Help me blast that verucca

[Mythreeknights]

I have tried: banana skin, ACV, duct tape, gouging it out with a penknife, scraping it with a razor, freezing it, about 3 tonnes of bazuka gel, salt water, wearing a plaster non stop to try to suffocate it and kill it, ignoring it. Nothing has worked and I've had it for over 4 years now and it is painful!! Someone give me hope. I've also got a wart on my finger, and I've got a theory that until the 'mother' wart/verucca on my foot goes, I can't get rid of this one either. Send me some encouragement.

It's not too bad afterwards. We use a semi compressed felt dressing which offloads the area and stops it touching the ground so you can walk but I'd say two weeks no sport after this procedure and I wouldn't be able to give a child an ankle block. He'd have to be 15 or over.

I had one for nearly 20 years. I had literally tried everything (banana skin, duct tape, bazuka, freezing, silver nitrate) and couldn't shift it. Then I persevered with salactol every day, covering it with chiropody felt (the adhesive stuff). Every time I pulled the felt off, a little bit of the verruca came away - it took probably a couple of months before it had completely gone.

A podiatrist told us to make my son's bleed and then put the salicylic acid on so that the immune system knows it's there. It did work.

My story is wart related but I had a raised one on my knee and I came back from a really brutal run one day and must have been full of adrenaline but I picked it a bit and basically pulled the whole thing off. Blood was dripping down my leg.

It was bizarre and under normal circumstances probably would have hurt but it has never returned!

There’s an old wives tale that when you remove a wart the closest person to you then gets one and my mum did then get one on her knee as well which is super strange!

I had mIne for for 14 years and tried everything.... all the chemicals, old wives tales, filing them the lot. My DH picked and poked it and took it really personally that it wouldn't go away. In the end I gave up as it was just making it bigger and it hurt!! I realised about 6 months ago it had just disappeared overnight - it was the weirdest thing!

I know this is ridiculous but I really want one jsut so I can get rid of it after reading all this about needling and roots falling out. Ohohoho. My daughter has a tiny one which she won't let me pick 😫😫

@Plasebeafleabite - it's a bit tricky to explain but involves fine needles and electricity. Probably best to google. It was like magic. I had the verucca for probably over 10 years.

Slightly uncomfortable but not unbearably so and over very quickly. Highly, highly recommend.

I had a big one for about 10 years. Eventually got rid of it a few months ago. I had to treat it continually for 4 months with extra strength Bazuka, and the lovely nurse at my GP's froze it 4 times at monthly intervals.

You have to really persist with the Bazuka.

I'd lost hope but it's finally gone!

@madcatladyforever and @WhiteWineAndMagnums thank you. I think we will be trying one of these routes there’s just two many to keep going at

Sorry again OP

According to the GP, current advice is to just leave them. Don't cover them up or use anything and they aren't contagious apparently!

Get it needled by a podiatrist. My DD has a horrifically massive mosaic verucca which had ignored all of our various efforts to shift it. It was seriously gross. The podiatrist said it didn’t always work but we were desperate. It went within 6 weeks. Worth every penny of the £90.

I had a nasty cauliflower one in my big toe, a matching cauliflower wart on my finger, and 3 black dots in my heel... the dots had been there for 9 years, the caukiflower ones maybe 3. I got the feet ones iced at the chiropodist 3 times, no success, and it hurt so much!. In the end I used bazooka extra strength and just hacked at the big cauliflower one with scissors in the bath... But maybe it coincided with my immune system kicking in as they all pretty much disappeared after a couple of weeks of that.

DC had one. I soaked a ball of cotton wool in ACV and it turned black, filed it down to link verruca and wrapped it up with the ACV on cotton wool. It seemed to be the black bit that filed off and I repeated each night til there was no more left. Didn’t get a root or hole as some pp mention. But it did go. It was painful when the ACV was on. I wrapped it up with tape and left it overnight.

Dry needling worked for me - cost £50.

Wish I knew!? I've had one on my foot for 17 years, tried all sorts and it's never gone away.

I also used Salactol successfully. I told a friend about it it and she also got rid of some that the doctor had said would never go. She was hard core, putting it on every day and topping with a plaster.

Vicks vapour rub under the duct tape

Why does everyone keep posting old wives tales? Other than a chance that messing with it will stimulate the immune system to recognise it nothing will get rid of it until your body gets rid of it itself. Or surgery, presumably.

HRTFT - sudocrem - twice a day. Worked fir me.

DS had really stubborn ones. Chiropodist freezing didn't work but microwaving them did

www.treatwithswift.com/global/for-patients.html

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29084638/

Some good ideas here, thanks for the hope everyone! My finger wart seems to have gone dark red having kept a plaster on for 4 days and doused with ACV in between re applications and then bazuca added. Its very tender. I had heard about needling the verruca but was also told that it's more painful than child birth, so i have been too chicken. I havent gone for freezing it again as I have doubts it will work and it is expensive. Maybe I do need to man up finally.

Nail varnish worked for us. I filed it, and then covered it in whatever colour was to hand, every night, right over the edges. One day after filing the old varnish down the edges looked rough so I picked at it and the whole thing fell off leaving a perfect crater. Took about two weeks.

madcatlady Sorry - did you say 6 inches?! That's bigger than my whole foot...

Thanks for all ideas - I've booked in for Swift microwave therapy in a couple of weeks so I'll let you know if it works.

DH got rid of his by firstly soaking it, then cutting it out with sharp scissors- and you really have to be very thorough with it and cut the root, which will be visible when you take the top skin off- you will create a small crater. Then, just to be sure, you need something to disinfect the area and put a plaster on it. My DH put some cut garlic (yes, really!) for few nights afterwards, and the thing never came back.
My 9yo DD has one on her sole of the foot after starting swimming lessons, but wouldn't let me do the operation hacking at it , and I have tried everything from the shops to no avail.

A quick update - I had Swift microwave treatment done on Monday night, it was 5 two second bursts of 10w microwave energy applied directly to the verucca. The pain wasn't too bad initially but it did build up and by the 3rd one I was grateful there were only 2 bursts to go. That said, the pain goes as fast as it comes and there are not nasty after effects. So, I'm going back in 4 weeks for round two and the Chiropodist thinks it will take 3 sessions, one per month AT LEAST. The only visible change over the last 4 days has been the appearance of lots of black dots so maybe that means something positive. I'm also going to buy some Thuja cream, many thanks for that recommendation. I had tried colloidal silver but that was completely ineffective (i may not have been persistent enough but I used it for 2 weeks with no change). I'm in Scotland and swift here cost £60 per session so it's significantly cheaper than some places I've seen advertising it in England.