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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 14, 2024 4:18:42 GMT
My thumb has been bothering me for a month. Not super painful, just feels like someone hit it. Not consistent pain, just intermittently and nothing I can pinpoint aggravating it. It hurts at knuckle, just kind of wrote it off as early arthritis or something. I just noticed that my thumbnail is concave at the base right in the middle. It looks like someone put a flathead screwdriver in my nail and pushed it in. Just about halfway up from the cuticle. I have no idea how long it has been that way. But not always. Definitely relatively recent. Could they be connected? What could have caused this. I definitely do not recall any injury, it certainly was never bruised.
I googled nail disorders and almost threw up looking at the pictures. My nail issue is just one nail though. So it is probably just an injury I don’t recall, right?
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Post by lucyg on Aug 14, 2024 4:24:49 GMT
I have a long history of my nails doing weird things, getting grooves or dips, tied to traumatic events in my life. When my husband died, when I was in chemo the first time, had major surgery, etc. A few months later, I can see the telltale groove/dip going across my nails. Is it possibly due to something like that?
I don’t know anything about your joint pain, sorry. Hope it clears up quickly.
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 14, 2024 4:34:00 GMT
I have a long history of my nails doing weird things, getting grooves or dips, tied to traumatic events in my life. When my husband died, when I was in chemo the first time, had major surgery, etc. A few months later, I can see the telltale groove/dip going across my nails. Is it possibly due to something like that? I don’t know anything about your joint pain, sorry. Hope it clears up quickly. Nothing dramatic happening here, knock wood. It is just weird it is on the same thumb. While reading the article from the Mayo Clinic while trying to avoid the pictures they had so many reasons, diabetes, iron deficiency, and a bunch of other things. I just figure if it is just one nail it must not be those, right? That is interesting about you having the same thing when something traumatic was happening. Was it all your nails? I hope you don’t ever have any reason to have it happen again.  |
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Post by snyder on Aug 14, 2024 4:35:33 GMT
The joint pain could be beginning of arthritis. And because the thumb hurt, you noticed the nail, so don't think they are related. The dip in the nail could be due to poor circulation. Do you do anything repetitive with that thumb? Like a lot of mousing while on the computer, needlework, knitting, etc. The pressure of those type of tasks causes to the thumb, over time, results in restricted blood flow.
Do ask your doctor about it if it doesn't stop hurting. Meanwhile, if you do use your thumb a lot, give it breaks and massage it to keep good blood flow.
Hope it gets better soon.
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Post by katlady on Aug 14, 2024 4:55:40 GMT
Maybe a form of gout? Or maybe a pinch nerve that leads to the thumb.
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Post by lucyg on Aug 14, 2024 15:56:33 GMT
I have a long history of my nails doing weird things, getting grooves or dips, tied to traumatic events in my life. When my husband died, when I was in chemo the first time, had major surgery, etc. A few months later, I can see the telltale groove/dip going across my nails. Is it possibly due to something like that? I don’t know anything about your joint pain, sorry. Hope it clears up quickly. Nothing dramatic happening here, knock wood. It is just weird it is on the same thumb. While reading the article from the Mayo Clinic while trying to avoid the pictures they had so many reasons, diabetes, iron deficiency, and a bunch of other things. I just figure if it is just one nail it must not be those, right? That is interesting about you having the same thing when something traumatic was happening. Was it all your nails? I hope you don’t ever have any reason to have it happen again. Yes, I think it’s all my nails, but on some nails, it’s deeper/more noticeable than the others. P.S. and thank you for the kind thoughts.  |
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