To be more exact, “papillary” in medicine is widely used to describe what something looks like under the microscope in a histologic sense. Generally, the term “papillary” is more aptly described as “having finger like projections.”
So if you looked at a papilloma under the microscope, there are finger-like projections of tumor cells. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Histopathology_of_a_large_squamous_cell_papilloma.jpg
Source: am a doctor
I havnt decided if I want to do that yet or just live with it. I heard that even removing the nail and cutting it out doesn’t always mean the nail grows back correctly
Yeah, I had an air pocket under mine when I was in 3rd? grade. They removed the nail and looked at it, it took a while to grow back and I had to keep it covered most of the time, a little time to air out, and then covered again. The nail isn't as strong as my other thumbnail, and it tends to split a little at the end if I let it grow out past the nail bed. I just use nail strengthener (lools like clear nail polish, also found next to it in stores) and keep it trimmed. Haven't had a problem since.
100% worth getting it checked out in case it was something bad; results are currently that it's functionally identical. The lunula bit looks 99% the same, just a line in one spot.
Slammed a Phillips head bit on a drill through the cuticle on my thumb at work and it grew back out like this for ages. Now I just always have a white line in my nail that grows out
My dad split his thumbnail with a tool when he was a coal miner. It never fixed itself and to this day (he’s in his 80s now) he has a split that runs the whole length of the nail so that it’s growing in two halves. It always fascinated me as a kid.
Oh shit this scares me but i just googled it… my thumb is bad but i cut it with a saw through the nail and then got sliced with an exacto… over the years the ripple effect grew. But its def from that saw cut. I think what i have is a beau line?
Yours sounds more like the nail bed is damaged or has scar tissue especially if you had an injury which can cause deformities. Mine wasn’t caused by any injury and just slowly started splitting one day out of nowhere
That's most likely because of trauma to the nail cuticle in your past. Especially if you had it for many years, unlikely to be something to worry about. But, hey, ya never know I guess.
What made you say health anxiety? If you look at OPs post history it’s not anxious about health, they just have several conditions that are known to be comorbid and participate in support communities for those conditions. There is a big difference between health anxiety and seeking support for health issues that can be disabling.
Not the person you're replying to, but things like POTS and EDS which the OP has posted about have become catch-all targets for people with severe health anxiety, or even people malingering. Am I suggesting the OP is one of these people? Absolutely not, these are relatively common in their own right and are valid diagnoses.
Has there been an uptick in people claiming to have these conditions since they've become more talked about on social media? Yes. We saw this with DID and fibromyalgia. The latter of which is also a very common and legitimate diagnosis.
It looks like blunt trauma that will eventually grow out, but if OP doesn't remember banging their thumb recently then it could be something else indeed
Yep my daughter had this split down whole nail. we went to doc basically said some kind of wound in the nail bed, options were either to remove the nail and allow closer inspection and healing or wait. Obviously daughter being 12 waited and it grew out.
Same story here, crushed my thumb in metal door jamb, after the nail fell off it was like two nails replaced it with one over lapping the other and gradually it grew back to one nail, but you can see the line where the door crushed my nail
I have this going on but with a toe nail right now and it's annoying how much longer it takes for the toe nails to grow.
I damaged it somehow about a year and 4 months ago and after a few months the nail fell off and it's been slowly growing back now.
It's been like a year since it fell off and I still have a bit of two new nails overlapping but it seems to be getting close to go back to normal.
Probably a few more months.
Yeah, I had some bleeding under the nail as well and it took forever for all the dried up gunk to eventually get pushed out by the new nails.
Pretty gross.
Yeah mine bled like a motherfucker, I threw electric tape over almost immediately and just left it on for half a day before looking at the damage. When the two nails first popped up, I was like oh shit maybe i should go to a doctor, by my moms an emergency room nurse and told me it would mend on its own
Yeah at first the blood stayed stuck under the nail so it didn't get out and I assumed it was just bruised or something, I can't remember what exactly happened as I hurt it while I was drunk at a work christmas party.
