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Plantar Warts

post #1 of 43
5/23/07 at 3:17pm
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I occasionally get these little bumps on my palms or fingers, and it occurred to me that these might be what they are.

Anybody have a quick or simple method of getting rid of them?
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post #2 of 43
5/23/07 at 3:19pm
cortisone maybe?
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post #3 of 43
5/23/07 at 3:41pm
I had a wart on my foot. (don't know if it was a plantar wart, or some other kind of wart.)

I dug it out with a knife, making sure to cut out the blood vessel in the center that supplied it with blood. Painful, but effective, and it healed up well.
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post #4 of 43
5/23/07 at 3:42pm
im not so sure if I would use the above method
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post #5 of 43
5/23/07 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by Kai View Post
I had a wart on my foot. (don't know if it was a plantar wart, or some other kind of wart.)

I dug it out with a knife, making sure to cut out the blood vessel in the center that supplied it with blood. Painful, but effective, and it healed up well.
That's pretty badass. It's a shame there is no photo documentation like when j drained the hematoma under his fingernail.
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post #6 of 43
5/23/07 at 5:51pm
In my experience, Plantar warts show up on the feet (not always of course). When I had a Plantar wart on my foot, my Derm gave me salicylic acid to dissolve it over a week or two. It worked fine. Warts on my hands / wrists / arms he burns or scrapes off depending on the size. It takes about 2 seconds to remove the wart.

Just remember; taint, squeeze, and shake. Or something like that.
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post #7 of 43
5/23/07 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by Kai View Post
I had a wart on my foot. (don't know if it was a plantar wart, or some other kind of wart.)

I dug it out with a knife, making sure to cut out the blood vessel in the center that supplied it with blood. Painful, but effective, and it healed up well.

I did this for one that still hadn't gotten too big, but I have one on my heel that's a fuckng bitch to get rid of. I was going to the doctor for a while to get it frozen but that didn't work and then I got stuck in a cycle of really long work-weeks where I couldn't afford the time to visit the doc and it's now bigger than it was before.

I started cutting away the dead skin with a sterilized scalpel, and then when I get as close to live skin as possible (it always causes bleeding), I use the home freeze treatments (I also tried 35% salicylic acid and it didn't work).

I've done this a few times but I think I'm gonna have to start going back to the doctor because for the one I successfully cut-out, I had a .25cm crater on the ball of my foot where the wart was after I had excised it. I really had to go in really deep before it would stop coming back. The one on my heel is simply too big, and when I get down to the roots it just bleeds so much that I can't see what I'm doing. The problem now is that it has multiple roots =/

They're a lot easier to treat if you get them early.
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post #8 of 43
5/23/07 at 8:37pm
Plantar warts only show up on the soles of the feet by definition (the sole is the plantar surface of the foot).

I had several of these many years ago. I tried various over the counter preparations using salicylic acid, but they didn't work and I eventually had a dermatologist burn them off with liquid nitrogen, followed by a stronger-than-OTC acid treatment that ended up taking all the skin off of my feet.
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post #9 of 43
5/23/07 at 9:08pm
If you have a plantar's wart, please don't pick at it, and I would avoid any of the typical pads that supposedly dissolve them. I had a couple on my foot from high school swimming class (the pool floor is a big breeding ground). I used an over the counter acid in a pad that supposedly removed them. All it does it remove the top layer which then spreads the inside puss to the rest of the area. Within weeks I had huge clusters of them on my feet and I couldn't walk. I had to have 1/3 of my big toe dug into and large areas of skin on my foot bed on both feet removed both with lasers and scalpals. Plantar warts are very deep so you have to kill the root to destroy them. The black dots are the blood vessels in them. I would see a specialist, they should be able to remove them with a laser treatment or another method before they spread.
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post #10 of 43
5/23/07 at 9:33pm
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If you have a plantar's wart, please don't pick at it, and I would avoid any of the typical pads that supposedly dissolve them.

I had a couple on my foot from high school swimming class (the pool floor is a big breeding ground). I used an over the counter acid in a pad that supposedly removed them. All it does it remove the top layer which then spreads the inside puss to the rest of the area. Within weeks I had huge clusters of them on my feet and I couldn't walk. I had to have 1/3 of my big toe dug into and large areas of skin on my foot bed on both feet removed both with lasers and scalpals. Plantar warts are very deep so you have to kill the root to destroy them. The black dots are the blood vessels in them.

I would see a specialist, they should be able to remove them with a laser treatment or another method before they spread.

ya.. i'm pretty sure i got mine from walking around bare-footed in a climbing gym =/ I'd never had a wart up until then. I think i'm gonna go back to the doctor next week cause i'm really getting sick of the thing.
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post #11 of 43
5/23/07 at 10:21pm
I have one on one heel that luckily doesn't bother me much except when barefoot. I am about 99% sure I got it in a KOA shower (didn't think to bring sandals... dumb) but at least I learned my lesson.

Supposedly, duct tape will work on these - you just clean the area, let it get completely dry, then put a piece of duct tape over it that totally covers it and is big enough that it won't come off, then leave it on there as long as possible and repeat. Apparently it prevents the wart from getting air or something, I'm not sure, but I've read a lot of success stories. I tried it for a couple weeks but it didn't help... maybe not long enough.

If I ever get fed up and very bored, I'll gouge it out with a dull apple corer and take pics for hopkins student. Come to think of it, maybe a melon baller would be better...
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post #12 of 43
5/23/07 at 10:35pm
Don't cut with a any old knife. Make sure its really clean and sharp. Actually cutting it out yourself is a pretty bad idea. Its almost impossible to sterilize properly at home. I learned this the hard way. Gave myself some kind of infection that required an operation to remove. Try walking around with a huge hole in your foot. It hurts.
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post #13 of 43
5/24/07 at 9:21am
Unless you don't have health insurance, why is everyone here so adverse to actually, I don't know, going to a dermatologist or a podiatrist? All of these home mutilation methods sound really...interesting, but I would think the safest course of action would be to see someone who's actually been trained to treat problems like this. Just a thought.

On the other hand, maybe I'm crazy and I just don't know what I'm missing by not bleeding all over my carpet and then walking around with a 1/2 inch crater in my foot.
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post #14 of 43
5/24/07 at 9:38am
Lol... It's because it's a pain in the ass to go to the doctor. If I'm working lots of hours i just don't have time for the repeated visits getting rid of the thing requires. And getting in to see a specialist can take 2-3 months here.
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post #15 of 43
5/24/07 at 9:42am
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I have one on one heel that luckily doesn't bother me much except when barefoot. I am about 99% sure I got it in a KOA shower (didn't think to bring sandals... dumb) but at least I learned my lesson.

Supposedly, duct tape will work on these - you just clean the area, let it get completely dry, then put a piece of duct tape over it that totally covers it and is big enough that it won't come off, then leave it on there as long as possible and repeat. Apparently it prevents the wart from getting air or something, I'm not sure, but I've read a lot of success stories. I tried it for a couple weeks but it didn't help... maybe not long enough.

If I ever get fed up and very bored, I'll gouge it out with a dull apple corer and take pics for hopkins student. Come to think of it, maybe a melon baller would be better...

The duct tape method was suggested to me by my doc as something to do between treatments. It never worked and it ruined a lot of nice socks.

I don't buy the lack of air theory because cells get their oxygen from the blood, and a wart is just a virus, which means it needs a host to "live."
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