Cutting your toenails

Don’t tar all FHPs with the same brush…some are fabulous

Age Uk in E Lancs have been doing toe nail cutting but not if you are on anti coagulation meds. It depends on if they have anyone available. I was given a number for “ Podiatry at Home” from Age Uk. Worth asking. They are very helpful in this area.

Endorse the podiatrist recommendations but I also bought a super-sharp German toenail clipper off t’internet. Cuts any thickness of nail, I can really recommend.

Mine are a lot thicker too. Horrible to cut. I sit on the back doorstep so I can reach them.

I went to a podiatrist a couple of years ago as I have all the old age foot problems. Just to have nails cut here costs £65. I can’t reach nor see to do it myself.
All these services which are no longer available on the NHS mean our small problems grow worse. A compassionate society would not leave old people with neglected feet, varicose veins, wax-blocked ears and chronic pain.

That’s a lot of money watermeadow. I was paying £54 but changed to someone closer and pay between £26 and 38 depending on treatment.

watermeadow

I went to a podiatrist a couple of years ago as I have all the old age foot problems. Just to have nails cut here costs £65. I can’t reach nor see to do it myself.
All these services which are no longer available on the NHS mean our small problems grow worse. A compassionate society would not leave old people with neglected feet, varicose veins, wax-blocked ears and chronic pain.

The GP service here included podiatry although patients have a large application form as the podiatry is free on the NHS only if you have certain medical problems and are not just too stiif to bend down.

Also the NHS will clear ear wax whene you need it which the nurse who did my ears last week reckons is evert two years.

I wish I could get my ears cleared out on the NHS, I am apparently a ‘super producer’ of wax, every 4 months I have them micro suctioned at £60 a go.

Faxgran

Endorse the podiatrist recommendations but I also bought a super-sharp German toenail clipper off t’internet. Cuts any thickness of nail, I can really recommend.

What make is it please?

In the event I've had to have one of my big toenails removed - darn it! and the other one wasn't due to be removed - but the first podiatrist I used here was worse than useless (so it might as well be)......

silverlining48

That’s a lot of money watermeadow. I was paying £54 but changed to someone closer and pay between £26 and 38 depending on treatment.

Here a podiatrist working at foot beauty level (ie visit in one's own home - but refusing to do nail surgery) charges £40.

The foot beautician level people here also charge £40 for home visits.

It’s not refusing to d this but not being qualified to do nail surgery which requires anaesthetic and scalpel use into and under the skin on the toe.
I had this surgery on one toe about 15 years ago, i couldn’t get it done on the nhs and it cost £500. Two medically qualified people did it.
It hurt a lot and I would not have wanted what you call a beauty level nail cutter anywhere near me or my toe. As it was it took over 18 months to heal.

Sorry you had a bad experience.

silverlining48

It’s not refusing to d this but not being qualified to do nail surgery which requires anaesthetic and scalpel use into and under the skin on the toe.
I had this surgery on one toe about 15 years ago, i couldn’t get it done on the nhs and it cost £500. Two medically qualified people did it.
It hurt a lot and I would not have wanted what you call a beauty level nail cutter anywhere near me or my toe. As it was it took over 18 months to heal.

The podiatrist who refused to do the nail surgery in my room was a full proper podiatrist and also worked in the NHS (where they do do the "full deal" - yep....it's the same person).

I don't know if what you had done was respectively (in my case) partial nail avulsion (£250 last year) and full nail removal (£300 from someone different - this year)??

Guessing maybe it was an even bigger job than that - £500 would be dear now compared to the rates I've seen quoted - and would be a heck of a lot 15 years ago. Also the way it took over 18 months to heal - as that's a lot too.

The total big toe nail removal I had recently (the £300 job) could have been done on the NHS here - but I'd lost total trust in them doing it one way or another and hence the £300 (as I had it done privately) and another £160 for a return taxi fare to a bigger town than I live in to see the person concerned. He told me it should take "4-6 weeks" to heal and we're currently just past week 3 as I'm counting the days waiting for my healing to conclude. Am expecting an absolute maximum of 8 weeks - at worst case analysis - before my toe is identical to the way it was before, but minus the nail (darn it).

Foxgran I bought one of those too they’re blooming excellent they can clip through the toughest of nails