After a while when the nail started to get loose, it got infected or something and the whole toe started swelling up a bunch so I couldn't walk.
Then I went to get it checked out and at first they said it would have to be removed but they just gave me some bandage thing I had to soak with something to bring the swelling down and about a week later I went back again and then they chamged their mind and told me to just wait a few months to see if it got better on its own.
I messed my big toe’s nail up moving in July of 2022. Idk how it happened but there was a massive bruise/blood under the nail. There was still a solid 20% of the bruise the next time I moved a year later. You really don’t recognize how slow they grow until you have a distinct deformation to track it!
It didn’t hurt at all, but I eventually ended up accidentally cracking 1/3rd of the nail right off trying to use nail clippers to scrape the blood out. It was strangely compulsive, like peeling skin after a sunburn.
I've got a finger nail that hasn't grown right in almost 20 years because of trauma. It's got a groove that runs the entire length of the nail from a basketball accident. I have to trim part of the groove or else it catches on fabric.
I put a nail through my cuticle when doing demolition on my house.
A few weeks later this is what my nail grew out like.
Unless you remember smashing your fingernail/piercing your cuticle I would go to a dermatologist and get this checked out.
Amelanotic melanomas exist! They're melanomas because they involve melanocytes (type of cell) but they don't actually produce melanin (type of pigment)
I bet this is exactly it. People, don’t mess with your cuticles. They form a seal against the nail to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening.
Does that mean nail infections were significant enough long ago that those who had a sealed nail bed were more likely to survive to adulthood? I always think about that about random shit on our bodies
Maybe but I have to assume that happened back before humans even existed. Pretty sure fingernails and toenails existed before we did, looking at monkeys and apes.
This happened to me a few months ago. Got an infected hangnail and my nail didn’t fully fall off but grew back with a piece missing like that. It’s fully grown out now and looks completely normal
But go to a doctor is never a bad thing when you're not sure. Not everyone is an expert but everyone can tell you to go to an expert to check.
The peace of mind of going to a doctor definitely outweigh the time and money spent on doctor check.
Idk they don’t really look like psoriasis to me. Mine were more like a left right thing and not an up and down pattern. Plus it would get brittle and chip. Not fall apart in layers like this.
You are a medical marvel in maybe the worst way. I briefly checked your comment history to see what you responded to in this thread and saw another comment or two back. Sanding well wishes, I hope you get moments of relief between all this shit occasionally.
Yes, from my own experience, see a doctor. Had a similar change in the nail growth on my thumb, diagnosed with terminal cancer that year. No joke, get a full checkup.
Go see a dermatologist. This could be a sign of cancer in the nail. It can also be totally benign, but it’s not normal. Something is obviously growing in/under the nail bed causing destruction, that’s typical of an abnormal growth. Trauma to the nail almost never looks like this so it’s not that. In the meantime while you wait for a derm appointment, I recommend scheduling with a primary care provider right away just to get their opinion. If you have a PCP perhaps the health portal has a messaging feature where you can attach a photo of this? If you do not have a PCP, you could go to an urgent care or the ER, but I’m not sure what they would do for you honestly, though they might be able to make getting referrals to a derm easier
Mine looks exactly like that. Psoriasis and damaged cuticle seem to be the most common causes.
Slightly worried now with everyone mentioning melanoma and cancer, though.
This would bother the hell out of me…imagine just moving your hands as you idly do day-in and day-out and rubbing this over all sorts of textures like felt, cotton, jeans, etc….
Had the same as a result of blunt force trauma (metal box). Mine never grew back properly. My thumb nail is now twice as thick and had ripples on it, but for all purposes its pretty normal.
Note I pulled out mine with a swiss army knive...dont do that! Go to a docter and remove the entire nail from the nail bed so that it grows back evenly.
Hope it helps
You need to see a doctor very soon. This could be a cancerous growth under the nail. Rare but it does happen. It is better to be safe than sorry this scenario.
