ghostunicorn
821563
3774
300
Apr 7, 2015 1:09 PM
ghostunicorn
821563
3774
300
pvtpastapajamas
this is fucking awful
ebillightbulb
No jokes here. I just feel so sad for this woman.
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
Source from Reddit: http://www.inquisitr.com/1475090/woman-growing-fingernails-in-hair-follicles-now-1-million-in-debt-from-mystery-illness/
SihayaOfTheAllPowerfulMeh
That is fucking horrifying.
FrippTricky
This woman is tough as nails
IratetheD
so people are willing to donate to anti gay pizza places but this poor woman can't get enough money to cover her treatment....
EmotionalSupportPig
What the fuck
bengalkatlady
This lady is from my hometown Memphis. It was on our local news. It is legit.
IrrelevantGIF
Kongur
Perfect!
IHateBob
Oh no!! Is she ok?
ashstachecashstache
This causes her constant pain, it's gotten her over $1 million in debt and she's the only one in the world with it. I feel awful for her.
Shamorza
FUN FACT: Hedgehogs were guinea pigs before they got this mutation.
KeatonTS
wtf
thebigpaulymo
This made the nails on the back of my neck stand up
haddermeatmah
I wish more people would make it this far down.
46853
That sucks...She's strong as hell to get through this.
Zatalin
Hair and nails are made of the same thing-keratin. But the keratin in nails has more sulfur-sulfur bonds so it is harder.
UpvotesForCalicos
Oh, honey. Bless your heart. I mean that in the most sincerest, caring way possible. Poor lady.
PinkamenaPandemoniumPie
That would be an exoskeleton.
prattleassassin
CRAB PEOPLE
NotACanadian
More like a proto-pangolin.
TheFlyingHellfish
Like the chitinous shell in "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
pwsabre
So what the fuck is this and how do you fix it?
bbirdy
I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratosis_pilaris
cousteau
I'm thinking laser hair removal.
KeatonTS
from what i read, hair & nails are both made of keratin, but so much keratin is produced in her hair that nails are being made instead
KeatonTS
i also read that there is no cure. maybe there are shots you can get to decrease the keratin or skin cells made. but its probably temporary
UnpopularOpinionPuffinPersonified
I was wondering if they can use laser hair treatment. If they can kill a hair follicle with lasers, why not kill the follicles in this case?
KeatonTS
sounds like it could work.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTheBabyAteMyDingo
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185878/Doctors-baffled-mystery-illness-causes-woman-grow-fingernails-instead-hair.html
physhiephox
You da real MVP
Morebunnies
I suddenly don't feel so terrible when I have a bad breakout or eczema. That poor woman :-(
boshbuckler
Wat
LearningOnImgur
Shittiest xman ever
JDakeMnayCake
From Reddit: "Uh yeah, I'd like a Mani, Pedi... Armi, Legi, Faci, Headi and everything elsi"
southboundpachyderm
ugh...dicki too? O.o
BecauseIHaveWonAnAward
Nailed it
Bro49
I had to come back to upvote this. You deserved it.
WhatYouMeanItAintReal
There can only be one @IGiveItAll
EverSoSlightly
See, I wanted to say that, then I checked and saw I have soul.
JSmith90
Oh my god you're terrible
NobodyEverSaysHiFelicia
Damn it. I laughed and now I feel bad. Have my upvote.
SPlathEffect
Oh god, me too.
ByGrabtharsHammerByTheSunsOfWorvanYouShallBeAvenged
IGiveItAll
Can someone explain how this is getting upvoted and the exact same comment by another is being downvoted?
Nineteenletterslong
Turns out, there are some older comments that should have been upvoted instead of this one.
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
AmazingElephant
....Nailed it.... Fuck I'm late
StreaksSkunk
The magic of imgur, of course!
ExclusiveGamer
When two people post same comment at the same time, usually one person down votes the other one to be the more successful post
doxpin
Yeah must be timing. You can find me down there in oblivion.
doxpin
I was 1 min too late
IGiveItAll
For what it's worth, I upvoted your comment when it was still young.
TF2215
Timing? Then only the strong one will survive
IGiveItAll
I think they were manybe separated by a few seconds. Ah well I guess that's all it takes.
100percentmilk
She is Spyke from X-Men http://imgur.com/nSH8Kwe
chonas
This was my first thought.
Senorpoopypants
That's Quill.
100percentmilk
Crap! I came so close to choosing a pic of Spyke from X-Men: Evolution too.
FlippantBagel
I thought of Marrow first. http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/023/8/4/x_men__s_marrow_by_urrgos-d4nf4tb.jpg
PunyYuro
or Raina the Inhuman! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_OFgbuU0AA09xU.jpg
AshHol
Spyke: http://imgur.com/jJHXrKq
whosaidpigscantfly
Can someone who can science please explain...
