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| Black Toenails - Am I going to lose the nail? (Read 895 times) |
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posted: 10/16/2007 at 4:37 PM |
| Quote from derek on 10/15/2007 at 7:17 PM: So I guess it's a given that once you have black toenails, they would fall off.
For what it's worth, I had a toenail go half black after last year's White Rock, and it never did fall off, it just eventually grew out. |
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posted: 10/16/2007 at 11:32 PM |
I'm losing three after the Chicago Marathon, I saw a sign during the race that said "Toenails are for losers"!
I thought you would enjoy it. |
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posted: 10/17/2007 at 1:29 PM |
| Because of this thread, last night I had a really gross dream about toes. I didn't lose a toenail in the dream, but a flap of skin fell off and I reached down and pulled out a section of BONE from my toe joint. |
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posted: 10/18/2007 at 10:47 PM |
I've lost one too...Not just once, but TWICE...This time it hasn't grown back fully yet...It was never painful, just looked ugly as ****...
My wife hated to look at it, ha ha ha....  |
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posted: 11/25/2007 at 8:11 PM |
I just changed my toenail polish last week and was very pleasantly surprised that my black toenail is almost grown out. I've had 2 for the majority of the summer and they never lifted or fell off, just grew out very slowly.
Finally I can wear light pink or french manicure again! Yay! |
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posted: 12/8/2007 at 5:02 AM |
| I'm a relatively new runner (one year), and I made the mistake of hiking up and down a big mountain with three women who are amazing athletes. Wow, they hauled! On the way down, I was trying as hard as I could to keep up with them, and my toes kept jamming into the bottom of my hiking boots. Both my big toenails turned completely black. That was in the middle of September, and two months later, one of them has returned to normal and the other one is still black. So maybe I will lose one and not the other! Very weird. I will have to make a note to myself not to hike with super athletes! Back to my 11-minute miles, thank you! |
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posted: 12/8/2007 at 6:13 PM |
| Quote from Trent on 10/16/2007 at 12:40 PM: (this thread is useless without pictures)
That's just asking for trouble.
BTW you should see "Running on the Sun""--not only a great running-themed movie, but one ultrarunner (Marshall Ulrich, IIRC) has actually had his toenails surgically removed. Problem solved.
It also stops him from scratching up the furniture
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posted: 12/8/2007 at 10:02 PM |
| Quote from PerfesserR on 12/8/2007 at 6:13 PM: but one ultrarunner (Marshall Ulrich, IIRC) has actually had his toenails surgically removed.
Eeeeeewwwwwwww.......... 
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-When Chuck Norris wants popcorn, he breathes on Nebraska.
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posted: 12/26/2007 at 4:20 AM |
In all of the posts I didn't see anybody suggesting how to prevent the dreaded black toenail!
I used to get them (small toenails) - yes they do fall off. I simply purchased larger shoes (increased size by 1/2 to 1 full size, depending on shoe) & voila - no more gnarly black shoes.
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posted: 12/27/2007 at 2:22 AM |
| I currently do not have any balck toenails but when I do I go to see Dr. Bernstein in Yonkers. Suggest you see a podiatrist. |
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posted: 12/27/2007 at 2:32 AM |
I got them on my big toes while playing basketball because I hadn't clipped them in a while. Maybe others can tell you if I'm right or not, but I think just keeping them trimmed will minimize the blackening.
Oh, and my left big toenail just fell off a few days ago. Just left it alone and there was another nail underneath.  |
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posted: 12/27/2007 at 5:20 AM
modified: 12/27/2007 at 5:21 AM |
An RA favorite:
the toenail necklace |
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posted: 1/6/2008 at 4:39 AM |
WTF? WTF? I'm going to lose toe nails?
Why?
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posted: 1/6/2008 at 4:53 AM |
Well, my left big toe nail is now hanging by an edge, but the right big toe nail is still just black. It's been over 3 1/2 months! This sucks.  |
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:36 AM
modified: 1/7/2008 at 2:37 AM |
| Quote from horsemom2b on 1/6/2008 at 4:39 AM: WTF? WTF? I'm going to lose toe nails?
Why?
Most of the time the toenail separates from the skin underneath, this happens because it was pulled apart, try lifting your nail off your finger you can't because it is attached to the skin. Once it separates it's dead the skin underneath bleeds, bruises, turns black. A new nail grows after about a month the new nail pushes off the old nail. |
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