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I had a wart on a finger for a couple of years- tried the freezer, salicylic acid both scholl and Bazooka didnt work. I started using superglue, Which I would top up a couple of times a week and then trim back every week or so. It went in about 3 weeks.
I think the trick is to keep it as constantly covered as possible- trim then immediately recover, and put more on to keep a good 'shell' over it. It just fell off one day leaving smooth skin and no trace!
The one on my big toe had two freezing treatments they just made it bigger. Nothing since before start of pandemic. Just noticed it had gone last week.
UPDATE: Verucca is just about gone and wanted to share how I’d managed it as they really are awful things!
So Johnny is right I’d say, I’ve just had live with it for over a year, until I decided enough was enough as it was hurting when biking and I knew at that point it had to go! So my method:
Salicylic dots you can buy, on the verucca and then cover with a plaster and I used Elastoplast fabric ones as they mould to the skin well and keep that on for two days with the plaster
Every once a week scrub off the excess with a stiff emery board, then used a penknife I bought which i kept sterilised to cut away the excess skin and on some days got digging all the white out. Then applied another dot and plaster. I went the whole course doing this each few days which I think is either 9 or 12 weeks and still had it but the dots were definitely killing it as the roots were able to be cut into without bleeding.
So at that point I just covered it with a plaster and kept that one plaster on for around 5 days to totally starve it, didn’t even take off to shower and I’d say after 3 weeks it’s now almost gone….I think!
Pretty much what I did. Repeated 'corn caps' followed by vigorous sanding every couple of days. Bit painful after the first week or so, but that's how you know you're getting to the meat of it.
Lotions! Gaffer tape! Pah! Back in the dark ages, well the 1960s, I had mine removed by flame - yes flame, in a hospital. What a bastard that was, weeks and weeks of a gaping bloody wound until it eventually healed. Count yourselves lucky.
Back in the dark ages, well the 1960s, I had mine removed by flame – yes flame, in a hospital.
Flame??? LUXURY!!!
Chiropodist finally got rid of it with by microwaving it repeatedly over a number of weeks.
Can anyone advise on how to press the start button of the microwave. I can't reach when my foot is in it. Also, how do you close the door - leg is in the way.
Can anyone advise on how to press the start button of the microwave. I can’t reach when my foot is in it. Also, how do you close the door – leg is in the way.
Well, obviously you have to cut your foot off first! Which solves the problem of the verucca too.
Back in the dark ages, well the 1960s, I had mine removed by flame – yes flame, in a hospital.
FlameHospital??? LUXURY!!!
Daughter (and I a year or so later) just bazooka'd the F out of it - like an entire tube. Sorted it hers and mine over night.
I can’t believe yours went overnight! I find all basils gel does is put a white film over the bastard, almost to protect it from the elements and keep the thing bloody growing.
EDIT: Still got the damn thing, did think it was close to going after I just covered it with a plaster and left it for around a week, but nope.
Someone mentioned gaffer tape, so I think I might buy some duct tape, it has to survive showers ideally!
Cougar
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It’s been three months. Have you entertained the idea of a doctor?[color=red]Posted 3 months ago[/color]
I've successfully cut them out myself (messy and sore so not recommended)
Had a chiropodist get rid of one with trimming and treating with acid.
They've gone all by themselves.
And I've also got rid of them by iso g those home freeze kits.
For me, the best was the home freezing. Best to trim them first though, in my experience.
Bazuka hasn't worked that great for me either.
I had success with a Scholl wart remover pen after every other treatment had failed. It uses a pretty strong acid locked up in gel, and it stings a fair bit when on, but 3 applications over a week and then maybe 2 weeks for the skin to fully heal and it was gone for good.
After trying alsorts I painted it with black nail varish as id been told that worked, topped it up every few days for a couple of weeks when I got it off it had gone
Just wanted to re-update…
It’s very much not gone! The verucca dots did seem to do quite well, but then hit the 12 weeks I was meant to use it for and then started To just cover it with a plaster and it seemed to just stay as it was and now I’m back on soaking the skin, bazuka and digging. Close to getting a freeze at home kit, it’s about 1cm in size and really needs to bugger off but have to admit not sure I can deal with massive pain that keeps getting mentioned from others!
At the risk of repeating myself,
Cougar
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It’s been three months. Have you entertained the idea of a doctor?Posted 3 months ago
Posted 1 month ago
Four fox hake man, this is an eight month old thread discussing a (then) one and a half year old issue. A centimetre across? Good christ, get medical help already.
