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[Countrygirl]

My teeth have been damaged from grinding over night from stress and anxiety so am now wearing a night guard overnight to protect them from anymore damage, but nail biting was brought up as being really damaging and I've done it all my life.

So I've managed 3 days so far but know this needs to be long term thing if I wish to still have my own front teeth in years to come.

Have any of you lovely ladies managed to stop even when suffering from anxiety, luckily the guard is making my teeth ache so I'm not tempted as much as it hurts, but I know this won't last x

[jaypo]

Hi CG, I don't bite my nails but the skin round them but there's the nail biting stuff you get from pharmacies,you just paint it on and it's vile to the taste,it certainly makes you think twice about putting your fingers to your mouth 🤢

[CLKD]

Why would it damage your teeth - hasn't done for me other than sucking one finger as a child which moved a front tooth forwards.  Hey ho!

I tried bitter aloes but sucked it off: mustard, lemon juice - the way I stopped was by wearing mittens even in the Summer - the putting of wool into my mouth told me exactly how often I put fingers into gob 

Hasn't stopped me chewing the skin round my fingers ........... which of course get sore ......... 

[jaypo]

Me too Stella,can't remember a time I haven't done it,sometimes you get a bit and puuulllll,then end up with a very sore finger😬☝🏼I should really buy some of that no bite stuff for myself

[Countrygirl]

I do the skin thing when my nails have splintered off near the sides, it's all those things that are done subconsciously out of habit, that are so hard to stop x

[jillydoll]

Hi CG
My nails are the same, thin, brittle, and little bits of skin that poke up between the nail and the sides. I pick or bite them off, leaving them sore.
Using false nails have damaged them, some of them have got ridges in them now too.
I have grown them before, and used a clear polish on them, and the smell, and taste of the polish turns me 🤢 and stops me biting....however, they grow only for me to bite a big bit off! It's never ending...then I go back to false nails again!  But the clear polish smell is a turn off, and the ‘stop n grow' stuff Jaypo was talking about is good too..
Other than that, chop em off! Nothing there to chew then! 😂😂😂

[sheila99]

Try Stop & Grow from the chemist, it tastes disgusting.

[jaypo]

Try Stop & Grow from the chemist, it tastes disgusting.

That's the one😆

[Dierdre]

I've always pick my skin, especially the thumbs. I did stop the nail biting though years ago by simply treating myself to a manicure and then always wearing nail varnish, my nails becme stronger and didn't split so wasnt so tempting to pick and bite.

[CLKD]

As I nibbled at my very sore thumb nail earlier, I thought of you all 

[jaypo]

Let's face it,we're all nuts😜🤪🥴

[Countrygirl]

I think pretty awesome sounds about right 😊 x

[CLKD]

Even though I've been in the garden I'm still eyeing up that thumb skin    .......

[jaypo]

LEAVE IT clkd

[Countrygirl]

It's hard isn't it CLKD I'm trying hard not to bite my nails its day 4 today, think I might have to buy some stick on ones to cover mine for a few days in case I'm tempted 😂😂 x