Ah, I have found my arch-nemesis. :mad: 
I now have more filling than actual tooth in my mouth. There’s not much left for new fillings to attach to, and many recent fillings have fallen out and had to be replaced. I’m getting my back molars pulled, instead of just getting further fillings, since I don’t really need them, and that’s the only thing I’m actually covered for, cost-wise.
Another oddity with me is the nail on one of my big toes. I’ve had problems with ingrown toenails in the past. On one big toe, I had the entire nail removed and it grew back fine. One the other toe, however, the doctor only removed half the nail, and when it grew back, that side of the nail was flat, rather than curved. So the nail looked like a peaked roof, convex on one half and flat on the other.
The last time I had a problem with my toenails, it was the with the funny one. It had ingrown on the flat side again. I did the usual little tricks to try and stop the process, but to no avail. I made an appointment with the doctor, and waited. And waited, and waited, and waited. Now my toe was badly swollen and red, and I couldn’t put any weight on my foot.
So, I had no choice. I carefully scraped a cut down the middle of the nail (along the roof peak) until I was through. No bleeding. I then began to pluck on the end of that half the nail and, gradually, most of the nail separated from the toe. I could see that the nail was very deeply ingrown.
While I could have used clippers to then cut the ingrown piece out, leaving the base on the nail attached to my toe, I decided that the nail might grow back easier, and give the toe more time to heal, if I just ripped the rest of the nail out of my toe. So that’s what I did. :eek:
Since my toe was so swollen and infected from the ingrown nail, I hardly felt anything. But, man, did it bleed. Much more from where the nail had been ingrown, than from where the nail had been naturally attached to my toe. All this had weakened the hold of the other half of the nail, and soon after I removed that half as well.
I could now walk again, though I had to wrap my toe extensively to keep the wound from bleeding. With enough care, the wound healed with no problems, and the whole nail grew back with no problems. And the weird half of the nail was a little less flat, with the roof peak further to the side. So that was cool.
Anyhoo…