ouch. really really ouch....something really trivial is hurting me and affecting everything

[VicarGoingForGoldInKungFu]

this sounds so trivial, but after having verrucas for 5 years i have gone to a private podiatrist. i have a total of

28
of
the
little
fuckers

but i have 1 very very huge.one the fleshy part of my foot, and he is treating with a very strong acid paste which i have to leave on with a dressing for 5 days before it gets done again on day 6 or 7.

ive been off work, so its not been too bad, but i went and had the treatment again last night and then had to work today......and i am in absolute proper bloody excrutiating pain - my foot is swollen and throbbing, it feels like i am walking on razor blades. its so so so sore and the patch that is being treated is about the size of a two pound coin so its quite large and so very very sore.
i am limping, and today my sgt asked why im limping.
it feels so so silly to say its 'cos of a verruca, but it is, or rather the treatment of one.
the pain is so bad that were it anything else i think i would have thought twice about going in tomorrow - i can hardly walk, but i cant phone in sick and cite a verruca. its just not an option.
ive taken pain killers, i have to wear my boots and socks (if i could wear sandals it wouldnt be so bad!) but the job is in uniform and i have wear the clobber.

how does anyone have this type of treatment and continue about their daily business?
with shoes on?
seriously. its hurting just in case i ve not gotten that message through in the above whinge.....

Haven't read the whole thread or looked at the pic yet (summoning up courage !)

But I think you're being too brave and should take the rest of the week off and seek a second opinion from GP - see what they say.

• You don't have to describe it as "a verucca" - I think it's gone beyond that being an accurate description. For a start you could say you have a verucca infestation and tell your sgt you have 28 of them. That should leave them suitably shocked and sympathetic

Hope you feel better soon

Gawd what a horror show. Erm, did your podiatrist come recommended or is he just a bloodythirsty bloke with a craft knife?

Could you get hold of that anaesthetic cream called Emla? It would at least numb the area for a couple of hours while you get yourself to work even if it wouldn't last hours of pounding the beat. I may have a tube somewhere that I could send you. But in any event you need some proper grown up high tech dressings.

GP/practice nurse??

That is not a verucca. That is gangrene surely.

You really must show your boss and try to get some boots off time.

saggy! dont diss the old geezer.....if you need convincing you need to go and listen to the white album!

oh gawd i dont know what to do really......ive battled on at work for the last 2 days but im limping and im sure people think im putting it on!

and its sounds so stupid to say its cos of a verucca.

i cant really take time off, but i will show the pic to my sgt tomorrow and see what he thinks i should do.
people are commenting on my limp. id be buggered if i had to run after someone thats for sure....

yeah that does actually look like gangrene - does it smell?

I had no idea veruccas could get that big. I've been living with one which I thought was getting quite big (ha!) on the ball of my foot for a year or so now - freezing hasn't worked, I've tried the duct tape but it keeps falling off and I'd decided to live with it but now I'm scared I'm going to stick more tape on it tonight and bandage it in place if necessary.

What's the superglue method someone mentioned?

that looks nasty and infected. I would say a&e.

You don't have a verucca anymore. You have an infected abscess. Sounds nastier and also way more accurate given the picture. Tell the Sgt that.

well thank you everyone for being so kind and not trivialising my gungy foot. i will show sgt tomorrow and see what he says.....its not actually been this bad while ive been off work but i think wearing socks and boots and being on it all day are taking their toll......im meant to have 3 more acid treatments on it.....no idea how im going to manage them if its this bad now.

it feels hot and its throbbing. it hurts if i stand on it and it hurts if i dont. i rather thought i was being a bit of a baby...

Oooooh feeling your pain. I had a similar number when I was 17 and had to go and see someone to get them burned off. Extreme pain and had to hobble around with bandaged feet for a while. Unhappily it didn't actually work and I went for about another 2 years before they all disappeared overnight. I remember the treatment being excruciating though, as I had 2 on the inside side of my big toe, where the skin is really thin so I couldn't use bazuka or such because it just took half my toe off with it.

