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

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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!

Yes, but I don’t know how. I recently visited a podiatrist with what I thought was a corn. I was told it was not a corn but hard skin that had grown in an extinct veruca. I didn’t know I had one in the first place !

DC had a verruca on the side of one of his big toes. He was quite young and treating it was difficult and a bit hit and miss. The verruca went black and fell off on summer hols.

I had one on the ball of my foot. Had swift, it was excruciating. I would say as bad as child birth, but as I gave birth under general anaesthetic I don’t actually know

I was about to write exactly the same thing. I guess it might have something to do with the immune system changing in pregnancy. It's quite an extreme cure method though!

I had a huge verruca on my heel for about 4 years , had it frozen by the doctor a couple of times , nothing , tried all treatments known to mankind , nothing , it just sat there , huge then one day I looked and it was gone , no shrinkage just from huge to not there

Had a huge one for a number of years around 15 years ago. It was under one of my big toes. Tried everything and even had regular treatment with a podiatrist. She said it was very deep and it would bleed terribly if she tried to do anything with it. She said they can be stress related and will just go when they are ready to but I don't know how true that is.

Suddenly one day I noticed it had become harder and I was able to dig around and pulled it out completely. It left a big hole but only a tiny bit of blood. It then healed and never came back. Never had one since.

I've had one which cleared itself after a while (months not years I think).
One of my sons (can't remember which....ahem) had an absolute plethora of them on one foot. He did try all the usual OTC remedies, which didn't do much, but then did just clear eventually.

Yep, I had several that kept getting bigger and spreading. I had them for years and tried all over the counter remedies, I tried the high strength stuff you can only get from the pharmacist, I filed them regularly, I went to the GP and had multiple sessions of freezing. Nothing worked and they were painful.

Then suddenly they cleared up, it was at a time when I wasn't using anything on them and they just grew out.

Really weird.

Actually yes. I got one towards the end of primary school, my mum did the usual treatment, which hurt and weren't effective, so 10 year old me decided not to tell her it hadn't gone. I buried my head in the sand for years, intimitenly tried otc treatments in late teens, which never worked. Then it just disappeared of it own accord in my early 20's.

I had one on each foot for around 5 years and then they suddenly disappeared.

I would think they appeared when I was maybe 43 and disappeared at 48ish.

Bizarre as I assumed they would just stay forever after trying all sorts of treatments and giving up. I'd done nothing with them in the 3 years prior to them disappearing.

Try taking vitamin supplements.

I had several on my foot and toes for about 7 years, had tried everything including trips to the podiatrist to no avail and then one day I realised they had all vanished.

I think long term stress and anxiety meant my immune system couldn’t fight them, then when my life got better my verrucas vanished!

I had one for several years and one day I realised it had gone. I had done anything different as far as I can remember.

I had one as a teenager that I basically walked off. I'd gone on a city break wearing brand new new DMs, and lost a lot of skin off my heel including the verruca. It was painful for a couple of days but the verruca went AND my DMs fit like slippers after that, win win.

Yes, I had a verruca for several years, here's how I got rid of it in a week;

1. thick layer of sudcrem
2. duct tape

Leave it on for 1 week. No looking at it, no moving it, no washing it, no nothing.

Took it off a week later and it had vanished. Bizzare yet true.

Cover it with blister plasters after using the bazuka gel. Leave them on as long as possible and then replace each time they come off. Once it starts to turn black it's close to coming off. It will leave a crater-like hole at first but will fill in.

I had one on my heel for ages, not really painful so just ignored it, then it started to hurt so was playing with it in the bath one day and it just fell off. Had a weird looking root kind of thing that left a clean deep hole in my foot which you now can't see

I had one on my finger for years and years and tried everything.

I bought a juicer and had juices every day for a health boost and it went in then first month. Just one day it had gone. Juices were high in ginger, orange and chilli.

I have suffered them all my life. Have paid hundreds and hundreds to get them removed and they always end up coming back despite fact I don't really go places where you would normally pick them up.

Doctor once said to deal with them from within with no actual advice as to how to do that.🙄

I just live with them now but its a pain.

Yes, I’ve had them disappear! And my son has had them disappear after a year or so too. They’re so annoying. I haven’t had one for about 18 years now though so guessing I now have some sort of immunity 🤔

Yes! I had a huge one on my foot, nothing worked and it was starting to get painful to stand on. Then one day it was just gone.

Mine did, it took about 5 years and completely disappeared ☺️

Ive had some proper stubborn ones though that had to be frozen off.

I had one for years and tried everything modern medicine and fokelore had to offer. But it did just disappear eventually and that was around the time I was pregnant.

Really appreciate everyone commenting, thank you.

For those who've mentioned pregnancy cured them, were you using anything at the time? Tbh with you I'm kinda hoping that's my miracle cure as we are actually TTC so I'm keeping everything crossed if we conceive it then goes 😺

Really appreciate everyone commenting, thank you.

For those who've mentioned pregnancy cured them, were you using anything at the time? Tbh with you I'm kinda hoping that's my miracle cure as we are actually TTC so I'm keeping everything crossed if we conceive it then goes 😺

Not quite sure how I ended up with a cat emoji in that post