Have any of your nails died and come back to life?
By solxee
@sol_cee (38219)
Philippines
February 17, 2021 6:53pm CST
Late last year, I started feeling pain on my right thumb. I didn’t mind it because hey it was just a thumb. Not a broken bone or something. Then I noticed a part of the fingernail going darker in color and becoming more brittle. It’s slowly dying on me, I thought. I felt devastated and searched Google what happened. And all I could see were photos of somber-looking dying fingernails! Huhu
But today, seems like there’s a glimmer of hope after all. The darker color has turned pale and the brittle part has stopped. Maybe. Not sure. I can see new whitish fingernail growing. I have to wait a few months more though for the whole dead part to be gone but it’s something I’m looking forward to. How fast do fingernails grow anyway? I just can’t wait.
Any dead/dying/reincarnated nail story?
Photo is of a finger model.
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19 responses
@prinzcy (32305)
• Malaysia
19 Feb 21
No dying but I forcefully removed it. Sounds gory? Well, it had to be done. I stubbed my feet at a door while I was half awake. I was like 14 or something at the time. The door was metal and one of the nails was tore, almost pull out. It was so painful and yes, no longer sleepy afterwards. I could not leave it there as it would be more painful. It was bleeding a lot too. So I grit my teeth and quickly pull it out as fast as I could. Then I clean the wound and applied the medicine. It took years but the nail did grow back.
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? I remember it happening to other people when their finger got caught in the car door . . . the nail got black and eventually fell off. But it's never happened to me.
@RasmaSandra (79687)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Feb 21
Nope never had this happen but I have had all kinds of nail problems like brittle nails that easily break but lately they have been doing all right. Occasionally I polish them and that seems to keep them stronger,
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@RasmaSandra (79687)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Feb 21
@sol_cee yes, the polish keep my nails better than not having any polish at all. There are different nail polishes that strengthen nails
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 21
@RasmaSandra I’ll try to read the polish info next time
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Feb 21
It's a fungus. My toe nails and couple of finger nails got it no worry
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
19 Feb 21
I went on a long hike in tight shoes once. My feet were excruciatingly painful after that but I also noticed the nail on my big toe was starting to turn black. It fell off and then eventually regrew.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
18 Feb 21
Fingernails grow about 2.5 mm per month.
I lost a fingernail when I was a kid. My brothers were pushing me in a wagon when I fell forward onto the handle. The brother pulling the wagon raised the handle and caught my finger between the handle and the wagon bed. The fingernail turned black and came off... It took around eight or nine months for the fingernail to grow back...
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
18 Feb 21
@sol_cee It was... and yes, I sure did!
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@Laurakemunto (12862)
• Kenya
19 Feb 21
@sol_cee I knocked my big toe on a stone many years ago while in promary school. It took a longer time to heal. Even now, when I hit it accidentally or cut the nail on it, it's so painful. By then I was in class 2.i used to wear sandals in school.
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@GardenGerty (160615)
• United States
18 Feb 21
I have a toenail doing similarly. My foot doctor said I must have injured it, and yes, I am growing a new one, but it takes months and months.
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