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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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Avatartar · 10/05/2025 21:41

Mine used to hurt, it was swollen and proud of my foot, throbbed and hurt like hell when I took a step and put pressure on it. Took about 3 years of filing it down, plucking bits of it out with tweezers and making it bleed before it eventually went

Ragamuffin8 · 10/05/2025 22:02

I had this problem for years too. I gave up after multiple professional treatments.

Then after taking magnesium supplements and multivitamins for a few months, they went by themselves. I think it was the boost to my immune system.

radishgate · 10/05/2025 22:16

what have you tried to get rid of them? I had silver nitrate on a few when I was a teenager which hurt like hell but got rid of them. Apart from one very large, deep, stubborn one on the ball of my foot that wouldn’t go away, quite a crater. I got fed up one night and dug it out with a scalpel about 15 year ago and it all healed perfectly.

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finally456 · 10/05/2025 22:21

I’ve been getting treated for a very painful verruca on my foot for 6 months by a podiatrist. It’s been painful for more than a year. It was hampering my ability to walk and/ or drive.

can someone tell me more about the banana remedy?

Sunshineandrainbow · 10/05/2025 22:26

finally456 · 10/05/2025 22:21

I’ve been getting treated for a very painful verruca on my foot for 6 months by a podiatrist. It’s been painful for more than a year. It was hampering my ability to walk and/ or drive.

can someone tell me more about the banana remedy?

You put the inside bit of the banana skin on the verruca and cover with duct tape

thedeadneverdie · 10/05/2025 22:29

Honestly, I could never give up on verucas or warts.

Liquid nitrogen.

Wartner.

Scalpels.

Duct tape.

You are at war!

RedFatball · 10/05/2025 23:12

I usually attack mine with a scalpel. Once I've made them bleed they tend to go away. Had a wart on my hand recently and used the same method, gone in a couple of days

XenoBitch · 10/05/2025 23:24

I gave up on one, and then one day it just fucked off all by itself. Not had one since.

kitkatnatnat · 11/05/2025 00:51

I had one that I tried for 7 years to get rid of. Podiatrist tried acid, then freezing, then when that failed cut it out with laser surgery which left me with a deep wound until it healed. The bastard still came back so I had it cut out again! It came back! Went to a different podiatrist a couple of years later and had microwave treatments (about 4 or 5 I think)….. still nothing. I must have spent over a grand on the blighter.
Then 2 years later….. One miraculous day it looked smaller and a few days later had gone completely! Seemingly all on its own. I was overjoyed. I was quite unwell with a respiratory infection at the time so now I’m wondering if it’s because my immune system was on high alert and working hard.

doodahdayy · 11/05/2025 03:17

kitkatnatnat · 11/05/2025 00:51

I had one that I tried for 7 years to get rid of. Podiatrist tried acid, then freezing, then when that failed cut it out with laser surgery which left me with a deep wound until it healed. The bastard still came back so I had it cut out again! It came back! Went to a different podiatrist a couple of years later and had microwave treatments (about 4 or 5 I think)….. still nothing. I must have spent over a grand on the blighter.
Then 2 years later….. One miraculous day it looked smaller and a few days later had gone completely! Seemingly all on its own. I was overjoyed. I was quite unwell with a respiratory infection at the time so now I’m wondering if it’s because my immune system was on high alert and working hard.

It makes sense! My podiatrist said one of her clients had a verruca that died after he had a heart attack.

Phase2 · 11/05/2025 08:15

The Apple cider vinegar worked amazingly for a stubborn one ds had. New emery board each day, filed it down, put a pad of vinegar on it then taped over night. Repeat each night.

Fitzcarraldo353 · 11/05/2025 08:55

DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 10:43

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

More to the point why did you start 4 different threads about your verrucas yesterday morning? And on this thread after a decent number of responses you posted 'bump' to get more. And then when you said you were just going to live with them continued to ask people if they were bothered by them.

In the nicest possible way, are you ok? This seems to be a high level of focus on something so simple.

joanofaardvark · 11/05/2025 09:07

DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 15:36

Do your verrucas ever bother you?

Only if people can see them (eg: can't sit shoeless on a sun lounger) and can't go for a pedicure so have to make do with my rubbish toe nail painting.

Ai the moment I have one in the middle of my heel about 5mm across and a couple of tiny pin prick ones on the other foot. I can't feel them at all.

Wishihadanalgorithm · 11/05/2025 09:15

My DD had a foot full of verrucas and we had got to the point of just letting them burn themselves out (tried every OTC treatment and needling wasn’t recommended for her age) and then she developed a wart on her finger.

I didn’t want her to have loads of warts so I got her dad to “buy” her wart from her using a 2p piece.

I swear on every holy book that this worked. The wart vanished over a couple of days and then the verrucas disappeared in the space of a week.

My dad had done the same for my sister when we were kids too.

Don’t ask me why/how/what as I can’t answer that. All I know is that a foot full of verrucas vanished after he bought the wart.

Oh and DP’s little wart on his heel (that he’d had for years) suddenly grew really big and then that vanished too.

I know people are going to say this is nonsense - that’s fine, I can only say what happened.

TheFormidableMrsC · 11/05/2025 09:19

My daughter had verrucas as a child. She caught them at a swimming pool. We could not get rid of them. Tried every treatment available, went to GP yet they remained stubborn. Then one day they just disappeared. It was really weird. She’s never had one since.

doodahdayy · 11/05/2025 17:26

@Wishihadanalgorithmthat's amazing. I guess your ds really believed their dad and their immune systems responded accordingly!

Jacarandill · 11/05/2025 17:30

TheFormidableMrsC · 11/05/2025 09:19

My daughter had verrucas as a child. She caught them at a swimming pool. We could not get rid of them. Tried every treatment available, went to GP yet they remained stubborn. Then one day they just disappeared. It was really weird. She’s never had one since.

How do you know she caught them at a swimming pool?

ilovebagpuss · 11/05/2025 17:33

I was plagued as a teen and we did everything the filing the covering with stuff twice a day. Then about a year later they just went.
I read that it can be linked to your immune system and that they will sometimes just go.
I would personally forget about them and eat well, take a multivit and just wait for them to do one.

Pluralsplease · 11/05/2025 17:34

DeepWriter · 10/05/2025 10:43

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

I had a very painful one for years and started to get smaller ones all over my foot. I paid £120 to get them all burned off by a professional podiatrist over 6 appointments and it was the best £120 I’ve ever spent.

Chemenger · 11/05/2025 17:36

I had verrucas off and on for years, then they just went away. I can share my great grandmother’s cure for warts - rub a snail on the wart then impale the snail on a thorn bush. When the snail shrivels up and falls off the thorn your wart will be gone. I have never done this, I hasten to add.

TheFormidableMrsC · 11/05/2025 18:46

Jacarandill · 11/05/2025 17:30

How do you know she caught them at a swimming pool?

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Because she didn’t have them before she started swimming lessons. She wasn’t the only child either.

CherryRipe1 · 12/05/2025 18:25

My mum had loads on her feet way back when. She used formaldehyde as a soak of all things then attacked them with a razor blade. I got one swimming as a kid and we implemented the formaldehyde protocol. They actually went.

superplumb · 16/05/2025 15:56

The only thing that worked in my sons was the freeze stuff. He said it hurt. A lot ans I needed a few treatments after everything else failed.

After a month of giving up it turned black ans fell out leaving a massive hole . 🤢

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