ingrowing toe nail...

legs11

any souls here had to get their nail off? mine was driving me nutz and a guy in tallaght took it off yesterday, 200e thou, how can they charge so much to take off a nail?

6th

Listen dont complain, I got 2 done and am left scared to bits. I really had it bad and christ did I bleed.

Unlucky me also has a problem with locals in taht they dont work. I got 3 in one toe and 4 in the other ... and it still wasnt completely numb!

MonkeyWrench

Ouch!
200e is very steep, sounds like a ripoff to me. Did you get it done in hospital or your GPs surgery?

I had a similar problem about 4 years ago while backpacking in Australia. It was one of the worst pains I have ever felt, before was bad but it was actually worse after I had it done for a couple of days. As far as I remember over there I only paid for the painkillers which I took for a few days after so the whole thing only came to about a tenner or so. Ireland is ridiculous for medical expenses. I'm in the UK now and I would get that done for free and have to pay about 6 quid for drugs.

6th

I actually had a splinter of nail grow out through the pad of my big toe!

DaBreno

Do you need it off? I went to a Chiropodist a couple of years ago for €120, she cut down the side of the toenail to remove the ingrowing part. It grew back properly, no problems since. (she did say, that if it grew in again, it would have to come off. Ow!)

Pighead

6th wrote:

Listen dont complain, I got 2 done and am left scared to bits. I really had it bad and christ did I bleed.

Unlucky me also has a problem with locals in taht they dont work. I got 3 in one toe and 4 in the other ... and it still wasnt completely numb!

Fcuk that 6th, the lad has every right to complain.

What if Pighead got his left testicle ripped off and shredded to pieces by a barbed wire fence. Would it be wrong for me to weep my fcuking eyes out just because Johnny No Balls down the road got both his ripped off in a freak accident with a food blender back in 96? Would it fcuk.

Don't mind him legs, cry all day buddy. Pighead won't judge you.

6th

Hey Pighead, 6th just knows that he would gladly have paid €200 to get it removed before all the pain and suffering.

Dr_Teeth

How much! :O I get ingrowing toe nails from time to time, all you need do is grit your teeth and dig them out with a pair of tweezers..

Jamey

I've had an ingrown nail 5 or 6 times. Got the side of it cut out the first few times but it just came back ingrown again. I think its underestimated how painful an ingrown toenail is! Try having one out on a dancefloor or at a music gig. When someone steps on your foot the pain is unbelievable! Anyways, in the end, my GP just cut out a little bit of the side of it where it was ingrowing as usual, but this time put some kind of acid stuff on it so it wouldn't grow back and I haven't got one since! My toenail basically looks the same, theres just a tiny tiny bit that doesn't grow and that stops me from getting them anymore!

Dr_Teeth

Dr_Teeth wrote:

How much! :O I get ingrowing toe nails from time to time, all you need do is grit your teeth and dig them out with a pair of tweezers..

Yes and preferably drunk to numb the pain!

I can't recomend it, but it worked for me!

universe777

i had 2 a couple of years ago, one on each of my big toes,at different times..
i spent a bit going to the chiropodist,he got rid of one of them,but the other one kept coming back.
the pain was excruciating,i reckon it would be like piece of glass in your foot when you're walking.
so i went to my gp for a referral to a hospital and got the nail taken off under local anaesthetic..
It cost me the standard hospital fee of 55euro..

User45701

u think u all had it bad when i was 15 i had to get mine taken off but i forgot about the appointment and went heavy boozin with friends and got home about 8am sat morning , had to leave to get it done 2 hours later there was so much drink in my system the anesthetic didn't work... Ow is all i can say

Sofaspud

I've been suffering from these for almost two years now.

I've had one on my right foot for ages, that I managed to remove myself last year, but it grew back. Then I had one on both sides of the big toe on my left foot, but I managed to fix that, and now I have one in both sides of my right big toe. I dig at it occasionally with a nail scissors, the outside-of-toe one isn't too bad, but lately the skin around the inside one has been really sensitive, so I can't pick at that as much.

