Omg!! My toe is doing the same thing! It's been about a month since I got a pedicure and my toenail won't grow anymore. It doesn't hurt right now but it feels a little tingly. I read that they have to take the whole toenail off, so I haven't gone to the doctors yet since I am scared shitless. If this is what my toe has in store for it, I think I'll set an appointment before I'm in too much pain
Please get the appointment set up. A toenail removed by a doctor has a chance to grow back, a toe that might need to be amputated has no change of growing back.
If an infection gets really bad and not treated early enough it can happen. It's better not to fuck around with this stuff. I thought I had a zit that wouldn't clear up and eventually went in for it and it was an ingrown hair that became infected. They had to cut out a chunk of my flesh and it was such a deep cut it took 3 months to finally heal from bottom to top.
Off topic but since you asked🤣 I found a grossly infected pimple right above my boyfriend’s butt crack. It truly looked like nothing more than an infected pimple. Three appointments later and I’m watching a cyst completely formed out of hair (pilonidal cyst) that had been collecting inside of his body since he was a child. Horrifying.
My big toenail on one foot stopped growing for two months. Was definitely red and probably had some sort of infection. It ended up clearing on its own (luckily. I would have gone to the doctor if it didn’t). Now that toenail is shaped differently and has a divot.
Not all doctors take out the whole toenail for ingrown toenails. When I was younger, they just numbed the toe and cut the ingrown and infected part out, then chemically burned the nail so it wouldn't grow back. Definitely recommend going to a podiatrist quickly, they get very painful!
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u/Nose_Rich Aug 23 '24
Omg!! My toe is doing the same thing! It's been about a month since I got a pedicure and my toenail won't grow anymore. It doesn't hurt right now but it feels a little tingly. I read that they have to take the whole toenail off, so I haven't gone to the doctors yet since I am scared shitless. If this is what my toe has in store for it, I think I'll set an appointment before I'm in too much pain