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

[CranberryHedgehog]

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Mine eventually disappeared, took years though!

Yes, there is hope. I had one for years and years, it resisted everything and was massive. One day it just went, not in response to anything I’d done, just pouf

I had one on the sole, heel area of my foot as a teenager. Stayed for years. Was huge, and felt like I had a hole in my foot. Never treated it (incredibly lazy) and then one day it sort’ve rose to the surface and I easily picked it out. Never returned, even when my kids got them. There is definitely hope! If you are going on a beach holiday, walk as much as you can barefoot along the shore/sea in case it helps

Yes I had a huge one, tried many treatments, randomly disappeared after about 10 years

Thuja is good

I've had one on my foot for 22 years and no treatments have shifted it. I've not tried the microneedling but pretty much everything else.

I did have some warts / verrucas on my hands when I was young and they all disappeared overnight while on holiday. I'd had them for around 6 years at that point. I always assumed it was either the sun or the seawater that did it but who knows.

Yes happened to me. I got a lot when I was younger and also warts on my hands, tried everything would never budge and they all eventually just disappeared never to reappear. Hope I haven't jinxed myself now!

Yes. I had one for about 10 years and tried everything. It went the minute I fell pregnant.

yes, I had a really painful large one in the middle of the ball of my foot for over 10 years- at its worst I had 18 smaller ones on the surrounding skin and toes, and it was agony to walk on and looked revolting.
Had the worst of them frozen multiple times and was prescribed a daily treatment for them but they still persisted. I stayed at a hotel that had a jacuzzi and pool - I wore a tight fitting rubber swim sock on my bad foot (as I always did when swimming) but some chemical in that jacuzzi made my foot tingle and sting like mad, and a few days later the large verucca completely fell off my foot and a week later it was healed, and all of the smaller ones had started to clear up as well. A month later and they had all gone. Whether it was the combination of the ongoing treatments I was having, a total coincidence of the timing, or the chemicals in that particular jacuzzi I will never know- but my foot has remained verucca free since then.

I've had 6 or 7 verrucas (sequentially, not at the same time) and I never treated any of them. They all went away on their own and I don't have any at the moment.

Most lasted 2 or 3 years, but my first one lasted 8 or 9. I suddenly noticed one day it wasn't there.

I've been prone to them my whole life but I don't have any at the moment. No treatment works. You just have to wait for your immune system to be triggered and then they disappear by themselves. I had one cluster of 3 for over 10 years but once my immune system went into action, after I walked bare foot on a sharp pebble beach when my flip flops broke and paddled in the salt water, they disappeared really quickly. It's not definitely linked but that's what happened directly before they disappeared.

I thought the doctors could like numb the foot/area and like physically remove it and dig it out

Hi,

I had a similar issue, tried everything for years including professional treatments. I gave up.

Then one day I noticed that they’d gone. The key difference was I’d been taking magnesium & multivitamins on a daily basis for 2-3 months to improve my general health (not my feet lol). I genuinely believed it helped my immune system get rid of them. Long standing verrucae can be a sign of weaker immune health.

It’s worth considering, it can’t hurt. I hope you find something that works.

I’ve never had a verruca but I did have a wart on my knee as a teen that spontaneously disappeared after I’d tried everything on it.

Me too! I had a cluster of about 8 🤮 there for YEARS and nothing worked. I know it sounds mad but I started supplements, ignored them, then a few months later I looked and they were gone! Bizarre