I simply don't want to go to the doctor about them.

legs11

i rung a toe dude in the city as well near stephens green, also 200e to remove a nail. seems like a standard price.
they put acide on the roots to stop that part growing again,
i did a diy job the night before with peroxide and it hurt like byjasus, but i left a small bit down in the bottom, to get that out he had to get me injected, and since i was numb he took the nail off .

i had to get it off, it was constantly bugging me, i dont care what he wanted. i told him take that bastard off......

6th

Chicks dont get these do they? (or fart)

petes

legs11 wrote:

i rung a toe dude

Is that under "t" or "d" in the Golden Pages?

RuggieBear

i just dig the in growing part out myself and rip it off.

Hurts like hell but therapeutic too:eek:

Green_Martian

6th wrote:

Chicks dont get these do they? (or fart)

LMFAO:D

I had 2 before 1 on each big toe, went about getting it dobne in the Hosp but i was waiting ages to be called for an apointment.....in the end the pain was so bad i just did the job myeslf with some scissors and a nail clippers.............Trust me you don't need to be drink doing it as the overall pain of having one numbs you.....lol...was a bit sore after doing it and was thinking i shouldn't have doen that....but they are both gone and have not returned.........;)

A few weeks after the DIY job guess who called........you got it the Hosp saying they had an appontment for me the following week...never went..lol

Sleepy

No one else ever heard of simply cutting a V in the centre of the toe-nail?

The nail grows to fill in the gap, thus pulling itself away out of fleshy part of your toes.

Pighead

6th wrote:

Chicks dont get these do they? (or fart)

Pighead can verify that chicks definitely do fart.

Whenever I was bold as a kid, me mam used to call me over and order me to lie face up on the floor. She would then proceed to sit on my face and wriggle about a bit before letting out the most tumultuous of farts.

Looking back, Pighead was a pretty good kid for the most part.

6th

Never heard of that Sleepy ... where were you when I was suffering!? I think I might try sueing you for withholding that information.

JohnCleary

When I was younger I had 2, one on each big toe. I was too wimpy to go to the Doctor so just dealt with them. It wasn't until I broke my finger playing rugby and had to get an operation on it that anything happened. While they were doing the surgery on my finger, they also removed the 2 ingrown nails! They removed the whole root, so instead of a nail, I have something else (hard, looks like a nail, but isint a nail) on my toe! I'm so glad I got it done, no more pain!

stovelid

had one taken off years ago when in Barcelona. Didn't really feel it (until the local wore off) but the only thing I remember was the gross feeling of him doing that scraping thing

Didn't pay for it as far as I remember. Just showed the EU health cover form, whatever it was called in those days.

legs11 wrote:

any souls here had to get their nail off? mine was driving me nutz and a guy in tallaght took it off yesterday, 200e thou, how can they charge so much to take off a nail?

stovelid

They do. My sis claimed to have one. The fart bit cannot be verified.

6th wrote:

Chicks dont get these do they? (or fart)

fifib

us girls certainly do get them!
got mine years ago after going to chiropodist for treatment for a verruca. she decided to cut my nails aswell and went way too short. as result of her f*** up i spnt next 2years in agony with ingrown toenails. my poor doc, bless him, tried so hard to do what he could to treat them (used to scream clinic down in agony) but in end had to get surgery - local anaesthetic and they cut the nail down the outside side of each of my big toes. wasnt that sore, remember the surgeon was crossed eyed tho n thinkn oh great, ill be lucky to come out with any toes! hehe can only notice it on one toe now tho. spent years paranoid of my feet tho...still am a bit i guess. still see that b**ch of a chiropodist round the town (galway)...some day ill say sumit to her i swear!!

eirebhoy

My toenail has only recently grown as normal for the first time in 2 or 3 years. It was read and absolute torcher for all that time and I must have got it removed 3 times only for it to grow back. All I did was go to my GP. He phones up a clinic in Baggot Street and about 2 weeks later they will remove it there free of charge (because you were referred by a GP). If your GP is anyway decent he won't even charge you and you just give him a tip.

The first time I got it removed I thought I'd be fine to walk home from Baggot street. When the anaesthetic wore off I'd probably have preferred to have been shot in the foot. I had to sit on a step and wait for my brother to collect me.

€200 is crazy.

DublinWriter

Pighead wrote:

What if Pighead got his left testicle ripped off

Now that I'd pay €200 for.

