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Verrucas - advice needed

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Mamatotwoboys · 24/05/2023 21:40

I've had three verrucas for about 8 years now. I paid £350 for an expensive 'Swift' treatment (microwave energy) and it didn't work, apparently it was the most likely treatment to work...

I am now trying at home apple cider vinegar and tape and am on my third night. Would love to hear about any one else's experience of this - what changes did you notice, did it sting (mine is really stinging on night 3 but hoping that means it's working), did the verruca look different, how long did it take to work, etc.

If my verrucas were dormant, will it still work?

I'm really ready to be done with them now...

Thanks!

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HaggisFace · 24/05/2023 21:59

Possibly not advisable but I poked around mine with a sterile needle to encourage my body to fight it and it was away with about 6 weeks of doing that. I'd had mine for almost 3 years

This is worth trying. Basically you need to get your immune cells to get into the verruca.
I had one for years on my heel. Can’t remember what happened but one day it just vanished. I might have used a needle. Gaffer tape worked on my sons but it depends on the location. Toes are easy to tape.

gluenotsoup · 15/06/2023 10:07

Wartner got rid of my daughters very quickly.
I had a huge patch on my heel, dozens of them, for years. Pregnancy saw them off, never to return. Drastic though.

HewasH20 · 15/06/2023 10:14

My diabetes nurse won't let me do anything which could create an open wound. She has told me to either paint it with nail varnish or put Vicks Vaporub on it.

dreamingperfect · 15/06/2023 10:15

Black nail polish got rid of mine! Had them for 5 years, once I tried this method they disappeared within a week or so.

solice84 · 23/06/2023 06:36

How's it going now @Mamatotwoboys
I'm making a serious effort to tackle mine now too
It's starting to go black like yours did and god it's bloody painful
Mine's on the ball of my foot , had it for at least 10 years
Didn't even know it was a verruca for most of that time
Now have one under my thumb nail too from picking at it !

solice84 · 23/06/2023 06:37

Actually it must be waaaaaay more than 10 years when I think about it
It never caused me any bother until I realised what it was and started picking at it

RoyKentFanclub · 23/06/2023 06:46

I also have one in my finger from treating ds’s. It just won’t budge

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 06:48

Sewing thread and needle. Double thread . Needle under verucca from east to west and snip thread ends so that you have around five inches either side. Then do the same from north to south.

Gather thread and pull and there will be blood but it splits the verucca into quarters and it can then be tweezered out in bits. If you don't get all of it it will have destroyed it and it may either but it should only take a couple more goes at getting it all out.

It needs to have a secure plaster on afterwards if you are going to be waking about but if some of an evening you can let the air get to it.

It may be sore or tender for a day but will soon heal .you can use Germolene or similar if you want.

mumtoallboys · 18/04/2024 13:19

@Mamatotwoboys please can I find out the end of the verucca story? One of my boys (6 years old) has one I can't shift

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Mamatotwoboys · 18/04/2024 15:19

ah I’m so sorry, I didn’t want to be another thread that never showed the ending! Yet I stopped posting! So the technique cleared up one little one but unfortunately the main little cluster is still knocking around. It’s a shame because I feel like if I’d carried on a bit longer I might have gotten it as it changed form and colour hugely, but still there now. It’s does occasionally hurt now so I’m thinking it may be less dormant than before, which hopefully means my immune system would work on it?

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buswankerz · 18/04/2024 15:35

Ds had a persistent one that just would not fuck off no matter what I tried.

I used a bit of banana peel and duct taped it to his foot. It was gone in days.

buswankerz · 18/04/2024 15:37

@mumtoallboys sorry, I thought I had tagged you. My response in the post before worked for ds.

mumtoallboys · 18/04/2024 15:40

@Mamatotwoboys oh no, that isn't the news I was hoping for! I hoped it had dropped of and died.

Zimunya · 18/04/2024 15:43

DH had a persistent cluster and the only thing that worked was Bazuka and filing, Bazuka and filing, Bazuka and filing, Bazuka and filing - for weeks and weeks. I think the trick is not to lose heart and think it's not working.

