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Well I searched here at the time (the grouped wisdom this community holds is great and occasionally bonkers) but all the threads are now closed so just thought I’d share the knowledge. I’ve been living with a verucca for probably 1.5 years and bazuka, then sanding down and repeating just wasn’t doing anything and making things worse as the gel just dries up leaving a ball on your foot!
So from the forum someone suggested scholl medicated disks and I’m amazed to say they’re working so far, after probably 2 weeks now yesterday I scraped away a whole load of dead skin and part of the verucca, all cleaned up and another dot applied, covered with a fabric plaster and we go again hopefully they’re going to kill the root off and the best thing, haven’t felt any pain from it working, salicylic acid is da bomb!
The doctors told me to use duct tape when my daughter had one. Just enough of a section to cover it.
Lo and behold we were dubious but it bloody worked.
I had a verruca for about 10 years. Tried every treatment from the chemist going. Tried duct tape. Tried a chiropodist. All without any success. A few months ago it just went if its own accord. It's so nice not to have a warty foot!
I had one as well, for about 8 years. Nothing worked. Bazuka just made it painfull. It wasn't painfull normally. Only time I might get some pain was after a long day pedaling.
One day I noticed it had gone. No Dear John note or fairwell. Just gone. Bliss!
Just got to wait for your body to deal with the virus. Lotions and stickers won't do it.
I had some sort of corn/verruca for years, and after a while the skin around it would build up causing pressure and pain, so i would trim it down, which would work for a while.
I used to trim it using a 12" butchers steak knife* 😆 mainly because it was razor sharp and i could rest it on my foot and make very controlled slicing.
Eventually i went to the a chiropodist who trimmed it down far enough to eradicate it. Apparently thats all it needed, was someone who knows what they're doing and all those years spent limping was just down to me never taking the correct action.
* and yes it was the same knife i used to cut peoples dinner with 😆 but i cleaned it each time.
Well wiped it at least 😉
I was going to suggest acyclovir (Zovirax), but a quick google on Pubmed says otherwise.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6724070/
Duct tape a knife AND acyclovir. That looks worth testing. Cochrane review gives 70% plus cure rate for duct tape.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001781/full/es
Cutting it out with a compass point as I did for one on a finger at school, didn’t feature.
As above, the only thing that worked for mine, which was very persistent and in a **** of a place, was to cut it more or less to the core every so often with a blade ( I used the blades off a paint scraper, long 4" long stanley blades, flexible and sharp af) .
One day just realised it had gone, didnt even notice.
Digging it out with a pen knife after whisky isn't in the books either but it's gone. Also worked for a wart I had on the back of my thumb.....wierd looking mini tree root thing came out. Left a hole for a few weeks till it healed all good now though
I had one for years on my toes. Chiropodist finally got rid of it with by microwaving it repeatedly over a number of weeks. First zap (of 10 per visit) felt like a pin, the 10th hurts like an absolute bastard.
My dad pulled one out of my foot with tweezers when I was a kid (the bastard!). Hurt like crazy and like trail_rat says, it looked like a clump of tree roots.
Successfully treated several on my kids feet over the years and one on my own foot. Pair it down with a blade or pumice and then use one of the freeze kits which kills the cells harbouring the virus. Not guaranteed but worth trying.
Digging it out with a pen knife after whisky isn’t in the books either but it’s gone. Also worked for a wart I had on the back of my thumb…..wierd looking mini tree root thing came out. Left a hole for a few weeks till it healed all good now though
I did similar as a kid. I'd no idea what it was.
It worked but, bleed? My god, I thought I'd opened an artery.
Yikes yes well I literally got to a point where I decided I just haven’t got the time to be dealing with it. Then I read the post about the verucca dot and have been keeping replacing every 2 days as meant to and relieved to see it working.
I last had one at school and mates used to always laugh as I’d have a waterproof plaster for swimming and at some time in that lesson a plaster would be floating in the pool!
This time what’s caused it has likely been the old house we’ve moved into, and I spent lots of tai energy once we’d moved in walking in the downstairs bathroom with bare feet. A few months later when the bathroom was the next on the list I properly scrubbed with baking soda and lemon juice, the floor to see the colour that came out of it!
