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.

We tried all the over the counter stuff on my son. Used a high concentrated manuka honey on it for a week and it completely went.

Used zinc & castor oil cream with plaster and tape over it on my DC's verrucas years ago. Cleaned and reapplied every night. It worked.

Go to a podiatrist. I never even bothered with the home stuff just brought the children to the expert straight away if they got a verruca.

It cost €60.

@MimiSunshinethis is also what I recommended. It’s great stuff . @1potato2potato3potatoive tried lots of the other things that posters have mentioned but this is the only thing that actually worked

Put clear nail varnish on it every day. It will take at least a month, but eventually it will be starved of oxygen and die.

I had multiple large warts and verrucas as a child, nothing got rid of them for literally years, I kept getting more - and once I used nail varnish they all vanished and I've never had another one since.

I don't actually believe anything works. DD had one and we diligently tried all the over the counter stuff, tape, nail varnish the lot. Applying stuff, filing it down. Months and months of treating it every evening. Eventually it just sent. DH swears on going rogue and digging it out with a scalpel, but understandably that is his preference, on himself. I'm not attacking my child with a scalpel!

Bazuka extra strength works. It’s just in the method. A week of applying on layer after layer doesn’t work. Keep filing and reapplying. It’s worked every time for us.

High strength salicylic patches, they're red circles attached to plasters, replace every two days. The skin will go soggy and then when it goes hard you can pare or peel it off. I had one like yours and tried everything, this was the only thing that worked!

Verrucas (and warts in general) seem to be like sciatica. You ask online and 50 people give you 50 different answers. But in reality it's a self-limiting condition, and people will attribute the "cure" to whatever they did last.

I have had several warts and verrucas in my life, and they all went away after a while, whether I attacked them with the various recommended topical remedies or not.

Oh I feel for you. I had one for 10+ years- eventually got rid of it this year by using bazooka extra strength for about 6 months-
got through 2 tubes of it! Would apply a few nights a week and keep filing away what I could. I could see it was getting g smaller and eventually it just disappeared. I still feel the relief!

The old wives tale is to rub the inside (fluffy bit) of a broad bean pod on it and bury it in the garden. It will go once the pod has rotted. Seemed to work back in the 80s or maybe it just made waiting for immune system to kick in more interesting !

This every time. File off hard bit, acid a few times a day, file, acid, gone!

Apple Cider Vinegar on a small piece of cotton wool, fix to verruca very firmly with Elastoplast, the roll type. It must be fully sealed. After a couple of days remove this and after shower/bath file it down with an emery board. Repeat this and it will disappear after a few weeks. It will grow out rather than drop off.

Put sudocrem on it every day.

I agree with this. I got rid of 7 that ds had very quickly applying and filing every day.

My daughter had loads. In the end I took her to podiatrist and he filed them and gave us some salactol and after that they just magically disappeared. I was initially annoyed at the £110 appointment but now I wish I’d have done it sooner. What he did to them must have triggered an immune response.

Any update op? Have you tried lasers yet?

We used to have a really abusive neighbour, it was a very stressy time, my DH got a lot of veruccas on both feet, all at once and for the first time in his life. So painful, and GPs and chiropodists tried to help, to no avail. We did not go on holiday for a year in case the neighbour broke in. He got evicted. We immediately booked a holiday, and a couple of days in the veruccas just disappeared. Like we imagined them being there, no trace left. It was weird. He never went in the pool for hygiene reasons but it must have been the sun plus the stress going. Stress can bring up so many health issues.

So anyone in the know ,if the black bit of a verucca is gone and it’s just a round dry bit left does that mean the verucca is gone and the skin will just heal ?

Used a pea amount of aloe vera gel with a few drops of tree tea oil on a cotton wool pad. Taped it on overnight, every night for a month or so, filed it a few times and it went.

Yes. The black bit is the verruca

My DD had an awful one when she was about 4. It really hurt her so I bought some of the special blister plasters to give her some padding around it. She would manage to keep them on for a couple of days and then we’d change it. One day when changing it the veruca came out with all the roots I could not believe how big it was. A couple of cm! It also bled quite a lot but soon healed and completely forgotten about now so was probably more traumatic for me.

I've had a similar situation OP, in the end formic acid sems to have worked. I tried various otc methods before, tried Swift too all to no avail. I ended up getting one of my hand from trying to treat those on my feet. Anyway, because its impossible to get salicylic acid or similar for stay on skin, especially hands, I saw and tried a formic acid pen, with regular filing. It worked on the hand, so I tried it on my feet and it's worked! I was quite aggressive with it though, used it twice a day instead of recommended 3 times per week. I dialled it back when I started to feel the acid sting. It really helped that you don't need to cover it up with tape, it seemed to just slowly dry it out from the inside. File regularly too.

This. The skin needs to be macerated to weaken its structure, before applying the bazuka- that why the advice leaflet advises you to soak the area first.
Dark nail varnish 24/7 is an easier/quicker treatment to apply

My DD had 3 at the same time a few years ago - I tried all the usual stuff to freeze, burn, etc to the point DD wouldn’t let me near her feet !
I was recommended Aloe Propolis cream - it’s quite thick, but gentle. Used it every night for a couple of weeks and they were gone. Lovely smooth skin underneath too.
It henceforth became known as Magic Cream to the whole household !