I had success with a Scholl wart remover pen after every other treatment had failed.
I've just used this on a wart that appeared on the inside of my thumb, right on the knuckle. It's very much the nuclear option. So I put a couple of drops on, let it dry then wrapped some fabric plaster tape around it. Jesus, it felt like I had trapped a small fire in there for about an hour afterwards! Repeated for 4 days like the instruction said, same pain every time. Stopped after the 4 days, kept it wrapped up during the day and uncovered at night. All the time it appeared to be forming a massive blister underneath, to the point where I couldn't bend my thumb and the pressure/pain was getting unbearable. I thought I must have done something wrong and was working out if I needed to seek medical help. So, as a last effort I stuck a pin in the side of it. You know those pimple pop videos on youtube with the minor volcanic eruptions? That's pretty much was happened. The pain relief was instant. Kept squeezing it for the rest of the day and then the next day I peeled off the dead skin (including the wart), just like every piece of medical advice tells you not to do. Wrapped up with some savlon for a couple of days and now all is healing well. There's two very obvious "holes" where the roots must have been but they look clear and new skin is forming.
I'm now building up the courage to start on a stubborn verruca that's been on my foot for a while and resisted all other treatments.
Not a chance I would ever use this stuff on a child (it says suitable from 4yrs!), but it really has worked for me.
We currently are using that stuff on a 5yo child. Only pain complaint had been when one toe touched the other before it had dried. The drying time estimate is a joke though. Takes way longer.
I used the home freeze kit on my 10 year old a few times but it didn’t work that well. However the verruca dits did the trick really well.
Managed to get rid of a couple on my 10yr old recently.
bazooka initially seemed to work but didn’t get rid completely.
Duct tape wouldn’t stay stuck
freeze spray worked and they picked off the remains about 3-4weeks later.
Like I said up there many months ago...I had truely massive horrible things that were treated for years and years with every remedy out there. Even nerve blocks and dry needling (if you think gouging out with a knife hurts...)
All of the remedies are trying to get your body to recognise the virus through agitation of various kind.
Mine were causing trouble walking and driving they had got so large.
I went on a fertility trial, drank loads of vit C&d, omega cod liver oil and folic acid. Gone within days after years of persistence
Not much help for you but I would recommend just trying different remedies until one works for you
Small bit just cover the black spot from the bottom of hell.
Banana works too
Wow thank you, I agree sorry for the revival! Just thought I’d comment about progress, thing is the doc says they don’t freeze them so I’m seeing what other people did and do. The thought of agonising pain I think is what’s putting me off 🤣, surely the pain can’t be worse than the very first time you bin it without kneepads on and land straight on them, you quickly learn to pad up!!
I do have to admit I hardly ever eat fruit unless it’s with icecream, or ever take vitamins so I think if I can increase all to naturally build my immune system that may help 👍 call me the pill popper!
My uncle was a consultant surgeon and took a no nonsense approach to removing veruccas from my cousin's feet. He numbed the area with local anaesthetic and dug them out with a soldering iron!
So another update, I mean who doesn’t appreciate one?! 🤣
So I think I needed to take the bazuka gel instructions less seriously, my fiancée who sees allsorts of injuries/medical issues with work said to me to scrape out as much as poss and then just soak the things in the gel… have done exactly that and left it on for 5-6 days before the skin around it becomes soft and can easily pull it off. Done it 3-4 times now and the difference is brilliant!
Looks like it’s nearly all gone, just get the occasional phantom pains but they’re so mild as it’s clearly suffocating it so it’s a necessary evil!
Going swimming tomorrow too so will make sure it’s fully covered, last thing I want to do is pass it onto someone else!
Also I got a really small one on the other bloody foot! Anyway I did the same and that also seems to have almost gone now too
Digging it out with a pen knife after whisky isn’t in the books either but it’s gone.
That’s funny, I’ve got a copy of The Whole Earth Catalog, and The Last Whole Earth Catalog, subtitled Access To Tools, and one thing I remember reading, was using a Swiss Army Knife to charm away warts and veruccas, basically by digging them out with one of the blades, which left a big crater, but got rid of the offending wart or verucca! 🤣
I tried going DEEP with a penknife which I bought especially but if the blood vessels aren’t dead it just bleeds so at least the Bazuka kills them off…
After 11/12 years of being unable to get rid of them no matter what, mine have just suddenly disappeared. One foot had a huge cluster on it but just gone.
Only two things have recently changed:
1) I've started running again, 3 times a week
2) Despite the running, my diet recently has been particularly horrendous
Who knows...