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unknown@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this stopped happening to me when i heard i shouldn’t round the edges of the nail when cutting them

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s so counter intuitive. Like, the things at the sides are those that hurt you. But as long as you let them do their thing it’s fine.

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  • xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Okay I’m going to try that

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You see I have heard this multiple times and read it online too, nonetheless I had to ask my pedicurist to round my toenails, otherwise by next day it’s in my flesh and hurts.

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  • Shaggy1050@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I try to even clip mine into a bit of a V (but very subtle; ~10°). Had a friend teach me that in college. It feels weird for a day or two but I haven’t had ingrown nails since.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For me, the only thing that really fixed it was surgery :/

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  • unknown@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You're lucky, I've never done that and still get them.

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    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For me it stopped when covid hit and I started working from home. I am barefoot 90% of the time.

      My back pain has also gone since then.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Being barefoot (specifically not even wearing socks) for some of the day actually made a noticable improvement on a few funky things about my feet that bothered me. So maybe those weird toe shoe people were onto something after all…

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• pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For me it’s cutting the big toenail too short. I cut it straight across on the inside edge. Leaving about 1/8-1/4 inch of white. Toe builds a callous under it that never goes away. If i cut it short it hurts for a month.

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shoes.

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• vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had a lot of trouble with this and in my case I just have weirdly curved nails. Viewed from the front my big toe nails are basically half-circles, so any pressure at all pushes them edge first into my toe.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Any damage to the nail can cause it to do this. I broke my toe and after it healed I started having this problem, probably because the nail bed got disrupted when the toe got broken.

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• ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This happened to me when I used to trim the nail too short. That let the nail dig into the skin and caused all the issues. After letting it grow out long enough that the nail wasn’t able to dig into the skin did the problem go away. It’s a little weird looking having longer big toe nails but it beats the pain of accidentally stubbing your toe and living in agony.

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• huf@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  shoes and stuff. but maybe festering ingrown toenails just killed a certain percent of the population until modern times. how did prehistoric humans trim their toenails anyway? did they chew it off?

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like most claws from animals they’d probably just wear down naturally.

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