Rebeller

Sleepy wrote:

No one else ever heard of simply cutting a V in the centre of the toe-nail?

The nail grows to fill in the gap, thus pulling itself away out of fleshy part of your toes.

I heard about that from me mammy who heard about it from her mammy and so on... It's worked like a charm for me any time I've had an ingrown but might not be suitable for severe cases.

I recommend softening the nail in warm water before cutting the V and cutting it as deep as is comfortably possible.

Sizzler

€200 is spot on. I've had one and they are nasty aul yoks....in fairness if it gets too far then you would be in so much pain you would pay twice that !

Also dont forget if you have spent a few quid more over the year to keep the receipts and claim the tax back in Jan 2007

joebhoy1916

I had them before really bad.

Jusr let it grow long and cut a v in the middle of your big toe.

leche solara

Sleepy wrote:

No one else ever heard of simply cutting a V in the centre of the toe-nail?

The nail grows to fill in the gap, thus pulling itself away out of fleshy part of your toes.

That only works when the ingrowing hasn't gone too far.
If it gets seriously ingrown cutting a V is a waste of time

Pighead

DublinWriter wrote:

Now that I'd pay €200 for.

You'd pay money to see a good looking bloke get his soft tender taut testicle ripped off? My word DublinWriter, Pighead has long admired your forthright, intelligent, thought provoking posts but thats just sick. (and ever so pervy)

Sigh, just when I thought I'd made my first internet friend. Ah well, back to the drawing board.

datk

I suffered for years coz I was afraid of needles!!!! finally went to a chiropodist, he tried to old cutting down to sides to encourage it back out. No budging - went in to get the two sides taken off. Looking at the toe it looks like a normal nail but if you look closely you can see it doesn't go down the sides at all.

Got it free on the VHI and didn't feel a thing during or after the procedure. But then you probably don't want to hear that!!!

Sounds like you were particularly unfortunate. If anyone else is putting off getting one seen to my advice is do it. I went through agony for months because I was a scaredy cat. That pain was worse than getting it removed.

Capt'n Midnight

MonkeyWrench wrote:

Ouch!
200e is very steep, sounds like a ripoff to me.

imagines the sound of a nail being ripped off :eek:

Like that joke about the dentist where yer man complains that he's to pay €200 to extract a tooth and it's like 10 seconds work. To which the dentist replies, "I can do more slowely if you wish".

mad m

RuggieBear wrote:

i just dig the in growing part out myself and rip it off.

Hurts like hell but therapeutic too:eek:

Remember now to keep them and let them go hard on fireplace mantle...They are great for picking the steak out of your teeth on a sunday.....Uggggh!:D

Chakar

JohnCleary wrote:

When I was younger I had 2, one on each big toe. I was too wimpy to go to the Doctor so just dealt with them. It wasn't until I broke my finger playing rugby and had to get an operation on it that anything happened. While they were doing the surgery on my finger, they also removed the 2 ingrown nails! They removed the whole root, so instead of a nail, I have something else (hard, looks like a nail, but isint a nail) on my toe! I'm so glad I got it done, no more pain!

Ah thats pretty cool.

User45701

Sleepy wrote:

No one else ever heard of simply cutting a V in the centre of the toe-nail?

The nail grows to fill in the gap, thus pulling itself away out of fleshy part of your toes.

Dosent always work

eirebhoy

Sizzler wrote:

€200 is spot on.

I don't understand how I can get it done for free in Baggot street yet others get charged €200. Who are they paying this €200 to? It's a simple job for a doctor.

RuggieBear

eirebhoy wrote:

I don't understand how I can get it done for free in Baggot street yet others get charged €200. Who are they paying this €200 to? It's a simple job for a doctor.

some dr's charge more for minor surgical procedures

netwhizkid

I had ingrowing Nails and made the summer of 2002 an absolute nightmare. I got them on both feet simultaneously and both my big toes were as sore as heck.

My first course of action when the one on my right big toe developed was to see a chiropodist and she trimmed it up nicely and cured the ingrowing nail on my right leg. But whatever she did to my left big toe (I left her clip my nails too) it began growing in and about two weeks later my left big toe was aching and my right one had started ingrowing too.

