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Posted on: 3/17/11 11:38 AM ET
I've been soaking it in epson salts. I need the swelling to go down so I can wear a pair of shoes comfortably. I'm not sure if the toenail will be staying or going yet. I just did this yesterday. This is inconvenient.
  
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Posted on: 3/17/11 12:41 PM ET
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Try arnica gel on any part of the toe and around base of toe that is not an open wound. We use it all the time and have an a lot of friends that use it now too. Just had knee surgery and used it away from incisions until they healed and then all over. It has been fantastic! We like the Arniflora brand. A first tube can be hand at Whole Foods and then it can be bought cheaper at Vitacost.com. Start with it right away.
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Posted on: 3/17/11 1:04 PM ET
We got a Sprouts locally. I will check them. Whole Foods is a town away.
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Posted on: 3/17/11 1:16 PM ET
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How about wrapping it in ice for a while. Husband just a had a joint replacement in his toe and he was told to ice it to keep the swelling down.
  
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Posted on: 3/17/11 8:29 PM ET
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I've just done the hot water soaking with the epson salts and the arnica cream. It's St. Patricks and we had family over. It's looking much better, so thank you very much, but still too painful and swollen to wear a closed shoe.
I saw on a commercial Payless had some summer open toe summer shoes in, and I was able to reschedule our outing.
It's summer and I hate to have a purple toe or no toenail, or wear some sort of wierd shoe when I want to wear cute summer things.
Thank you for helping.
  
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Posted on: 3/17/11 8:32 PM ET
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It's going to take a couple days for the swelling to go down and the bruising to go away. Arnica is such a great thing! Increase your intake of Vitamin C to help the bruising disappear more quickly.
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Posted on: 3/17/11 9:10 PM ET
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Ouch! I've done this before; my toe turned exactly the color of the toenail polish I happened to be wearing, so I feel your pain! Stay off your feet as much as possible, & prop your foot up when you're sitting ~ that helps with the swelling ~
hope it's better soon
  
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Posted on: 3/17/11 9:40 PM ET
I've taken more C, and I did lay down earlier. I discovered we have a channel on TV that shows old TV shows. I watch Hazel and Dennis the Menace. I may take some style notes from Mrs. Baxter and her friends.
  
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Posted on: 3/17/11 10:20 PM ET
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If you can get Cooper's Arnican cream, do it! This is not a homeopathic formula; depending on where you go, it will contain either 4% or 7% arnica.

Although I am a skeptic about this kind of thing, I do have first hand experience that's fairly astonishing: I slipped and fell on a piece of uneven sidewalk in a little town in France, producing a hideous bruise that instantly, and I mean instantly, covered the entire back of one hand. I trotted to the nearest pharmacy and asked what they had for bruises, and the maiden brought out this orange tube of heavenly smelling cream (it also comes in a gel, which I like less). She told me that if the skin was not broken (it was not), to apply the cream as often as I could throughout the day, so I did it about every two hours. Amazingly, by the next morning, this giant bruise was scarcely visible. When I bruise, those babies usually last two weeks.

Since then, I have often used this stuff and have found it also amazingly effective for burns--where the skin is not broken (even though the literature says nothing about its use for burns). It just kills the pain and by the next morning, the blister is a hard, flat little plaque that flakes off after a week.

With this particular cream, I think the key is to apply it frequently during the first 24 hours.

It's easy to find in France, but over here, I have only found it in Canadian pharmacies.


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Posted on: 3/21/11 9:21 AM ET
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When I looked for the other cream, I didn't see anything like this. I will keep looking. I don't think I will loose the toenail. It began to drain a bit (sorry, gross). I'm still in sandles. I can wear a shoe, but not out walking. It's the fastest heal yet. I'm impressed with the cream in general.

I wanted to make some Laura Ashely type sundresses for summer with sandles and a toenail lost is not a good look.
  
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