Nothin' like toe surgury

[DeadOrAlive]

Ok so yesterday I had to get surgury done on my toe. I had a bi-lateral ingrown toenail with and severe infection.

I got this last summer, when I was at the beach and I stepped on a stingray, who's tail whipped back and stung the shit outta my toenail.

6 months later, and after following doctor's orders, it got worse (how gross.) So then I finally got signed to a pediatrist, and he ripped that sucker off my toe. Only thing that hurt were the 20CC's of numbing juice that came from a fatty surenge.

Didn't get to see the damage done until today, when I unrapped to find the fucking disgusting mess. It looks gross, but feels so better.

Why am I sharing this? Because it's fucking gross.

Pictures anybody?

[Dan]

Going Gross us out.

[Romeo Delight]

I can beat this story.

I too had an ingrown toenail, but the doctor who took mine out had expired local anaethestic or something.


There I was in the local family clinic, screaming my head off telling him to please stop.

He had the nerve to tell me to be quiet.

Unbelievable...this was a long time ago and he went bankrupt less than a year after that, probably from a malpractice suit.

[RuzDNailz]

Ingrown toenails also happen if yor toe gets runover by something heavy. Mine, for example, was pretty minor and it just needed to be jabbed with a needle and a bath in epsom salts. Thats my advice to anyone with a minor toe infection...yeah, the water is hot and burns like a bitch but it's worth it!

[Douglas T.]

I once had dentil braces and was jumping on the trampoline! A friend thought it would be funny to grab my feet and help me launch into a double backflip! The plan was to do it on the third bounce! She grabbed my feet on the second bounce thus causing me to hit my face with my knee. This impaled my two front teeth into my nose with braces attached. Ouch!
Had an ingrown toenail once too ... I feel for you!

[ThrillsNSpills]

Sometimes you have to just get out the needlenosed pliers and rip that sucker out by the roots.

the blood and pus will run its course

[FORD]

I had ingrown toenails in both of my big toes when I was a teenager. It had gotten so bad that the fucked up nails were growing out through the skin, and were constantly infected.

Putting on shoes was torture. I'd try to cut the damn things and rip out the mutant part myself, but it would just grow back.

Eventually I had to go to the podiatrist. After sticking a 4 inch long needle inbetween the joints of my toes to deaden it, he hacked up both toenails so only about the middle third of each nail remained.

It hurt like Hell for a few days, and was ugly until it healed, but I've never had another infection in either one.

In the end, it's worth it.

[Douglas T.]

Another thing that hurts ... and I say this from experience ... stepping on a red hot charchoal hard enough that melts its way to the bone of your bare foot! Ohh the pain! Took what seemed like a lifetime to get it loose from my foot too! Still nothing compared to those who get in car accidents and what not! I count my blessings there! Only about 15 accidents and no real injuries! But truly HANG NAILS are never any fun!

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by FORD
I had ingrown toenails in both of my big toes when I was a teenager. It had gotten so bad that the fucked up nails were growing out through the skin, and were constantly infected.

Putting on shoes was torture. I'd try to cut the damn things and rip out the mutant part myself, but it would just grow back.

Eventually I had to go to the podiatrist. After sticking a 4 inch long needle inbetween the joints of my toes to deaden it, he hacked up both toenails so only about the middle third of each nail remained.

It hurt like Hell for a few days, and was ugly until it healed, but I've never had another infection in either one.

In the end, it's worth it.

Pretty much explains me. Except the pain isn't bad at all, exept the damn 20CC's of numbing fluids

[ashstralia]

aah, you guys are wusses.

i've regularly operated on
me own ingrown toenails.


i'd love to try home dentistry, too!

[Dan]

Originally posted by ashstralia
aah, you guys are wusses.

i've regularly operated on
me own ingrown toenails.


i'd love to try home dentistry, too!

Is that after a couple of VB's?

[ashstralia]

Originally posted by Dan
Is that after a couple of VB's?

hahahah! no, dan!

you need to be able to feel the blade.

[Douglas T.]

Originally posted by ashstralia
aah, you guys are wusses.

i've regularly operated on
me own ingrown toenails.


i'd love to try home dentistry, too!

Are you the guy from the WOLF CREEK movie?

[blonddgirl777]

Originally posted by RuzDNailz
Ingrown toenails also happen if yor toe gets runover by something heavy....

Tell me about it!

X-Mas party 2004 (at Franksters), I decide to take off my excrutiating stilletos, so I can dance the night away like the crazy maniac I am...
Suddenly, a friend (6'3", 200 lbs) accidently steps on my big toe...
OUCH!!!
All I could think about was this ingrown nail shit, no painted toe nails in the summer, no sandals... no nail at all!
How gross!

I put back the shoes and suffered...
Trust me, I will never take them off, dancing around a bunch of drunks (on VH), at a party!

I got lucky... my nail just turned blue for a while and everything was fine after a couple months.

[ashstralia]

Originally posted by Douglas T.
Are you the guy from the WOLF CREEK movie?

heheh , no.

i can hook you up with an autographed dvd, though.