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Interests => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: franksolich on January 26, 2010, 05:54:30 PM
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Last night, I had to take the clippers to the fingernails, as I had let things go during the current no-end-in-sight siege of snow and rain.
I suddenly remembered something.
As a child and teenager, I was chronic nail-biter.
As my mother and an older brother had been, disfiguring their fingernails.
It would get really bad.
But somewhere along the line, the habit evaporated, without my even noticing it had gone away.
I plumbed my memory, but still have no idea exactly, or about, when it was that I quit; only that it happened some time before I took off for the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all in the early 1990s.
Anyone else here use to chew, but now doesn't?
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Nope. Sorry, I still chew.
:p
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I did, alos, but don't remember when I stopped. I even keep a pair of clippers and a nail file in my tool box at work, just in case.
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Was it when you started smoking?
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I chewed mine into my mid-20's. And just stopped "cold turkey".
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Was it when you started smoking?
Aha.
That's it.
Thank you, madam.
And the mother and older brother were non-smokers.
It looks as if I stopped about the same time I started smoking.
Damn, the things one doesn't know about oneself.
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Yep....chewed mine until 4 days after my 13th birthday.
Having my jaw broken in 3 places and wired together for 8 weeks....broke the habit.
I switched to tearing apart my cuticles.
Quit that about 7 years ago when I started having acrylic topcoats put on my nails. I go every two weeks to get my nails done and they sand down the cuticles. It's enough for me to leave them alone.
However, over the holidays, I took them off for about 4 weeks.....went right back to shredding the cuticles. :thatsright: Had my nails done two weeks ago....and quit again. :whatever:
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Aha.
That's it.
Thank you, madam.
And the mother and older brother were non-smokers.
It looks as if I stopped about the same time I started smoking.
Damn, the things one doesn't know about oneself.
When/if you quit, you might start again. I bite mine when I can't smoke, or when I quit, before I start back.
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My biology teacher had us take scrapings from under our fingernails, (after we'd washed our hands, no less) and put them under our microscopes.
DisGUSting! The thought that those little wiggling microbes were going into my mouth completely shut down my on-off-again nailbiting habit.
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Yep....chewed mine until 4 days after my 13th birthday.
Having my jaw broken in 3 places and wired together for 8 weeks....broke the habit.
I switched to tearing apart my cuticles.
Quit that about 7 years ago when I started having acrylic topcoats put on my nails. I go every two weeks to get my nails done and they sand down the cuticles. It's enough for me to leave them alone.
However, over the holidays, I took them off for about 4 weeks.....went right back to shredding the cuticles. :thatsright: Had my nails done two weeks ago....and quit again. :whatever:
I had acrylic nails for years. When we moved to CA I didn't feel like finding a place to have them done so I took them off. This was back in august when we were still staying in company housing. My nails were ruined, actually at first they looked great then within days they started breaking far down on my fingers. Two of them even split down the middle. I also had dents on my nails too, probably from when they would use the dremel each time when they would do the fill. I have been working on getting them in good shape and they are just starting to look a lot better. When I had the acrylic nails it seemed like my nails grew too fast and now that i want them to grow so i can grow out all the damage they are taking forever
I don't think I am ever going to have acrylic nails again.
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I had acrylic nails for years. When we moved to CA I didn't feel like finding a place to have them done so I took them off. This was back in august when we were still staying in company housing. My nails were ruined, actually at first they looked great then within days they started breaking far down on my fingers. Two of them even split down the middle. I also had dents on my nails too, probably from when they would use the dremel each time when they would do the fill. I have been working on getting them in good shape and they are just starting to look a lot better. When I had the acrylic nails it seemed like my nails grew too fast and now that i want them to grow so i can grow out all the damage they are taking forever
I don't think I am ever going to have acrylic nails again.
When I took them off....which I picked most of them off instead of soaking :thatsright:.....they were incredibly sore. That lasted about a week. They were so thin that the least little hit made them break off. Mine are just top-coated with acrylic, I don't have the nails glued on. When I soak them off, the nail is ok just thin. My nails have always been thin and break easily.
