Page 3 | How do I get rid of this verucca - warning, picture included

Crispynoodle · 22/12/2025 00:03

HermioneWeasley · 21/12/2025 21:21

Fuck me, you are rock hard!

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Bound to be a nurse! We love this stuff!

boredsolicitor · 22/12/2025 00:05

Another vote for duct tape - did the job on dd veruccas when nothing else had worked

Franpie · 22/12/2025 00:16

Go to a hardware shop and buy the thick silver tape.

Cut a square plenty big enough to completely cover the verucca and leave it stuck tightly on for a week. Do not get it wet.

Take it off in the bath. If it’s not worked after a week, try it again for another week. It will work.

TeaRoseTallulah · 22/12/2025 00:19

I got rid of ds's,he had 7 in one go . Bazooka gel every night and every other night file right down then reapply. Anything left over dog out with a pair of tweezers.

IHeartJeff · 22/12/2025 00:36

I’ve treated my stubborn ones with apple cider vinegar and tape. Neat ACV on cotton pads, over the verucca, taped overnight. Repeat the next night. Took a few weeks and GONE

SumUp · 22/12/2025 00:54

Barrenfieldoffucks · 21/12/2025 23:06

Funnily enough, mine disappeared almost overnight after the birth of my first child…

Interesting. Probably because pregnancy is a state of mild immunosuppression, then once you have given birth, your immune system rebounds and is more effective for a time.

CinnamonJellyBeans · 22/12/2025 01:17

I had one for about 15 years that I had no idea was a verucca, then suddenly, both feet were covered. Got rid of them with a mumsnet recommendation of thuja tablets (orally taken) and salactol plus filing.

I have developed another one a few years on and have tried the same method with no success. Have now started a two weekly bazooka freeze plus duct tape and it's nearly gone.

I think it's the duct tape that's doing the trick. I put it on, secure it with the plaster strip that come on a long roll (falls off otherwise) and leave for a week. Remove and file. A few hours of air and repeat.

I am baffled as to why I get them. I have the immune system of a medieval peasant. No one else in our house has them

My mum says my granny had them constantly as an adult although no one else had them, so maybe there's a link

Bungle2168 · 22/12/2025 01:22

Paint it with salicylic acid and cover it with a sticking plaster. After about three days remove the plaster and do it again. Repeat for several weeks until it disappears.

Also, alcohol has detrimental effects on the skin, so I would recommend going teetotal for the time being.

Growlybear83 · 22/12/2025 01:28

whistleinthewind · 21/12/2025 20:27

Dry needling via a podiatrist is the only thing that got rid of mine once it reached that stage

This was the only thing that worked for me after trying all the other remedies. It was very painful, but definitely worth it.

1Messycoo · 22/12/2025 01:33

Whizzywhisk · 21/12/2025 20:27

Have you tried the gaffer tape thing? My dads chiropodist even suggested this off the record - it does work

I was just about to say the same. Gaffa Tape I was told this also my a podiatrist. Cut off the air supply !!

Franjipanl8r · 22/12/2025 03:25

The stick on veruca or corn removal plasters are brilliant. If it’s too big to be covered by a single plaster, then put a few on. They’re so strong they don’t advise them for kids but I had to resort to them after trying everything else for my son’s veruca. It’ll probably take a week or two of applying and reapplying until it’s killed and the whole veruca falls off. No need for filing down like with the cream.

Climbinghigher · 22/12/2025 03:32

Sprogonthetyne · 21/12/2025 21:35

I had similar, I got one in my teens that just wouldn't shift, and gradually multiplied until I had about 20 all over one big toe. It got to the point I'd just given up trying to get rid of them, then one day in my mid 20's, they all disappeared.

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Me too, had a bunch for about ten years. Quite painful at times. My immune system must have suddenly noticed them and they disappeared. Had tried everything at home.

hernameis · 22/12/2025 03:56

Applying Apple cider vinegar worked for mine and for DS. Soaked a piece of cotton wool in it, put a band aid over it and changed it every night. Was gone in about a week leaving a big hole, was a bit tender to be honest!

omggggggg · 22/12/2025 04:05

Podiatrist. They will cut away at it. A verruca is linked to your immune system so it will probably come back, but you can get it cut away again. I have one treated frequently. I had a huge one that eventually disappeared of its own accord one day after years, so I’m hoping this one does the same. I don’t find tape or any ointments work. Year ago when the Gp still used the freezing treatment that didn’t even work

Gnarab24 · 22/12/2025 04:15

I had one for around 13 years and made similar half hearted efforts before one final assault which finally took the buggar down. Basically just used extra strength bazooka every night for about 4 months. Filed it down every night til it started to bleed, painted it, repeat. Got rid of it and it’s never returned. No way would I have been sticking a needle and thread under it, was way too deep. And duck tape didn’t work.

StuntAcorn · 22/12/2025 05:19

PInkyStarfish · 21/12/2025 20:27

Needle and thread. Sterilise the needle and go under it from east to west and leave a long tail of thread. Then leaving a long piece of thread and go under from north to south.