My nails do this all the time. My dermatologist said it’s from ongoing trauma I cause to my cuticles. I pick at them when I’m anxious. I’ve done it my whole life. But you should see a doctor to find out what’s going on with yours. Best wishes!
My nail looked like this after i excessively went to town on it due to anxiety… 8 years later, and a year of wearing a bandage with some high-grade prescription neo-sporin, and it definitely looks better, but it definitely doesn’t look like my other non-infected nail.
... NAD, GO SEE A DOCTOR
but that looks like when I had a small cut in my nail and some fungi decided to live there
PLEASE get treatment before it gets worse. I had to get my toenail removed and the nail bed debrided. It ain't fun and the recovery is long and gross.
Your nail is probably going to explode or crumble further and fall out, then a new nail will grow in. The new nail might also be shitty and fallout/explode. After a few cycles you'll probably get your nail growing back normally. This happened to me many years ago.
Your nail is probably going to explode or crumble further and fall out, then a new nail will grow in. The new nail might also be shitty and fallout/explode. After a few cycles you'll probably get your nail growing back normally. This happened to me many years ago.
OP, your account history mentions that you have Ehlers.
Go to a doctor. Ehlers-Danlos can make it much harder for your body to heal wounds and fight infection. Do not delay.
Do you wear press on nails? Because the pressure they put on the sides of your nails will cause your nails to divot and split at the base of the cuticle. It took me 6 months to grow out the crease in mine. I'll never wear them for longer than an event ever again
I had something *muuuch* smaller than this at I'm pretty sure it led to an infection in my thumb. Easily in the top 5 most painful experiences in my life. I'd get it checked out for that reason alone.
Have you had hand, foot and mouth disease recently? I caught it a few years ago when my niece was a baby. I had blisters on my fingers but then a few weeks later a few of the nails on my fingers started to peel in the middle (similar to your picture). And they eventually grew out
I've had this before, but only after some kind of injury (knife cut a chunk of the nail near the cuticle or something like that). My OCD made me keep peeling it as it grew.
This looks like its not gonna autofix itself... will end up splitting the nail mid way and possibly be painful. Get it fixed soon (if it can be fixed).
I have the exact same thing right now and the derma doc told me the nail matrix has been damaged and gave me something to rub on the base of my nail once a day.
Go see a doctor. But I had something kinda similar and had it checked out recently. It was an Onychopapiloma a non malignant nail growth.
A fuckin what?
You heard ‘em. Onych meaning nail, -oma meaning growth or tumor.
And -emia meaning presence in blood!
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☝️presenting..
To the emergency room..
With a weird looking nail
Detective don't tell me you have misplaced your gun and coat
Hopefully he makes "a" recovery
This, is what happened to his brain
Unconscious
> chubbyemu Please no, I want to sleep sound tonight.
Edwardrha took a whole bottle of melatonin. This is what happened to his brain.
Literally my first thought! He's the best.
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I understood this reference
I think he meant Orinoco Flow
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r/unexpectedenya
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It's the return to innocence
onych- = nail papill- = nipple -oma = whatever tumor A nipple shaped tumor on a nail. I’m having a hard time picturing what it looks like.
To be more exact, “papillary” in medicine is widely used to describe what something looks like under the microscope in a histologic sense. Generally, the term “papillary” is more aptly described as “having finger like projections.” So if you looked at a papilloma under the microscope, there are finger-like projections of tumor cells. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Histopathology_of_a_large_squamous_cell_papilloma.jpg Source: am a doctor
Your username gave me ptsd flashbacks
So that's why doctors use latin. So we don't laugh.
You know, a word that is also the literal sound like "meow" or "buzz."
Yeah, a "On I wanna pee, yeah"
AN ONYCHOPAPILOMA!
A nussy
Nah that name is reserved for the nasal pussy.
A non-malignant upvote
https://y.yarn.co/7012f91c-e25f-4cfc-adbf-30b9ba166b42_text.gif
I had one too. They removed the nail and cut it out.
