I snapped and bit my nails way too short after having kicked the habit for several months. Now all my fingertips are seriously painful. Is there any kind of ointment or something I can buy at a drug store to cut down on the pain? [more inside]
posted by rivenwanderer on Jun 23, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me find something to satisfy my oral fixation (no, not that). [more inside]
posted by rossination on Jan 28, 2007 - 36 answers

I've got mono. Mono is in your saliva. I'm a nail biter. Did I manage to infect my finger wounds with the virus, and what does that mean for my general health and my poor battered hands? [more inside]
posted by modernpoverty on Oct 17, 2006 - 9 answers

Will my extreme nailbiting habit leave me with deformed fingernails? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 7, 2006 - 14 answers

PromoteSafeVolunteeringFilter. I would like to start volunteering regularly at an AIDS hospice. My nails and cuticles are an ugly, bloody mess from a pretty bad nail-and-cuticle biting habit. It hasn't bothered me until now; but even with the double-layer of gloves I wear while doing the cleaning, the nuns who run the place have pointed out this is not a good situation for the patients or myself. How do I make my hands healthy and keep them that way in as short a time as possible? [more inside]
posted by schroedinger on Nov 28, 2005 - 14 answers