Anyway my toes were killing me mid June and I was limping and could not walk right. I went rooting at them myself then with scissors, stanley knife blade and a razor blade. I pulled out a bit of nail and then proceeded to wear sandals for the next week in the hope that exposing my toes to the air would help them heal quicker, my right toe got infected and it began ooze pus and smell rotten. My left toe continued sore and ingrown but did not get infected.

I then went to my doctor and he performed this on both my toes, after injecting me with local anaesthetic. It was the sorest thing ever as the anaesthetic only sort of half worked. Cost €20 To the OP €200 sounds like lunacy you were robbed mate.

Anyway after about 3 weeks of recovery my feet were fine until about a month later when both flared up again. I went back to my doctor and he performed the same procedure as above on both toes twice again. €20 again After 3 weeks my toes were cured and my right big toe has never bothered me since.

But bloody hell my left Big Toe grew in again about another month or so later, so my doctor scheduled me for surgery at Bantry Hospital in Cork, so after about maybe a month waiting I went in for it mid-September and they injected my toe and split the skin down the left side of the left toe and performed the same sort of procedure as above but instead ripped out the roots on the left side and used one stitch. Surgery cost €26.

It worked fine but the pain after the anaesthetic wore off was about my second worst pain ever, (after cramp). I have didn’t have problems with it since although for about a year after I experienced some sort of phantom pains where I could feel the ingrowing toenail event though it was fine. I never had trouble with them since except a week later as I was limping up to the top of the Canal End for the 2002 Kerry V Armagh All-Ireland Final when some 20 stone Armagh oaf stood on it (having forgot my steel toe capped boots) and the pain was excruciating as it tore the stitch through the skin and separated the partially healed flesh. To make things worse Kerry lost the final and I had to limp all the ways to Heuston Train Station. More reading here

I have a problem now on my finger and it like an ingrowing finger nail and it is very sore and irritating. My parents call it a quip or a "wicklow"?? Anyone got any info on this??

ArthurDent

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

imagines the sound of a nail being ripped off :eek:

Like that joke about the dentist where yer man complains that he's to pay €200 to extract a tooth and it's like 10 seconds work. To which the dentist replies, "I can do more slowely if you wish".

Ouch! Very true
Sufering from an in-growntoenail myself at the monent and trying to pluck up courage to have something done about it, but am fed up with my rubbish diy efforts at sorting it out

Töpher

Between the two big toes, had them removed 13 times when I was younger. Every time presented new problems, growing at bad angles, ibad nfection in the bone in my toe which was spreading (needed radiology or something - my family weren't allowed near me and I was kept in isolation - drastic for a toe!), etc. Still vividly remember some spa of a doctor not believing me when I was saying how sore it was, he tore it off without anasthetic (he actually got my mum to pin me down! :eek:), infection underneath was so bad puss literally shot out to the walls. Another time when it was growing back it didn't seem to stick to the rest of my toe properly, so when I turned over in bed one night, it got caught and tore off - messy!

Still messed up looking now, but they don't hurt at all. Really thick nails, and some parts are fenalised, and they shatter to the base when I cut them (thankfully its only about once a year, as it takes ages to regrow).

cozmik

ArthurDent wrote:

Ouch! Very true
Sufering from an in-growntoenail myself at the monent and trying to pluck up courage to have something done about it, but am fed up with my rubbish diy efforts at sorting it out

Get some Scholl toenail softening solution,I find it really good to ease the pain, then gently cut out what you can with your tweezers.

legs11

netwhizkid:

i dont think i was too ripped off, if you listen to your story,.

your gp took off you nail (for pittance) several times, and then you had to eventually go to a hospital. after months (of agony). and even then it wasnt right until another visit to the hospital.

dr toe, i call him, who i went to specialises in this ****......so i wasnt waiting 6 months to get it done for 20e in a hospital or what not, i wanted it off there and then. the nail now looks like normal, he sliced off just the bit that was in growing and killed the nerves of that bit, its all good. so you get what you pay for? it took him 30minutes and he treated my other toe nail as well.
the actual cost was 250e, but this includes 5 free visits over the next 5 weeks and all the bandages and etc to go with it, 60e worth apparently.