HalfJudPrince
It's because she touched herself at night.
LordofGoats
Started as an allergic reaction. http://io9.com/5933606/unknown-disease-causes-woman-to-grow-fingernails-in-place-of-hair
ThatsNotMickeyMouseThatsJustTitDirt
Its a rare genetic condition that only happens when both your mother and your father carry a specific gene and it gets passed on to the 1/2
ThatsNotMickeyMouseThatsJustTitDirt
Actually I have no fucking clue 2/2
prattleassassin
bbirdy
I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratosis_pilaris
mog5
Negative
ReposterCallerOuterMan
then why doesnt it say anything about growing nails in the wiki article
bbirdy
I said I think. Nails are made of keratin.
MrPredator
I think it's due to hair and nails being made of keratine, and an abnormality causes hair to have more of it. *shrug*
Rhase
*VIOLENTLY STOPS EATING JELLO*
tesslicoil
This is why I wish I could favorite comments
crowhorde
What a terrible super-power.
rezpawner
Still though, having a superpower is pretty rad.
madrakthered
Isn't this basically marrow's power? Seems pretty awful in real life
JSmith90
Let em grow out. You won't be bullet-proof but maybe a decent shield
ApolloniusWrath
Spoilers: Made me think of Raina from Agents of Shield!
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
Haven't you ever heard of spike? He's a pretty bad-ass x-man.
RedBeardedBastard
Yea he's pretty cool, but this is his cousin Nails
UptownFunkgotmeLockedOutOfHeavenwitha24kMagicGrenade
Tech. wouldn't this be the same thing? Like, if her's just grew longer she'd be Spike, no?
RedBeardedBastard
well they aren't though
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
his power is bone spikes that come out through his body. Nails are enamel which is pretty much really thin bone.
RedBeardedBastard
pretty much DOESN'T mean it is bone though, so HA!!! no but really idc I just thought it was clever. I may have been wrong
ninjakittenz
Made me think of Meg Griffin's super power http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfp6afqzwC1qfcbfro1_500.gif
BroWhite
My grandmother once told me that a cool superpower would be to have an eyeball on her finger so she could look around corners
ImgHolic
just use your phone's camera
BroWhite
lol yeah, but she's kinda old time-y and doesn't know how to. Plus she told me this back when I was a kid, like 15 years ago, so...
ReposterCallerOuterMan
damnit, that was the first thing i thought of when i read his comment......i hate you +1
TobiasFunkeAnalrapist
Saw documentary about a guy who was hit by lightning. Now he can remember the exact weather and temp where he was every day since. Years.
velociraptorfarmer
So Captain Hindsight + Local Weatherman?
TobiasFunkeAnalrapist
Except the point of a weather man is to predict. He could just remember. Not only is it a useless superpower, it's also real life.
ItsAlwaysWineOClock
I can't help but feel nauseous after looking at this post
PersonalityFire
nauseated* :o
TheHiddenPlanet
I feel the same and am now angry at this post.
Rhase
And then I feel so horrible for her. Just having little hard bumps from hormonal acne drove me insane, this must hurt so much.
jessagirlintheworld
I'm so grateful for my gross hormonal acne now.
Rhase
Right? It blows so much, but there are so many worse diseases to suffer. At least our hormonal acne can be treated, even if hard to conquer.
SendMeUrDD214s
spiritussancto
that's bone cancer. and makes me itchy
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
I felt that way on the picture of the skull from the person who had bone cancer.
[deleted]
[deleted]
waitbutactually
She can never wear satin, silk, or sweaters
TheMoosemoose
Not to be nasty, but the thought of pubic hair with this condition.. x.x
Tehadam
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
LoPan
Great, another thing to be afraid of getting...
MechaGandalf
How about a disease where your body heals wounds with skeletal material? literally petrified by your own body trying to heal itself.
mmc08
Thanks for that.
MechaGandalf
You're welcome. :D
tooomanysteves
Looks like a genetic condition, i.e. something you have to be born with, you can't catch it. (Possibly follicular hyperkeratosis?)
VyseN
After scrolling through the comments here, I realise there are quite a few things I'm afraid of getting now.
jessagirlintheworld
So me whenever I see these. Last week it was skin cancer. Which still worries me.
LoPan
How about the bone cancer one? Remember that? It was just a picture of a skull with crazy stuff all over it? /shiver...
jessagirlintheworld
Omg yes! Cringe city!
whitter86
Yeah like turning into a tree wasn't horrifying enough
Catumi
And rack up hundreds of thousands in debt along the way if in the US.
ObviousCaptain
this is how i feel whenever I see stuff like this, but i've never heard of someone getting this before so my chances must be low.
