Re: Nail biting & nasal swelling

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Same here!

The nail biting was since birth. My nada bought that foul tasting stuff and was

forever putting it on my nails. She resorted to really hot hot peppers,

smearing juice on my hands. It wasn't until I was 37 yrs old, and found out

about BPD that things changed. Now I have nails! I never bite them. I do

remember a year that I spent in Texas, working and taking care of my daughter,

foo at least 6 state lines away, and nails so long I'd have to cut them back so

that I could work!! LOL.

While I was 15 , I had also developed an allergy. The three different doctors

and a dermatologist couldn't figure out what I was allergic too! I was on

depression medication as well and nothing would straighten out. Now I'm down to

using my inhaler maybe 5 times a year. Some years, I don't use it at all. I

feel that I was allergic to the stress that Nada and (encouraged) sibs had

caused. We ko's are so good at taking everything in, but at some point, this has

to find a way back out. In my case it's hives and asthma. Warm hello's and

thoughts to all,

( the good little witch)

Nail biting & nasal swelling

Ding! I've been following the " disease thread " , but I don't have any of

that stuff like fibro, lupus, etc, thank God, except chronic headaches

(not migraines). But, when I was a kid I had a terrible problem with

nail biting and blocked nasal passages.

As a young kid I bit my nails to the quick, and it drove mother nuts.

She begged me to stop, even threatening to put chicken manure on them,

but I kept at it. Well, several months after we had permanently left

dad (age 8), I suddenly realized I'd stopped biting my nails. Just like

that! Could the cause have been from the tension in the house because

of a failing marriage, and/or mother's BPD? What a concept!

Here's something else. After mother left dad, I gradually started

having problems with nasal swelling (blockage), but no sneezing or runny

nose. Nose drops cleared things up, and eventually I used so much of

the stuff, mother bought big bottles (cheaper that way) to refill my

nose sprayer. It was embarrassing when I was on a date, because every

couple of hours I'd have to spray my nose. Anyhow, when I was a

freshman in high school, a doctor decided I needed surgery to widen my

nasal passages, that the bone structure was too narrow. He sawed some

of the bone out, and while he was at it, he did some cosmetic

reconstruction. Problem " not " solved. My nasal passages still swelled,

only now there was more room for more swelling. Duh!!! After I got

married (age 20), my need for nose drops dropped precipitously. We

lived 350 miles away, but several times a year we'd drive to Los Angeles

to visit mother for long weekends. By the second day, I needed nose

drops again. When we returned to Las Vegas, things would clear up. By

the fourth year of marriage, I stopped needing nose drops altogether,

and I still don't use them to this day, except now and then when we'd

visit mother in LA. I've always thought it was from the smog and

pollution in there. Could it have been mother and the tension she

always exuded? Another interesting concept!

Thanks for listening, and best wishes,

Carol