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

One of my sons had one once which went away very quickly with a product I can't remember the name of (pretty sure it wasn't Bazooka), but it was essentially a freezing product. You had to connect the bottle to a sort of stick that looked a bit like one end of a cotton bud, and use that to apply the freezing stuff to the exact area you wanted it on. It sort of fizzed up non contact and looked very white and weird afterwards but I think it was gone after the second application. Might be worth asking in the chemist's if they have something like that.

@YellowTassels

GP did mine and froze it off. Took a few appointments and was very, very painful.

This was a couple of years ago, and I thought it was useless going to GP and they wouldn’t treat it. But they did.

I think bazooka etc works if you catch it early, but if it’s been there for a while - you need GP.

put some neat tea tree oil (little bottle from boots, holland and barrett, I think maybe aldi etc, wherever) on to a cotton wool ball or pad

squish it into the verruca and on any affected skin

make sure the area is soaked in tea tree oil

it won't really hurt

and do that morning and night

in all cases, even the worse, it looks like nothing much has happened for a couple of days, then at 5 days it suddenly looks dramatically better and then a couple of days or so after is GONE

I know it sounds impossible but i told the GP, she couldn't believe it and now also tells everyone.

And I had tried all the bazookering etc etc and nothing worked.

I’ve had one since I was 7 and I’m now 32.

Over the years I’ve tried everything including digging the whole thing out several times but it always just grows back in the same place. I also find that filing and prodding it seems to make them bigger and spread so I’d just use nail clippers to remove as much thick skin as possible, cover it with a plaster and leave it alone and hope it eventually disappears.

@BinsinBonson Silver nitrate? Someone linked a silver nitrate pen and it turns into a black acid when it’s dipped in water.

I had a plantar wart for so long I ended up naming it. I was actually a bit sad when it finally cleared up. I still have a lump of scar tissue from it.

Thanks @FeralWoman - I had it painted on, but, yes I reckon it might be that. Maybe a higher strength or something as I distinctly recall it being brought on as the ‘big guns’ after other approaches failed. I was warned to keep an eye that I didn’t develop a rash with it as it could be dangerous! That podiatrist is no longer around and I still regret not getting the other verrucas treated the same way.

Had a massive one on side of my foot for years, apple cider vinegar and keeping it covered got rid of it

Will share what the Podiatrist told me , when I asked about my daughter who had about 20 at the time - he said to leave them and her immune system would get rid of them in its own time, which it did and she's not had one for years. I had one also for years, spent lots of time digging it out and one day it just went. Podiatrist said that the only people he saw later in life with problem verrucas were ones who had had stuff done to them or used stuff on them. A