Chlorine and toenail fungus.

[Roderick_Femm]

@jharvey963

I THOUGHT I had toe nail fungus for many years. I finally (can’t remember why) went to a podiatrist for it (not a GP), and he said it wasn’t fungus – it was a damaged nail. So all of Pen-lac, vapo-rub, tea tree oil, etc. treatments I had tried for years were pointless. The solution: surgery to have the nail and nail bed removed. No problems with it since.

My point: go see a good podiatrist to CONFIRM that it is actually fungus and not something else before you waste all that time on money on ineffective self-treatments.

J.

Nail and nail bed removed? So there is nothing there now but skin? (I’m not sure what “nail bed” refers to)
Roddy

[TreacherousCretin]

@Roderick_Femm

Nail and nail bed removed? So there is nothing there now but skin? (I’m not sure what “nail bed” refers to)Roddy

I just had a fingernail removed a couple of months ago. I think he’s referring to the “nail matrix” (that’s what my Doc called it); after the diseased nail was gone, the matrix was doused with silver di-something to prevent new nail regeneration. The matrix is under the skin closer to the knuckle; the nail bed (where the visible nail used to be) now looks like smooth skin.

By the way… Lamisil is now available as a generic, at a tiny fraction of the exorbitant former price. I paid $900 for a 6-month Rx twenty years ago; last year the same Rx was about $20.