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[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Jul 21 2005, 08:24 AM']Actually they use Silver Nitrate. My right big toe has had this done several times.


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it was a one time deal for me. It DOESN'T grow back from what I had done. My big toenails are probably about 20% skinnier than they were before.

 

[quote name='ambassador_josh' date='Jul 21 2005, 09:28 AM']this thread is worthless without Redbull


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more like, worthless without pics...

 

they used formaldihyde (sp?) or embalming fluid for the uninitiated on mine, I think I have some pics BEFORE the surgery..



Sean



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It's fuzzy I know, but all that black stuff is skin/tissue I could barely walk......and as for the crap, I hate small back country hillbilly doctors :P



Sean

 

[quote name='ambassador_josh' date='Jul 21 2005, 11:28 AM']this thread is worthless without Redbull


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Hey who changed my post?

 

The part on the right side where it looks flaked off is where some of the acid leaked over from the spot they were killin cells in.



And sorry for it bein nasty. I've been in flip flops all day.

 

I've noticed since I've had the surgery that my nail is ultra weak, it keeps cracking and breaking and it's growing back where they scraped and such, which ISN'T sposed to happen, so I guess I'll keep an eye on it and try to not cut my nails too short...



Sean

 

I have had my share of puss oozzing ingrown toe nails....The main reason, as told to me by a Jamaican dr. is that people (guys in general) tend to tear their toe nails instead of clipping them propperly. The nail has a tendency to grow towards where there is less nail. So if for some reason you tore the nail off and then it went deep and took out more on the left side, a couple days later it starts to grow down into the side of the toe.



Solution: Other than getting the nail pulled or your toe or foot cut off is to shave the middle of your toe nail down with a sharp knife or razor. start at the center of the nail towards the skin and keep scraping nail away until the center of the toe nail is really thin. You then back this up by cutting a call "V" at the end of the nail where you were shaving.



Sounds dumb but when your ******* big toe is throbbing like someone dropped a sledge hammer on it, you'll try anything. I have had my share of these things and that's how I took care of it....



THEN to keep them from coming back you cut your nail straight across...None of that semicircular BS..

 

AH YES the V technique...this is what I did actually.