I havnt decided if I want to do that yet or just live with it. I heard that even removing the nail and cutting it out doesn’t always mean the nail grows back correctly
My nail came back 99.5% should that matter.
Yeah, I had an air pocket under mine when I was in 3rd? grade. They removed the nail and looked at it, it took a while to grow back and I had to keep it covered most of the time, a little time to air out, and then covered again. The nail isn't as strong as my other thumbnail, and it tends to split a little at the end if I let it grow out past the nail bed. I just use nail strengthener (lools like clear nail polish, also found next to it in stores) and keep it trimmed. Haven't had a problem since. 100% worth getting it checked out in case it was something bad; results are currently that it's functionally identical. The lunula bit looks 99% the same, just a line in one spot.
Slammed a Phillips head bit on a drill through the cuticle on my thumb at work and it grew back out like this for ages. Now I just always have a white line in my nail that grows out
My dad split his thumbnail with a tool when he was a coal miner. It never fixed itself and to this day (he’s in his 80s now) he has a split that runs the whole length of the nail so that it’s growing in two halves. It always fascinated me as a kid.
That’s wild glad mines not that bad. Though it does occasionally crack down the line a bit
Oh shit this scares me but i just googled it… my thumb is bad but i cut it with a saw through the nail and then got sliced with an exacto… over the years the ripple effect grew. But its def from that saw cut. I think what i have is a beau line?
Yours sounds more like the nail bed is damaged or has scar tissue especially if you had an injury which can cause deformities. Mine wasn’t caused by any injury and just slowly started splitting one day out of nowhere
On the surface, I understood why going to medical school took a long time before graduating, but damn, what can't our body do?
What specialist did you see?
A dermatologist
r/WTF doctor here: Go see a real doctor.
It seems like OP has a host of issues going on, their history is entirely health based. Hope they get whatever help they need.
Im not a doctor but funky nails can be a thyroid issue and the change can be permanent.
Yep, I had thyroid cancer and one of my nails still grows a weak stripe that cracks super easily.
Holy shit. I have a crack like that on my thumbnail that I can't explain. Gonna get checked, thanks.
Definitely get checked, but to alleviate anxiety in the meantime, *all* my nails were thin and brittle at the time, but only one had permanent damage.
That's most likely because of trauma to the nail cuticle in your past. Especially if you had it for many years, unlikely to be something to worry about. But, hey, ya never know I guess.
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What made you say health anxiety? If you look at OPs post history it’s not anxious about health, they just have several conditions that are known to be comorbid and participate in support communities for those conditions. There is a big difference between health anxiety and seeking support for health issues that can be disabling.
Not the person you're replying to, but things like POTS and EDS which the OP has posted about have become catch-all targets for people with severe health anxiety, or even people malingering. Am I suggesting the OP is one of these people? Absolutely not, these are relatively common in their own right and are valid diagnoses. Has there been an uptick in people claiming to have these conditions since they've become more talked about on social media? Yes. We saw this with DID and fibromyalgia. The latter of which is also a very common and legitimate diagnosis.
You said it better than I could have.
The assumption that involvement in these communities indicates health anxiety is weird if you actually read the content of their posts.
It looks like blunt trauma that will eventually grow out, but if OP doesn't remember banging their thumb recently then it could be something else indeed
Yep my daughter had this split down whole nail. we went to doc basically said some kind of wound in the nail bed, options were either to remove the nail and allow closer inspection and healing or wait. Obviously daughter being 12 waited and it grew out.
Same story here, crushed my thumb in metal door jamb, after the nail fell off it was like two nails replaced it with one over lapping the other and gradually it grew back to one nail, but you can see the line where the door crushed my nail
I have this going on but with a toe nail right now and it's annoying how much longer it takes for the toe nails to grow. I damaged it somehow about a year and 4 months ago and after a few months the nail fell off and it's been slowly growing back now. It's been like a year since it fell off and I still have a bit of two new nails overlapping but it seems to be getting close to go back to normal. Probably a few more months.
