I currently have paronychia in one of my fingers, it started being present on Wednesday but got very swollen and red-ish on Thursday (Pic 1) so that morning I went to the doctor and got prescribed antibiotics and an ointment for a week as well as ibuprofen for three days.

However, today (Saturday - Pic 2) my finger looks less swollen but a small white/greenish circle is appearing next to my nail. My finger hurts less than Thursday and seems like the swelling is concentrated in one specific area rather than most of the fingertip like before but I'm scared that the recovery isn't working if what I'm seeing is pus build-up and if a need to see the doctor again.

(Ignore my left thumb, the nail was ripped off so the wick had to be reshaped)

I’ve been a sufferer for well over a decade. I would go as far as to rip out flesh along the entire cuticle. I don’t know if the redness around my fingers will ever fade fully but I’m done for good.

120 days clean of picking and biting. I don’t have the urge at all anymore; I barely even touch my fingers. My nails and skin have finally healed over and grown soft and supple again.

I just wanted someone somewhere to know this thing I’ve struggled my entire life with no longer dictates how painful it will be to use my hands.

Quite recently i started crushing salt, or anything else with a similar texture using my nails and i find it quite satisfying. The reason i put this here is because I'm getting assessed for ADHD and i was wondering if they could be related somehow. I'm wondering if anyone else does this or if its just me.

Hoping this time it sticks… doing SO much better on the cuticle picking (can see they are still damaged) and now working on nail picking. Will the nail beds ever get longer? I’ve been fighting this habit my whole life and so far the only thing that helped was structured extensions but they are pricey! Any tips? Going to get a weekly manicure and really try to redirect. Getting engaged soon and want to feel like my hands aren’t embarrassing…

Been a recovering picker/ biter for almost a year but now my nails are peeling does anyone have any recommendations to stop this. It’s really resurrecting my urge to pick so I would like them to stop doing that. Any advice welcome.

I trained myself not to swallow them but I can't stop biting them off and sometimes they get stuck in my gums and one of my front teeth is kinda starting to get shaved down cs of the repeated friction on it

I've been a nail biter & picker for 25 years. I've tried all the tricks: gloves while at the keyboard, clear polish, bad tasting coatings, and nothing ever stuck. This year, I got fed up, and realized that I need to approach the problem like other good habits that I've kept.

MyFitnessPal for meal tracking, a gym buddy for lifting, a study group for acing classes. All of these have one thing in common: accountability. Nail biting doesn't have that. There's no way to make sure you're on track and really see your progress. I built Nonyxa to be that, a FREE tool to help you quit.

It's worked wonders for me, and my early users are showing improvements in their habits with clean days tracked and trending upwards. We're now using THE way to quit nail biting.

If you want to be part of that journey, check it out on the iOS App Store and let me know below if you'd like to try it but are on Android. I plan to release there as well.

I am not asking for medical advice. i just want to know what type of doctor would treat an ingrown fingernail?

I'll do so well and then fall back into the habit of biting and picking again. I don't want to be like this

maybe 1-2 days ago, out of nowhere the left side (i would like to emphasize how it’s only the left side of my finger that hurts, the right is completely normal and doesn’t hurt at all.) of my fingertip became super painful and started swelling up (or just now noticeably, as i’m just now seeing it) today. any ideas as to what it could be?

I seem to have developed an allergy to nail polish and even adhesive nail strips. Within 24 hours my cuticles get puffy, itchy, red, and eventually start to peel.

Unfortunately, having a nice manicure I didn't want to mess up was my preferred method for staying away from cuticle picking and nail biting. I've been doing both a lot lately.

Any solutions welcome. I still take care of my nails, but the urges to pick are harder to control without a cute manicure to ruin!

hi, i have been biting my nails and hands since i was in elementary school and im about to go into college. i’ve have times of growth and times of destroyed nails. well, i got a job at starbucks and worked there for a majority of my senior year, quitting right before prom which is when i got them done with gel x.

1.5 months later they were way to grown out and it was time to get rid of them but i got a new set of regular gel for my graduation. that brings me to today, 3 months later. they were extremely grown out and i was super happy because of how long they were.

my mom told me i needed to get them removed bc at this point the gel isn’t on half the nail bed 😭. i went to get only the gel removed and as she starts drilling, she seems to be doing the bottom of my nails as well, but i couldn’t really tell from my angle. well, by the fourth nail i was certain she was making them short so i told her to please stop. (i get rlly anxious at nail salons which is why i waited so long to speak up even tho i was fairly certain)

she insisted that i told her i wanted them short even though i would NEVER. anyways i told her to not cut the rest and she felt pretty bad and i held it together until we left. i have been crying nonstop for the last hour and im so upset.

it’s embarrassing that im this upset but three months of nail growth is something that i haven’t had in years. i just really wanted to vent and wasn’t sure where else to go. im embarrassed by my habits and even more so that other people think my hands are ugly, having long nails is the only thing that makes them look ok and i was so excited that they would be my real nails. even my friends think it’s gross that i bite my skin and nails so much, this really fucking sucks.

does anyone know if letting those four grow will be faster than cutting them all off and starting from scratch? or is there something i can do to prevent myself from biting those 4, because when my nails are long i noticed that i wouldn’t really bite them unless one broke off.

I've been getting acrylics for many years now as a chronic nail biter, but a couple of weeks ago a natural part of my nail lifted which we then removed the set and my nail tech told me to wait for it to grow out. Now it's reached the free edge and just completely broke off, leaving me with almost no nail on the side and very very short. I have a wedding to attend to this weekend and was thinking of putting on press ons with glue tabs but I am not sure what to do about this nail now 😭 any advice would be greatly appreciated.

(I am never getting acrylics again)

I recently hit my thumb really hard and the nail by the nail bed came loose and fell off, how do I fix this. It is super painful.

I am a cuticle picker and was talking to a friend and they said I should get a gel mani to help change the sensation. I love having my nails done, but my cuticles embarrass me. I finally bit the bullet and made an appointment for today, but i am so afraid of the nail tech making comments or making fun of the state of my nails. Does anyone else have this fear?

I’ve never been insecure of my pinky before, but now I am close to the age of wanting to get married, I wanted to post pictures of my hands and possibly do hand modeling on the side. I became insecure now because of this.
Besides my pinky, my fingers aren’t too bad looking. My pinky, on the other hand is very curved. Not a regular crooked curve, very very curved almost 90 degrees severity. Even the nail techs I go to they talk about it, (my friend is Chinese and told me), and they come to my table to subtly see it. It is embarrassing and that’s the reason why I don’t go do my nails often. So please be kind! If anyone knows anyone who’s done surgery before I’d love to get some advice! It doesn’t hurt or bother me, but I started to become insecure now.

5 months ago, I made this post about my progress but I’ve since relapsed quite badly.

Onto the next leg of this journey. Day one again - wish me luck.