Roonels

OK guys to solve all your problems with the in grown toe nail thing! as soon as u feel it hurtin a bit(or realise u made a s**t of it with the nail clippers! take your nail clippers and make a 'v' shape into the centre of your nail. as far in as u can muster, the reason for this is; instead of the nail growing sideways and cutting your toe at the corners it grows towards the space caused by the missing 'v'. and hey presto...the pain disappears and so does the ingrown toenail!:D

netwhizkid

legs11 wrote:

netwhizkid:

i dont think i was too ripped off, if you listen to your story,.

your gp took off you nail (for pittance) several times, and then you had to eventually go to a hospital. after months (of agony). and even then it wasnt right until another visit to the hospital.

dr toe, i call him, who i went to specialises in this ****......so i wasnt waiting 6 months to get it done for 20e in a hospital or what not, i wanted it off there and then. the nail now looks like normal, he sliced off just the bit that was in growing and killed the nerves of that bit, its all good. so you get what you pay for? it took him 30minutes and he treated my other toe nail as well.
the actual cost was 250e, but this includes 5 free visits over the next 5 weeks and all the bandages and etc to go with it, 60e worth apparently.

I went to the hospital once only, after the heavy Armagh fella stood on it I took out the torn stitch myself and taped it up with two steristrips and it healed perfectly. I was in a good bit of pain I know, but wasn't left waiting like 6 months to be called to hospital. However if I could have got it done privately as yourself I would have had as getting rid of that pain was worth any amount of money and I would have paid the €250 like yourself in jigtime to get rid of it. However down here there is no Mr. Toe or any private healthcare as such except for the Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee.

One good thing was that while recovering from the Toe I took to the Internet bigtime and joined Boards.ie that September and have been here since.

Capt'n Midnight

Roonels wrote:

OK guys to solve all your problems with the in grown toe nail thing! as soon as u feel it hurtin a bit(or realise u made a s**t of it with the nail clippers! take your nail clippers and make a 'v' shape into the centre of your nail. as far in as u can muster, the reason for this is; instead of the nail growing sideways and cutting your toe at the corners it grows towards the space caused by the missing 'v'. and hey presto...the pain disappears and so does the ingrown toenail!:D

only the root of the nail is alive and pushes out new nail , just like hair really

I had one a long time ago, quite tender, lots of foot bathing in warm soapy water. Was swollen until it burst (yuck) but no pain then.

Then didn't cut back as far, let them grow, and after a marathon the nails had all cracked at the root,no pain but scary , couple of weeks later my nails had grown back under the cracked ones which just lifted off , weird.

Dord

i've had a lot of trouble with this before, €200 is very steep!

i got my local GP to do it the first few times, cost about 80 or somthing i think? as it costs for the anesthetic. had serious problems and a few years later needed it taken off properly, GP refered me to specialist in Beaumont (cost about €50 for visit to GP)
got an appointment for the hospital, in for the day or most of it. done and dusted, no trouble since.

Dord

Roonels wrote:

OK guys to solve all your problems with the in grown toe nail thing! as soon as u feel it hurtin a bit(or realise u made a s**t of it with the nail clippers! take your nail clippers and make a 'v' shape into the centre of your nail. as far in as u can muster, the reason for this is; instead of the nail growing sideways and cutting your toe at the corners it grows towards the space caused by the missing 'v'. and hey presto...the pain disappears and so does the ingrown toenail!:D

doesnt always work!

it depends entirely on the way your nail grows and if there are any broken shards of nail at the sides. the "v" method only works sometimes and not in extreme cases.

It wasn't me!

I had one removed in the summer. I'll never forget the weird feelign, while numb, of the surgeon sawing through the foot. (I had to get a big chunk of the toe removed as well as it was badly infected)

bronte

had one on and off for anout eight years.. was too scared to go to the doctors cos i hate needles......eventually it was soo bad that i was forced to go.. and my gp sent me a great specialist who operates out of blanch hospital.
He was lovely.. gave me three injections to numb it ( which hurt a bit!)
he cut away the sticking in part and treated the nail bed so it wouldnt grow again.
recovered pretty quickly and im a new woman!!
even as someone terrified of needles.. id say get it done!!
you suffer soo much with the bloody thing and its a huge relief when it's finally gone
The gas part is that there were 12 other people in with me that day for exactly the same thing!
It's such a common problem ... and well worth getting fixed.. don't suffer