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To ask if you've ever had a verruca spontaneously resolve after so many years?

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CranberryHedgehog · 18/07/2024 07:38

I've had a verruca for about 9 years now. I've tried all sorts to get rid of it - apple cider vinegar, bazuka and bazuka extra strength, filing, cutting it out with razor blades and nail files, duct tape, banana peel, silver nitrate from the podiatrist, freezing from both the podiatrist and over the counter, nail polish, corn plasters, taking multivitamins inc zinc to try and boost my immune system. It's bled profusely in the past from treatments and still not gone. Nothing I do seems to get rid of it and I'm utterly fed up. I can't afford more expensive private treatment like Swift.

It seems to get to a certain point and refuse to budge any more plus it really hurts. The latest I've tried is extra strength bazuka and using professional nail clippers to cut it down as much as possible and then file it down with a foot file. It never seems to go any further than this though.

Is it possible it'll just spontaneously go at this stage? I don't know what else to try!

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To ask if you've ever had a verruca spontaneously resolve after so many years?
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MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 18/07/2024 07:55

Mine eventually disappeared, took years though!

Verveine · 18/07/2024 07:54

Yes! Maybe not as long as 9 years but certainly 5 years +. Like you I had tried everything, spent a fortune at the podiatrist but nothing helped. So I gave up and decided I’d have to live with it - and then one day I noticed that it had disappeared. I do hope yours will too.

insidenumber9 · 18/07/2024 07:53

My son’s just disappeared after a year but it was when he was about 8 so perhaps children are different

MartyFunkhouser · 18/07/2024 07:51

Not me, but my husband had loads on one foot for a year and then they just suddenly disappeared.

Munchyseeds2 · 18/07/2024 07:51

Thuja tablets (from the health food shop) worked for us
I believe that it will go on its own in the end but that it can take years for your immune system to recognise it

Darhon · 18/07/2024 07:48

I had mosaic ones as a young teen, in the years when they got rid of the state spend on verruca clinics. They did just go. Can’t remember how long I had them for. Also had a few warts that went.

biscuitsnow · 18/07/2024 07:46

Oh, I just saw that you tried freezing- how many did you have? you have to keep freezing it as many times as it needs unfortunately. Also, try Thuja - a remedy for warts/veruccas at the same time as freezing it

weightonmymind · 18/07/2024 07:43

I used a scholl pen and it was gone in a month.

biscuitsnow · 18/07/2024 07:43

Nope- they are stubborn AF.

I had one for 7 years, (tried every OTC remedy that exists) got so fed up that I had it burnt off (or frozen off I should say) by a chiropodist. Took 3 attempts but it's gone now, hoorah!

NotSureHowToProcess · 18/07/2024 07:42

Doubt it. Only thing I’ve found that works on such things is salicylic acid patches. And then scraping off the dead bit with a scalpel and repeat daily until gone.

DustyLee123 · 18/07/2024 07:41

DD is just living with hers, she refuses any treatment as she’s scared of it hurting. No one else in the house has caught one off her, despite sharing a shower.

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