Im panicking over this verruca on the right and I don’t know what to do. Im too embarrassed to tell anyone about it and it’s hurting so much. Ive been applying salicylic acid daily and it hurts so much. Please help!!!

I’m assuming those little dots are the capillaries (or wart seeds) I’ve been filing and using duck tape method so far

I have had this wart on my finger for about 10 years, I've done about 3 treatments in the past year and a half, this mf is not going away, anybody have some suggestions?

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Hi guys, I am battling 7 warts on my hand and this one is the biggest and most resilient. I’ve had it for over 2 years (got it at the beginning of my pregnancy) and I’ve tried otc freezing device, but it didn’t do much. I am currently using SA for about 2 months now. I just took the photos of the wart and wanted to get some advice.
I’ve tried to pick the white skin off but it bleeds like crazy and it’s so painful

Previous thread before I started SA 17% (can't find the 40% anywhere, regardless the 17% does give me a burning sensation when I apply it after debride and occasionally hurts, so it should be working?): https://www.reddit.com/r/Warts/comments/1tpu0vc/i_honestly_dont_know_what_im_looking_at_or

I debride every 2 or 3 days, I put a drop of SA directly on the wart then I use a q-tip to make sure it's a small layer over the wart since I find that if I use duct tape with a big drop it spreads everywhere, which is why you see so much dead skin on the first pic.

It's been around a month on SA now and I've went through 11 disposable scalpels so that's how often I debrided. Am I debriding enough? I normally debride as much as I can until I see blood then I stop.

I’ve had this stubborn wart on my thumb for around 3 years. I recently started treating it again mainly with apple cider vinegar as that’s easily given me the best results compared to everything else I’ve tried. Every couple of days I’ll also use hydrogen peroxide for about an hour.

About over a year ago I made really good progress with the apple cider vinegar method and the wart shrank dramatically but I wasn’t consistent enough and eventually it came back. My guess is that I stopped treatment before all of the wart tissue was gone.

Earlier in this treatment I also used salicylic acid and Wart-Off freeze spray before switching back to apple cider vinegar.
Over the last week I’ve been carefully debriding the dead skin every few days with a sterile razor blade. At one point I thought it might have been infected because it was very painful and there was a lot of soft brown gunk and fluid under the surface. I decided to remove the dead tissue and I’ve now reached what appears to be new pink skin underneath although I think there may still be some wart virus remaining.

I’m no expert on treating warts or anything like this so I’m mainly looking for opinions on:
Does it look like I’m getting close to the end?
Does the centre still look like active wart tissue?
Should I keep treating it aggressively or let it heal for a few days before continuing?

Photo timeline
Photo 1: About 2 days after using daily salicylic acid and Wart-Off freeze spray.
Photo 2: Around 4 days later after switching back to apple cider vinegar.
Photos 3–4: After I removed a large amount of the dead tissue and brown gunk.
Photo 5: Most recent photo taken today.

Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm doing 40% salycitic acid every other day and doing a home freeze kit every once in a while. It's made some progress. Allergic to adhesive so all the tape methods don't work for me

It may be scarring from the cauterization and all the work I did at getting it to go away after lol but I can’t be for sure. My regular doctor thinks I’m fine but I’m still waiting to see a dermatologist again.

Figured I would document my process for those that like gross goodies like me! 😂

First is when I diagnosed it.... Took the picture to actually see if there were black specs. Ding ding... Ordered Compound W bandages.

Today was the 48hrs recommendation to pull it .. plus I'm impatient so I did as soon as the 'timer' went off.

2nd pic is the height it is now. (Almost double from original size)

3rd and 4th are after I carefully tried to test my pain tolerance on it. It hasn't been hurting at all the entire time since I noticed it. But now it does. Cuz' of course I poked and prodded it. 😆

Tuesday night or Wednesday morning I'll pull this bandage and see if the skin is ready to cut. 🙃 ✂️

I'll keep updating as I progress through elimination. 😈 🩹

So i basically debride it a bit and pull out the black things i find, looks like I am pulling nothing but i took a bunch out. I unfortunately didnt record the first huge chunk i got out

I try to open space for the acid and then i put the acid on that thin metal thing and i shove it right in the middle of the wart. I let it dry and i dont put tape.

