I am not sure I will ever get a pedicure again. After terrible customer service on the phone and a delayed appt because the boys were young and time was not something i had . I decided not to waist this expensive gift my husband bought me. Manicure Pedicure at Zana Spa in my home town. This would be something that pained me and i suffered from right up till this current day. My nail is still growing and damaned and warped after many treatments and after several appts with specialists and surgens regarding this terrible infection that i got from having a pedicure there. 2 foot doctors, 1 emergency room visit and to many to count doctor visits and 4 rounds of antibiotics that i'm sure is the cause of my dizziness. (damanged equalibrium) Finally at the emergency room where lets call him DH (dick head)doctor told me he didnt' th ink it was infected. but i was in so much pain i was not able to work and watch my children let alone clean my home and stand all that long from the pressure and puss and that came through the sides of my toenail. He did decided however, probably after seeing my frustration and upset at his and so many other doctors words "nothing i can do , not sure how to treat it" to cut it open. So needle in my toe! YEP..ouch! but you know what? The pain in my toe was worse then the needle..as soon as he cut it it oozed.Sorry TMI. Where DH admitted to being wrong about the infection. YOU THINK DH! they had to stuff my toe guaze and i was on crutches for two days. Then a lovely lady from my Home daycare family of ladies (Donna) referred me to a man named Peter. Peter is a Chiropodist. He has made the biggest difference..From Nov 2010 to May 2011 i had suffered soooo much.When Peter saw me he told me in minutes that it was a very bad case of Paranychia that was not treated properly and therefore just escalated. He said the reason the antibiotics did not work was because this infection thrives on no oxygen. Since this part of my food had no exit or oxygen it just continued to get worse and my body the amazing thing it is did its first thing it needed to do to protect me.. that was block off any kind of flow from the toe my body and therefore from my body to my toe. So it didnt' matter how much antibiotics my body digested nothing was getting to the toe..so until my toe was cut open (letting oxygen in) the antibiotics did nothing but kill my friendly bacteria's in my stomach and damage my equilibrium. Anyway, long story short. NEVER going to Zana spa again. yes i contacted them they wrote me back a "we care, we will investigage" letter and they never responded after that. 3 mths after that i followed up because they were not and they have ignored me ever since. I will be suffering for mths to come and they couldn't care a less.
I'm not suprised..However i know i'm not the only one and i have heard of a few people of people i know who got infections from there so it will only be a matter of time and they will drive their business to the ground.
Pictures..not for the weak..but here you go
Right foot big toe..you can see the puss in the bottom right corner..and the swelling under my nail. the left big toe is bad with fungas. The left toe is the picture below showing what the fungas is doing to my toe.
this is after months and months seeing surgens and doctors. Emerg 5 hours..and he cut it open
WOW, i almost vomited that evening from the trauma of pain because they gave me nothing for the pain and i had to drive home screaming YES screaming ..called my sister to get me through the drive . I had no meds so brian went and pick some up and i suffered for so long that after i felt better from meds i started to eat and my dinner started to draw back into my throat..it was not a good day..
this is after 3 days in gauze. I had to rip that out of my toe and off my skin. OMG this hurt sooooooo much i cried while i did it. And yes..still oozing as you can see.
this was a cut that the chirpodist kept digging at on several appts to keep the oxygen flowing. NO freezing. (going to my happy place right now)
this is what my toe looks like today
I'm not sure the incision will ever heal completely but it helped my pain go away so i do not care about that. I have 2 calluses and a corn growing inside and for the first time i have had very little pain for about 6 weeks. I am still going to the chirpodist and most likely will for some time because of it.
What you should learn from reading this. Know how your spa steralizes their equipment..A sterilizing clauve and an ultra sonic cleaner is needed to maintain the highest level of hygiene and you have the right to this information. NEVER let a person dig at the base of your nail where your cuticles are.
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