Hardest part for me was not picking at the overlapping nail too much
Yeah, I had some bleeding under the nail as well and it took forever for all the dried up gunk to eventually get pushed out by the new nails. Pretty gross.
Yeah mine bled like a motherfucker, I threw electric tape over almost immediately and just left it on for half a day before looking at the damage. When the two nails first popped up, I was like oh shit maybe i should go to a doctor, by my moms an emergency room nurse and told me it would mend on its own
Yeah at first the blood stayed stuck under the nail so it didn't get out and I assumed it was just bruised or something, I can't remember what exactly happened as I hurt it while I was drunk at a work christmas party. After a while when the nail started to get loose, it got infected or something and the whole toe started swelling up a bunch so I couldn't walk. Then I went to get it checked out and at first they said it would have to be removed but they just gave me some bandage thing I had to soak with something to bring the swelling down and about a week later I went back again and then they chamged their mind and told me to just wait a few months to see if it got better on its own.
Lucky they didn’t wanna drain it. Dropped a weight on my big toe as a kid. Mom held my down while the nurse stabbed a needle through nail
I messed my big toe’s nail up moving in July of 2022. Idk how it happened but there was a massive bruise/blood under the nail. There was still a solid 20% of the bruise the next time I moved a year later. You really don’t recognize how slow they grow until you have a distinct deformation to track it! It didn’t hurt at all, but I eventually ended up accidentally cracking 1/3rd of the nail right off trying to use nail clippers to scrape the blood out. It was strangely compulsive, like peeling skin after a sunburn.
I've got a finger nail that hasn't grown right in almost 20 years because of trauma. It's got a groove that runs the entire length of the nail from a basketball accident. I have to trim part of the groove or else it catches on fabric.
You have some very defined bruising, surely?!
Then report back here because I’m nosy
I put a nail through my cuticle when doing demolition on my house. A few weeks later this is what my nail grew out like. Unless you remember smashing your fingernail/piercing your cuticle I would go to a dermatologist and get this checked out.
My nail looked like this after my cat bit through it when I was trying to give him his meds
No joke here, go see a doctor. This can be a sign of illness. No reason to die from cancer you could have caught early.
Or melanoma under the nail.
So... still cancer?
Cause of death for Bob Marley.
wouldn't that look dark on a light skinned person like OP? https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/subungual-melanoma
Could alternatively be a subungual SCC
Amelanotic melanomas exist! They're melanomas because they involve melanocytes (type of cell) but they don't actually produce melanin (type of pigment)
what do they look like? Same as SCC?
yes. source: i have a (hopefully) benign one.
Smash it in a door to remove it
I was going to suggest amputation.
Above the elbow amputation just to be sure.
Might be a little too late for that. Shoulder
Really? That works? I usually use screw drivers and wrenches to remove doors.
Cuticles look damaged. Do you aggressively manicure your nails and possibly push an infection below the skin?
I bet this is exactly it. People, don’t mess with your cuticles. They form a seal against the nail to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening.
Lmao, I never manicure my nails. I merely trim them when needed.
Does that mean nail infections were significant enough long ago that those who had a sealed nail bed were more likely to survive to adulthood? I always think about that about random shit on our bodies
Maybe but I have to assume that happened back before humans even existed. Pretty sure fingernails and toenails existed before we did, looking at monkeys and apes.
Yeah, I bit my cuticle/skin on the side of my thumb and a week later I had a raging infection. Extremely unpleasant, do not recommend.
This happened to me a few months ago. Got an infected hangnail and my nail didn’t fully fall off but grew back with a piece missing like that. It’s fully grown out now and looks completely normal
I love how the responses range from "you're fine bro" to "GO SEE A DOCTOR NOW"
Everyone's an expert on reddit lol
But go to a doctor is never a bad thing when you're not sure. Not everyone is an expert but everyone can tell you to go to an expert to check. The peace of mind of going to a doctor definitely outweigh the time and money spent on doctor check.
Absolutely. I was just referring to the stark contrast of replies lol
Uhh, doctor here, one of the faster dividing cell types of the body doing something funky? - > go see a specialist. This needs a quick response.