So although the floor was hoovered and mopped, it needed a mega deep clean and I think it must’ve been that that caused it!
I had a course of antibiotics after slipping and gashing my shin. The verucca disappeared at the same time.
Before that a tried to pull it out and the bathroom looked like a scene from a Tarrantino movie.
Haha before I used the scholl disks I was picking at it with a knife myself and got it to the point where it bled so I can concur that!
The best thing with the disks is that they kill off the live blood vessels in the verruca. No blood!
All the treatments are basically trying to get your body to spot the virus. I had several massive ones for about 6 years, biggest size of a 50p, caused me problems walking and driving. Nothing worked, doctor religiously cutting it out every week, through to paying for needling (nerve block in ankle and then they stab it repeatedly).
What did work, was taking part in a trail for fertility when trying IVF, loads of folic acid, Vit d and omega 3. All gone in a week.
Banana skin placed on it then a plaster over it works a treat
On my little toe, snipped half way around it with some nail clippers then pulled the flap off with tweezers which took the root with it. Ive never seen so much blood come out of a small hole with such velocity. When it stopped I swear I could see the bone.
Was immensely satisfying.
Pair it down with a blade or pumice and then use one of the freeze kits which kills the cells harbouring the virus.
I'm trying that technique on a wart I have on my wrist at the moment (after not having had one for 30 yrs). I had hoped the freezing technique would be a one hit treatment as per when I used to go along to a dermatologist as a kid and they'd freeze them with liquid nitrogen. They would always drop off after one treatment, but this one is proving far more resistant.
As a child, my mum used a silver nitrate pencil on my verruca. Burned a bit, but went black and dropped off. No need for risky and painful digging around with sharp implements.
No need for risky and painful digging around with sharp implements.
Not as much fun though 🙂
Managed to kill off the one in my youngest's foot with some gel or another (might have been Bazuka), took a couple of months, nightly application, weekly 'sanding' with an emery board. lots of complaints (it looked bloody painful at times TBF).
I had a Wart on my knee when I was about 15/16 the GP Froze it with his magic spray thing, didn't work... It just clung on there for bloody ages.
Eventually I got pissed off and "Extracted" it myself with a pair of pliers, yanked the root and everything out in one go I found it oddly satisfying, eventually the mini-crater it left disappeared. Strangely enough my kids won't let be perform minor surgery on them, even if I clean my pliers first...
Had a Spanish mature student show me how to kill warts with a metal skewer heated on the stove when I was a teenager. Now I find a soldering iron works a treat for warts and verrucas and it puts me in the mood for a bacon sarnie too.
I’ve heard that salt is very good…
I once read an article in The Whole Earth Catalog about charming warts and verrucas away with a Swiss Army Knife, seems like the technique is still in use.
Had one as a kid and after some very painful and ineffective laser treatment at the chiropodist, the GP said use waterproof tape for a couple of weeks to suffocate it. Did that and it was very satisfying to dig out the dead matter leaving a big hole in my foot. Had the scar for years to remind me of fun times.
Slight thread hijack but I took my 14yr old daughter to podiatrist yesterday to sort out an infected ingrowing toe nail. I had previously cut it out but weeks later was still sore so we assumed it had grown back or I hadn't got it all out.
Got to appt yesterday, podiatrist scrapped off top layer of mucky skin, dug down and pulled out a dog hair. It was so satisfying, a 4cm dog hair fully enclosed in between her nail and skin. Out it came, immediate relief! A quick clean, trim and salt wash and she was off to play hockey 15mins later.
Apparently this is quite a common issue.
Had a Spanish mature student show me how to kill warts with a metal skewer heated on the stove when I was a teenager. Now I find a soldering iron works a treat for warts and verrucas and it puts me in the mood for a bacon sarnie too.
Having a cauterised vasectomy put me off bacon sarnies.....
😮
I'm assuming you have a dog?
