08-07-2020, 02:57 PM
Okay so...
There's a forum with a thread about exactly what happened to me...
http://foot-health-forum.com/index.php?t...pain.83683
Thank. Fricking. GOD. For that fucking thread because it was LITERALLY THE ONLY place that I found ANY information about this.
TL;DR? Every doctor they went to was totally fucking clueless about what the fuck was going on. TOTALLY USELESS.
I haven't read though the thread in months obviously but the crux of it is that the cuticle gets damaged either by an injury to the toe or by a bad pedicure (in my case) where LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT you "push the cuticles back" (NEVER AGAIN).
I dunno if it was definitively stated on that thread enough that it is ALL ABOUT DAMAGE TO THE CUTICLE. That is the ABSOLUTE CAUSE. Period.
Toenail stopped growing? Cuticle disappeared? Pain around the cuticle area and sides of toenails? Redness? Mild swelling?
THAT'S WHAT IT FUCKING IS MAN.
DON'T DAMAGE YOUR CUTICLES, OMG DON'T DO IT.
It can probably happen on fingernails too, no idea.
It's basically like paronychia, sorta like a chronic version of it, only there really is no redness or puss that ever REALLY happens ON the cuticle area from my experience...
So it IS NOT "regular" (or chronic) paronychia, technically.
It's something else they don't even have a name for.
So what ultimately happens??
The old toenail STOPS GROWING, and a new toenail forms beneath it and eventually pushes the old one up as it grows over the course of 6 months or how ever long it takes for a toenail to grow out completely.
When the new nail starts forming and growing, a HUGE ridge will develop at the bottom there, and that's what was the bottom of the OLD toenail.
Now I don't have enough growth of this new toenail to tell you anything about thickness differences or anything else... but from what I've read?? Those new toenails are never as thick or strong as the old/original one used to be.
And in that thread, some people state that the new toenail will grow out, but eventually "the cycle repeats" and they go through this whole missing cuticle, old toenail death process AGAIN. Now, logically, I cannot see any reason this would happen if there wasn't repeated damage to the cuticle. I think they must be doing something to it, whatever caused it in the first place for them... they must be repeating that and not making the connection.
That's why I think it's so crucial that everyone know this is ALL ABOUT THE CUTICLE, and absolutely nothing else.
There's a forum with a thread about exactly what happened to me...
http://foot-health-forum.com/index.php?t...pain.83683
Thank. Fricking. GOD. For that fucking thread because it was LITERALLY THE ONLY place that I found ANY information about this.
TL;DR? Every doctor they went to was totally fucking clueless about what the fuck was going on. TOTALLY USELESS.
I haven't read though the thread in months obviously but the crux of it is that the cuticle gets damaged either by an injury to the toe or by a bad pedicure (in my case) where LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT you "push the cuticles back" (NEVER AGAIN).
I dunno if it was definitively stated on that thread enough that it is ALL ABOUT DAMAGE TO THE CUTICLE. That is the ABSOLUTE CAUSE. Period.
Toenail stopped growing? Cuticle disappeared? Pain around the cuticle area and sides of toenails? Redness? Mild swelling?
THAT'S WHAT IT FUCKING IS MAN.
DON'T DAMAGE YOUR CUTICLES, OMG DON'T DO IT.
It can probably happen on fingernails too, no idea.
It's basically like paronychia, sorta like a chronic version of it, only there really is no redness or puss that ever REALLY happens ON the cuticle area from my experience...
So it IS NOT "regular" (or chronic) paronychia, technically.
It's something else they don't even have a name for.
So what ultimately happens??
The old toenail STOPS GROWING, and a new toenail forms beneath it and eventually pushes the old one up as it grows over the course of 6 months or how ever long it takes for a toenail to grow out completely.
When the new nail starts forming and growing, a HUGE ridge will develop at the bottom there, and that's what was the bottom of the OLD toenail.
Now I don't have enough growth of this new toenail to tell you anything about thickness differences or anything else... but from what I've read?? Those new toenails are never as thick or strong as the old/original one used to be.
And in that thread, some people state that the new toenail will grow out, but eventually "the cycle repeats" and they go through this whole missing cuticle, old toenail death process AGAIN. Now, logically, I cannot see any reason this would happen if there wasn't repeated damage to the cuticle. I think they must be doing something to it, whatever caused it in the first place for them... they must be repeating that and not making the connection.
That's why I think it's so crucial that everyone know this is ALL ABOUT THE CUTICLE, and absolutely nothing else.
