My thumbnail grows out funny. If I turn it to the side the white part looks like the letter “B” What is the deal with this? Am I going to live?
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here.
Probably not. Nice knowing you, briefly.
Catrandom
Are you going to live? No, but only because everybody dies eventually. However, having a fingernail grow in funny is not going to kill you, unless you accidentally poke yourself in the eyeball with said fingernail, then you develop an infection that spreads to your brain and turns it into mush.
That being said, the actual cause of the thumbnail deformity could be a previous injury to the nail plate (from getting it slammed in a door, for example) or possibly from a fungal infection in the fingernail itself.
Shadowfox
“The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson
Did you consider consulting a physician?
Could be serious!! :rolleyes: 
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Stop you are scaring me, certainly one of you out there has this same condition…I have had no previous injury to the thumbnail and have no bacterial infection…
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here.
I’ve noticed recently that my thumb and index fingernails on both hands kinda have ridges which has caused me a wee bit of worry because I’ve read that some deformities in fingernails can indicate vitamin deficincies. I’ve been trying to drink a glass of Ovaltine every morning (or so), I’ll let you know in a couple months if I notice any difference
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
My best guess would be that you injured your nail bed so that there’s a V-shaped indentation in the pink area where the nail remains attached to the nail bed.
One would think that such an injury would be memorable, but it doesn’t have to be a sharp object getting jabbed between the nail & nail bed - a hammer blow or other blunt trauma could also cause this. One other possibility would be a splinter that is still there.
I would recommend having a doc look at it next time you’re in for anything.
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
No no no. It’s obviously a tag of sorts imprinted on you by aliens during that abduction you don’t remember. The “B” means that you’re on their list to recieve a Butt-Probe.
Stop panicking and go to a doctor, Buck Naked. Probably it’s a nail fungus or injury to the nail bed or some sort of nutritional deficiency.
Even if it is cancer (not likely at all), they’ll just cut your thumb off and irradiate you a bit. You’ll be fine.
Don’t take medical advice from us clowns. Never take it from the net if you are concerned then see a fingernail doc. What are they called? Protologists?
Don’t worry, Buck. My sister and I both have major horizontal ridges running through our thumbnails (no other nails). Always have. Some doctors said it’s due to a vitamin or mineral deficiency, but it never goes away no matter what we do or don’t eat.
If my sister and I simultaneously drop dead, clutching our thumbs in agony, I’ll let you know. Thus far, the only aggravation is that it makes removing nail polish damn difficult.