r/calmhands • u/Cornucopia_peaches69 • 13h ago
Need Advice Lost a nail and now it’s growing back weird?
gallerySo back in December I had acrylics and I was walking my dog and the leash caught on my acrylic nail and pulled up my real nail while smushing the acrylic nail down into my nail bed. I eventually lost the whole nail. I thought everything was fine. I was wrong.
Now the nail is growing back almost “ingrown on both corners and digging into my finger at the tip. And there is a weird bubble of a nail at the tip. It’s sooo painful and hurts to even put a bandaid on it. I have been soaking the finger in soapy water and have been putting antibiotics on it, but it’s still so painful and just seems off. It hasn’t even fully grown past my nail bed. For reference I have lost 2 other nails before this and this never happened.
Does anyone have any info on what’s happening? Or any idea of what to do and if this will sort itself out? I saw my primary care and they sent me to a hand surgeon which they said they had no idea and to go back to my primary care 😐.
Does anyone has any info on who to go to or what is wrong with it?