you are given - good luck!

@Knittedfairies2 I will
do that! Thanks

the are so minor but so bloody painful and debilitating!

a chiropodist/podiatrist won’t necessarily remove the whole toe nail. I had this years ago, and after a bad experience of having a GO remove a toe nail was terrified of having that done again. but after repeated visits to the chiropodist, she permanently removed a thin bit of toe nail from down the side which totally solved the problem

Was that permanent? Does it look ok?

How awful your first experience sounds. I’m sorry that happened to you

yes, it’s permanent. they take a sliver of the nail from the side, so you don’t get the spikes, and they put some chemical on to stop the nail growing back.
done by a chiropodist it was fine. was 20 years ago now and before then was going to get spikes removed every couple of months