Today I'm posting pictures of ingrown toenails. I think this post will serve a couple of purposes.
(1) These pictures illustrate how bad ingrown toenail problems can become if you don't take care of them properly. Don't let them get infected and see a doctor even if that's something you're a little uncomfortable about. Don't be embarrassed about your feet. The people inspecting them are doctors and that's their jobs and that's what they do every day. I know that whether people have health insurance or not (and especially if they don't) the costs of seeing a doctor about a toenail might seem prohibitively expensive. The truth is that an once of prevention can be worth a pound cure. Do the right thing and get yourself fixed up before your ingrown toenails get too painful to deal with or too gross to look at.
(2) These pictures of ingrown toenails will hopefully help people who have not had them before understand just how bad they can be. This is important for two reasons. The first reason is that hopefully by seeing these pictures those who haven't had ingrown toenails before will be motivated to do everything they can to avoid getting them. The second thing is that these pictures will hopefully help those who haven't had these problems before understand the pain and stress friends and family with ingrown toenails endure. This is serious stuff. If you haven't been exposed to pictures like the one below it's be easy to discount the issue of ingrown toenails as simple a tiny problem involving the toenail. This is very painful stuff that can be bloody, debilitating, and in cases of infections very dangerous.
If you're wondering if all of these pictures are from my personal experience, I'm happy to say that the answer is not. I have had more than my fair share of ingrown toenails, but thankfully I don't think any of them have ever been this bad. I've had plenty of painful ones, and there has been some blood. I'm pretty sure that it's also safe to say that if I haven't handled my the way I did, things could have quickly spiraled out of control to the point where I could have looked like some of these pictures.
(1) These pictures illustrate how bad ingrown toenail problems can become if you don't take care of them properly. Don't let them get infected and see a doctor even if that's something you're a little uncomfortable about. Don't be embarrassed about your feet. The people inspecting them are doctors and that's their jobs and that's what they do every day. I know that whether people have health insurance or not (and especially if they don't) the costs of seeing a doctor about a toenail might seem prohibitively expensive. The truth is that an once of prevention can be worth a pound cure. Do the right thing and get yourself fixed up before your ingrown toenails get too painful to deal with or too gross to look at.
(2) These pictures of ingrown toenails will hopefully help people who have not had them before understand just how bad they can be. This is important for two reasons. The first reason is that hopefully by seeing these pictures those who haven't had ingrown toenails before will be motivated to do everything they can to avoid getting them. The second thing is that these pictures will hopefully help those who haven't had these problems before understand the pain and stress friends and family with ingrown toenails endure. This is serious stuff. If you haven't been exposed to pictures like the one below it's be easy to discount the issue of ingrown toenails as simple a tiny problem involving the toenail. This is very painful stuff that can be bloody, debilitating, and in cases of infections very dangerous.
If you're wondering if all of these pictures are from my personal experience, I'm happy to say that the answer is not. I have had more than my fair share of ingrown toenails, but thankfully I don't think any of them have ever been this bad. I've had plenty of painful ones, and there has been some blood. I'm pretty sure that it's also safe to say that if I haven't handled my the way I did, things could have quickly spiraled out of control to the point where I could have looked like some of these pictures.
