READ FIRST: I'm just a guy who's had ingrown toenails and then stumbled on a way to manage them and I think (fingers crossed) put them behind me. One time I even had to go into a podiatrist and have an ingrown toenail surgically fixed. It was not pleasant. A buddy turned me onto this topical solution called Outgro (pictured to the right). It's cheap and it really works. Basically it numbs the area where your ingrown nail is digging into your sensitive skin, (so that's nice) for some quick pain relief. Secondly, when the skin is numbed up it's more manageable to get in there with the right (sterile) tools and fix the problem yourself. This Outgro stuff is cheap and works well, but for whatever reason isn't at most drug stores (at least where I live) so I order it online. It's surprisingly cheaper that way too.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Really Bad Ingrown Toenail

A really bad ingrown toenail can mean the difference between enjoying your life as usual or being so debilitated with pain that you can hardly walk. Many people who have never been stricken with a really bad ingrown toenail don't comprehend just how life altering it can be. For many folks with jobs that require them to be on their feet in potentially constricting footwear incurring a really bad ingrown toenail can effectively taken them away from their job and in some instances that means failing to bring home a paycheck for that time lost and possibly falling behind on bill all as a result of a troublesome toe issue.

For the most part really bad ingrown toenails for obvious for the person dealing with the issue because the pain and sensitivity to the delicate area are so great that it's obvious when the area is touched that something is wrong and that one way or another an ingrown toenail solution is needed. For some folks this means fastening a homemade toenail brace while others reach for the nearest available pain relieving topical solution like Outgro which can be found is some major drugstores (CVS, Walgreens, etc.) depending on which region of the country you live in or the over the counter pain relieving medication can be ordered online.

In the most serious cases involving either recurring ingrown toenails, inflamed, or infected toenails the best idea to not try anything drastic that you see on an ingrown toenail removal video and instead talk to some health care providers and your insurance about the cost of ingrown toenail removal.

Of course the term really bad is subjective in many instances in the gray area of the spectrum but certainly if you're considered about a possible infection that appears evident due to discoloration, toe proud flesh, or some other "painfully" obvious indicator please have the problem checked out by a professional ASAP.