DrJoanAllenby · 18/04/2024 15:45

Brutal but effective.

Cotton double threaded on a fine needle. Go under the verruca from east to west and have thread loose either side.

Go under again from north to south.

Gather all four (8 strands) of thread and yank very quickly to split the verruca into four quarters. It will only hurt momentarily and will bleed but you will have broken it up and the quarters can be quickly pulled off/out.

The blood flow to the area seems to help.

You can use a styptic pencil but it will sting.

Plaster or dressing over the are and will be sore for a day or two and you may need to pick remaining bits off with a tweezer but all healed in 4/5 days and verruca gone for good.

mumtoallboys · 18/04/2024 15:47

@buswankerz

Thanks for the tip.

I have just started on the salactol journey. Long soak in salted water, followed by a pummel stone shave down, apply salactol followed by a plaster with salicylic acid build it to it. I have a really heavy surgical tape on top of the salicylic acid plaster.

So I am trying to follow that through at least a month anyway..... we will see. The gp said it was enormous and he is amazed there are not other veruccas around the massive one.

I do like the idea of banana skin because it feels nicer than chemicals.

In 4 weeks time I will try that

Minutepapillon · 18/04/2024 15:52

Greater celandine, it's a weed with bright yellow flowers and yellow/orange sap. The sap will sort out warts and verrucas - my daughter had a large wart on her hand, she put sap on 4 times a day, the wart was gone after a couple of weeks. Best to only put on targeted area and wash hands after (it will stain).

Whataretalkingabout · 18/04/2024 17:40

When I was a child my DM who was a registered nurse had a gentle method of which we all made fun but actually worked. She would hold our fingers over the wart and rub, rub, rub it while saying, " go away wart, go away wart, repeatedly. Eventually the little buggers did go away. :)

solice84 · 18/04/2024 18:47

Since I posted on this last year I really upped my vitamin and mineral intake and they just disappeared just as I'd given up trying to treat them

muggart · 18/04/2024 19:15

I had about 7 of the bastards when i was 12 years old. I bought a kit from Boots so I could freeze them off. I had to hold this freezing cold pen thing over them for around 30 seconds I think, it was agony. Can't remember how many times i had to do it but it worked.

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 18/04/2024 19:42

the last 2 DS had were on the ball of his foot, after his bath it would be all soft and sort of open so I picked all the black bits out with tweezers, they went away after that

GL123 · 20/04/2024 00:44

solice84 · 18/04/2024 18:47

Since I posted on this last year I really upped my vitamin and mineral intake and they just disappeared just as I'd given up trying to treat them

AHCC is expensive but is meant to clear hpv (which I think is the cause)

GL123 · 20/04/2024 00:45

DrJoanAllenby · 18/04/2024 15:45

Brutal but effective.

Cotton double threaded on a fine needle. Go under the verruca from east to west and have thread loose either side.

Go under again from north to south.

Gather all four (8 strands) of thread and yank very quickly to split the verruca into four quarters. It will only hurt momentarily and will bleed but you will have broken it up and the quarters can be quickly pulled off/out.

The blood flow to the area seems to help.

You can use a styptic pencil but it will sting.

Plaster or dressing over the are and will be sore for a day or two and you may need to pick remaining bits off with a tweezer but all healed in 4/5 days and verruca gone for good.

This sounds SO traumatic

but this is the level you get to, I’d probably be trying it now if mine were still there

blueshoes · 20/04/2024 00:52

Salactol.

Dry it out by applying everyday for 2-3 weeks. Then when it feels like a hard lump, dig it out with fingernails. It may bleed and leave a hole, but it is sooooooo satisfying.

May have to repeat more than once to get the whole thing out. <whisper> My dh said his had roots.

mumtoallboys · 23/04/2024 20:05

Does this look like it is dying? Approx day 10 of treatment with salactol. Exact process I am following in my post below