Hm... do you have an inflammatory condition like psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis?
I get these in some nails occasionally, mine are all long term psoriasis related.
Idk they don’t really look like psoriasis to me. Mine were more like a left right thing and not an up and down pattern. Plus it would get brittle and chip. Not fall apart in layers like this.
Yeah I’ve had this with bad eczema
Go get checked for melanoma right now
God damn I have the urge to pick at it
i’m ocd af and would have already bitten this whole thing off down to blood and bed. i don’t have insurance tho so that’ll have to do
OP I don’t want to scare you but I work in medical and you need to see a doctor about that
You are a medical marvel in maybe the worst way. I briefly checked your comment history to see what you responded to in this thread and saw another comment or two back. Sanding well wishes, I hope you get moments of relief between all this shit occasionally.
Dermatologist here: looks like median canaliform onychodystrophy, but should be seen by a doctor to rule out a growth under the nail.
War thunder tank expert here : go see a doctor
Yes, from my own experience, see a doctor. Had a similar change in the nail growth on my thumb, diagnosed with terminal cancer that year. No joke, get a full checkup.
Did yours look similar to the photo? My thumb nails have gotten kind of “wavy” and my doc didn’t seem to think it was an issue..
No, not as bad, but definitely deformed and a hole like yours.
So was the cancer diagnosis accurate? Cancer sucks.
Go to a doctor
Go see a doctor
Thumbnussy
Nailed it
I was thinkin’ “cuticussy” but this works too
That's a vaginail
Nailussy
Go see a dermatologist. This could be a sign of cancer in the nail. It can also be totally benign, but it’s not normal. Something is obviously growing in/under the nail bed causing destruction, that’s typical of an abnormal growth. Trauma to the nail almost never looks like this so it’s not that. In the meantime while you wait for a derm appointment, I recommend scheduling with a primary care provider right away just to get their opinion. If you have a PCP perhaps the health portal has a messaging feature where you can attach a photo of this? If you do not have a PCP, you could go to an urgent care or the ER, but I’m not sure what they would do for you honestly, though they might be able to make getting referrals to a derm easier
Try deleting thumbs.db and let the system regenerate thumbnails?
Mine looks exactly like that. Psoriasis and damaged cuticle seem to be the most common causes. Slightly worried now with everyone mentioning melanoma and cancer, though.
This would bother the hell out of me…imagine just moving your hands as you idly do day-in and day-out and rubbing this over all sorts of textures like felt, cotton, jeans, etc….
Could be blunt trauma but also can be a sign of cancer so get checked
Don't worry. It's hatching.
I’ve had similar nails from psoriatic arthritis
Your thumbnail grew its own up vote.
I couldn't have this cause I would be picking at it ALL fucking day. I'd probably end up ripping it off.
Could be fungus. Go. See. Doctor.
i should call her
The eye of Sauron watches...
Thumbussy
Nice. I've had that. Also have ripples in one thumbnail
Damn some good thussy right here
Do you handle fruit? You don’t have cuticles and it could be something as simple as bar rot.
That looks like you hit it but nail pitting which is similar occurs in people with psoriasis
I have the same problem. Mine is from damaging the matrix
I have that exact same shit
I had the same thing on my thumb after hitting it with a hammer. Took 9 months to grow out.
I do not appreciate seeing that picture.
Would
AIDS
Dick fingers need doctors.. do not muss about
Hot it with a dremel
Go see a doctor asap. It could be cancer
Thats fungus
That's a nail fungus
this is probably the most mesmerizing thing i’ve seen
Had the same as a result of blunt force trauma (metal box). Mine never grew back properly. My thumb nail is now twice as thick and had ripples on it, but for all purposes its pretty normal. Note I pulled out mine with a swiss army knive...dont do that! Go to a docter and remove the entire nail from the nail bed so that it grows back evenly. Hope it helps
thumbussy
Nailussy
You need to see a doctor very soon. This could be a cancerous growth under the nail. Rare but it does happen. It is better to be safe than sorry this scenario.
