Hello everyone. This question is for my mother who has had a fingernail problem. First of all, she has arthritis and the finger with the problem is the middle finger of her left hand. For a while the nail of the middle finger seemed to be falling off or not growing properly, at times it seems to grow ok but then again falls/breaks off. The color of the nail is a light brownish color and only that finger is affected, all the other surrounding nails are fine and the other thing is she doesn't remember hitting her hand/finger if she did it would've happended a while back and has been wondering if takes that long for a finger to fall off?

I was just wondering if anyone possibly had something similar to this? and if arthritis may be a problem that could affect the fingernail?

Any help, links, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.