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What happens when veruccas 'go'?

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Blandmum · 03/05/2008 19:38

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?

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PeaGreene · 03/05/2008 22:19

You may find your crumpets have holes though, not "wholes" Whoops! Got a mental block about that one...

Califrau · 03/05/2008 22:20

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Jenkeywoo · 03/05/2008 22:28

I had a verucca for about 5 years - cans and cans of wartner never touched it. I used to dig and dig - kind of cut a circle round it and then use tweezers to pull it out. Nothing worked - literally nothing - then one day it just went, more or less over night. I miss it, it was fun.

Jenkeywoo · 03/05/2008 22:28

but my ingrown toe nails are quite good fun too

moondog · 03/05/2008 22:33

My sister had a tropical worm in her knee for weeks once after a trip to S. America.
It used to pop up and wave at her when she was in the pub then burrow back in.

I seem to recall it was preserved by School of Tropicla medicine.

KerryMum · 03/05/2008 22:36

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moondog · 03/05/2008 22:36

I thoguht you would enjoy it.

PeaGreene · 03/05/2008 23:13

I'm still trying to get my head round that moondog.

Maybe best not to

Beauregard · 03/05/2008 23:23

I had a huge cluster of verrucas for about 10 years on the ball of my foot (very sore)
I tried pretty much everything to get rid of them and then when i was pregnant with dd1 i woke up one day and they had just gone
the midwife told me that sometimes the virus just burns itself out.

sallystrawberry · 03/05/2008 23:28

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pillowcase · 04/05/2008 00:06

So have all you people avoided places where you go barefoot for years? Or do you just hope nobody will notice?

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 04/05/2008 00:13

pillow - mine never came back - only had them at primary school. Not sure why I didn't get them at senior school, we did gym & trampolining etc barefoot. Perhaps I gained immunity?!

windygalestoday · 04/05/2008 00:35

my youngest ds had a verrucae on the end of his second toe it ws huge and even the doctor agreed it was a fine example the doctor was reluctant to freeze it bcos matthew was only 5 and it might hurt him so the verucae stayed in fact he was named ....Barry Rooka ds couldnt say verucae lol everyone knew about barry and he was quite popular bcos he was so big !!! one day matthew came down the stairs quite sad 'barrys gone - he was here last night in the bath but now hes gone' and yes after loads of wartner, bazooka that verucae,micropore tape and banana skin Barry the ungrateful verucae upped and left

TinkerbellesMum · 04/05/2008 00:46

I had to have mine treated by the GP with cryotherapy, I had over 10 (I forget now how many) all on the same spot and they merged one at a time till it was one huge one. They use liquid nitrogen, it does hurt a little bit (like having a pin stuck in the middle of it) and it took a few treatements for it to go. It's not scarred like a cut would, the fold line that it was on is diverted around where it was and the skin is a slightly different colour. I just asked TD and he said he couldn't see where it was.

By the way, verrucas aren't spread, as used to be thought, by bare feet in changing rooms and swimming pools. All but one studies have disproved it.

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pillowcase · 04/05/2008 01:03

tinkerbellesmum, thanks for that link, now i can go back to karate and not wait it out...

but you lot have put that thought into my head.... should I go digging or leave well enough alone?????

charleymouse · 04/05/2008 01:07

last one I had I pulled out with my fingers it bled quite a lot initially then just stopped and the hole filled in. It was on the underside of my big toe. I have this week got a spot type thing which I have squeezed and it leaks blister type juice and this evening I have pulled off the skin on it as it had gone a bit soggy but not sure what it is. This is on my middle toe underneath and has been quite painful when I squeezed it initially it went really hard and my toe went a bit puffy. Will let you know how it gets on.

charleymouse · 04/05/2008 01:08

If its deffo a verucca dig, if not sure leave alone as my toe is now uncomfortable after poking.

NappiesGalore · 04/05/2008 08:18

i am slightly taken aback at how gross some of you are.
i had been under the secret impression that i was perhaps the vilest creature on earth, but i see now i was mistaken. [applauds viler mners]

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Blandmum · 04/05/2008 08:20

It does seem a lot smaller than it was.

I'm still hoping that it is going

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NappiesGalore · 04/05/2008 08:23

thats a delightful off mb, but i think i'll pass

i do reeeeeeaaaly wanna gets ds2's tho... he screams like a banshee when i even try to look at it tho so theres no bloody chance [sulk]

NappiesGalore · 04/05/2008 08:23

off? offer, obv.

3kidsisquiteenuff · 04/05/2008 09:54

my dd had one for over a year the gp told me to leave it and it would go by itself and it did.

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