Help - Plantar Wart

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Winter

Cathlete
Hi All,

How the heck do I get rid of this plantar wart for good. I have been using a patch and also so liquid stuff that the doctor gave me months ago. Just when I think it is gone the spot will callous over again. Then I cut down the callous and there are little black dots again. I hate to go to the doc because it costs $85 every time I see him. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

Winter
 
I had a wart on my finger for over a year, maybe two years. The thing that did it for me was the over the counter wart remover in a gel. Don't know why but it did. Some people say duct tape works as well as the traditional oinments, cannot vouch for that though.
GOOD LUCK!
 
Unfortunately the only way to get rid of it if it keeps coming back is to have it frozen off or surgically removed. Unfortunately (again) both require a doctor & probably a whole lot more than $85. If you have to pay that much to see the doctor, make it worth your time & money--figure out more than one thing to discuss with him. Not great advice but it's all I've got.

Good luck.
 
I had a painful plantar wart on the bottom of my foot and visited a dermatologist who treated it with liquid nitrogen. It helped but didn't make it go completely away. After several trips and a still painful wart I finally had laser surgery. I wish I had had the laser in the first place, but I was worried about the cost. The last worked and it's never come back.

Juli
 
I've read a lot lately about using duct tape to treat plantar warts. There's an article in the April '03 Prevention magazine. You might want to check their website or do a web search since I know I've read other things online about it. According to the small study they cited, it was actually more effective than freezing the warts off. It might be worth a shot since it's basically free (if you already own duct tape, that is).

Sarah :)
 
I had a wart on my foot when I was a kid and went to the dermatologist for over a year getting the liquid nitrogen treatment.

My family and I were so anxious, we actually tried an old wive's tale of rubbing the wart with an eye of a potato and buring the piece of potato by a tree stump at midnight. (I don't remember if a full moon was involved.)

I didn't work.

Finally, my dermatologist recommended a "blister treatment". I don't know chemically what it was but it made a big ol' blister where the wart was and then when the blister popped, the wart was gone! He said it would be painful a few hours after treatment but it wasn't. I had that done one other time and it worked great.

Good luck!

Shelley
 
Compound W gel worked on my plantar warts - I had like 10 on one foot and it took like 2-3 months for them to go away, but they are gone now. I tried the Compound W in the little jar (liquid) but about halfway through the jar, the stuff got all gooey and nasty. This may not help with your stubborn wart though.


Good luck!
 
My 9-year-old daughter picked up plantar warts last year. We started getting them treated in October. We tried Compound W, which didn't work. Next was freezing, but it was too painful for her. After that, we saw a dermatologist who gave us a prescription for Aldara (which is marketed as being for genital warts) and told us to keep the warts covered with duct tape. We've been doing that for a month now and are seeing some progress - 2 are actually gone and the others are almost gone! I read somewhere that Aldara allows the immune system do its job against the warts. I don't care why it works, but it sure has been amazing for my daughter!

Dawn
 
Okay, here's a weird "cure." My Uncle Harry used to "buy" our warts. He'd give us a dime, and the wart would go away. Of course, it was only a coincidence, or some weird type of "psychosomatic wart control," but it worked every time. At least until we grew up. Odd--it hasn't worked since.

:7
 
>Okay, here's a weird "cure." My Uncle Harry used to "buy"
>our warts. He'd give us a dime, and the wart would go away.
>Of course, it was only a coincidence, or some weird type of
>"psychosomatic wart control," but it worked every time. At
>least until we grew up. Odd--it hasn't worked since.
>
> :7


I remember reading that warts will sometimes go away using any of a variety of home remedy cures (the potato, for example), and that it is because they respond to placebo-type cures.

I remember having plantars warts and digging out the center with a pin (sterilized in fire). They went away. Could have been that placebo cure thing.
 
You are going to think this is so weird...but my sister "wished" her plantar wart away. I am telling you, it really worked. Every day she would "wish it away." That's all I know.
 
I also had a big, deep plantar wart on the ball of my foot. (So never again have I entered a locker room or shower barefoot!) I went to a doctor (dermatologist?) at Student Health, who froze it with liquid nitrogen. The freezing part wasn't bad, but the thawing hurt. Follow-up consisted of putting a drop of Duofilm on it for a couple (few?) weeks until it was gone. Duofilm was prescription only at the time, but might be OTC now. If your wart's not deep, you might give it a try. Duofilm is an acid, so if you use it, be careful not to get it on the surrounding skin. If your wart's small, you might have better precision applying it with something like a toothpick than the applicator that comes with the bottle.
juliee
 
Hi Everyone again,

I am trying to use the duct tape remedy. It will not stick for very long. If that doesn't work back to the doc.

Thanks All,
Winter
 
I have a suggestion....I had a big wart on my hand and could not get rid of it no matter what and there was no way I would go to the doc to get rid of it so I dealt with the wart for a couple of years. I bought a new lotion for myself for my hands mind you I like trying different lotions sometimes and I bought Aveeno. After 3 weeks of using the lotion every night before bedtime, it was totally gone. Try rubbing Aveeno lotion on your wart twice a day for a month and see if it works. I couldn't believe it worked because I tried everything else even the stinky medication from Dr. Scholl's. Let me know how it's working out.
 
Yikes, I had one years ago. The only thing that worked was seeing a chiropodist (sp?), who treated it with liquid dry ice (I believe). I also experienced where the callous/scab fell off, and then I was left with the little black dots. Those just eventually went away, and I haven't had any problem since.
 
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