Your comment made me think of the cross dressing uncle from the Cleveland show "That's Outrageous!"

Definitely one of my favorite characters in the show.

Different medications work differently for different people it isn't the doctors fault. You barely need medication for ingrown toe nail operation anyways, store bought Tylenol is plenty.

you'd think you'd avoid it by now...

Nope. You can't avoid it. The walls move a couple of centimeters every night and go right where you don't expect them.

That's not the case for everyone. Ingrown nails can't always be easily pulled out and do require being cut out when it's severe.

That is an extremely misguided approach. Ingrown toenails can become infected or inflamed to the point where medical intervention is necessary (as in the FML, where OP appears to have required minor surgery). In such an instance entrusting the problem to a pedicurist without medical training who works in conditions that are almost certainly not medically sterile would be very inadvisable.

Yeah, I've got to agree with the other two commenters responding to you. I had an ingrown toenail that got infected to the point that I was hospitalized and put on IV antibiotics and eventually had to have it surgically removed. I'm a paraplegic, so I can't relate to OP's pain exactly, but it did cause a lot of severe muscle spasms

pedicures can also be the cause of ingrown toenails because they have cut them too short or cut them in a way that just leads to an ingrown toenail. and noone should ever go digging in your toe. that can make it worse. i dont go to a general doctor for mine, anyway. i go to a podiatrist as they specialise in feet. & i've never had my toe cut open nor put on meds for the removal of an ingrown toenail.

Ok sorry, my mistake. Mine have never been so severe & I've never known anyone to get an infected one or need surgery. I apologize!