I have the most evil bastard of a wart - Page 2

Post pics of it!

I had a wart on my index finger when I was young, but the medicated disks took care of it. Agree with the others that you need to get rid of that fucker, one way or another.

Any chance you can drive south to a border state? If so, you should consider calling dermatologists in the United States and see what they can do for you. You certainly wont' have to wait 6 months and the price may be more affordable.

My foot broke out in warts when I was in high school, luckily the one on my hand fell away very quickly with dermatologist freezing (none of the home remedies worked, I didn't try apple cider vinegar but duct tape, home freezing, compound w, whatever did nothing.) I had maybe 10-15 warts on my feet and it hurt so much to walk, after two to three months of freezing it every week or so had gotten down to 2-3 stubborn warts and they said that if I was okay with it, they'd surgically remove them. They stuck a few freezing needles in my feet, and then cut them away. It hurt a little bit afterwards, but not too horribly. I took some codeine the first day after to deal with the pain (was from a prior injury) and then was able to deal with it for the next few days with motrin. Definitely worth it to go to a dermatologist, I live in Canada now but at the time I was in the US. My dermatologist also showed me some pictures of one of her patients who had a very serious wart problem, to the point where she could not walk due to the fact that there was a wart covering her ENTIRE HEEL. She had apparently been relying on home remedies which only work on the less tenacious sort of warts. She used some cancer treatments (light chemotherapy) and managed to remove it... If you've got it bad it's bad... However, when I was younger, my GP in Canada was the type of person who'd do that shit right in the office if you just walked in and said you had a problem and give OHIP the bill. I don't know what the current system is but you should maybe talk to friends to see if they have GP's that are like my GP was and get in touch with them. Let's face it, you might need to be a dermatologist to remove melanoma, but you don't need to be a dermatologist to excise a wart.

Had a plantar's wart the size of a penny on the bottom of my foot. My GF at the time grew obsessed with it, digging at it with a pair of needle nosed pliers in the evening as we watched TV. Imagine Kate Beckinsale on a mission. One night she successfully grabbed the root with the pliers, yanking it like a dentist extracts a tooth. Blood pulsed from the bottom of my foot in rhythm with my heartbeat. I can still remember the look of "OMG, what have I done?" on her face half a second before my foot sprayed her. She looked like Carrie at the prom.

^ ew.

You said you were Canadian? I find this weird, around my area (Toronto, Markham), dermatologists charge a flat fee for these sort of "cosmetic removals". $60 for a session of mole removal is the standard, where they in 15 minutes basically get rid of as many as they can.

I suppose the size is relevant but I imagine the cost wouldn't be that ridiculous, definitely not upwards of $1000.

thats what i was doing(picking with finger nails) until i found out the reason why the nasty skin was growing, the roots. any self remedy has to get that core off your skin otherwise it regrows and gets worse, thats why i was hacking away at mine myself. no infection, but iv been lucky with all my injuries in my life with never getting infections. i always wondered what the "roots" looked like from the wart, but maybe i rather just not know.. Also at this point on, i became overly paranoid of sharing things with people cause a wart could be transmitted with skin contact like HPV from what i read

Warts actually don't have roots, cores or a "base command" of any kind. It's a common misconception though. Warts simply grow on top of the virus infected epidermis and they spread from there. The little black things people always think are roots when they get them removed or frozen is a necrotic area (a spot where the wart is dying from the abuse it's been given).

^ That is correct, although I think the black spots are dried-up blood vessels, or blood. I think when people say they ripped out the "core" or "root" colloquially, they mean they fully removed the infected epidermis, rather than just picking away at the top layers of the tumor. I remember I had a little hole in my hand for a week or two after I fully yanked mine out

How'd you try and keep it down? I tried to keep cutting it/use nail clippers, but that sucked when I went a bit too deep. The file was the fastest (20 seconds or so morning and evening) and easiest way to keep it flush to the skin.

Also, try freezing after you've cut it down. The freeze treatments that you can purchase yourself are fairly week, and don't penetrate very well, so it'll make a huge difference in their efficacy.

You should have married that girl.

She turned out to be a rageaholic. Lots of "scenes" in restaurants and in public. And she had this irritating habit of saying "bye BYE!" every time she flushed the toilet.