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ive been using compound w on a planters wart on my pinky toe for a week or so now and its been going away. youre supposed to do it twice a day but i honestly dont have time and am on my feet all day for work, i have to like peel the dead skin off, apply the ointment, then let it do its thing. i imagine it would be faster if i followed the instructions lol
and clean up and disenfect your tools, razor, tweezers, whatever when youre done. warts are contagious
Okay so I can't really endorse it but I managed to kill one of these with a combo of the at-home freezing kit and the salicylic acid stuff. I tried both by themselves but got desperate because it was right on my cuticle and it kept tearing my skin open and it would bleed.
I can't endorse it because I didn't follow the instructions on the box. The freezer thing said to apply it only for 10 seconds (something like that.) I tripled that. The surrounding skin was bone white and dead. Then I applied the acid. Finally got rid of the fucker.
What has worked for me a few times, and I'm not sure if it's just a peculiarity of my immune system or not: cut as much skin from the surface as possible without risking a bleed, then burn it while pressing down with a red hot piece of metal, paper clip for something small, maybe a little screwdriver if it's larger. Just burn enough that the tissue is damaged below the skin, not enough to reach the root or whatever, probably just around where it would cause a blister on normal skin (which it won't). If it doesn't go away in 10 days do the same thing a few more times. Eventually I get an immune response, the area around the border will turn red, and the thing will just die and not come back. I have had them frozen off at the doctor's before and it's extremely painful, since they'll freeze it way below the skin, unsightly black spots from the blood blister, and usually it ends up growing back, albeit smaller.
yeah I can confirm that for me at least, after the at-home freezing failed so did the freezing at the doctor's. they eventually added yeast injections to stimulate an immune response to the freezing regimen, which sucked but eventually worked
i used to work finishing hardwood flooring. i had a couple of warts on my right hand for YEARS. after a few weeks of getting polyurethane on them they died off and never came back.
do what you gotta do to get rid of it fast. (if its not real deep probably going nuts with the at home treatments like GrouchyGrouse mentioned is the move).
I had one that I couldn't get rid of for ages on my foot when I was younger and hoooooly fuck did it suck to get rid of. After trying every at-home remedy we could find for months, I went to the doctor and they wouldn't cut it out or burn it out or anything, they just tried the freezing method but more this time^TM^, and then eventually realized that still wasn't working and switched to some sort of yeast injection to trigger an immune response, which burned like a MFer and made it reallllly hard to walk on that foot for most of the day each time. I was going back like, weekly or biweekly for those fucking injections for a couple months before it started to go away. I cannot imagine how much that would cost with bad or no insurance.
Just regular apple cider vinegar on a wet bandage under a band aid, keep it on as long as you can
I burned off a warr on the side of my hand by heating up a fork over a stove burner until red hot and glowing then burning the top of it. I think i did it a few times and it went away.
Probably not a good idea and you shouldn't take this advice, but in my experience "picking at it until it bleeds like a motherfucker" tends to be the solution for me, because after I do that the wart is gone after my thumb heals.
I dealt with two warts on my feet. The answer is liquid wart remover over many months. The trick that worked for me was 6 days of application and one day without. The whole idea is to get your skin to grow the wart out. Salicylic acid is the active ingredient in wart remover.
Salicylic acid treatment, had one on the heel of my palm