Those of you who have dug and cut a verruca our of your own foot. . .

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If it bleeds loads and won’t stop, does that mean I’ve found it’s root? I had to stop digging because the blood was in the way. I have a scalpel and I love it

Years ago I stuck a sterile needle into my verruca. It went quite deep as it wasn’t sore but then it bled loads. And that seemed to be the end for the verruca !

This is the best thread ever

Ahhhhh I've found my spiritual home!! Years ago I had a verruca on my little toe and used the Carnation treatment successfully. Left a hole in my toe but never returned!

i remember poking around mine with a darning needle making perforations and then levering the black centre out, I do not remember much blood, but I do recall a big giant crater. It never came back!

My mother had one on her finger, she filed it down very day and dabbed all sorts on it....she felt she had gone too far after dabbing on nail polish remover and bleach, as that's when it started fizzing like a mini furious finger volcano!!

She swears that finished it off though!

I had a monster years ago and kept trying to dig it out,the pain!!
After a while I painted clear nail varnish over it and after a few weeks it disappeared.
Wish I could have dug it out.It must be so satisfying.

I don't think I could cope with digging away with a scalpel, but I did have one when I was about 8 which we put bazuka on until it all peeled away and came out. The lump and the little black dots inside it disappeared, but I still get itchy in the exact same spot, 20+ years later - I often wonder if I actually got it all out and whether there is still something buried under the skin I wonder how I would find out??

Not as exciting but I had 11 on my foot and one night they all disappeared. Poof. Reclaimed by the wart fairy I guess.

Mine won't budge. I've had it since 2010. I should give it a name.

Anyway, it's on my heel so on very thick skin and I've dug, cut, frozen, bonjellaed, verucca painted, used the verucca plasters every fucking thing and 8 years later the little bastard will not fuck off.

I'm wondering if we need to set up a wee verucca and wart support group?

I've got one on the sole of my foot that cider vinegar is shrinking quite successfully, but it's taken over a month - might be quicker if I could be bothered to do it everyday. It's gone from being like a cheerio (raised) to like a lentil (flat). I really want to try digging it but daren't in case it starts growing again!

Emany years ago my mum rubbed a piece of steak on my verucca and buried it in the garden 😳🙄
It didn't work for some reason; I ended up having it cauterised.

*Many you stupid iPad

I feel sick but I can’t stop reading!

I've had one for probably twenty years. About ten years ago I tried to use that freezing stuff. The next day twenty three more had sprung up. I do not exaggerate. The others went but this bugger is still there. It's like an old reliable pet now really.

I've just got rid of two on my son by applying Vicks to it at (with a plaster over) at night for 5 days. They shrivel up and fall off. Please stop going at your feet with scalpels and pins!!

DS had a verucca, I used duct tape and after about ten days it was ready to plukc out and had a great looking black stalk thing that was partially protruding. I sterilised a needle, got to his room. The little git had picked it out with a pin badge. He was at primary school and is now in lower sixth, I still haven't forgiven him.

OMG - you are all so TOUGH! Doesn't all this HURT?? It's like DIY surgery...

We've had a few requests for this thread to be moved to Sporner's Corner, so we'll be moving it over shortly.

DD just had a golf ball sized abscess drained after a veruuca got infected. Doctors said the 'roots' are actually tiny blood vessels that have been compressed by the viral hard skin and gone black.

After what she's just been through, including a hospital stay on IV antibiotics, I beg you to be cleaner than clean with broken skin on your feet. She's been on crutches for 7 weeks, unable to bear weight while it heals, and is still limping 2 weeks after that. Please, please be careful!!

Ooh I've found my people! I've had a wart on my fingertip for around 25 years - it's never bothered me but now I'm going to treat it so I can dig it out!!!
Any tips?

I had one on my big toe when I was about 10 years old. It was about the size of a penny so took up most of my big toe.

My parents took me to a chiropodist who fannied about with corn plasters and talking to it nicely. As this didn't work (and my swimming club wouldn't let me swim until I got rid of it) I gouged it out with a compass (the mathematics kind, not the navigation kind!), a craft knife and nail polish remover as disinfectant. Problem solved.

It was a long time ago but I remember it very fondly.

I still remember the sheer awe when dc’s verruca came out of his foot.

Days of applying the Buzzuka stuff and a tug and out it came. Huge empty crater left.

@ThomasShelbysBunnet... I had a large painful wart on my pinky finger, on the bone just behind the nail. Purely by accident, I dropped a large rock on it at such an angle that it sliced the wart clean off and it has never come back! And it was too quick to be painful !
Not suggesting you do this but sometimes drastic measures work best

@eggncress I might just try that

Pic just for the sporners

I dug mine out with curved nail scissors. Bled like crazy, but never came back 😜

This thread has revolted me

Interesting to see Vicks mentioned - I use that for my sporadic fungal toenails and it works brilliantly. Why is that?!

I had warts all over my hands when I was a young teen. Went on holiday to the beach (hadn't been for years) and the salt water cleared them up in the two weeks I was there. ''Twas marvellous.