Laura, years ago when my son was around 10 or so he had so many warts on the back of his hand that it was totally covered. The dr. tried burning them off, we tried Compound W, so many things and nothing worked plus it all was so painful and I had to chase him around the house to catch him so that he could get his next treatment. Nothing worked. One day I felt so helpless and cruel for doing this to him, so I poked a pin in a 10,000 unit vitamin A capsule and smeared it all over the warts just to soothe the pain, never thinking that it might do anything other than that. I didn't cover his hand w/gauze or anything, just let it be. I swear to you, the next day the warts were almost gone and by the second day they were totally gone never to return. When I told the dr. about it, he pooh-poohed it and I said "Well, you've been treating it for months w/no success. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. It's visible!" Give it a whirl. What have you got to lose? (except warts and pain)