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juicyfruit

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yeah, so i have a few. i had some frozen off a few years ago, but venturing outside of my health plan is expensive. any cheap do-it-yourself removal suggestions? knives don't work.
 
I've heard from people who claim to have actually done it that putting duct tape over warts will cause them to disappear. That's the only do-it-yourself remedy I have heard of for warts.
 
i had one on my hand when i was a kid, albeit a small one, that i was actually able to remove with those kits they sell at eckerds that have the little patches you put on them for a few weeks.

don't know how well it'd work for you, but i remember it working for me a long time ago.
 
the dermatologist back in the day told me everyone eventually outgrows warts and they simply disappear. you're lucky, ttu. unfortunately, i've had this one on my thumb for almost a friggin' decade. there are a couple of smaller, less noticeable ones, too. one wart i had removed actually grew back and had to be removed, again. little ******. i'm afraid i spent too much time in boys town when in school and this might be something more serious.
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i had good luck as a kid getting rid of them over a month or so with the treatments you can get at the drugstore. or you could try buying a block of dry ice and holding it to the wart till it and the surrounding tissue turn funny colors.
 
The problem is getting out the "root" or seed or whatever it's called. If you use a knife you will cut the bulk of the wart away but the "seed" will remain. You have to either dig that out or tear it out.

I removed one off a budy of mine with a filet knife and some hemostats. I made a smooth cut but couold still see the "seed." So a grabed his arm and then used the hemostats to grab the seed and tore the last remnant out. Never cam back and minimal scarring. The "seed" sort of looks like a small patch of black dots in the center of where the wart was.

I did see on the telvision or somewhere the other day where they now have home freezing kits available in the drug store.

Years ago in high school I had one oin the palm side of my middle finger. I was constantly fiddling with it with my thumb and irritating it. I finally just gradually cut the thing away, making a small cut each day around the base of the wart. When it got sort of dangly I just tore the thing off with my teeth. Never came back. Of course this technique wouldn't work if this was a 3:16 thread..... unless you had a friend..... nevermind....
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I had one on my foot, I cut it off then cut my foot open till i could see the seed, then I heated up a knife on my grill and then burned the "seed" Done.
 
kept cutting one off of my hand until it stopped growing back... about a year and 10 or so chop jobs, but I was young and had no idea about seeds and stuff. I guess the last time I got it by accident.
 
The way I understand it, warts are a viral infection that do not have "seeds" that can be removed. The natural appearance and disappearance is due to the virus venturing too deep into the body and being identified and destroyed by the immune system. So the problem goes that even if you cut them, burn them, freeze them, or roll chicken bones with them, you wont get rid of them permanently unless your body's immune system starts targeting that virus. Sure they'll go away, but probably not permanently.
 
I'm guessing it's both... the pocketknife and then the cleanup job by your body. I've used knives before as well, but if it is viral, the knife theory doesn't make a lot of sense.

Any docs or Ph.Ds out there in immunology or cell biology?
 
constantly cutting/picking at it worked for me. I can tell you what not to do. Don't have it frozen...lot of pain for no gain. Also under no circumstances should you pick all the dead skin away until you get to the seed and then apply Compound W...unless you would lke to experience non-stop pain like you've never felt in your life.
 
Put your wart over a hot light bulb for an hour or so every day for a week. I got rid of one like that a few years ago and it never returned.
 
Two of my boys have had them at different points in time, and our pediatrician recommended the stuff you get for wart removal at the pharmacy. We bought and used it, and it worked. The key to remember is that you need to use the kind with salicylic acid, and continue using it for the couple of weeks that it will take to get it all out.

Of course this was with "kid" warts on hands/elbows. I don't know if there's a difference with "adult" warts that have been around for 10 years.
 
All of the stuff you guys are describing do one thing, and that is get the immune system riled up at the site of the wart, whereupon said immune system kills the wart.

I had several plantar warts on the sole of my right foot in the ball area and across to the side, my doc sent me to a dermatologist for treating it and what he did was paint the skin where the wart was with blister beetle extract (spanish fly, no ****! that's what he told me it was the same as just stronger than spanish fly
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) wrapped it up and said stay off of it and come back in three weeks or a month. Sure enough the sole of my foot blistered like a motha and I went back in a month and he peeled the dead skin and the warts away from my foot and there was pink soft new skin underneath and I haven't had warts on my feet since. The doc showed me my skin that he had just peeled off and the warts were bumps on the backside of my footskin. The pressure of shoes and walking presses the wart into the foot, it's still in the skin so you have to seperate the skin from the rest of the foot so that the immune system can kill the wart and grow new skin underneath. It looked cool and I asked the doctor if I could have it so I could dry or tan it and have an interesting doodad, but he wouldn't let me have it because of the medical waste laws.
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I just recently had a wart on the side of my knee of all places and I put compound W and those salacylic acid plasters on it and cut it and heated it and screwed around with it trying to get the ol' immune system to kill it and nothing worked, it came back every time, so I quit messing with it and it grew bigger, then I had a bad allergic reactions to something and had hives everywhere from whatever it was I reacted to and two or three days later the wart dropped off by itself in the shower.

Weird, and you don't outgrow warts, you can still catch them even if you are an old fart if the wart virus is a strain that your immune system has not seen and dealt with.
 
Wooo Hooo! Another person on the viral bandwagon! What's sad is I've talked to some Docs (GPs) and 1 derm, who said that "nobody knows how they work and what gets rid of them"
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Does medical school get you anything?

Oh yeah - saving your wart just to have around...
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I am a dermatologist in Dallas. The best thing you can do for warts, that is available over the counter, is 40% salacylic acid wart pads. I prefer to get them in plaster sheets. Mediplast is one brand that works well. Every day cut a piece of the plaster that is just big enought to cover the wart and place it on the wart. Cover this with a small piece of duct tape. Leave this on for 48 hours. Remove it prior to showering. After you shower grind the area down as until it becomes painful with an emery board or pumice stone. Dry the area and start over. Treat until two weeks after the wart appears to be gone. If this doesn't work in one month, you need to see a dermatologist.
 
They have the do it your self freezing stuff now at Eckerds. Saw it the other day.

$20. Do it like the pros.
 
About 50% of warts will go away in 1 to 2 years. That home freezing kits you can buy in the store are inadequate and a waste of time.
 
The use of the word "seed" is rather disgusting. I don't want something seeded in me.
 
When I was a teen, I had about 15 of the damn things on my hands. Nothing in the drug store at the doctor's, or my nailclipper/knife had any permanent effect. My mom asked my grandmother if she knew of any remedies for warts and she said to rub the inside of a banana peel on them. I was not convinced when I started to do it, but damn if it didn't work. Just wash your hands and rub the **** out of your wart with the inside of the banana peel. Using the banana peel technique in addition to the knife will probably work best. I haven't had a wart in years.
 
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