So, I’ve had this problem for quite a while now but it just seems to be getting worse.
It’s really really tough and hard yellowish skin around my fingernails (and on my thumb) that just doesn’t seem to want to go.
I believe that this has happened because I spent a year or so biting the skin around these specific nails and I think the cuticles or whatever are quite badly damaged.
I have a doctors appointment in a few days but I thought I’d come to this site just to see if anyone else was having this problem.
Whenever I use a pumice stone it’ll just come back within a few days.
This is really making me self-concious at public occasions, any help would be extremely helpful.
Thankyou so much for taking your time to read this.
hi ! from what u have explain, it seems like periungual warts to me. Due to repeated biting injury the virus must have found entry to your skin and caused lesion, it usually seen as rough bumps with irregular surface around the nails. It also seems to rapidly spread when the person immunity has decreased and during certain diseased condition which decreases the immunity of our body.
It is usually treated using immunomodulators and locally destroying the lesions using various method like salicylic acid paints, cryotherapy ,lasers etc. You should strictly avoid biting your nails during this peroid as local injury may cause wart to spread along the line of injury.