I'm keeping them. :-)
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When I took them off....which I picked most of them off instead of soaking :thatsright:.....they were incredibly sore. That lasted about a week. They were so thin that the least little hit made them break off. Mine are just top-coated with acrylic, I don't have the nails glued on. When I soak them off, the nail is ok just thin. My nails have always been thin and break easily.
I'm keeping them. :-)
I cannot imagine how you get them off, the Nail salons here use dentail glue to hold them on.
No one in my family is a nail bitter, even the non smokers. It is strange that for some reason my blood can pick up on a health problem before symptoms arrive because our nails and hair will grow much faster then usual.
OOOOOPS I almost forgot------we do have a nail biter in the family, our eldest dog. Yup, since we rescued him for 14 years he has done his own pedicures. Roger is half Shelty and half Chachauau by temperament he is a nervous beast, and had Lord knows what kind of treatment before we adopted him.
One really strange tradition up here is mothers with new Born's will not clip their nails, the mothers bite them off.
Funny, I remember my grandma telling me to never trust a grown man that bits their nails. I wonder where she got that one from.?
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Frank, I had not thought about it in years.....I too was a nail chewer.
One sunny day when I was about nineteen, my wife and I were walking around White Rock Lake. I remember having a finger in my mouth on one hand while holding my wife's hand with the other. I pulled the finger out of my mouth and asked myself why I was doing that to my nails. I never bit my nails again.
I've had to trim my nails about every six hours or so since, and my cuticles and nails are very healthy looking. I don't have hang nails or sore infected red torn bleeding cuticles.
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I cannot imagine how you get them off, the Nail salons here use dentail glue to hold them on.
One really strange tradition up here is mothers with new Born's will not clip their nails, the mothers bite them off.
I don't have "glue on" nails, I have acrylic overlays over my own nails. It's a powder mixed with a liquid and put on with a artist paint brush. The "proper" way to remove them is to soak my fingertips in acetone for about an hour. Since I was in another time zone when patience was handed out....I either pick them off or do a soak and pick...which is really bad for the nail. If I do it at the shop, I will soak them while I get a pedicure, and then the girl sands off what's left.
I can remember nibbling at my kids' nails too, when they were newborns. It's what they told me to do at the hospital with the first one as she kept scratching her little punkin face....I thought the nurse was crazy but I did it.
This was 30 years ago in Virginia.... :uhsure:
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Still am, but strictly for trimming.
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Frank, I had not thought about it in years.....I too was a nail chewer.
One sunny day when I was about nineteen, my wife and I were walking around White Rock Lake. I remember having a finger in my mouth on one hand while holding my wife's hand with the other. I pulled the finger out of my mouth and asked myself why I was doing that to my nails. I never bit my nails again.
I've had to trim my nails about every six hours or so since, and my cuticles and nails are very healthy looking. I don't have hang nails or sore infected red torn bleeding cuticles.
What are you, a werewolf or something?
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What are you, a werewolf or something?
Largest full moon all year tonight!!!
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When I took them off....which I picked most of them off instead of soaking :thatsright:.....they were incredibly sore. That lasted about a week. They were so thin that the least little hit made them break off. Mine are just top-coated with acrylic, I don't have the nails glued on. When I soak them off, the nail is ok just thin. My nails have always been thin and break easily.
I'm keeping them. :-)
When ever I get a new set they put the tips on but by the time I take them off the tips have long since grown out and are no longer there. I tell you there were so many times that I wanted to just say screw it and have acrylic put back on but I stuck it out. I really want to avoid having them again but I bet I will cave and get them at some point. Right now my nails look fairly good though. My cousin use to have them because she is a nail biter and had them for years. She is a radiologist and a few years back the hospital made everyone who had acrylic nails take off. Her nails are little nubs now because she went right back to biting them.
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What are you, a werewolf or something?
It's a slight exaggeration, but I do have the fastest growing nail of anyone I have ever known. I'd be happy to switch with some woman who wants nails but they never seem to grow.
I trimmed my nails to the quick today. I will have to trim again on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
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It's a slight exaggeration, but I do have the fastest growing nail of anyone I have ever known. I'd be happy to switch with some woman who wants nails but they never seem to grow.
I trimmed my nails to the quick today. I will have to trim again on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
Do you drink a lot of milk?
