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Anonymous
What you do is go to the doctor, get a referral to a podiatrist and get it taken care of.
When I was younger I had some extremely bad ingrown toe nails, put off going to the doctor. One of the toe-nails was actually grown through the flesh and starting to come out the other side.
They just numbed the toe with a cold spray, went in and cut out the ingrown portion of the nail. They don't knock you out and they don't make you go to a hospital. It takes them a few minutes to do the whole thing. Its somewhat painful while they do it, but not too bad. It be an aching/throbbing pain afterwards. I just didn't put anything on my foot for the rest of the day and it stopped hurting in about an hour. The pain is not insignificant, but it isn't bad. The operation itself will hurt just as much as if you stubbed your ingrown toe. Afterwards it doesn't hurt more than having a tooth pulled with minimal complications.
It feels so much better afterwards, you will wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
Once it is fixed let your nails grow out. Make sure they at least get to the end of the tract the grow in. Cutting them too short makes them become ingrown. I'm sure the podiatrist will yell at you.
The longer you put it off the worse it gets, just get it over with. You will be glad afterwards.
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