The only similar thing I experienced was working on my own ingrown toenail and fixing it, forever. I did it as a teen. I was totally not able to do that when I

The only similar thing I experienced was working on my own ingrown toenail and fixing it, forever. I did it as a teen. I was totally not able to do that when I started having issues with it, the bare thought of touching it made me feel uncomfortable. But after like 5 or 6 different treatments under local anesthesia or involving ridiculous molded acrylic concoctions that _were not doing anything_ I got tired, bought a scalpel and grabbed some cotton and a napkin and spent like one hour carefully cutting and shaving the thing and using cotton balls to lift it around in a way were it looked like it will grow well after my massacre. That was probably twenty years ago and I never had any issues with it since then.