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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Well I know its different but I forked out on one of those revitive foot things, that give you electric shocks, for aching legs and feet.

    Never worked on me despite what the celebs say in the ads, waste of 300 quid.

    The Nail fungus treatments I've seen in chemists are pretty long term, I think you have to use them for months, presumably until the whole length of the nail has grown out, otherwise it reinfects if you stop.
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Another famine around the corner then, we can blame it on climate change.:biggrin:
       
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      Yes, months and months of dedicated application required. The problem, as it seems to be according to the link I added above, is that the fungus lives between the skin and the underside surface of the nail. So anything that you rub on doesn’t penetrate the thickness of the nail and kill off the fungus. I’m glad I’ve never had that problem to deal with. :blue thumb:
       
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        Tea tree oil is marvellous for anything like that @Tidemark. If it’s applied on the tip of the toe and let it run under the nail every day that might be enough to treat it.
         
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          I've got brown thick big toe nails but to be honest I dont bother, it might be fungus I'm not sure.
          I hit one with a spade many years ago and it was never the same after that.:biggrin:
           
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            @Tidemark I thought there was something (sorry don't know the name) that was prescription only. Has he spoken to his GP?
             
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              Would it be worth having his toenails removed as only 2 are affected, @Tidemark? I had both my big toe nails removed when I was 15, as they were badly ingrown and infected. Unfortunately they grew back ingrown, so I've just lived with them.

              If the nails were removed, he might be able to reach the infection and treat it before new ones grow. It takes a couple of months for this to happen. It's not too painful, though it does look fairly gory when you first take the bandages off. But maybe at 15, I hadn't be exposed to much mutilation (not so much Morse, etc, on TV in those days), so I wasn't prepared for the grand reveal. :biggrin:
               
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                He’s 84 and has got used to his toenail problem in the same sort of way that one gets used to an annoying neighbour. Only he can’t sell up and move out. :scratch:

                The laser lights look relatively stress free and comfortable. I think I might buy one for his birthday and hope for the best. :)
                 
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                  Can but try! :)

                  If at 84, toenail fungus is his most pressing affliction, he's doing pretty well. :biggrin:
                   
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                    I’m pretty sure he must have spoken to his GP at some point in the past. Couldn’t swear to it. :)
                     
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                      A friend has toenail fungus problem. He was telling us about it yesterday. Really thick- 3mm- nails he says, such that he won't wear flip flops as it's too ugly to look at. After a paint on solution failed, his GP says he would need to take antibiotics by mouth for some time. He declined.

                      With athletes foot is it not best to air one's feet? When I was a student I caught it in the Halls Of Residence bathroom. I was given some cream and it disappeared. But drying between the toes well is a good idea.
                       
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                        My bro lives in the middle of nowhere in Queensland. Bare feet are de rigeur!
                         
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                          I agree, but Trump probably set handing it over as a condition of invading Venezuela. Is the irony of a Peace Prize being handed over to a man who has just invaded another country lost on others?
                           
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                            ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
                            Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
                            All mimsy were the borogoves,
                            And the mome raths outgrabe.
                            “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
                            The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
                            Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
                            The frumious Bandersnatch!”
                            He took his vorpal sword in hand;
                            Long time the manxome foe he sought—
                            So rested he by the Tumtum tree
                            And stood awhile in thought.
                            And, as in uffish thought he stood,
                            The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
                            Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
                            And burbled as it came!
                            One, two! One, two! And through and through
                            The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
                            He left it dead, and with its head
                            He went galumphing back.
                            “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
                            Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
                            O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
                            He chortled in his joy.
                            ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
                            Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
                            All mimsy were the borogoves,
                            And the mome raths outgrabe.
                             
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                              So Trump is going to put tariffs on any country that doesn’t support his plan to invade Greenland? As if the American people haven’t enough strains on their household budgets without having to fund his megalomaniac plans. Of course his faithful supporters are still believing his rhetoric that the other countries pay the tariffs, when they are the ones that do.
                               

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