Biting your nails
Discussion
had ham said:
Nope, that looks entirely normal, well done you! A trim would be good though.
The joke was that I'd leave them to grow until my mother nags me to cut them, rather than the usual of stop biting them!thebraketester said:
I have relapsed but trying hard in the new year. Why is it so hard?
Did you bite a bit and then get annoyed with a rough edge? Filing 'damage' smooth ASAP worked on the odd occasion I did that.Wacky Racer said:
Shuvi McTupya said:
Yeah, i am back to square one..perhaps I will do a belated New Years resolution to start gain..
Me too.Start again from today....
Few comments about my nails from people who I hadn’t seen for 18 months or so and had never seen me with anything other than totally destroyed nails was a nice boost.
Nail beds are recovering still but it will take a long long time to get back to normal, if they ever do.
Mine are actually quite strong now, I think the most difficult stage for me was when they were supple and weak.
gregs656 said:
Always worth giving it another go.
Few comments about my nails from people who I hadn’t seen for 18 months or so and had never seen me with anything other than totally destroyed nails was a nice boost.
Nail beds are recovering still but it will take a long long time to get back to normal, if they ever do.
Mine are actually quite strong now, I think the most difficult stage for me was when they were supple and weak.
Most difficult stage for me was when they got long enough to start tapping on things, i then couldnt stop fiddling with them which led to tearing a couple off and then just biting again as all my 'hard work' was wasted..Few comments about my nails from people who I hadn’t seen for 18 months or so and had never seen me with anything other than totally destroyed nails was a nice boost.
Nail beds are recovering still but it will take a long long time to get back to normal, if they ever do.
Mine are actually quite strong now, I think the most difficult stage for me was when they were supple and weak.
Shuvi McTupya said:
Most difficult stage for me was when they got long enough to start tapping on things, i then couldnt stop fiddling with them which led to tearing a couple off and then just biting again as all my 'hard work' was wasted..
File them down again. I kept mine very short for months, and they are still pretty short now. Still look loads better, the nail beds start to recover, the nails get stronger etc I tore a nail off a pinky finger before Christmas but luckily it wasn’t too bad. It’s easy to do.
king nail.Shuvi McTupya said:
hyphen said:
Good evening to you, the high risk of Coronovirus group 
Nah, we all have really good immune systems. We will be the survivors 
Edited by Gareth79 on Thursday 5th March 23:06
Leicester Loyal said:
I've resisted the urge since we were told putting fingers into your mouth could spread Coronavirus! I keep finding myself starting to bite them then realising and quickly stopping.
Just over 2 weeks later and I've had to get the missus to file my nails down. I've bitten them for around 20 years, nothing has ever made me stop, except knowing has the potential to spread a deadly virus! I guess it wasn't impossible to stop like I've told my missus all these years!Gareth79 said:
Shuvi McTupya said:
hyphen said:
Good evening to you, the high risk of Coronovirus group
Nah, we all have really good immune systems. We will be the survivors Shuvi McTupya said:
Gareth79 said:
Shuvi McTupya said:
hyphen said:
Good evening to you, the high risk of Coronovirus group
Nah, we all have really good immune systems. We will be the survivors I must stop, I will stop, they look disgusting, but taste oh soooo delicious, just one more little nibble.... no Sméagol, we must stops mustn’t us? FFS.
I bit mine until ummm mid late 20's maybe a little longer.
For me I distinctly remember as a kid having my nails cut and it would irritate the ends of my fingers so I took to biting them. Really biting them, to the point where they would be bleeding so were more or less hardly there at all.
Even now my length of fingernail from bed to end is only about half of what someone who ever bit them is.
I just stopped one day, none of that other stuff worked like the bitter nail varnish or threats or promises if I did.
Even now I tend to use my middle finger ad thumb to pick small things up as my index finger used to really get it.
What I do now is cut them with regular scissors and then use one of those glass emery boards to get everything finger tip smooth to the touch as the slightest hint of a rough edge would likely make we want to nibble it smooth.
Nail bed wise I got lucky as they should really be farked, only casualty I have is my right hand pinkie nail grows but with a hairline crack in it which is guaranteed to break so I keep that one shorter than the others.
I don't miss the way when you get your fingers in your mouth all the time that the skin around the nail used to split and then you'd bite that too which would be sore.
For me I distinctly remember as a kid having my nails cut and it would irritate the ends of my fingers so I took to biting them. Really biting them, to the point where they would be bleeding so were more or less hardly there at all.
Even now my length of fingernail from bed to end is only about half of what someone who ever bit them is.
I just stopped one day, none of that other stuff worked like the bitter nail varnish or threats or promises if I did.
Even now I tend to use my middle finger ad thumb to pick small things up as my index finger used to really get it.
What I do now is cut them with regular scissors and then use one of those glass emery boards to get everything finger tip smooth to the touch as the slightest hint of a rough edge would likely make we want to nibble it smooth.
Nail bed wise I got lucky as they should really be farked, only casualty I have is my right hand pinkie nail grows but with a hairline crack in it which is guaranteed to break so I keep that one shorter than the others.
I don't miss the way when you get your fingers in your mouth all the time that the skin around the nail used to split and then you'd bite that too which would be sore.
I stopped biting my nails just over a year agoi after years of nagging from my wife. A life long habit was not an easy thing to do for me but managed it eventually.
The thing I find most strange is actually having nails on the ends of my fingers for a change !
I found quitting smoking far easier to do than ending my nail biting habit.
The thing I find most strange is actually having nails on the ends of my fingers for a change !
I found quitting smoking far easier to do than ending my nail biting habit.
I used to bite nails, then stopped that and moved across to inside of mouth just as bad but not as bad for teeth, Still bad though when you go to a new dentist and they always say you are grinding your teeth, err no I just chew stuff I shouldn't and have done for decades.
So quit if you can but its hard
So quit if you can but its hard
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