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Is it okay to give up with verrucas?

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DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 07:37

I’ve had them on my feet for like the past 5 years and nothing gets rid of them. I’m at my wits end and I’m about to just give up. I mean they don’t really bother me but I would be nice if they would go away. :)

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Yerroblemom1923 · 10/05/2025 14:30

Cut an onion in half, rub it on the verruca and then bury the onion. Works every time. My Gran used to swear by it.

wowwhataday · 10/05/2025 14:31

Laser treatment. Two zaps max and they’re gone. No creams etc, just kills the root and turns them black and they shrivel up and drop off. Fantastic.

thecatneuterer · 10/05/2025 14:32

Don't have the microwave treatment! Costs a fortune, hurts more than you can possibly imagine and doesn't work (well it didn't work for me).

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Doitrightnow · 10/05/2025 15:00

I had loads appear when I was with my ex. He was quite rude about it. When we broke up they vanished quickly, I think it was the stress of being with him!

I have one now. Been there for about a decade. I've given up.

joanofaardvark · 10/05/2025 15:26

I have never been verucca free since I was about 7. I turn 50 next year. I’ve treated them with chemicals, with dry ice, with prescription only, with over the counter, with old wives tales. Nothing seemed to work, though each time they would go eventually whilst a new one, or several, pops up elsewhere.
so yeah, give up.

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DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 15:36

Do your verrucas ever bother you?

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WonderingWanda · 10/05/2025 15:38

Cotswoldmama · 10/05/2025 07:51

I had a wart on my finger as a teenager for ages and nothing would get rid of it, then someone told me about an old wives tale, which was to snap a dandelion stem and apply the white sap stuff to the wart and within a week it was gone! It might have been coincidence but worth a try?!

As a child we were always told that picking yellow dandelions made you wet the bed 😬

user1471462634 · 10/05/2025 15:52

How often are you applying?

Only way got rid of my daughter's was applying 3 x a day & she had a few on her feet.

Got the usual Bozooka verucca but applied 3 x day. Was applying once a day and they were not shifting.

Try to be consistent with the application - good luck!

CherryRipe1 · 10/05/2025 15:52

The immune system can't see the verrucaes as they hide from it somehow. The trick is to get the immune system to see it by aggravating it with a proper sterile needle and filing it down. Probably best to see a podiatrist who will aggressively jab away at it until it bleeds.

doodahdayy · 10/05/2025 15:55

They die on their own eventually. It takes years though.

Jacarandill · 10/05/2025 16:07

Thedandelionshavewon · 10/05/2025 07:46

In my experience, they go eventually
and nothing seems to help them go quicker.

Five years is about average for me.

This. I don’t know what the big deal is really.

Sherararara · 10/05/2025 16:10

Have none of you been to a podiatrist? DS had them on two separate occasions. Podiatrist attacked them and they were gone in weeks.

doodahdayy · 10/05/2025 16:38

Sherararara · 10/05/2025 16:10

Have none of you been to a podiatrist? DS had them on two separate occasions. Podiatrist attacked them and they were gone in weeks.

I regularly go to a podiatrist to get a verruca cut away. It keeps coming back. They don’t always go away. It depends on your immune system. They die when they decide too. My podiatrist told me one of her clients had a heart attack and his verruca died suddenly. It all depends on the person

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DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 16:39

joanofaardvark · 10/05/2025 15:26

I have never been verucca free since I was about 7. I turn 50 next year. I’ve treated them with chemicals, with dry ice, with prescription only, with over the counter, with old wives tales. Nothing seemed to work, though each time they would go eventually whilst a new one, or several, pops up elsewhere.
so yeah, give up.

Do your verrucas ever bother you?

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Eldermillennialmum · 10/05/2025 18:18

I don't see an issue as long as you don't allow them to spread to others

romdowa · 10/05/2025 18:30

I had a very stubborn one and got lazer treatment. There was no way it was going to survive that

Robotnik · 10/05/2025 19:58

On this one-page thread we've already had filing until it bleeds, salicylic acid and duct tape, freezing, dandelion sap, covid vaccine, pumice and duct tape, apple cider vinegar, ivermectin cream, getting actual covid, bananas, tea tree shampoo and oil, rub with an onion, breaking up with ex, bazooka three times a day, jab it with a sterile needle and file it, attack by podiatrist, heart attack, laser treatment, and many, many that defied all treatment and left when they felt like it.

I think the take home message is that there is nothing that works consistently with verrucas. If there was, we'd all do that.

mambojambodothetango · 10/05/2025 20:03

Just seen GP about DS's which last months. He said not to worry, they aren't as infectious as we used to think and you don't even need to treat them - just stick duct tape over them if you want.

Just1712 · 10/05/2025 20:06

DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 10:43

Thanks! Yeah they are so stubborn. I’m just going to live with them.

i have had one for 18 years. Tried everything to get rid of it

thecatneuterer · 10/05/2025 20:27

romdowa · 10/05/2025 18:30

I had a very stubborn one and got lazer treatment. There was no way it was going to survive that

That's what I had (although it was described as microwave treatment). Three expensive and painful sessions. Made not one jot of difference.

romdowa · 10/05/2025 20:31

thecatneuterer · 10/05/2025 20:27

That's what I had (although it was described as microwave treatment). Three expensive and painful sessions. Made not one jot of difference.

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I'm shocked that it survived 3 rounds of laser!

whalesorwales · 10/05/2025 20:38

I had 2 verrucas, one on each foot. They didn’t bother me other than I couldn’t swim without a covering or have pedicures. I had them for 15+ years and nothing worked on them so I gave up too.
bizarrely they went away when I was pregnant (both times) and then came back and finally disappeared when I had a full hysterectomy. Never been bothered with them since. Weird!

majormortgageanxiety · 10/05/2025 20:58

Ds had a huge one, and I mean huge, it was really hurting him in the end. I tried the filing til it bleeds trick and suffocating with duct tape, within a week of it bleeding it went away.
but he does now have 2 more little ones 🤔

Trinity69 · 10/05/2025 20:59

They will go on their own, but it takes a while!

ByLimeAnt · 10/05/2025 21:34

I got one aged 7 (I remember because I want allowed to join that day's swimming lesson). NOTHING shifted it and I tried everything. Last year it magically evaporated at age 46