NO! MY TOENAIL! (picture inside)

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I'm going to lose this aren't I?

[joenali]

Yep!

[joenali]

You have cute, tiny toes!

[joenali]

I don't have a foot fetish!

[melmel48]

Yes 

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May 18, 2014 17:12:22 GMT -5 joenali said:

Yep!

Tell me it's not painful? Anything I can do?

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May 18, 2014 17:13:51 GMT -5 melmel48 said:

Yes 

SAY IT AIN'T SO!

I've actually lost this one before, back in HS, I jammed into a door jam. It hurt like a bitch.

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Uh huh. I have both big toes like that, and the second one too on my right foot. The third toe is going to go as well... sigh.

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May 18, 2014 17:12:44 GMT -5 joenali said:

You have cute, tiny toes!

I have genetically tiny toes. My mom's feet are exactly the same.

[melmel48]

May 18, 2014 17:17:53 GMT -5 @sessalee said:

May 18, 2014 17:13:51 GMT -5 melmel48 said:

Yes 

SAY IT AIN'T SO!

I've actually lost this one before, back in HS, I jammed into a door jam. It hurt like a bitch.

In my experience, you will. I don't have this experience as a runner though! So maybe the running gods will spare you! My experience was walking into the tire of my uncle's 4 wheeler. Stupid Sam Adams. He distracted me and I didn't know where I was going. 

[joenali]

May 18, 2014 17:17:29 GMT -5 @sessalee said:

May 18, 2014 17:12:22 GMT -5 joenali said:

Yep!

Tell me it's not painful? Anything I can do?

Just let it be. When mine started lifting off the nail bed, I just kind of peeled it off. What was underneath had kind of calloused over. It didn't hurt at all. And it took about two months for the nail to fully grow back.

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I painted my toenails purple. Solidarity.

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May 18, 2014 17:19:49 GMT -5 joenali said:

May 18, 2014 17:17:29 GMT -5 @sessalee said:

Tell me it's not painful? Anything I can do?

Just let it be. When mine started lifting off the nail bed, I just kind of peeled it off. What was underneath had kind of calloused over. It didn't hurt at all. And it took about two months for the nail to fully grow back.

Just in time for summer!

It's not loose yet or anything. Just.... dark. I'll paint it for now. 

[Raggedeannie]

My pinky toe did this and I kept waiting and waiting for it to fall off. It never did and grew out normally. So... Maybe trees hope?

[jordylee]

Totally a goner.

[skwcm80]

It's not looking good, sorry.

[oliviapope]

I'm a novice runner, what about running makes toenails fall off? I really would like to keep all of mine lol

[m1and1m]

Yep, if plan to lose it. It might just detach without actually coming off, though, depending how bad the damage is below the cuticle. You have to be careful not to catch it on anything during that phase.

[kellydelq]

I have two right next to each other one looking like that and one much worse, this post is not giving me hope!!

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May 18, 2014 18:23:48 GMT -5 oliviapope said:

I'm a novice runner, what about running makes toenails fall off? I really would like to keep all of mine lol

Keep them trimmed short, wear the right shoes, and prayer. But it's something a lot of runners experience especially when you start to increase distance. 

I made it 3 years without losing a toenail!

[texassmith]

May 18, 2014 17:13:01 GMT -5 joenali said:

I don't have a foot fetish!

Riiiiiiiiiiight

[osulori]

Yep. Painting them purple was a good call, now just leave them alone (except for the regular trimming)...it shouldn't hurt

[archaeominx]

You actually might not. My one nail turned black after my full but never actually fell off. I kind of wished it would have because it's still a jacked up mess 7 months later.

[clseale]

I've only had one black toe nail, and it didn't come off, it just grew out. Now blisters under the nails, I've had a shitload of those, and they almost always come off. No shoe style, size, or prayer saves them....though they only pop up after some halves, and all fulls.

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May 18, 2014 20:52:17 GMT -5 clseale said:

I've only had one black toe nail, and it didn't come off, it just grew out. Now blisters under the nails, I've had a shitload of those, and they almost always come off. No shoe style, size, or prayer saves them....though they only pop up after some halves, and all fulls.

Yeah this happened during the half for sure. It was tender immediately afterwards. Oh well!

[CallingAllAngels]

Only on this board can you post a picture of a bruised toenail and have someone call it cute.

[billysgirl07]

yup, it's a gonner. Mine just fell off earlier this week as a result of one of my long runs before the half (for reference, it was on a long run, hot chocolate 15K, that was about a month before the half). I had a pedicure a week or so before the half and at that point, the nail was not separated from the nail bed. I was able to clip it down to no nail just the other day.

So you might have the nail for about a month or so before it deadens underneath. This is my 3rd lost toenail.

[finallykrisb]

My second toenails usually turn black but rarely actually fall off. Dark polish is your friend!