Anyway, I began using the sunlight & magnifying lens method a year ago, when I began to feel uncomfortable pressure from the toenail thickening. The toenail was noticeably lighter and the pressure was reduced within the first week or two; so that is a distinct improvement. Although the toenail color has returned to normal I won’t say it’s cured yet since the nail is still thick. I’ll have to wait some more to see if it grows in thinner; however, I’m happy to maintain the status quo with the sunlight treatment & anti-fungal liquid.

Incidentally, I feel I contracted the nail fungus from having a pedicure done at a salon. Now, In addition to putting the anti-fungal liquid on all of my toes whenever I get out of the shower, I ALWAYS put the anti-fungal liquid on as soon as I get home from having a pedicure done. My advice to anyone getting pedicures is to invest in a bottle of the liquid as a preventative.

Visitors offer hundreds of remedies, but these folks are rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic, because very few are talking about the real problem — the nail itself, which is a physical barrier between any topical and the infection.

Some medicines claim to penetrate the nail but they deliver an insignificant dosage to the fungus to have any noticable effect.

If, like me, you are unwilling to take oral medicine owing to the unllikely but serious health risks, you MUST remove the part of the nail over the affected area and remove the junk below it on a weekly basis, then on a daily basis, apply a topical daily (home and over-the-counter). If one remedy doesn’t work, try another, and another. Expect no less than 3 months to clear it up.

I removed most of the nail and junk with clippers and applied ciclopirox from eBay (1/10th the price of the prescription laquer), and not laquer based). Took 6 months to kill the fungus. Would have been easier to have used nail removal liquid from the start, but I didn’t know of it, but you can go get it now.