how do you guys manage so many ingrown toenails
my toenails are longer than my toe, but they grow out/down instead of straight down
Genetic thing, the sides of the nails on my big toes grew a bit downwards which causes the skin to overlap, which cause it to get cut and infected, which causes more swelling which causes more cuts and infections...
It gets progressively worse and worse until you need to have the nail cut out, there's a few ways of doing it:
1.) They cut the nail off and let it regrow
2.) They cut a V into the nail which causes the side to come inwards (doctor told me it wasn't a very good method)
3.) They cut away the sides of the nail (hurts a ton, had it done twice, leaves big toes looking ugly and can regrow to become ingrown again)
4.) They cut the side of the nail away like in 3. but they cut out the root which stops the nail from growing on the sides (had this done on the problem toe and it really mangled the toe and it looks pretty gross now but it can't become ingrown again.)