What happens when veruccas 'go'?

[Blandmum]

I have a verruca on my foot, and it has been there since just before Christmas 07.

I tried freezing it with Warner, nothing.

Tried those damn patch things which stuck to everything except the bloody verruca.

Verruca was V painful (periodically) and was swollen up around the circumference (IYSWIM)

It is no longer swollen, no longer causes pain and has gone blacker.

Does this mean it is going of its own accord? or am I about to transmogrify into verruca woman?

KerryMum did it not leave a small dent/scar?

am currently using bazuka on my foot, it seems to be slowly burning a layer of veruca off each day. it says in the packet it will take up to 12 weeks so no idea what will happen in the end.

Ds1 had one a while ago which took ages to shift - used Wartner several times. Then it started to go black and peel off in layers, and then it sort of came out in a big plug. There were black strands in the hole which I eased out with tweezers (it was gruesome, but strangely satisfying). I was slightly perturbed at the size of the hole in his foot afterwards though so I put antiseptic cream on and we kept it covered with a plaster til it healed - which it did, eventually.

About a week after all those months of palavering about I read on here that current thinking is to leave veruccas alone and they will go by themselves...but where's the fun in that, I ask you?

I'm a chronic picker of spots, so I have been picking at it. And it does seem to be shedding in layers.

7 years... Still not gone. Been frozen by dermatologist. Bazookaed and dug at, filed allsorts
still thersometimes they hurt. But I'm stuck with em
next thing will be garlic i reckon... Have been told it works!

7 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gawd , I hope mine goes before that! (and yours asap, naturally!)

When I was at school we all used to believe that veruccas grew roots that went right up your leg. And that when you went to the verucca doctor to have it treated he would pull all the roots out and you would have to be held down, screaming in agony, while the roots were pulled down through your leg muscles.

I was very rigorous about always wearing my verucca socks.

LOL, Am not thinking for my leg caving in, but was rather hopeful that the damn thing might be on the way out.
I can see that my hope might have been wishfull thinking!

Bannana skin is the best thing for verucas , just put a bit on each night under a plaster, twill eventually bun it out.

I know this is going to sound odd but DP said he saw Street Doctor (BBC1) last week and they were discussing veruccas.

The doctor on there apparently said the best thing to use is gaffer tape/duct tape. Put some over the verucca, when it falls off put some more on etc etc and eventually it gets rid of it.

Can't see how that works myself but DP swears that thats what they said.

(PS -despite the fact that I had a thread the other day about how I "fixed" my dishwasher with gaffer tape I do not have shares in the company )

not totaly convinced about that as the tissue is getting the O2 from the blood supply and not the air around us

ds' went black, looked nasty then fell off !

I had one for years MB. Well is wasn't just one it was several all joined together and was mahoosive! Tried everything including gaffer tape/banana/digging at it. Eventually I got rid of it by using Wartner many, many more times than they recommended (along the lines that it was more than one verruca ) It's not something I'd advise though as I think I did some permanent damage; it aches sometimes just where the verucca used to be.

piffle ... i have had some for probably as long as you ... and 2 HUGE ones have recently completely disappeared on their own! Now I just have to persuade a few more to go and I will be free of them at last!

I got rid of mine by rubbing it with a pumice stone in the bath and digging out any black bits (eww!). Eventually a little cone shaped plug fell out,the hole healed very quickly and it's never come back.

Now I come to think of it I had one years ago -the GP gave me scalpel blades and advised me to scratch away at it regularly. Can't remember whether or not I had to paint anything on it as well though.

I can't stand having my feet touched so was relieved it was a DIY treatment

I am so pleased to hear that other people take a bizarre pleasure in digging them out - me too . I haven't, touch wood, had one for a while but i used everything - bazuka, war salisylic acid, wartner etc- on mine and nothing worked, then it finally disappeared on its own. i also saw the street dr thing and have heard many good things on using duct tape - basically, you seem to just civer it and keep putting it on every time it falls off and the thing will disappear itself!
good luck

SorenLorensen:
"but where's the fun in that, I ask you?"

LOL
I had one. It seems to have disappeared. But do they really disappear ?
do-do-do-do..........

I had one for a year or so. I tried those plasters you put on they didn't work.
Filed it down etc. Then it just disappeared all on it's own.

Ah veruccas. My big sister was the picker so as a child, I spent many an hour lying on my tummy watching The Muppets, Bagpuss etc with my feet propped on her lap, whilst she dug the things out with sharp implements.

When they were 'ripe' and well-coloured they would often come out whole. The little holes left in your feet soon disappear again.

Duchess, that is quite gross. You have made me feel quite ill.