Exemus
So were hers.
romkyns
Is that the logic one uses to justify playing the lottery? Suddenly it's all so clear!
Exemus
I mean...someone has to win, right?
NotRelevantGif
Aren't you just a little ray of sunshine
ObviousCaptain
But I'm not her.
Exemus
Thanks captian obvious
ObviousCaptain
You said it not me
IDoItForTheFakeInternetPoints
Medical Imgur...how?
ofunsoundmentalcapacity
Instead of having 1-2 follicles per pore she has hundreds which produce a nail like substance instead of a strand of hair.
ReposterCallerOuterMan
this might be new....but im no medical imgur
LoPan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185878/Doctors-baffled-mystery-illness-causes-woman-grow-fingernails-instead-hair.html
NeverNonplussed
You deserve so many more points for not being a sarcastic dick.
oohoohdancingqueen
Most likely a genetic problem - some sort of DNA mutation (insertion, deletion, substitution, etc.)
qussow
Hair and nails are made of the same material. I guess something has gone terribly wrong there.
idontneednostinkingpuffin
severe and abnormal case of Keratosis Pilaris
GeorgeCauldron
I'm no doctor but nails and hair are both made from keratin, so I'm guessing some kind of malfunction in production.
Gillm09
Well I'm gonna have nightmares now. I have Keratosis Pilaris (I produce too much keratin on my face which results in tiny red dots)
icookfoodandfightfire
no 100% sure but since hair and nails are both prodiced in generally the same fashion, dead cells piling up but nails are keratinized, so >
icookfoodandfightfire
maybe she has a genetic defect that causes her hair follicles to keratinize the hair cause it to be nail-like as it grows out
fauxki
Lupus. - though honestly it's probably an auto-immune disease?
Amythyst
It's never lupus.
DrRetroMD
This is the kind of stuff doctors Google :)
AWdeV
We witness the birth of the first and lamest mutant and the x-men are only a few years away. Someone find a bald psychic and break his legs.
wiresnake
sounds like something similar to human horn and other shit of this type. the Muter museum in philly has some examples.
JoshieB
This is the tragic result of the body's reaction to MICROAGGRESSION; the skin literally thickens with keratin. The struggle is real, yo!
TherealNickyboy
Nails are made of the same stuff as hair. Her body must have reprogrammed her hair follicles to produce nails some how. IOW, I dunno.
satAnal
doctor here. i have no idea
8bitTunes
I want to say HPV. Human papillomavirus. causes "horn" growth on humans sometimes.
KrisKringlez
Nature do that
AdorableTinyKitties
It's genetic mutation
Aelinsaar
It's a mystery, truly.
narsbee
Had a demented pt once who for some reason remembered reading about this and insisted its her diagnosis...kept calling me to rip them out
Twenty3Skidoo
Dude, apparently Medical Real World doesn't even know.
CwmMakesPeopleCryInScrabble
According to the news stories I've found so far: no one fucking knows, man
ChaosLierLen637
Gypsy curse.
yesitscooliotime
Both hair and nails contain the protein Keratin. Presumably, this is a genetic mix up as to where nails should be produced on the body.
hierd
I'm no doctor either, but what if, and I'm serious, she would undergo chemo?
MedicalImgur
Its surprisingly more common than youd think. Ive done many studies in this field and this is actually a very well documented case where 1/2
MedicalImgur
I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about 2/2
Tutor
Called it
HowDoIInternet
Did you fucking make the name medicalimgur for this comment God you're a fucker
MedicalImgur
superippednobody
did you just make this account
MedicalImgur
TheChief10097
You need more points. I almost lost it in a classroom when I looked at the second conment.
GlowstickJedi
ashipthatshipsshippingships
YOU RAT SON OF A BITCH.
SHANNERS
you fucker
MedicalImgur
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/257/968/786.jpg
cuttlefishsticks
Dammit Jim, I'm an imgurian not a doctor!
HogwartsToiletSeat
http://io9.com/5933606/unknown-disease-causes-woman-to-grow-fingernails-in-place-of-hair
robotzombies
She walked through the Terrigen Mist.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
DidYouKnowThatCashewsComeFromAFruit
There it is
PresidentialRoboHobo
DidYouKnowThatCashewsComeFromAFruit
My bad. Jeffgoldblumwellthereitis.gif
HallandOaters
The follicle in which the hair grows contains stem cells that stimulate the growth of hair. IF there is a genetic alteration in those stem 1
HallandOaters
Cells then they can possible produce the growth of nailbed type keratin. I don't know the exact cell pathway but thats my guess.
HallandOaters
I'm only a first year med student so I apologize if in accurate
tanks
Not medic here, but I read that human hair and nail fibers are made of similar substances. I think the difference is in the density?
