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Who Else lost a toenail this winter.

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connoroh
Posts: 2333 - Karma: 246
Cause mine came off today.


fuck.
Jun 27 2009 4:07PM
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gnarrr
Posts: 823 - Karma: 12
lost one in january and it still hasnt fully grown back
Jun 28 2009 12:48AM
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Bo_bot9
Posts: 1437 - Karma: 275
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This was taken in January. The nail fell off in early april and is just about 100% grown back. Looking forward to loosing it again next year yay!
Jun 28 2009 1:11AM
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Beefcake
Posts: 378 - Karma: 10
my right one fell off in april. tis a lil over halfway back. uber gnar
Jun 28 2009 2:07AM
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EasyEast
Posts: 1983 - Karma: 118
i lost one last season cause my boots sucked but i got new boots this season so i didn't loose one
Jun 28 2009 2:09AM
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Kevski
Posts: 7056 - Karma: 2,785
I lost both big toe nails last season. They grew back all shitty, and I had surgery on the sides of the nail bed because it was all infected and gross and I could barely walk. Ingrown bad on both sides. Like puss and blood and all. So now the thing is starting to do it on the surgified nail again and I hope it doesn't get that bad again... So lame.

It was all because of poor fitting boots, and a slightly retarded skiing technique. So this season I was all fine.

The process was really natural for me. I kept trimming the non-attached part of the nail back until the whole thing just popped off right. No painful catch-on-sock tear-off.
Jun 28 2009 2:58AM
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cams
Posts: 3937 - Karma: 27
I double-blackened both of them at the end of December, lost them around the beginning of February and are almost 100% grown back.

When they were bruised that shit was so sensitive I couldn't even sleep with a thin blanket on top of them.


Jun 28 2009 9:52AM
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Fev4ng
Posts: 225 - Karma: 62

So true. I toe banged my big toe nail in mid-december, and it is soon fully recovered.

Jun 28 2009 10:36AM
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Che~
Posts: 2108 - Karma: 296
i lost my right big toenail 2 weeks ago, and im still waiting for my left big. Its all dead from frostbite/toebang, and its nasty (i makes a hollow noise when i tap it :)
Jun 28 2009 10:47AM
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iLLbiLLy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 2,631
i deffinatly did
Jun 28 2009 11:03AM
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Shredneck
Posts: 2051 - Karma: -32
Lost me right on in late jan earrly feb its grown almost all the way back
Jun 28 2009 11:29AM
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C.J.
Posts: 5460 - Karma: 72
I shoved mine straight back into my toe in early December. Could not ride for like 2 weeks, lost it after 3 weeks. The weird thing is how it grew back, not pretty to say the least. 
Jun 28 2009 12:01PM
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Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,901

Hahahah!  Hobbit toes!!! 

This was the first season in like the last 10 years that I didn't lose one.  I'm sure I just got lucky. 

Jun 28 2009 12:09PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
lost both mid season, fucking small boots
Jun 28 2009 12:20PM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
my righty is going to be coming off in a few months I ended up getting mine drained at the doctors because I ended up not being able to put any weight on it. so much shit came out of it haha
Jun 28 2009 4:48PM
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Gretchen.
Posts: 1163 - Karma: 87
We dropped a 250 pound concrete parking barrier on my friend's toe a few weeks back. His nail has since fallen off.. Wasnt broken but the nail and cuticle was ripped clear out of the toe. He got 10 stitches and we were at the ER for 5 hours..:

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Iodined up in the ER

Jun 28 2009 5:30PM
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charmander
Posts: 10636 - Karma: 373
all you really need is a dremel type thing.