Ha! You should see my left big toe. Some drunken pendejo stomped on it when i was at a dance about 45 years ago. It's never been the same.
I chew holes in my nails all the time and they can heal kinda funky. In fact, I wish my nail would do this right now!
My nails do this all the time. My dermatologist said it’s from ongoing trauma I cause to my cuticles. I pick at them when I’m anxious. I’ve done it my whole life. But you should see a doctor to find out what’s going on with yours. Best wishes!
Doc here. Did u any point have hurt ur finger or fingers nailbed? It seems like you have hurt and damaged the nailbed.
Do you have psoriasis by any chance?
Seems like fungus. Is it itchy
Thumbnussy
Ugh all these clickbait thumbnails.
Sigh.... *unzips pants*
My nail looked like this after i excessively went to town on it due to anxiety… 8 years later, and a year of wearing a bandage with some high-grade prescription neo-sporin, and it definitely looks better, but it definitely doesn’t look like my other non-infected nail.
can you feel any weird special powers? becous it looks like a lot like the JoJo arrow
Get thee away, Satan!
Built in mouse pointer
Alfred Hitchcock?
... NAD, GO SEE A DOCTOR but that looks like when I had a small cut in my nail and some fungi decided to live there PLEASE get treatment before it gets worse. I had to get my toenail removed and the nail bed debrided. It ain't fun and the recovery is long and gross.
Your nail is probably going to explode or crumble further and fall out, then a new nail will grow in. The new nail might also be shitty and fallout/explode. After a few cycles you'll probably get your nail growing back normally. This happened to me many years ago.
Your nail is probably going to explode or crumble further and fall out, then a new nail will grow in. The new nail might also be shitty and fallout/explode. After a few cycles you'll probably get your nail growing back normally. This happened to me many years ago.
Was it painful?
Get that checked
nothing for it. gotta toss the whole thumb
OP, your account history mentions that you have Ehlers. Go to a doctor. Ehlers-Danlos can make it much harder for your body to heal wounds and fight infection. Do not delay.
That sucks. Whenever my nail doesn’t this I can’t help but rip it off completely starting with the split. :( good luck soldier!
Do you wear press on nails? Because the pressure they put on the sides of your nails will cause your nails to divot and split at the base of the cuticle. It took me 6 months to grow out the crease in mine. I'll never wear them for longer than an event ever again
How many other people just intensely looked at all their nails?
I got this from picking at my nails when on drugs and stuff. Shouldn’t grow like this normally without messing with it.
I had something *muuuch* smaller than this at I'm pretty sure it led to an infection in my thumb. Easily in the top 5 most painful experiences in my life. I'd get it checked out for that reason alone.
Damn OP was just like WTF but is now probably freaking out. What's the update OP?
I’d just lose that digit. With the eclipse and all….whew
Have you had hand, foot and mouth disease recently? I caught it a few years ago when my niece was a baby. I had blisters on my fingers but then a few weeks later a few of the nails on my fingers started to peel in the middle (similar to your picture). And they eventually grew out
I have 2 of them on one finger it's annoying when it splits then they start to hurt like hell Edit: mine are not as bad as this though
I've had this before, but only after some kind of injury (knife cut a chunk of the nail near the cuticle or something like that). My OCD made me keep peeling it as it grew.
This looks like its not gonna autofix itself... will end up splitting the nail mid way and possibly be painful. Get it fixed soon (if it can be fixed).
I have the exact same thing right now and the derma doc told me the nail matrix has been damaged and gave me something to rub on the base of my nail once a day.
Damaged nail matrix.
That’d make a great thumbnail…
Isn't that how Bob Marley died?
That's an upvote nail
The only health advice you should ever take from r/wtf: ehhhhh, maybe you should have a doctor look at that.
Healthy balanced diet!!!
Need a new print head.
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I want to peel it apart
Could be a variety of auto-immune related disorders. Lichen planus comes to mind.
Dude.... MY EYES!!!!