Both M and my son do, and they have the quickest growing nails I have ever seen.
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BEG
"Mile Marker"
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"Mile Marker"??
What is that about?
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Do you drink a lot of milk?
Both M and my son do, and they have the quickest growing nails I have ever seen.
I've never drank a glass of milk in my life. Never.
It's a mystery.
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"Mile Marker"??
What is that about?
Use the Search feature. :-)
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I've never drank a glass of milk in my life. Never.
It's a mystery.
You must have some really strong bones too! :bow:
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Use the Search feature. :-)
I found nothing. I always miss everything.
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You must have some really strong bones too! :bow:
I've never had a broken bone. You maybe onto something.
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I've never had a broken bone. You maybe onto something.
Knock on wood....other than all the ones from a car accident...neither have I...and I don't drink milk either.
I know both of the guys have had broken wrist/arms as children. When son was 19.... he and a ladder fell straight down 16 feet when the ladder collapsed. The trauma doc at the ER was shocked that all he broke was his left ankle. One side of it was broken through the middle and the other side just above the ankle bone. He had Timberland boots on, and they kept the bones in place. He was in a non-walking cast for 8 weeks, a walking cast for another 6, then a boot for another 6...but he didn't need surgery. (Would have kept him out of the Army, but the Navy took him) The doctor said for his body to have taken that type of impact, he was amazed that he wasn't all broken from pelvis down....let alone that he didn't break his neck.
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I found nothing. I always miss everything.
OK, I will tell you FGL. When we were going to Iowa for my brothers funeral we had to take two cars (between my parents and my family). My parents were a head of us. My Mom called to ask where we were. I said I didn't have any idea where we were. My Mom told me to look at the mile marker. I asked her what a mile marker was. My Mom burst out laughing. She called my uncle (not the uncle that just died) who we were staying with and told him. He always likes to make fun of me. The new nick name he gave me was "mile marker". Someone here (I can't remember who...I'm going to blame Chris) went in and changed my custom title to Mile Marker.
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OK, I will tell you FGL. When we were going to Iowa for my brothers funeral we had to take two cars (between my parents and my family). My parents were a head of us. My Mom called to ask where we were. I said I didn't have any idea where we were. My Mom told me to look at the mile marker. I asked her what a mile marker was. My Mom burst out laughing. She called my uncle (not the uncle that just died) who we were staying with and told him. He always likes to make fun of me. The new nick name he gave me was "mile marker". Someone here (I can't remember who...I'm going to blame Chris) went in and changed my custom title to Mile Marker.
What's fun is to read the bridge clearance markers that are on the side of the road about a half-mile before the bridge, then pretend to read the clearance sign hanging on the bridge from a half-mile away.
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OK. heh. Makes sense now.
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OK, I will tell you FGL. When we were going to Iowa for my brothers funeral we had to take two cars (between my parents and my family). My parents were a head of us. My Mom called to ask where we were. I said I didn't have any idea where we were. My Mom told me to look at the mile marker. I asked her what a mile marker was. My Mom burst out laughing. She called my uncle (not the uncle that just died) who we were staying with and told him. He always likes to make fun of me. The new nick name he gave me was "mile marker". Someone here (I can't remember who...I'm going to blame Chris) went in and changed my custom title to Mile Marker.
:rofl: It wasn't me... I think W.E. did it.
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milk
I like a glass of ice-cold skim milk on a hot day. Better than water.
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Ever wonder why a Doctor will want to look at your hands.?
So much to be seen in the nails, vitamine deficiency, oxygen intake, dehydration, and toxic chemicals in the body.
The lines that go top to bottom, a small problem, if one has them going sideways then toxic tests are taken.
I believe anyone ill should stay away from any paint on hands or feet. Interesting, I read a paper that told of drinkers offten got this hammer look to their nails.
Frank has brought up an interesting subject. With all his cats he must notice the kneeding they do and sucking on whatever. Perhaps the nail biting is a replacement in humans to the loss of the teat or bottle. The Pacifier that most kids chomp on day and night, what use is it for.? Every where we go there are children as old as 3 with this thing stuck in their mouth.
Fun to think about all the out of the box Frank has set before us. BTW---why is that thing called a pacifier ,?