INTRODUCTION: FIGHTING MY TOENAIL FUNGUS!

Here we go! I got my two little toes infected while ago, say, by 1998. I didn't do much about it, because what I did didn't work so well. Basically, applying anti-fungal to them, keeping them as dry and clean as possible. I gave up. So I lived with my symbiotic friends for at least 10 years. I did a good job taking care of the rest of my toe nails.

Last year, however, I got a horrible ingrowing nail. It got infected really bad. After taking it off, everything seemed to be alright. This was around February 2009. My toe looked recovered by April or a little later, perhaps. I started again to have pedicures and polish my nails.

By the end of Summer (2009) I noticed that, exactly in the same little corner where the ingrowing nail was before, my nail was a little white. I thought, at first, that a new ingrowing nail was getting into my skin. So I just let it there and cut it off as most as I could. I continued polishing my toe nails. For the most part, without really taking care of the state of my nails, given the fact that polish nails last a long time in my feet and I mostly went have pedicures (I didn't do it by myself).

What a mistake! It happened that around a month ago, I finally took off the polish and what a disgusting surprise! My left big toe nail was getting really thick and yellowish/greenish! Gross! I thought that I should not let the fungus get worst, nor become a part of me (as I did with my two little toe nails). The fact that it is the big one made me realize how bad it looks!

So, I look for a lot of products over the internet and drugstores. And decided to try NONYX, which even if some people claimed is nothing but vinegar, it has starting to have some (I hope positive) effects on my big toenail.

Given that I have look for blogs, pictures, etc., in the internet to give me an idea whether my toe is healing appropriately or not, and I have not found really much, I'm starting this blog. Hopefully I will be successful! If so, I hope this could help some to have a reference of someone who had gone through the process.

Disclaimer! I'm not trying to teach people how to cure their toenail fungus. My purpose here is to illustrate my own case. You might try what I did, if successful, after all. May be, add some steps to your routine that, you consider, might help to your own situation. The responsibility of your toes is yours, as it is my own with my poor infected toes. Hopefully this will be of some utility for some of you!