how long will it last, without losing a finger?

Volvoboy

in work a month ago and i got my baby finger caught in the a car door, it got squished at the nail, now you can see the dead black blood in the nail, how long will it take to go away?

-VB-

Chad ghostal

obligatory 'this is not a medical board' response...


unless you're taking bets...in which case we'll need pics

uhm, I say 10-2 for saturday june 10th. And I wager a penny.

YeatsCounty

Give it another two weeks and that baby will have popped.

muletide

I remember this happening to me once and the pressure of the blood under the nail became excruciating. To make matters worse a "friend" convinced me that the only way to relieve the pain was to bore a hole into the nail with a red hot needle. I duly let him do this I have never ever ever felt anything like it.
It fell off two weeks later

Adam

Tenner on the nose of the nail of your baby toe, April 22nd. Just to spite your finger.

YeatsCounty

muletide wrote:

I remember this happening to me once and the pressure of the blood under the nail became excruciating. To make matters worse a "friend" convinced me that the only way to relieve the pain was to bore a hole into the nail with a red hot needle. I duly let him do this I have never ever ever felt anything like it.
It fell off two weeks later

Your "friend" was right though. The same thing happened to me last year, ended up crushing my thumb in a car door. I couldn't sleep that night due to the pain. Where your friend went wrong was the "red hot needle" approach. Sure it's effective but I don't really want to heat up some of my blood with a hot piece of metal. Much better to let a doctor bore a hole in the nail and drain the blood out that way.

Dac51

Happened to me before with my index finger nail on right hand. 2 weeks later I brushed the same finger off a door frame and it came loose, although it was half hanging off (the nail that is). Cue doctor and small pliers, a quick tug and hey presto - nail is gone and replaced with squishy wet flesh (pardon the expression):D

Took another month for the nail to grow back fully.

ChityWest

I had that once years ago the finger beside the little one got the tip caught in a very heavy door (deifinitely one of those Ouchee moments ) - the nail went purple then black and it eventually fell off. Not very nice but it grew out in a month or so.

smemon

caught my baby finger in door hinges as a child (a heavy door too, back yard door) top of it was 3/4's sliced right off and it was literally hanging on!

lucky enough i got it stitched up after months of hospital visits and it's grand now, although you can still see the mark and the top of my finger is a bit fat lol.

so no, i wouldnt recommend getting your finger caught in a door. but they say time is the greatest healer of all, so just hang on in there

[Jackass]

My nail fell off when I got a door SLAMMED on my finger when i was a kid. Where's child services when you need 'em, eh? :rolleyes:

The nail fell off about two weeks later and the finger was all black and bruised...it's freaky having no nail and being able to touch the skin underneath, which, by the way, is scaley and weird to the touch...eccch, never again (I hope)

The_Conductor

I currently have one broken finger, a load of tissue damage and two nails that look as though they are some sort of sadistic modern art...... The palm of my left hand is badly bruised as are the last two knuckles (teaches me to be more careful on stairs in future.......)

Just because your nail is black does not mean that it will fall off. The blood that has coagulated beneath your nail will most probably have lifted your nail from its bed, but as the nail regrows from its apex it will once again be reattached to the bed. The nail only tends to become dislodged when the apex from which it is growing is damaged (and even then it normally repairs and regrows a nail in 4-6 weeks (depending on the person and the extent of the damage).

If you are worried about your nail- go to see your doctor. Otherwise in keeping with the previous posters- I'll put a 7/2 on your nail not falling out at all.....

astrofool

I had my thumb walloped when breaking apart an old cupboard, about 1cm down from the cuticle. When the nail grew through, there was a hole in it where it had been hit. It took about 6-7 months for the nail to fully grow through and be normal again.

johnp

Deleted User wrote:

uhm, I say 10-2 for saturday june 10th. And I wager a penny.

10-2? Not interested, gimme 5-1 and I'll take the odds.....