Well it’s Saturday night so I’ll spice it up with a Verucca chat! So I’ve done the 12 weeks with the Scholl Verucca dots (that have Salicylic acid in them) and although they give a bit of a twinge every now and again and it did seem to be getting alot better it’s still there sadly and it seems to have rooted itself deep into my foot the bastard.
I dig with a knife as far as I can and cut the lifted dead skin off with a clean penknife (cleaned with alcohol beforehand) and scrub but it doesn’t half hurt, the idea of waterproof tape sounds like the next one to starve it, any other reports of success or anyone else on the journey at the moment?
Letherman pliers work particularly well...
It's been three months. Have you entertained the idea of a doctor?
As someone mentioned above, you're effectively agitating the area to trigger an immune response, with a lot of the treatments.
Nephew broke his leg and a verucca he'd had for years just dropped off whilst his leg was in plaster.
I dig with a knife as far as I can and cut the lifted dead skin off with a clean penknife (cleaned with alcohol beforehand) and scrub but it doesn’t half hurt, the idea of waterproof tape sounds like the next one to starve it, any other reports of success or anyone else on the journey at the moment?
More alcohol, and not the cleaning sort. You need the reknowned dual effects of pain relief and DGAF about doing stupid things to yourself.
Maybe warm up with a few clips of Jackass
Superglue and duct tape worked for me.
2 weeks to get rid of one i had for yesrs.
😆 I think duct tape seems to be the way, I’ll get it stuck on today! I’m assuming you use a bit a fair bit bigger than the verucca itself but don’t tape the whole foot up 🤣
Went to docs about 6 months ago who said they didn’t freeze them anymore…..probably down to cost! Typical..
An alternative way is to get treated abroad - on last years annual trip to the Croatian in-laws I was marched off to their local skin doctor - my partner often has little things done such as small mole removals etc.
She knew I had a 7-8mm one on the ball of my foot and insisted that their method of freezing it with liquid nitrogen would do the job. Sure enough, a nice lady in scrubs appeared wondering around with a big cotton wool bud on a stick, dipped the cotton wool in the liquid nitrogen and dabbed in on my verruca.
Flippin eck’ it hurt but after a couple goes it was done and I walked out with a sore foot for a couple of days. It went black and I was told it would just grow out to be replaced with new skin.
And it did. Cost about £100 or so. I definitely do it again; we’ll be taking my youngest to have her wart on the palm of her hand done, which the usual treatments aren’t touching.
Haha, I won’t be on a plane for a bit!
Just wondered who used duct tape, do you mean just keeping one piece on all the time even in shower? Or keeping changing it after a shower?
Do you use a small piece or a big bit? Cheers
Cutting it out with a compass point as I did for one on a finger at school, didn’t feature.
I had several for probably 15 years. I'd pick at them but figured they'd go eventually as they didn't really bother me. Then one appeared on a finger and that was irritating. I'd pick at it on the long train journey to work. One day I went a bit hard, hurt like buggery, but all the verucas cleared up soon after.
Warts are different. I grew one just above my lip! One treatment of 'black salve' (the stuff you're told is dangerous and should never use) and it went within three days and barely a mark left behind.
With regards to the size of duct tape we used a piece just big enough to cover the verruca on my daughter's foot don't need to cover anymore otherwise sweat just loosens it off.
Thanks Austy, I put some on last night and within 20 mins it’d worked it’s way loose. Guess it needs to be the proper silver tape? It was thick black masking tape type stuff I used
When I was about 15 I asked my mum what the funny looking thing on my foot was, she said just a bit of dead skin. 3 years later it was about an inch in diameter so I went to the doctor. Turns out it was a cluster of veruccas that had been growing there for the last 3 years. He smeared some gel on my foot and took out some kind of frozen metal rod and jammed it against the veruccas. The pain was incredible, the metal rod thing and the gel froze the veruccas which then stuck to the metal rod. When he pulled it away a big lump of veruccary flesh came with it, pain disappeared, job done!
I hobbled out to the car, got in, and by this time what was left of my foot had thawed out enough that I could feel the pain from the crater that was left. It REALLY hurt, but it worked - no more veruccas.
Thanks, that could have been anything 😆 , I’m trying the starving it of anything trick to see if it goes away.