Help me with my massive and ancient verucca once and for all! *pics*

[mollyblack]

Meet my verruca, it has been residing on a large part of my foot for around 8 years now and I've had enough. I have tried:

Freezing off
Chemist stuff; bazooka etc
Gouging
Duct tape
Nail polish
Cider vinegar
Banana peel
Poking and slicing with knives
Supplements

Nothing has worked, actually i think gouging has been the most successful as it has reduced in size a bit but the middle bit us too deep to gouge without proper medical knowledge.

Any words of wisdom?

I sympathise. I've had one for about the same amount of time on my big toe. I've tried duct tape, nail varnish, bazooka, home freezing and even had my GP cut it out. It grew back. Nail polish and filing has worked well in that the main one has fallen out several times. However there is a second one touching the biggest one and that one never falls out and my theory is that it reinfects the site of the first one.

I have a lot of scar tissue building up around the edge of the verucca so need to solve it as walking gets painful.

Posting to sympathise and in the hope that someone comes along with a new idea...

Casting my mind back, my mother used to make me pick it all out each night with a needle and pair of tweezers. It was a painful time but it went away. I don't know if I recommend that though, I hated doing it.

Chiropodist.

GP froze mine off. Took a few sessions over a couple of months but it did go. Was similar to yours in size and appearance and was nearly 12 years old so I felt kind of naked and wonderfully smooth without it! It had taken nearly 10 years to find a GP who just whipped out the freezing device instead of trying to prescribe over-the-counter remedies, all of which I'd already tried and didn't work... also got told 'it'll go on its own in a couple of years' quite a lot

Chiropodist have some new fancy pants machine. Maybe what the gps use. Think that needs proper medical seeing to. I'm a gouger myself, having found all the gentler techniques useless, but that is a bit big for gouging...

Condis crystal poultice.

Chiropodist and keep going back till it's gone. In my experience ( I've had one for over a year now and it's driving me demented) GPs seem to fanny about with bazuka type treatments. When I had one before and went to the Chiropodist he put some amazing acid on it and the whole thing fell out after a week.
I really need to go back to him actually, and stop digging at my toe with a pair of tweezers every time I'm in the bath.

My GP prescribed me a much stronger salycilic acid treatment than you could buy over the counter. It came with big ring shaped padded stickers. You stuck one over the vertical, filled the hole in the middle of the ring with the acid gel, and covered it with a waterproof dressing. It was basically like turbo bazuca I think but it did the job!

I bought chemist shop freezing and used it ALL in one treatment and then did it again and again and it finally went away.

Totally not recommended but it worked.

My foot used to be riddled with old verrucas - I had a cluster of 3 in one spot, and 4 elsewhere on my foot. I used that Bazuka in the yellow box for a few weeks, but didn't pumice it off - I peeled it. All of them have gone and my foot is now smooth, and those verrucas were DEEP. They'd been there for well over 10 years, now you'd never know I'd had any.

Mine are as old as yours but not as big. I have had cryo twice in the last two weeks and I'm going again in a fortnight. Let's hope it works, it's costing a bomb!

Dd's stubborn one came off with Salicylic Acid and a coarse pumice stone. They used to sell it on Amazon in a green box but I can't see it there now. There seems to be a milder version instead.

You were supposed to soak your foot every night, apply and pumice off. We didn't get round to that but we did it about three times a week for two weeks. And it disappeared.

Morning spit, sounds gross but works! obviously don't double dip if using fingers (shudder)
I had them pretty much all over the heel of one foot and nothing worked, a friend of mine mentioned it and I gave it a go. Can't remember how long it took but know it worked well and fairly quickly.

Please don't use a file on it as this can lead to it spreading. I had a very painful one on the bottom of the toe next to my big toe. It was incredibly painful and a lot of scalpling and digging had left a lot of hard skin build up. I visited a Chiropodist when I first discovered it and had it treated with acid 3 times but it came back with a vengeance. Not being able to stand the pain any longer I returned to the Chiropodist and it was again treated with a large amount of acid, on the return visit this was all scrapped off and the hole treated with silver nitrate. On the third visit the dead skin was removed and the pesky verruca had gone. It is amazing what a difference it makes not having that constant pain. People used to ask why I was limping and when i replied with I have a verruca they usually said 'oh it's only a verruca' - so I completely understand your pain OP.

Go to a chiropodist/podiatrist who offers "dry needling". Basically the verruca is stabbed repeatedly with a needle. I was in the same situation as you, had tried everything. I had one session and then follow up appointments for debriding. My verrucae cleared up beautifully.

I think the theory is that the virus is introduced further into the foot and the body's own immune system kicks in and kills the verruca. It cost me £50 all in.

Did any of these treatments hurt please? DS 9yo has a cluster of four or five on the ball of his foot, and one is quite deep. I bought Bazuka (the one that says it will go on first treatment) and we used that a week ago. We are doing the second treatment in a few days but I don't have much confidence that it will go. The verrucae don't hurt him but he is a picker and that is why they are spreading.

Go to holland and barrett. Ask for Thuja. Small tablets that you suck twice a day. They fight the wart virus from inside. Treat the actual verucca with tea tree oil. Don't file! This came from asking a chiropodist about my son's verucca. It took 6-8 weeks but disappear it did and the area is smooth and beautifully healed now.

Did any of these treatments hurt please?

When I used a whole bottle of freezing stuff in one go it did sting a bit and it was tender for a while. I kept aggressively treating it with a couple more bottles and it kind of erupted like a volcano - it went up with some stringy bits of skin poking out and then it just died and went away. It didn't blister or weep or anything.

So stinging and a bit of tenderness. I didn't use pumice or any abrasives as I worried about spreading the bastarding thing.

I know a lot of people think that homeopathic treatments are a load of BS but when I was about 10/11 my hands and feet used to be covered in warts and verrucas, we tried EVERYTHING!! I don't know how my mom found out about it but she went and got me some Thuja 30c homeopathic pillules from Boots. They cleared them right up and I haven't had any since (I'm now 26). Also helps with cold sores too. It basically kills the HPV virus that causes them whereas most other treatments will on tackle what's on the surface!

Google it and see what you think!

I used Thuja in conjunction with Chirop visits and mine cleared up beautifully. It was only on closer examination I realised it was a Homeopathic remedy.

Ahh didn't see Groovester's post!

My GP froze mine off over a few sessions, never came back. He said it was a 'mosaic verruca' 😐

I would go to a chiropodist who can do the full on freezing process on it. Hurts quite a lot but pretty effective.

Try applying tea tree oil (we used the Body Shop one but I'm sure any would do) two or three times a day. No filing or plasters. They went within a couple of weeks.

I cut mine out with a scalpel. Possibly not a recommended course of action. It had gotten infected and the black bit of the veruca was sticking up like the blackhead of a spot so I grabbed it with tweezers and cut it out. Hurt like a bastard but I've not had another since.