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Fingernail abnormality
BillieTheBot
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As pictured below, this has started to happen on my left thumbnail on Oct 7th. Somebody suggested that I have trapped it in a door. It was unlikely because it doesn't hurt in the slightest. Then 12 days later (yesterday), the same thing started to happen on my little right finger.
I don't bite my fingernails.
This is my own thumb, scanned using an Epson 1670!
Is it
- Infection
- Lack of sleep
- Malnutrition
I don't bite my fingernails.
This is my own thumb, scanned using an Epson 1670!
Is it
- Infection
- Lack of sleep
- Malnutrition
Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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Is it sore at all?
I'd try the docs.
I have taken this advice and luckily, I have managed to book a pre-9AM appointment with my doctor for next Tuesday.
I think that your notes above are bang on. It's hard for me alone to tell what it is, but it seems to be well documented. Although it is slow-progressive, I appreciate that you have posted back and that I now have a GP booking before it becomes too late!
Yes, the pain hasn't started. The thing that caused me to post this thread was because it started to appear on a second finger.
and fyi, athletes foot is a skin fungus most usually in the webbing of the toes. the symptoms of that being dry skin, itching blisters and inflimation.
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I went to the doctor this morning and was prescribed a cream called Mycota. It is admistered over the offending nails, and is used for Athlete's Foot, so Fiend-85, you're bang on right there!!
The doctor told me that the root cause is a kind of fungus that appears when too much water is present. This probably means that I haven't been drying my hands properly after washing them.