I do pointe 4 hours a week and about a month ago, my big toenail started really hurting. The nail felt like their was a lot of pressure on it but as far as appearance goes, it looked fine.
About a week after that, I got this huge dark purple bruise that covered the entire right half of the nail. At that point, my nail didn't hurt anymore, so I continued doing pointe. When I took off my pointe shoes after my 2nd class with the bruise, my toe was hurting really bad and there was a lot of blood seeping out from under the nail. I decided to tough it out and continue with class the next day and the same thing happened.
After that second class, I, my instructor and my mom all decided that I should take a break from pointe to let my nail heal. It's been a week since then and now almost all of my nail is detatched from my toe. The only part that is still attached is the cuticle and the left edge (the side that wasn't bruised).
Should I remove the nail? If so, how?
2007-11-02
14:17:10
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