Verucca .. give me tips to rid of it , it's deep and horrible.

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So I've had this verucca for 7+ years. GP says to home treat or wait until my body fights it. Since November I've used numerous things. Filed it , dug at it ( I know I shouldn't don't judge please ) i got a tape that is medical like gaffer tape to suffocate it too. But I'm so heavy footed it doesn't stay in place. I have one the same on the other foot too.

Give me your tips I'm desperate. I go abroad in Aug and I need it gone.
I've tried
Gaffer tape , it just comes off
The medical tape , can't remember the name
Bazucca extra strength gel
Bazucca freeze stuff
Boots freeze stuff

That's also the only areas i get hard skin a bit so makes it more difficult to sort.

I had one similar years ago and got some high strength salicylic acid from a chiropodist. It did take ages but it went in the end. I applied it religiously every day then once a week filed it and started again. I never thought it would go but one day it just did. Persistence is key.

Me too had two one is now gone but would love to know any tips

I feel your pain. I have an even bigger monster than I’ve been trying to shift for a decade. On the advice of a new podiatrist I’m covering it with banana skin (squidgy side touching Verucca) secured with sports tape every night, scraping with a razor blade in the morning, applying Boots duofilm during the day (discontinued, I had to buy on eBay), taking thuja 30c and getting it professionally frozen once a fortnight. It’s shrunk but still very much there.

Thuja tincture apply directly to it, use an old towelunder your foot until it dries. Take thuja pills too.

Treated the one I had with it years ago and it never returned.

Salicylic acid and filing worked for my DC after nothing else did, took ages but just kept at it

File it as much as you can, rhen keep using the freezing stuff, filing, freezing stuff. It will go

Whenever my children have had one I have put dark nail varnish on it. Keep it covered with it and it will go x

Duct tape held on with medical tape has worked for us.

We took our DD to a podiatrist to get rid of her verrucas. As well as cutting out and burning with acid we were told that she needed to take a multivitamin and soak her feet daily in rubbing alcohol.

has taken about a year and many trips to podiatrist but she’s been discharged now.

the also come on in times of stress. So manage your stress.

Nail clippers or scissors to cut it down as much as possible, then use both freezing AND the gel stuff. Be persistent, cut it down every week, and don't stop with the dual treatments. It'll go.

Banana skin has worked for me and everyone I've recommended it to! My nephew had a particularly nasty one.

Bazuka and black duct tape straight after bath every night has just got rid of my DS's massive verucca, complete with satellites coming off it. I read about this method in a similar thread on here and it absolutely worked. It took about 2 weeks.

Go to a chiropodist

Swift. Like standing on a drawing pin and pressing hard but ultimately blasted mine away. It’s not cheap ~£100.

With DS a beach holiday plus loads of swimming shifted his. Think it was the constant soaking and running on sand.

I had loads for years across both feet as a teenager. Went to the podiatrist and they filed them down and put this black stuff on it (I think it starved them of blood supply??) a few weeks later went on holiday and they all fell out of my feet in 24 hours. Never had one since. I believe you basically have to wait for your body to recognise them as foreign and fit them off.

Thank you. Will look at all the suggestions. Such stubborn things aren't they ? The tapes never stay on I have a slight roll over when I walk due to hypermobility and it makes the tape move and roll up. I've tried so so many from cheap to gorilla and expensive tapes.

I think eventually they just die, but until then you’re just entertaining yourself with ineffective attempts. I had mine painted with all kinds of stuff, took thuja for years, had it surgically removed - it always surged back until one time when I was gloomily painting some Boots stuff on it daily and it just peeled off and never came back. But I’m certain it was just its time to go.

Go to a high street chiropodist. I go for a different issue, but there's lots of posters about new treatment for your problem. It will probably be cheaper long term, too, depending where you go.
I had them as a kid, and they do spread so I had 3 at one point. Not great, but no one in family thought of taking me to get them done.

I agree with Swift. It's not cheap but apparently has a very high success rate. After 7 years it's surely worth a go?

DD had one as bad as that. This thing was enormous. Duct tape worked really well.

I had one for years. Tried everything on it.

i made an accidentally discovery using The Body Shop Vitamin C Glow Revealing Liquid Peel on dry skin on my feet. Noticed that it was peeling it off. Took a couple of weeks from memory but got smaller and then disappeared totally.

Have attached photos of before and after.

EVERY night

I used apple cider vinegar on DD’s one. It fell off after about 5 days. I’d not used the method before and I couldn’t believe it worked!

Yes. Swift! I had a cluster of about 20 of the bastards and Swift eliminated them all in 3 sessions. Not all podiatrists to this.

We had a large one that wouldn’t go on one of the dc. Apple cider vinegar in cotton wool taped to it overnight, emery file in the morning, no tape. Repeat each night. Took about a week.