Any advice for my poor nails?

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Hi all

Finished chemo over two months ago fec/tax but my nails keep splitting and are covered in ridges which seem to grow out then come in again with new nails. They are so short I can’t open tins, tie buttons etc which is a pain. Anything I can do to help them recover?

Anne xx

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Kelp extract.
2 years post-chemo and my nails were not back to full strength. Mine kept splitting horizontally and seemed to have about half a dozen weak layers.
After 3-4 weeks, I’ve noticed a great difference.

Good luck.

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Brilliant Alloway that is exactly what mine are doing. Heading down town today to get some.

Thanks xx

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Almost forgot - and I don’t know how! - it’s making my hair grow quicker!

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Wow bonus!!! Going shopping.

Thanks xx

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my nails are the same nearly a year on from chemo. do you buy this in a health shop as pills or what? sorry i’m so thick…

lenny

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Hi Lenny

I found Sea Kelp tablets in Holland & Barrett, they are 30mg and 1-3 to be taken daily. They were £1.99 for 250 tablets. Hope they are the right thing - Alloway?

Just popped three and hope for some good results in few weeks will let you know how it grows!!!

Anne xx

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thanks for the info… i’m off to my local h & b and then i’ll start popping. here’s to a growing future!!!

love

lenny

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Hi Annie and Lenny,

Got mine from healthspan.com. Mine are 1 a day, 180mg of Kelp extract, providing 150mg of Iodine.

Happy pill popping!

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Hi Alloway

Thanks for that, much stronger than the ones I got today. Will order online and take weaker ones until they arrive. Never thought I would be so happy to pop pills!!

Anne xx

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well not being one to miss out i will do the same! we should have a nail growing competition see who’s grows the longest… fastest… now i think about it it would be very hard to measure, well anyway i’m sure you get my drift. i wonder how long i can blame my mad ramblings on chemo?

thanks alloway,

lenny
xx

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Thanks for this info. My nails are driving me crazy. Splitting and flaking and catching on everything. They look as if a mouse has been nibbling them. I’m off to the herbalist tomorrow.

Good nail growing everyone.

Jan

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hi jan, i think everyones nails suffer through chemo. i know mine did, i was out one day i think it was in beaties and they were demostrating some dead sea oil hand wash sort of stuff and then they used hand cream and gave me a massage, but the best part was the buffer they buffed my nails up with, you didnt have to have varnish on and they looked like you had. i found when i used the block for polishing my nails it seemed to strengthen them, and they stopped breaking. i payed a fortune for the whole kit, but my local market had the polishing blocks in a few weeks later for £1 which was the best part of the procedure for me, give it a try you never know.

good luckx

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Hi everydaymatters

Thank you. I’ve seen the polishing blocks you’re talking about but thought they might make my nails thin and break more. Now I know that they don’t I’ll get one and start polishing!!!

I spent a fortune on some nail treatment stuff. Like clear nail polish which it said would bond the layers of nail together. It hasn’t worked.

Take care

Love Jan xx

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just waiting for my kelp to arrive, hope it all works coz i’m just totally fed up my nails… i used to have such lovely long ones… and they get dirtier when they are short…

hey ho what joy!!!

lenny

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Hi everyone

I’m fully kelped up 400mg tabs!!! Got 280 tablets for £3.69 from my local herbalist… bargin. Polisher block at the ready. I need really nice nails for the end of July. I’m going to a family wedding in Malta.

Good nail growing everyone.

{{{ }}} Jan. xx

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Just returned from a week in Malta where nails were splitting like mad. This week they have stopped splitting and now appear to be growing. It is six months since I finished taxotere. Still do not have proper hair. And thin patches at front. Hair fell out one year ago. The effects of all the chemo seem to take a long time to sort. Maybe the hot weather I had in Malta has helped nails!

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Hello Ladies, Wonder if you can help?

Finished TAX 7 weeks ago, nail and hair rubbish and am interested in popping whatever pills I can to get back to as normal as poss! Does anyone know if it’s ok to take this sea kelp extract if you are taking tamoxifen? Just a bit concerned as I was so oestrogen positive that I worry about anything that can boost hormone level, sea kelp doesn’t do that does it???

Jo XXX

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Morning Jo

I asked the herbalist if sea kelp was OK with Tamoxifen. He looked in his book and said yes no problem. The problem is if you have a thyroid trouble because there’s iodine in sea kelp. I’m a week into my sea kelp now but I can’t see any improvement yet but early days.

Jan x

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hi just wanted to say i am happily taking my kelp daily… wish i had got your bargain jan.any way no differance yet but i am still believing… it is still early days,

love

lenny
xxxx