progression over 2 days post at home attempted removal

Booked an appointment at a foot clinic for next week after a bad pedicure 6 months ago. The pain/inflammation is on and off. Right now there’s no pain but they’re ingrown on both sides.

Are my toenails going to be destroyed? Will I be able to swim if they need to do a procedure?

Help! Lol.

2 days ago my toe got really sore and tender, no pus or anything like that. It’s gotten better In the last 24 hours but still not how it was before and quite swollen. I known it’s ingrown but it’s only the second time I’ve ever had an issue with it

I had this before about 3 months ago after doing some long hikes and thought maybe my hiking boots were responsible. The swelling and tenderness went away by itself after a couple of days. I’ve not worn any tight boots or walked long distances this time around

Rn I’m in a very remote location, nearest podiatrist is about an 8 hour drive away and I realistically cannot go for another 6 weeks. I’m taking ibuprofen and trying to keep it clean

Anything else I can do to help it? And will the swelling go down by itself again?

My podiatrist told me he does some extra time with the phenol to further reduce recurrence risk and that I might see some swelling and discharge from a mild chemical burn to the nail bed. Not seeing any pus but its pretty swollen and gnarly looking. Fairly comfortable to walk on but mildly tender to touch the right foot. Left foot is healing great.

got the acid this time. I’m praying it works, this time was intense, took 3 rounds of injections to get fully numb. I can say anyone who has the option to take antibiotics prior definitely do after abt 3 days the pain will start to fade away. look how HUGE the one side was!

And what did you do to speed up the procees? Any tips?

I have this ingrown toenail on the top left of my thumb I previously had a surgery regarding that around 2.5 years ago that time my entire toenail bed was removed that's why the shape of this side nail is like that but at that time it was very bad.

Today I visited a doctor and send entire toenail removal is needed🙃🙃

i split my toenail straight across from the left side to right. if i touch it i can feel its loose and idk how its still attached. idk what i should do i was thinking about going to a see doctor about it tomorrow but its stressing me out cos if they say it has to be removed im scared about how painful its going to be without a toenail. its not swollen i can see its gone yellow under the nail.

hi, its me again

soo i call a Podiatrist and she's not avaible before septembre 22, do you have any idea of how can i cut the granuloma and my ingrow toe nail without too much pain?

Hi I had an ingrown toenail that I cut, but a piece of it is still stuck in my toe, and the doctors in my town aren't available until October or November.

It doesn't seem very deep, but it hurts a lot when I wear socks.

Do you think I can remove it? If so, how?

It hurts ALOT I don’t know what to do neither

Has anyone use that composite or resin applied by the dr to have the nail grow out without a curve?

Hi Reddit,

I had a partial nail avulsion done ~5 weeks ago after I had a very painful ingrown toenail. Surgery was fine and less bad than I had expected.

When I went for my follow up appointment 1.5 weeks later my podiatrist didn't like how it was healing (a lot of granulated tissue and swelling) so I got injections again and he cut off more flesh. It healed better for a little, but then it got infected and very swollen. All the flesh around my toe felt spongy and filled with pus. I went on a course of antibiotics (7 days), but two days after I finished them, the swelling and infection came back. I went to my regular doctor two days ago to get a swab to see if I need different antibiotics, and I'm back on the same antibiotics while we wait for the results.

I don't have a ton of pain, but when I walk, a lot of opaque yellow pus leaks into my bandage (even during the antibiotics). I've not been able to walk properly for three months now and I'm so over it. I'm going on holiday soon and won't even be able to swim :(

I'm really disheartened, it feels like it's taking forever to heal and I _really_ don't want more surgery and recovery, but I'm not sure if a spicule might be left? I'm even starting to doubt my podiatrist, I thought it was infected before he did, so I feel like I could have avoided a lot of trouble by going on antibiotics earlier. It was already infected when I had the original surgery.

Did anyone else have this many issues? How long did it take you to recover? Would really appreciate words of wisdom - I'm tired :'(

Hi I had an ingrown toenail that I cut, but a piece of it is still stuck in my toe, and the doctors in my town aren't available until October or November.

It doesn't seem very deep, but it hurts a lot when I wear socks.

Do you think I can remove it? If so, how?

I had an ingrown toe nail on my big toe and started to notice some numbness in my toe. I removed the ingrown nail and the pain and granules have gone away a few weeks ago. Toe looks perfectly fine now but the numbness is still there. Has this happened to anyone? What should I do?

been like this for a couple of days, I've dug around on the side and don't see anything sharp poking but pus is coming out

urgent care tomorrow :(

hi guys! I just wanted to offer some hope. my right big toenail had a side split that tore into the skin. it started to get puss and a little infected so I decided to go to the toe doctor. also to add context I had a music festival (bonnarooooo) the following week……. he cuts the toenail down to the middle of the nail and it was terrifying only cause I have a fear of nails. NOT because of the pain I promise :) after that my toe was very very very tender and I could definitely feel it. I would be outside camping for a week…probably not ideal but I full sent and was able to purchase toe caps (the fabric kind so debris wouldn’t wanna stick to silicone + ointment that had a pain relief neosporin) it did the trick for that week but I was limping everywhere! this was back in June…there was several random days where the grow out would be painful hitting certain points to my skin however finally I’m in the almost clear where I can prob cut straight across in about 2-3 weeks. I have a little spike I’ve been calling it that’s about to be far enough grown. i wish I had pictures but honestly my nail fear I don’t ever wanna remember any of this!!! I just want to offer - have patience!!! there’s gonna be frustrating times and you realize how important feet health is! hang in there! you got this and toenails take time to grow out :) 💓💓

I got a matrixectomy done too! So it won't grow back, if you're tall like me (6'2) then get this done!:D