# Why are my fingernails notching?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-my-fingernails-notching/417005 "2007-08-26T18:59:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-my-fingernails-notching/417005/1 "2007-08-26T18:59:16Z")

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Over the past month or so, I’ve started having the last three nails of my left hand chip and notch nearly in the very center, for no reason I can figure out. I wear them fairly short to begin with, and to get rid of the annoying notch I have to cut them down nearly to the quick. It’s strange that it is just these three. I haven’t been doing anything new that I know of, or changed my diet especially. What could be causing it?