This feckin veruca (pic!)

[YellowTassels]

Will not give up! I have tried everything! My latest was one of those foot peel masks - hence the peely foot. It’s actually painful now and I’m fed up

Did you use bazooka or bazooka extra strength. DD had a giant wart (she hid it as she was scared of the treatment) and extra strength sorted it within a couple of weeks

I’ve done everything everyone suggested for best part of a year. Ordered the caustic pencil. I will update!

I had one for around 10 years. Tried everything mentioned here and more. Nothing worked but then one day, after a day on a sandy beach, it just went. Great. Then about 4 years later it came back again in exactly the same place and the same size too. That was around 12 years ago and it's still here despite trying loads of stuff again. I think you get them for life in some cases.

Both my DC had terribly stubborn ones that I tried everything on and would not go

https://www.earnshawsherbaldispensary.co.uk/shop/verucca-cream/

This stuff got rid on a week or two.

My son had one like this for months. Took tweezers and pulled out all the black bits, bled like a fountain for about ten minutes. Plaster on and 48 hours later was completely gone. Worked for one he got on his thumb a few months later too.

OP I had a dreadful time a few years back with 5 small ones in one foot. Bloody tried everything and fuck all worked.

Then I just tried duct tape on it. Left it for a week, removed, cleaned with tea tree oil and kept a sock on but no tape for 24 hours. Then taped it up and did same again. Did it for a while and I think it was gone in a few months.

As we're going into winter seems a great time to try as you don't need to worry about wearing sandals, barefoot at beach etc

How often did he change the tape?

I had one for 15 years. I tried lots of these things and nothing completely got rid of it. Then it suddenly disappeared. I wasn't treating it at the time but I'd had periods of not treating it before that hadn't changed anything.
I found it so stressful trying things that didn't work. If I got another one and it wasn't causing me any pain I'd just leave it.

Oh I had one around that size for years - don't know how many years, was at least 10 I'd say so I don't think my body was ever going to cop that it was there. I finally got rid of it this summer.
Had tried duct tape etc before but could never get it to stay on properly is always rolled up/came away. Over the summer it was getting really sore so I decided I had to try again. This time I put a piece of banana skin on the verruca and it actually acted like a bit of a cushion and made it less painful to walk on and I used 3 layers of kinesiology tape to secure it in place. I changed it every day for the first 2 weeks and had it on 24/7 and changed it less frequently after that, probably did another 2-3 weeks. I didn't do any filing except an occasional soak in the bath which removed skin. I really couldn't commit to doing more than changing it once a day as have toddler and a non sleeping baby so was delighted that my ad hoc approach actually worked and I'm now verruca free!
I don't know if the banana has any properties that work especially well but it kept the area covered/free form air and acted like a cushion and the tape I happened to have at home and I figured it might work really well to keep banana in place and it did.
Hopefully you'll get something to work for you.

DD had one like this. I tried all the methods mentioned on this thread and none of them worked for her.

This was nothing short of a miracle product for us. Read the reviews on Amazon where some people have posted their progress pictures.

https://www.boots.com/scholl-wart-veruca-treatment-pen-2ml-g-10264464?cmmmc=bmm-buk-google-ppccPLAsAs-----pmaxcatchallgggshoppingv2catchallpmedia&gaddsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAA-AdmwSs7rGpWz3CYRk8nVWxrC3ky&gclid=CjwKCAjwyfe4BhAWEiwAkIL8sKWwXUDbdj1ro6-uqZ5TxS3ycX7ZRRoJ64jIIf-IAU8DkITfU7cBoCIvkQAvDDBwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

The scholl freeze treatment. It's about £18.
On my DC, I used bazooka for weeks with no improvement. I used the above once and it cleared up within a few days.

Can you not get a doctor referral? My NHS surgery has a skin specialist who froze it off. They initially said I might have to wait 6 months or longer - but it was more like 6 weeks.

I think maybe weekly or when it got too wrinkly from the shower etc. He’d had the verucca for years and this got rid of it in months. I almost miss the many evenings I spent slicing the top layer of bazucca and skin off it before he tried tape.

That's what I did with mine. It went instantly. It was a fairly new growth about the size of a big red lentil. I soaked for hours in a hot bath, clipped the skin away around it with cuticle clippers. Then popped each petal with a black centre out with the clippers or tweezers. Bled like fury but didn't come back.

Ouch, sympathies OP
DD had one for months we were treating with Bazuka. Eventually saw a foot doc who said Bazuka will do it we just hadn’t filed it enough so were just ‘tickling’ the verruca. Bazuka Pen worked wonders very fast after we realised this - we got one of those dry skin scrapers and scraped it down then applied the pen for probably a week. Gone!

Good luck

I honestly would stop buying other treatments, save up and get it burned off with dry ice at the doctors office

Oh goodness, that's vile! Thanks for sharing!
I had a stubbon one as a teenager. I got rid of it by pulling all the roots out with tweezers, I swear the last couple actually wriggled to try and evade eviction.
I did have to file the tweezers down a but to get them really sharp and grippy.

My daughters got one, the hard skin was too much so treatment cream could t get to it, my auntie is a podiatrist so she lanced off the dead skin and treated it with silver nitrate. It's now turn black and shrivelled up she said it will fall off soon.

Good luck OP! This thread prompted me to look up verruca removal om Youtube..

You can't cut out a verruca. The way to get rid of it is for your immune system to notice it and fight it off.

My daughter’s kept coming back after using Bazooka and finally went away applying a paste of bicarb of soda and Castor oil and kept it covered at all times.
she applied it in the Morning and at night. Gone in a Week.

I have one that I first noticed over twelve years ago - I tried professional needling and different acid treatments years ago, but it’s still there. To anyone with stubborn verrucas, I’d suggest to keep going with any treatments you haven’t yet tried but sometimes there just is no remedy. I’m hopeful mine will disappear one day as this happened with another that resisted all treatment and lasted over a decade.

Btw, has anyone had a black acid applied and know what it was? It worked on another verruca, but I couldn’t have it on the really difficult ones as they’d just been needled at the time. That was a sort of miracle cure, and I remember the podiatrist only tried it after milder acids had failed.

When all else fails, I find undiluted tea tree oil seems to do the trick on all sorts of things!

My son had one when he was younger, tried everything and it wouldn't budge.
Someone advised us to soak his foot in salt water for about 15 mins, file the top of the area , then put Sudocream over it with a plaster on top.
We did this for three nights before bed. On the forth morning he woke up and it had fallen off, leaving a hole where it used to be.
We were stunned it worked.

I had a literal crater on my foot. For years. And I got rid of it in about 7 .10 days if that. With...

NEAT TEA TREE OIL

DO IT