Gather all the four pieces of thread together and tank as hard as you can and it will break up the verruca and split it into four. It will hurt momentarily and there will be blood.

on e it’s split up like that you can use tweezers to further pull out pieces of it and should be able to get it all out or at least the bulk of it. You can use curved nail scissors as well to help snip bits out. You can sterilise them first.

Blot until has stopped bleeding and preferably keep it uncovered for as long as you can go let the air get to it but put a plaster over it when walking and wear a cotton sock at night.

It will be sore for a couple of days but will then heal.

Wow - that's barbaric! I love it 😁

General question - what happens to the "hole" left behind once the verruca has gone?

SnowDaysAndBadLays · 22/12/2025 05:23

But some scalpels and do home surgery.
It's what I did with mine.

Notmeagain24 · 22/12/2025 05:25

Whizzywhisk · 21/12/2025 20:27

Have you tried the gaffer tape thing? My dads chiropodist even suggested this off the record - it does work

this! It works! Actually, there are plasters designed for this - took my daughter to a walk in for a verruca as I thought it was infected with all the poking around I'd been doing. They gave me a big plaster, told me to leave it on for three days and it would suffocate it. It worked perfectly.

Comtesse · 22/12/2025 06:46

Go to a chiropodist and do it properly. I had a really big one and it HURT. All gone after 3 trips to chiropodist.

tinybeautiful · 22/12/2025 06:49

You need to cut through the root with a scalpel. Do it when you have loads of time because it will bleed like hell but I've never found it painful. Cut away round the edges so you can get to a decent depth and then go for it.

Gettingbysomehow · 22/12/2025 06:52

GizmoIsSoFluffy · 21/12/2025 20:20

Can anyone help me with suggestions on how I can get rid of my verucca. It's starting to hurt when I walk.

I've tried bazooka, extra strong bazooka, banana skin, filing, plucking. But after many years, it's still there.

Getting desperate, any advice on how to get rid of big, nasty, old veruccas will be much appreciated. __

Dry needling. Its expensive, I used to do the procedure. There was no verruca I couldn't get rid of. Around £200 involves local anaesthetic.

CherryRipe1 · 22/12/2025 06:58

MrTiddlesTheCat · 21/12/2025 21:00

Get yourself a callous shaver and some salicylic acid.

Soak your foot, then shave off as much as you can. Then treat what is left with the acid and cover it with a plaster.

Repeat this every day until it goes. It may take a few weeks, but it will go.

This^ It's the only thing that worked for DD after trying all the usual treatments. We saw a podiatrist and she prescribed some strong salicylic acid, think it was called Occlusive or something. The other way is to make your immune system see the verrucae as it's evading detection. I've seen TV podiatrists jab them repeatedly with a proper sterile medical needle like a microlance after shaving down.

Elektra1 · 22/12/2025 06:58

I had one bigger than that for years in my teens. I suppose it was several clumped together really. It nearly covered the ball of my foot. One day it just peeled off. It was amazing.

I have subsequently heard that if you cover a verruca with strong duct tape, it starves it of oxygen and kills the verruca. Try that? Probably takes a week or so though and you have to keep it covered all the time.

DD has a wart on her finger currently and I’m trying to work out how to deal with that!

Mymanyellow · 22/12/2025 07:04

PInkyStarfish · 21/12/2025 20:27

Needle and thread. Sterilise the needle and go under it from east to west and leave a long tail of thread. Then leaving a long piece of thread and go under from north to south.

Gather all the four pieces of thread together and tank as hard as you can and it will break up the verruca and split it into four. It will hurt momentarily and there will be blood.

on e it’s split up like that you can use tweezers to further pull out pieces of it and should be able to get it all out or at least the bulk of it. You can use curved nail scissors as well to help snip bits out. You can sterilise them first.

Blot until has stopped bleeding and preferably keep it uncovered for as long as you can go let the air get to it but put a plaster over it when walking and wear a cotton sock at night.

It will be sore for a couple of days but will then heal.

Blimey I winced reading that let alone doing it. Chiropodist surely.

Whatsthatsheila · 22/12/2025 07:09

MrTiddlesTheCat · 21/12/2025 21:00

Get yourself a callous shaver and some salicylic acid.

Soak your foot, then shave off as much as you can. Then treat what is left with the acid and cover it with a plaster.

Repeat this every day until it goes. It may take a few weeks, but it will go.

I did this @GizmoIsSoFluffy but using bazuka (I tried the salicylic plasters but found they were damaging to the surround skin.

I also (when after it was soaked) used to pull bits out of it - as much as I could tolerate

then after a few months of agony and not being able to walk properly I started rubbing aciclovir cream into it after I ripped bits out of it.

now I am not saying that was what got rid of it …… aciclovir is an antiviral cream but it’s coldsores which are a different type of virus but I thought sod it- in for a penny I for a pound and it did just start clearing up and then seemed to go quite quickly - I do think the aciclovir cream was just a coincidence though and me ripping chunks out of it actually made me immune system start on it

the other thing I did is I also pulled the crusty edge bits off to stimulate the healing process on my skin around it which also probably kicked in the immune system in that area