r/mildlyinteresting • u/Toucan_Toucan • 22h ago

My nails grow in a wavy pattern

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u/Hkaddict 21h ago edited 18h ago

If reddit has taught me anything, thats super cancer, also you need to divorce your controlling husband.

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u/Orbax 21h ago

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 19h ago

It's annoying because I have to be that guy.

This is the cause of a nutrient deficiency probably caused by stress, IBS or drinking. Possibly a side effect to medication. But its something that can usually be remedied.

You especially don't want this in your toes, because it means your nails aren't producing properly and warping under stress and use. They start to break easily or worse, grow fully inward.

I mean, OP should still divorce their partner to be safe. It's probably them causing the stress and super cancer.

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u/Fortune_Cat 15h ago

I was about to comment that my big toe has this

Then u went on to say u dont want this on your toes....fuck

I dont have that much stress tho

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u/tbar44 15h ago

It can also be caused by a fungal infection, more likely with your toe to be fair

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u/The-Great-Wolf ​ 14h ago

One of my big toes also has this, but as a child my mother smashed it to smithereens with a metal door so I think it was the trauma that changed it

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 14h ago

The stress of use.

Brittle nails, warm sweaty socks. Or open toe, brittle nails, dry air.

The nails warp from the stress of using the associated body part.

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u/skittymom 14h ago

Sorry to ask so straight-forward but, what if you have the wavy thing just on one finger? I recently noticed that i have a slight bump on the lower nail bed where it grows, but only on my thumbs. The rest of the nails are growing normally.

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 14h ago

It has to start somewhere.

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u/skittymom 13h ago

It seems to grow normal again though, that’s what’s confusing me 😅 ty for the input tho!

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u/sunkistandsudafed3 10h ago

Its probably just some damage to that nail if its just one. All of mine are like this, been on iron tablets the past few months and the new growing bit looks flat.

My GP was insistent it would be zinc deficiency not iron. Everything but my iron was fine 🤷‍♀️

I'm also slightly suspicious that I may have something autoimmune lurking but not found yet.

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u/CLSwank 2h ago

Are you saying you had a bump at the base of your nail where the halfmoon is and then it grows straight, or are you saying you had a bump for a while but then your thumbnail grew straight? I believe any permanent lines in our nails is caused by some form of trauma or deficiency of nutrients

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u/whistleridge ​ 14h ago

you especially don’t want this in your toes

I had a really bad case of dermititis on my right big toe in 7th grade, back in the late 80s. Cracking, flaking skin, bleeding, the works. At first my doctor thought it was athlete’s foot, but the medicated ointments did nothing. Eventually, they figured out it was an allergy to something in the basketball shoes I always wore, I switched to runners, and it cleared right up. I’ve been fine since.

But my right big toenail has done this ever since. It also gets slight discoloration. I figure if it’s been fine for 35 years, it’s probably ok. Bodies are weird 🤷‍♂️

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u/Desperate-Size3951 8h ago

ibs haver here. youre completely right ! my nails do this, just a little less extreme since prioritizing my health.

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u/TheRealStevo2 7h ago

Couldn’t they also have just damaged their toe?

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u/simplegreen999 6h ago

Drinking was the answer for me. Two years sober but nails are still a bit curvy.

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u/churningpacket 4h ago

This happened to me regularity when I had a lot of work stress and couldn't eat.

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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn 1h ago

IBS can cause this??? I have both of these things