SlippyMcFloppyFlippy
yep
icookfoodandfightfire
yea, the hair follicles produce 12x as many dead cells as usual causing them to build up
YourTA
Keratin! Rhino horns and pangolin scales too!
cocoakoumori
Arts major, sorry, but I believe the substance you're looking for is Keratin. It appears in other animals, too.
Zatalin
Yes, they are made of the same thing. The only difference is the number of Sulfur-Sulfur bonds
nucleophilicattack
The difference is the number of disulfide links between cystiene residues of the keratin. Nails have a lot more.
SlingingInk
Keratin proteins homie
klar971
I'm pretty sure that's accurate, I have heard that as well, but I don't know this particular condition...
TheFlyingHellfish
Horns, hair, nails, claws are keratin. Antlers are bone, tusks are ivory.
DragonBrigade
Rhino's horns are made out of basically really dense hair. So that seems plausible? Even though, well rhinos...
GlennGW
Well on medical school I most definately learned that this is 100% accute Curses and Magic
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
That's "itely," my dear GlennGW. Not "ately"
GlennGW
Why thank you, YourPalmsSpaghettiK(cant read the rest of your usernamd on my phone).Will surely note it for the next time :)
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
(MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti) Anytime, bruh!
[deleted]
[deleted]
GlennGW
Ah, okay, thanks Carhop!:)
rsminsmith
Probably an extreme case of keratosis. I have a mild case on the back of my arms, get white dots everywhere that thankfully aren't hard.
fapfapfapblehblehbleh
ty for a serious reply
pbbbtMeg
If you moisturize, it gets better.
Gillm09
I wish I only get them on the back of my arms! I get it on the cheeks of my face. It ends up looking like mild acne.
suddenlyrelevant
I have it mildly on my forearms too. Question, do you have a bitch of a time maintaining the heels of your feet?
pbbbtMeg
Have you tried rubbing Vaseline on your feet and putting on socks before bed? Helps my feet.
FinallySafeFromShiaLaBeouf
I think my sister has that. Does it get worse in cold weather?
ryukochan
pretty much anytime the skin is really stressed out, except for me when I was in high school and college, and I was swimming all the time.
Gillm09
Yes! Mine always gets worse in the winter. Tell her to exfoliate regularly and moisturize. I have it on my face and 1/2
Gillm09
2/2 it always fades during the summer, especially when you get some sun
FinallySafeFromShiaLaBeouf
She just gets it on her legs, but she's wicked vain and panics over it. Are there creams or medication for it do you know?
Chenoo
Fuck thats what i have then
shaffeybaby
could also be eczema. that's what I've got
mrsunicorn
A lot of people have KP. What if we all evolve into this?!
BoringPrivateQRCode
Then we shall be RhinoPeople, the newest evolvement!
WhatEverYouShallWantToCallMe
We're evolving armored skin!
Baracktopud
Nail ppl.
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
She got bitten by a radioactive toenail.
Buttcrimes
That's... Not correct.
KeatonTS
because its the best kind of correct
Flinkle
There really could not have been a better answer.
PresidentTaft
https://ticketstubrefund.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/wolverine_31.jpg
ChickLit11
This sounds like the most plausible answer
wxxves
don't you mean scratched?
phase3profit
fair enough!
yarp22
SomethingSomethingDarkSideee
Hah! What film is this from again?
newTARwhoDIS
letmejusttwirlmyrevolverwhilesnakewatchesmeperfect
i wish i could favorite comments
TastyBrainMeats
bitten
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
DID I FUCKING STUTTER?
kenziekins
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130503191457/legendsofthemultiuniverse/images/8/8c/TheBigToe.jpg
Werefinding
Oh god that episode..
Maelchry
"EEEUGHYUCK! There's only one cure for that. Dog spit. Work up a good drool, baby..."
IDevelopGamesAndShitButMainlyGames
Or the fat lady gets it.
nazaro
See, yah, see?
IDevelopGamesAndShitButMainlyGames
OOH! Oh my!
IusedtobeapervertIstillambutIusedtobetoo
Yeah!
AWdeV
Yeah! the fat lady gets it!
sleete
From Reddit: she was prescribed some steroids that somehow caused it. This condition is also set her back about 1 million in med bills.
MegaDeuce
Was gonna make a joke about nail clippers, but I don't want to go to hell so I won't
46853
She could probably sue. She should sue, if prescribed steroids did this to her.
Kiirani
Why "should" someone sue because a completely unpredictable thing happened when taking a completely normal medication?
mrsunicorn
Hmm. They might have already known, but the chances of getting it was super rare, and there were more benefits of the drugs than side effect
mrsunicorn
This is the case for every drug out there.