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@Lindsays Grandma   When I was a child, I had one, and my Mother dug around so much that she caused a much worse condition, so I did have surgery, and have been fine since.  Maybe now, there is a better solution.

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Sounds painful! Don't recall every having that, but do know people who have and they end up going to the doctor and having it "dug out" and given antibiotics.

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@mousiegirl wrote:

@Lindsays Grandma   When I was a child, I had one, and my Mother dug around so much that she caused a much worse condition, so I did have surgery, and have been fine since.  Maybe now, there is a better solution.


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Ooh, I just felt a cringe go through my legs as I imagined your mother digging around your toenail. That hurts. 

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@mousiegirl wrote:

@Lindsays Grandma   When I was a child, I had one, and my Mother dug around so much that she caused a much worse condition, so I did have surgery, and have been fine since.  Maybe now, there is a better solution.


@mousiegirl 

Ooh, I just felt a cringe go through my legs as I imagined your mother digging around your toenail. That hurts. 


 

 

@Teddie   It was horrible!  I screamed, but she kept going, she paid for it because I was in the hospital for a week and underwent surgery, so now there is a thin nail growing on the inside of the toe nail so that it can never be ingrown, not noticible, but I have to cut it as I do the rest.

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@mousiegirl wrote:

@Teddie wrote:

@mousiegirl wrote:

@Lindsays Grandma   When I was a child, I had one, and my Mother dug around so much that she caused a much worse condition, so I did have surgery, and have been fine since.  Maybe now, there is a better solution.


@mousiegirl 

Ooh, I just felt a cringe go through my legs as I imagined your mother digging around your toenail. That hurts. 


 

 

@Teddie   It was horrible!  I screamed, but she kept going, she paid for it because I was in the hospital for a week and underwent surgery, so now there is a thin nail growing on the inside of the toe nail so that it can never be ingrown, not noticible, but I have to cut it as I do the rest.


@mousiegirl   You have my full sympathy!

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Why did she dig around and not take you to the Dr. right away?