Warts?!?!?!

[critter crazy]

I had warts on my feet when I was a kid. We had to constantly go and get them burned off. At the time we lived in California, after we moved to NY they were gone! So we chatted with a doc about it, and he told us, it had to do with the soil. I played in dirt barefoot all the time, so that what he was sure the cause was. but It was many years ago.

[Taz_Zoee]

I had one on the side of my toe before. And I think I used what KBlaix suggested and it went away. In high school a friend of mine had about 4 on her foot and she treated them to get them to go away. No need for a doctor. But everyone is different.

[Laura's Babies]

I had a seed wart that spread to another place and I had them both burned off TWICE.. I promise you, it does NOT hurt when they do it OR afterwards. I had fought them with everything on the market for years and I was tired of messing with them. The second time I had them done, I kept telling the doctor, go further and deeper, I want them GONE!

I worked with a guy who had numerous planters warts on his feet. He had them burned off then the doctor gave him a RX for a salve called "Aldera". It is very expensive and you only get 12 tiney, itsy, bitsy foiled pack of it per RX. He eventually got rid of his with the Aldera.

[catnapper]

Good luck with those!! They are TOUGH to get rid of. My best advice is to see a podiatrist. I had to have mine laser removed several times before they were totally gone.

[jennielynn1970]

One thing with the discs... you cannot just forget to put one on one day, or think that it's almost gone. It will freaking spread out, I don't know what the technical term is for it, but the one that started out tiny on my foot about 10 years ago, and I left go for 2 days because I thought it was dying and going away... well, it just decided to thrive on the warm moist heat in my sneakers and by the time I got back to the podiatrist, it was the size of a half dollar on the ball of my foot.

I am a wimp when it comes to this stuff. He had to actually put the freezing stuff on it, and the whole entire area got all infected like, and "rejected" that tissue as being bad, and it popped up out of my foot, and I had a huge, gaping hole in my foot that had to be treated and gauzed up and all that. It was an experience I will NEVER forget.

The only time before that was when I had one or two on my foot my my toes from showering in the showers at the public pool without flip flops on. We ended up at the shore later that summer, and I swear the salt water and the sand absolutely ate the entire wart away. It was amazing.

I think that is why when I got the second one, that turned out so badly, I didn't think it would turn out so badly.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I just remembered my dad's planter's wart. He had a planter's wart for more than 20 years! He just kept treating it, but it never went away. My dad hates going to the doctor so he never went. A couple years ago he got a big piece of glass in the bottom of his foot. He tried pulling it out, but didn't get it all and when it got infected he finally went to the doctor. When the doctor was looking at his foot he saw the wart. The doctor got the glass out and got rid of the wart too.

[Miss Z]

When I was very young, I had a small wart on my foot. My mum got the pumice stone on it right away. Very painful, not advised.

I think my brother uses something called 'Wartner', something which freezes the core of the wart and therefore the blood supply is cut off. Not sure if you have that stuff over there, though.