My fingernails developed a marked ridge when the chemotherapy stopped. December, my thumbnail started to split across the nail bed half way up the nail. I managed to hold it together with applying micropore and nail varnish up until today. The nail has started to lift so I went in search of a nail bar for a professional to apply an acrylic nail to hold it together.
But the mere mention of chemotherapy suddenly no one wants to touch it. So, took myself off to superdrug and bought some false nails and some nail glue to do it myself. When I removed the micropore it revealed that the nail had split all the way across the nail bed and was just hanging on by a thread. I painted on the nail glue and applied the false nail and have rescued the thumb nailbed from being totally bare. Just have to keep that hand out of water now and monitor it carefully and hope to keep it on until the split has grown out. I highly recommend the use of false nails as it has much more strength at holding the bits of nails together than micropore and nail varnish.
