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!

I had a couple of them for about 4 years, tried all the treatments and made no difference except to my bank balance!

After my first COVID vaccine they reduced significantly and after my second dose they completely disappeared! I assume something to do with my immune system.

They have reappeared in past few months, and I am probably due another vaccine so fingers crossed it works again.

Mine also went after a beach holiday - quite an expensive treatment, but definitely the nicest!

I assume it's the saltwater and exfoliation of the sand?

I had loads on my foot for years and they went when I was pregnant - I assume all the good stuff in my body to grow my baby also helped me get rid of the virus.

DD had a cluster of warts on her fingers for a couple of years and they just went - we noticed one day they were all gone.

I had one for years. It was huge. It eventually took about 6 months treatment at a podiatrist. First few visits were weekly. Then fortnightly. It took a lot of work to get rid of it.

I was going to say- I had a cluster for years and when I started just taking care of myself - reducing stress, eating well, supplements, sleeping well- they did just disappear. Was horrible though....tried everything...think sometimes the scraping and the digging out etc is just to let your body know that it needs to send some antibodies to that location. Good luck!

Yes I have. I had one for ages, tried lots of things, including freezing at the chiropodist. Nothing worked. I gave up. Whereupon it disappeared.

Yes, I had a cluster of them plus a few random ones all on one foot for TEN years. Tried everything, including paying a private doctor to freeze them and nothing worked. One day I was idly inspecting my foot, couldn’t see my veruccas, thought I must be looking at the wrong foot so checked the other and - VANISHED - no veruccas! It was such a shocking and exciting moment I rang my husband at work to tell him!

Years later two of my children had clusters of veruccas at the same time as each other and they also just fell off without any treatment but only needed a few weeks, not years. They just turned black and literally fell off in bed one night. Such a strange thing, veruccas.

I had one for ages that I would just cut back when it got uncomfortable. It just went on its own one day.

It’s a virus, isn’t it? So no amount of interventions really work. You’re waiting for your immune system to recognise and deal with it, which it usually does eventually but it can take a very long time.

Apparently, yes 😂

Literally only just noticed after your post prompted me to check. I had one for years underneath my left big toe I could never get rid of. It's no longer there!

No idea when it disappeared, might be a month ago or a year ago. Can't believe I hadn't realised.

Op go back to the podiatrist and question why the issue hadn't resolved itself and what they can do next or get a 2nd opinion even show the gp if you've been like this so long. Maybe they can test it to see what's going on. 9 years with all these treatments is too long.

They're caused by a virus so will resolve eventually. I've had ones disappear.

I have 2 on same part of toe that won't go, so last week I tried microneedling them at home (better to have it done by a clinician)!
It's meant to stimulate the body's immune response to them by irritating the skin under the verruca. Will let you know if it works!

Try soaking it in heavily salted water every day. This was my dm's treatment for them and it seemed to work.

Oh boy, have I got a story for you!

I've ALWAYS had verrucas. Since I can remember, I've had all the treatments, had to wear the rubber sock thing - nothing really worked. As a teen I developed masses of them on the balls of both feet which were sometimes quite painful to walk on.

Anyway - gradually they subsided and by the time I was in my 30s I just had a lingering couple that I'd periodically use a nail file to scrape down.

Now - I'm 41 - I have none. At some point in the last 2 years they all disappeared. I don't know why, I don't know how - but they're gone. I still have manky toenails but those are (according to the podiatrist) caused by damage to the nail bed rather than fungal. Certainly nothing seems to sort them out.

My daughter had them for years as a child. Nothing worked. Then one day they just vanished. It was weird!

I had 11 on one foot as a young adult; they all disappeared overnight after several years. Same thing happened regarding a wart on my finger. Just vanished.

Yes. Same with warts.

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Yes I had one for 10 years which resolved quickly after I gave up my horrible stressful job.

I was was about to post this. Pregnancy got rid of mine after it had hung about since student days ( and shared showers). I thought it might have been coincidence because actually pregnancy usually lowers your immune system ( in order to tolerate the baby); but perhaps it was just like rebooting a laptop and my immune system took stock of all the foreign things on board, kept the baby, but dumped the verrucca!

Yes, was quite sudden. Bloody awful having one isn't it

I went on a weekend away to a place that had a hot tub. I've no idea what chemicals they used in it but my verucca had gone within a couple of days ... I'd had it for years.

Yes, when I was a child. I had it for years, it grew to the size of my little finger nail and was very painful to walk on.

I even had to have it burnt off in a hospital under GA, which still didn't work. It just came back again.

Eventually it just came away. It was joyous, I think I'd given up by then and thought it would just be with me for ever.

When DS was about 9 a wart appeared on his knee. It kept getting bigger and eventually was the size of a pea.

One day DH got him to rub it with a piece of raw meat, which he then buried in a secret place in the garden.

The wart was gone in a week, you could almost see it shrinking! No one knows why, but they do just go.

My partner had loads of verrucas a few years back. I never caught them.

One day we just realised that they had all gone so they can just suddenly push off.