Ingrown Toenails

Besides getting it removed there is some forms of treatment where you can try to put a little piece of like a cotton ball, like a little piece of a cotton ball underneath the toenail. You can use like some tool or something like that to stick underneath between the nails so it doesn't grow in that direction anymore. That's something at least I've seen. Something I would do is I would soak my foot in warm water with Epsom salt. It would kind of suck out all the toxins which helped it not get infected.

To treat it, I stopped running and it helped enormously. My foot felt a lot better. And I would also use lotion because I have dry feet.

If you catch it early on, you can usually treat it yourself. One thing that my parents or nurses would always do is they would clip out the part that was digging into the skin and make sure that that cut is straight after soaking the toe in water. And sometimes you can even soak your foot in water, which makes the toe and the toenail soft. And you can stick a cotton ball or part of a cotton ball under your toe and leave part of it poking out, but the other part is going to keep the toenail out of the skin. So that way it grows straight again and then you're able to clip it. But really it depends. I had to go to the doctor and they had to medically kind of deal with it because it kept happening over and over again. But usually if you catch it quick enough, you can do it yourself.

I recommend going to the doctor for it. I haven't had it personally, but what I did see in like an apartment when I was serving on a mission trip, one of the guys that I was serving with, he got an ingrown toenail and he just kind of like had to shape it and like help it grow in a certain way where later it became easier to kind of like cut it out. So going to doctor like managing pain with like over-the-counter stuff, but he ended up just kind of having to like work with it for a little while until it arrived at a place where he could remove it.

They chopped off parts of my toenail and they didn't even bother to make it even. So they're like totally like different sizes. So yeah like make sure you get your surgery right if you're going to get the ingrown toenail surgery. And they stuck her with a needle really hard without, I said oh it's not going to hurt and then they stuck the needle between two bones and like she screamed like crazy. Yeah so just don't do that. So then I had to do anesthetic.