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Randi Michelle
IP: 67.116.237.82
3/22/2003
17:53:06 |
 Subject: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
Message:
Carol, I read your last comment on the an infection where losing your finger is a possibility...what does this infection look like? My nail is basically completely off the nail bed, but I've been putting tape around the nail and finger (I shut a car door on my thumb). I know that taping the nail down won't promote growth (because it hasn't), I just don't want my bare nail bed showing! But it looks like my nail is only a day away of completely falling out, and I don't know what to do! Isn't a bare nail bed too sensitive to leave exposed? I'm kinda kicking myself, because I think if I kept my nail completely dry since I had it drilled (to remove excess blood under the nail), it might have healed. But anyway, I hate wearing gloves, I want my thumb to look as normal as possible, but I DON'T want an infection! Wearing band-aids for 18 months (which is about how long a finger nail to grow back)just seems too expensive (you gotta change it after every shower or hand-washing)!!! Help, someone, please!
-Randi
Age 19
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Carol in GA
IP: 209.214.64.98
3/24/2003
11:49:20 |  RE: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
Message:
The infection factor is generally just while the nail is lifted from the bed, but not after the nail falls off.
Now if you have a "sore" you need to keep it clean and dry as much as possible as it heals, but would use the oils to keep it hydrated and healthy once the scab sets.
Nail beds are sensitive, some times more than others. But this whole time that your nail has been loosening from the bed, your nail bed has been preparing itself for the impact.
If you want to hide it while it heals for going out on the town and such, put a press on nail for the event, but don't leave it on for more than two days at a time or you could run into one of those bacterial infections I mentioned.
Drilling the nail was actually GOOD for your situation. You would have been in pain a LOT longer if they hadn't done that. Plus keeping it dry for a while helped prevent the bacterial infection from starting.
Just keep working with it, you'll be ok, I promise! I don't know how your nail will look when it does grow back but give it time... the root has to heal completely so it can produce a nail again. Sometimes they grow back distorted and a plastic surgeon can sometimes correct the disfigurement to an extent.
Keep your chin up...
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Randi
IP: 67.116.237.82
3/25/2003
04:26:07 |  RE: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
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Thanks! =) (i accidentally kept posting my message, oops!)
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Alisha
IP: 68.71.80.66
7/15/2004
01:12:06 | RE: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
Message:
I have worn false nails for 5-6 years. Now I have half (left or right side, or bottom only) fingernails with the rest of my nail bed bare and raw. I don't know what to do to make them better. I have soaked them in peroxide which is extremely painful. I have tried Naftin cream. I am at my wits end . The doctor said it just had to grow out. Can anyone help me?
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Liz
IP: 68.104.45.203
7/16/2004
09:25:53 | RE: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
Message:
I have a similar situation on my left hand. I was wearing acrylics and on Wednesday morning I was laying in bed. I must have moved and somehow whacked my middle finger on my left hand against my foot (don't ask, I'm a crazy sleeper!), and I thought the fake nail had just popped off, but the pain was excruciating (sp?) and I knew something was wrong. Turns out my natural nail had ripped all the way off and is just hanging on by the cuticle. I kid you not, I passed out when that happened because it hurt so bad, and I usually have a high tolerance to pain. (I've had 3 epidurals in the past for a back problem and they were nothing, but this...oh man.)
Right now I'm just babying that finger and keeping it bandaged with plenty of Neosporin. I got the acrylic off last night finally). I'm scared to death it'll get infected or a fungal problem will erupt or something like that. :\ Should I see a doctor or just take care of this on my own?
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Indy Nail Pro
IP: 68.57.225.21
7/30/2004
22:49:29 | RE: FEAR OF BARE NAIL BED!!! Please Help
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Unless there is a sign of infection (swelling, redness, oozing, etc.), you don't really need to see a doctor. Keep doing what you are doing and wait. Only time will allow the nail to grow back to normal.
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Vanessa,13
IP: 198.81.26.15
9/30/2004
18:07:42 |  my nail bed is bare :( what should i do!!!!!
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just last night, my sister took a magazine of mine. i tried getting it back but she ran into her room. i knocked and said i wanted my keys.(so she would open her door) when she opened the door, i was pushing my way through. i finally got in, except for my pinkie. she opened the door and my pinkie came out.it hurt but i thought it was just a smashed finger. of course i was wrong.i wasn't crying, just oww,my pinkie hurts. then i looked at it and started to run to the kitchen, screaming saying my nail is off my nail is off!!!my cousin also my guardian,said to calm down.i still had a piece of tissue stuck on my nail.my cousin cut it off.then put a bandaid on it.it hurt like h***!!!! it looks so nasty i had to clean it 3x at school.all my friends got grossed out cause of blood was beggining to show.so anyways.....how do i know when i can take the bandaid off?and how long will it grow back?the whole nail came out i mean the cuticles and the nail from underneith my skin.
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