• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 days ago

      this stopped happening to me when i heard i shouldn’t round the edges of the nail when cutting them

        • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 days ago

          For me it stopped when covid hit and I started working from home. I am barefoot 90% of the time.

          My back pain has also gone since then.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Being barefoot (specifically not even wearing socks) for some of the day actually made a noticable improvement on a few funky things about my feet that bothered me. So maybe those weird toe shoe people were onto something after all…

            • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              8 days ago

              I don’t think they were on the right track, lol. Those things always stank.

              I think the main part of the barefoot benefit is the neural feedback from being able to feel with your feet. The many many muscles in your foot and legs can make the micro adjustments they cant do when in a shoe.

              It’s sort of like wearing gloves, sure you can type on a keyboard or write with a pen, but you are going to do a lot better when your fingers can feel directly.

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    To anyone who gets this: do not let the podiatrist convince you to do the partial removal. Ask your podiatrist if a full nail avulsion could be preferable to a partial avulsion if minimizing chance of reoccurence is the most important factor to you. Ie, removing a tiny strip from one or both sides of the nail. It is HIGHLY likely it will get bad again. With a full avulsion, you have basically zero chance of nail problems ever again. With a partial, you have a nonzero chance of future complications as I did (3 times) Have them do a full phenol cauterization and remove the entire nail. You dont need it, and you’ll be better off without it. However, I’m no doctor.

      • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        10 days ago

        Yeah the science is above my head but I believe usually after they rip out the nail (be it whole nail or a strip), they will apply a cotton ball of phenol to the bed and that is supposed to stop the nail from coming back. It failed to do so 3 times in my case, albeit on two different toes.