but yeah, slow is the way to go.
Jun 28 2009 5:43PM
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paone
Posts: 593 - Karma: 266
big toe left foot, was black all season then aftyer a few hottub sess's after the gym it fell off
Jun 28 2009 7:35PM
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SloppyJ
Posts: 617 - Karma: 363
my thumb nail just came off a couple days ago from hitting a rock
Jun 28 2009 7:38PM
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abc8tr8we98g
Posts: 498 - Karma: 25
dude i have one of those too...it hurts freaking bad after only a few days of skiing and then takes months to stop hurting...im trying to make some sort of thing to wear on my foot to keep my boot from putting so much pressure on it.
Jun 28 2009 11:29PM
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.jon
Posts: 2121 - Karma: 345
hahahahha this is common?

i lost both big toe nails. they turned black and blue about 2 weeks into the season then one fell off with a month left and the other fell off 2 months after the season. now they're all yellow, blue, and deformed =(
Jun 28 2009 11:33PM
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VTtreeskier
Posts: 1833 - Karma: 64
I haven't had fully grown big toe nails for two years now, last year when i was about one clipping away from having them grow back they fell off again. However hopefully my full tilts will help my toenails stay with me this upcoming season.
Jun 28 2009 11:43PM
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joly.sp
Posts: 2305 - Karma: 585
yup in march, pretty much grown back. I lost all feeling in the top half of my right toe on a -35 day haha it hasnt fallen off though so thats good!
Jun 28 2009 11:45PM
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Bangor
Posts: 9599 - Karma: 129
I've been skiing for like 10 years now and I've never had any toenail problems whatsoever...... I'm honestly kind of surprised to see so many responses in here
Jun 29 2009 1:01AM
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406
Posts: 2302 - Karma: 92
lost a toenail every year except last year because i got some sick new boots
Jun 29 2009 1:12AM
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mozzy
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Well, I tend to get bruising in my big toes, the nail has never fallen off completely, but the nail kind of needs to get 'reconnected' with the rest of the toe, if you know what I mean. I guess this is what happens in my quest for the perfect pair of boots, somehow I don't seem to quite get the size exactly right. And one of my feet is ever so slightly longer than the other.

Really yummy photos, I'm glad I read this thread well before lunch.


Jun 29 2009 3:34AM
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TONYDANZA
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Yes lost one from the cold, it grew back, weird how the old nail stayed and the new one grew underneath. When it was fully grown the old one fell off.
Jun 29 2009 3:41AM
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HR8938Cephei
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ive never lost one yet i hope its not to bad haha
Jun 29 2009 5:12AM
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Nicko1981
Posts: 527 - Karma: 180
Yeah I fucked my big toe in March in Mayrhofen; went all a weird colour and brittle for a while; then I got sick of it and ripped it off about 2 months later; new badboy is currently growing to replace it. Looks a bit weird though, I think he might be a mutant.
Jun 29 2009 8:58AM
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nussc
Posts: 64 - Karma: 116
Yeh Nicko man same happened with me... it's cool to show off to people, for a while...
Jun 29 2009 9:30AM
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heFF
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i think i lost just about every toe nail this season
Jun 29 2009 9:32AM
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Nicko1981
Posts: 527 - Karma: 180
Well we gotta have something seeing as we ski like absolute cunts.
Jun 29 2009 9:36AM
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toominator
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haha I was trimming my munted toe yesterday and more puss/blood shit started oozing out from under the nail
Jul 1 2009 9:11PM
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the-big-lepowski
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the pain depends on how you treat it.  I lost both big toenails due to toebang in too-small boots, one in december and the other in january.  #1, I didn't release the blood under the nail, so there was pressure and it made it hard to ski and sometimes even walk.  the second went much more easily when I opened it up.  not pleasant though.  took me 5 months to fully regrow the nails.

Jul 1 2009 9:51PM
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Steezy_Sauce
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My dad was a big freestyle skier back in the late 70's, early 80's and he would rip his toe nails out before every winter.

