Ingrown toenail question?!
Question: I know I have an ingrown toenail, but my question is, as long as i keep it medicated to keep it from getting infected, will it go away on its own when it grows out, or what? I am right now using a mix between a 30 minute a day soaking in warm water and Epsom Salt followed by Neosoprin with a pain reliever. I leave that on for a few hours, then apply the Dr. Schol's Ingrown Toenail kit. I leave the kit on while I am sleeping and while I am at work. The problem is, I am moving to Guatemala on Saturday the 23rd of this month to start school and I don't have the time to go see a Doctor and have them cut half my nail off and tell me to "take it easy" of 4 months! I have 5 days, not 4 months! So if I keep doing what I am doing, when the nail grows out, will that be the end of it?
Answers: I know I have an ingrown toenail, but my question is, as long as i keep it medicated to keep it from getting infected, will it go away on its own when it grows out, or what? I am right now using a mix between a 30 minute a day soaking in warm water and Epsom Salt followed by Neosoprin with a pain reliever. I leave that on for a few hours, then apply the Dr. Schol's Ingrown Toenail kit. I leave the kit on while I am sleeping and while I am at work. The problem is, I am moving to Guatemala on Saturday the 23rd of this month to start school and I don't have the time to go see a Doctor and have them cut half my nail off and tell me to "take it easy" of 4 months! I have 5 days, not 4 months! So if I keep doing what I am doing, when the nail grows out, will that be the end of it?
I've never used the Dr. Schol's kit, but there's this stuff called Outgrow that works really really well. It stops the pain too! But my ingrown nails haven't ever been really serious, so I have no idea whether it'll work well for you. Any remedy that doesn't work in 3-4 days isn't going to work. Unfortunately, if you're not pain-free after trying a bunch of treatments, you should probably just go to the Dr. because it's too serious for OTC treatment. When the pain stops, that's the first sign that it's going away.
what your doing only masks the problem. make a quick trip to a walk in clinic to solve.
I think it depends on the severity of it. I have very sensitive skin on my toes and they always try to turn into ingrown toenails if I cut them too short. I actually had one get swollen and produce puss. I just kept separating it from the skin (with my fingernail or the back end of a nail file (very clean, of course) and cleaning and medicating it. It did grow out and fix itself. I am just always SUPER careful not to cut my nails too short now.