Rest up as much as poss and hope they all disappear quickly.

so what exactly are you suposed to do with the duct tape?? Does it work and would it hurt a 7 year old??

I can't bring myself to look at the picture ,but please go to A&E .

The circulation is not good in a foot is it being an extremity an all and you need to treat it with respect .

Noone was interested in my mums nicely bandaged finger ( huge lump of tophi erupting ) until I insisted on taking the dressing off and showing the doctor .
Who couldn't get her x rayed fast enough because he was worried that the infection had spread to the bone . ( it hadn't ).

Please get someone to look at it .

Bugger me. Just looked at the picture. That's not normal.

If infected, definitely get checked out at A&E

If it is still essentially a really nasty verruca I had one that sounds very similar for a long time. I had a year of cryotherapy and some very elaborate cream used for skin cancers. Didn't touch it. I also tried duct tape which for many people works amazingly well.

But I did fix it in the end and it's been 3+ years with no recurrence.

You'll find some stuff online about marigold therapy - some claiming it's homeopathic but there's nothing homeopathic about it! I bunged huge amounts of this particular marigold essential oil on my foot and it worked wonders. Improvement in days and completely gone in about a month.

I used Marigold Tagetes oil - there are other marigold oils but tagetes is the one to use.

www.oils4life.co.uk/Marigold-Tagetes-essential-oil-Tagetes-Grandulifera

My protocol:
Use a buffer, nail file, scraper thing to take off the top layer of skin
Put lots of marigold oil on
Cover with moleskin-type covering for comfort
Use some tape to hold in place if necessary
Repeat daily

Hope that helps! I was despairing and hated not being able to walk

Bloody hell, I'm a nurse and just well bloody hell, i love a bit of gore but that is no fucking verruca, dear god it looks like a pressure sore that is not in a good way.

There is no way you should be walking on that, can you get desk duties or something, and please please get a second opinion.

You poor poor thing.

I agree with gingeroots. Get it checked out!

For the love of god, woman!
Get to a&e!
NOW

I mean it.

NOW

I'd go to a&e and grt signed off

there's professinals on this thread telling you it's not normal!!

It does look like an ulcer doesn't it fanny

Assuming what the podiatrist is doing is ok there will be a lot to heal once the verucca is gone. Assuming a great deal there though.

yes, I thought of pressure sores when I looked at it.

oh guys im so not sure now what to do.

i cant go to A&E tonight, and im at work again tomorrow but i am really not able to walk on it tonight.

i am going to take some pain killers tonight i think and see how it feels tomorrow. If its still bad tomorrow i will remove the dressing and soak it in some salt water, but i feel the need to show my sgt if i cant work properly so he knows im not swinging the lead.

i will give the pod a call in the morning i think, i could nip in and show him. i think he underestimated the effect of working with it - i did say i feared it would be very difficult but i also want rid of the bloody thing too.....

do you think i need ABs? is it infected or is it just the effect of the acid doing what acid does? (ie - eating you alive)

what are pressure sores and how do they go?

OK, I'm officially changing my mind. There is no way your GP should have reassured you and sent you on your merry way with that monstrosity on your foot. Get him to look at it, up close and personal.

I have been very, very brave on your behalf and just googled "big verucca images" and there is nothing, nothing that looks as remotely as horrific as yours. Normally google will return images that are worse then my most fevered imaginings - today they are positively tame compared to your pic.

I really hope you get some proper treatment soon.

Looking at it again, (zoomed in inspection) it looks like there is a sloughy bit in the middle, but drying up around it, is that the plan, would think its going to leave a massive hole though, assuming the verruca itself comes away.

It does look like an ulcer you would see on a diabetics foot.

Is there an odour from it, you should probably be on an antibiotic as a precaution as well.

Pressure sores need specialist treatment vicar and special dressing.
You may even need a minor op.
I am not trying to scare you but you need to get this looked ASAP.
Is the area hotter than the rest of the skin/foot?
If so you have an infection.
You need to keep off the foot completely for it to heal.