Said it was more comfortable in a ski boot and his turning came with more ease on moguls...
Jul 2 2009 2:55AM
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powderhound100
Posts: 2510 - Karma: 144
haha I didn't know this was so common. I have never lost one, or any of my family, or anyone that I have actually heard of from skiing until now.
Jul 2 2009 2:59AM
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SUPREMExDIPSET
Posts: 310 - Karma: 12
mine fell off in april, but not all the way so my nail grew into my skin and i had to pry it out. so now it is really fucked up
Jul 2 2009 3:23AM
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dweezileast
Posts: 9661 - Karma: 276
smashed mine good in january, turned all blue but didn't come off, and a new nail started to grow under it. Then I smashed it again in late february and about a month later the original nail and the immature baby nail that was growing underneath popped off, just about grown back now
Jul 2 2009 1:13PM
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frstyl46skier
Posts: 566 - Karma: 18
My big toe nail chipped off about 75% of the way from landing on the knuckle one day and jamming it into my ski boot. That sucked super bad cuz it was all sharp and stuff and got caught on everything every time I put my socks on or anything like that. Would have much rather just lost the whole thing
Jul 2 2009 1:18PM
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Mex_LineJib^a
Posts: 3928 - Karma: 65
not really lost... just jammed into the inside of my left toe. kinda still hurts.
Jul 2 2009 1:39PM
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skivt12
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i lost mine real early in the season and i kept loosing the ones that grew back. it sucks right now i have half a toenail on my leftbig toe
Jul 2 2009 1:45PM
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CTD
Posts: 6301 - Karma: 349
I always loose at least one, specially if im getting alot of skiing in that season.

My one is all fucked up from dropping a 100lb sheet of MDF board on it a few years ago, and never grows right. that one fell off this season along with my other one, and is still growing fucked up, was kinda hoping itd have come back in normal lol.

And to the dude who was talkin about boot fit, its just something that comes with having snug fitting boots. Ive found that a cut up DR scholls pad in the toebox (outside the liner) really helps, but you gotta have the room to do it. (trimming the toe area from the footbed will free up some room.)
Jul 2 2009 2:04PM
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Dilla
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lost both big toenails. one in May, one about 3 weeks ago.
Jul 2 2009 3:28PM
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ECski
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i lose them off like 4 of my toes every season, shit sucks
Jul 2 2009 3:31PM
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barberdude
Posts: 520 - Karma: 140
Lost one big toe nail in March.  Lost both big toe nails about 8 years ago, that sucked.
Jul 2 2009 6:23PM
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Kev-Hal
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Just bringing this back because I don't want to start a new thread...

Anyway, both my big toe nails have been fucked for years. They have never fallen off though. But they have never really grown back out and fixed themselves either. They have always just been there but not really attached, if that makes sense? Like there are just spaces of nothing under each nail, but they never seem to really grow out.

So randomly lastnight, I stand up to walk and out of my right big toe nail a really watery blood shoots out from under my right big toe. Like a lot of shit came out, and it hurts like a bitch now.

Is it something I should go to the doctor about or what? This is the first time it's ever really been sore. They have always just been ugly until now, never really bothered me.
Is it better to just rip the damn thing off and see how it grows back or what?

Thanks for any help
Jul 28 2009 7:40PM
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Frank_Spinatra
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I busted mine last December, the new one pushed off the old one fully grown back in may, and now I just busted mine again skiing in New Zealand a week ago.  I just hope it grows back before I move back to Colorado in November.  Losing it twice a year is shitty.
Jul 28 2009 8:40PM
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seemeski
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I lost my pinky toe nail. It grew back messed up, but my toes are fucked from years of ski boots anyways,
Jul 28 2009 9:09PM
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mr_shifty
Posts: 316 - Karma: 16
lost my right big toe nail. took 4 months to fully grow back and still looks weird
Jul 28 2009 9:53PM
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Bangor
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Any body part that's discharging fluids that doesn't normally, is worth a trip to the doc.
Jul 29 2009 12:26AM
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ski-swagga
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same thats nasty!
Jul 29 2009 12:28AM
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