How do you tell if it’s a ingrown toe nail? My toe hurts and it feels like the nail is poking it. But it looks normal to me.
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Ingrown toenail
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Can you see both top corners of the nail, or does the top edge of the nail go into the flesh without turning a corner? If it does, it's ingrown.
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What Pete said. I get the fuckers all the time. I've only had one that was bad enough I had to go to the doctor.
I haven't ever figured out how to get my nail to grow right so that it don't get ingrown. Maybe there's not a way.
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I've heard that if you pack a little cotton wool tightly under the corner you can make it grow in a better direction, but I have no personal experience.
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it's better now.
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Quote:I've heard that if you pack a little cotton wool tightly under the corner you can make it grow in a better direction I've actually had sucess with this method several times. It gets the corner of your nail from poking into the cuticle. The key though is to cut your nails so that you don't leave a corner to grown into the skin.
