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Termyn8or -> RE: Ingrowing Toenail Operation (4/13/2010 10:46:23 PM)
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Mine grow in, but not too badly. They have a tendency to cover the front of my toes when I don't keep them down. I am lucky enough though that it takes a while for them to start digging in and actually I can usually grabe them just right and break them off. Of course they then need a bit of trimming. It has happened.
But if they grow into the skin right away the need more frequent maintainence. Why this happens is anyone's guess, but my sister's grow in the other way, in that the middle of the nail separates from the nailbed and it digs down in the sides. This is not a goos condition because it leaves the door open for infection. We are of the exact same lineage but have quite different diets, how much this is a factor is anyone's guess.
The main thing is maintainence I think. They want to grow into your skin, just cut them. Yes, research and try to figure out why, but proper trimming can at least save you a trip to the doc, in most cases. My buddy has such a problem. Dam, his toenails are smaller then I've ever seen. On the pinky toe it is about the size of a pea. But he must keep them that way or else. Another buddy of mine had then so ingrown that they started out ingrown, meaning that even the base of the nail was so embedded in his toe it was not funny.
I think tht part of this problem is exaserbated by wearing shoes. Seriously. And that is supported primarily by the fact that we are born without shoes. You wear what you want, but I have found the only shoes I find comfortable are the six buck cheapos when I can get them in my size. I don't want the arch support, we weren't born with arch support. The dirt has no arch support. But remember for decades my shoes came off before my coat, even in the winter. Yes I would carry 100lb. objects out to people's cars sliding on the ice and tromping through the snow in bare feet. I've walked miles in bare feet. I believe that it has helped my "foot health" quite a bit. I think that shoes are detrimental to foot health, even though they are a necessary evil. There are just some places you don't want to go without shoes.
What's more I have observed people's feet many times. They all seem the same, as if they grew in a confined space, like the roots of a plant in a small pot in a way. Smaller toes curled under, nails out of place, seemingly dragged down by whatever. My feet also exhibit such traits, but nowhere near as severe as some I've seen. It may also matter that I wear a 13 wide, and that might be just fine. Thinking about it I think most people wear shoes that are too tight. They don't know it because they are used to it.
Other people may be different, but I can't really wear sandals. I can get the biggest pair I can find and soon enough my toes will be falling off the edges. I mean my big toe on one side and my pinky toe on the other. My foot splays out, well beyond the 13 wide. But that's just me.
That's my two cents, just slide it under the door because by the time you get here I will either be sleeping or at work. If my shoes are here I am sleeping, if not I am at work.
T
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