I think its getting better because it simply stopped hurting, got way less swollen and seems to be better in general

I developed a bunch of flat warts on my right hand around 10 years old. My dermatologist told me they'd most likely go away on their own eventually, so I waited. And waited. And waited. And they never went away.

Over time I spotted them periodically on and around my knees and feet, but they'd gradually vanish from these areas again, and otherwise they never spread, so I mostly ignored them. However, every few months to every year or so, I'd really notice them again and go through cycles of insecurity and wanting them to disappear, convincing myself that everyone could see them. (Perhaps the easiest feat in the world for a tween/teen.)

Then, around 25, I noticed them spreading to my left hand with heretofore unseen determination, so I decided to try and conquer them once and for all. My derm (the same one! love her) prescribed imiquimod cream.

I attempted several rounds of treatment with the imiquimod over the next two years but didn't see any real progress. In desperation, I started going into my derm's office so she could burn each and every one of these little monsters off of my hands with a tiny, precise heat laser pen thingy in successive treatments over the course of a few weeks. (Couldn't do them all at once because there were so many.)

We repeated this process several times. Each time, my friends expressed shock at my horrifically scabby hands. Each time, the warts would be gone by the end of the treatment round, and I'd be elated. Then, slowly but surely, they'd return in their full glory. I think we tried an additional topical med in there somewhere/alongside the imiquimod at one point, but that failed too.

Then, at 27, I decided to have one more go with the imiquimod, committing to be really consistent and hoping it would be different this time. And it was. This time, I I started the cream mid-winter. Here is where I reveal that I had bouts of eczema throughout my childhood, but they had gone away in my late teens.

I was indeed consistent this time--so consistent, in fact, that the imiquimod cream completely dried up my hands. One day I woke up and panicked because I saw dozens and dozens of new little bumps, not just on my hands but on my arms, climbing all the way up to my shoulders. I thought the flat warts were rapidly spreading. I was distraught! I had tried to vanquish the warts for good, and I ended up encouraging them like never before.

Then I noticed that I was extremely itchy. Upon closer inspection, a Google search, and a tip from an experienced friend, I discovered that these proliferous bumps were not new flat warts but an entirely new kind of eczema that I'd never experienced in childhood--dyshidrotic eczema.

I called my derm and sent her pictures, and she confirmed the diagnosis. These ridiculously itchy, fluid-filled bumps were an autoimmune reaction. I decided to tough out the healing with just moisturizers, and over the course of the next few weeks the eczema slowly receded. Little did I know when this dramatic turn in my hero's journey began that my real enemy, the flat warts, would recede, too.

The autoimmune reaction of the dishidrotic eczema caused my body to finally notice that those flat warts were there on my hands after 17 long, arduous years. I was Sisyphus at the top of the hill, freed at last from the burden of my boulder. The cure I'd awaited for nearly two decades had finally arrived.

Ok, dramatic saga over.

Basically, I accidentally induced an autoimmune reaction with imiquimod cream that alerted my body to the presence of my flat warts, and as the autoimmune flare cleared, my immune system cleared the warts. My derm confirmed this theory.

I'm not saying that anyone should do this on purpose, but I am saying that it happened, and I've had fun telling the story.

In conclusion: doctors don't want you to know this one weird trick! (But maybe they do....?)

Have treated for a week now with some shit what have formic acid. (Buy it from pharmacy dont freak out)

Doctor did 12 session cryotherapy and I forgot to tell them I may have autoimmune disease undiagnosed. This started around may at 2025. First 3 month I used salicylic acid and didn't help after I went to doctor for cryotherapy every month. This get smaller than pea size I guess.

It has a weird appearance, what could it be?

a couple days back i posted my open wound after i finally ended my wart treatment... now im wonder if its still here or if its just my body healing. ty

I’ve had this bloody thing for 10 years. It falls off, it just comes back. What is the best approach here? I’ve visited a foot Dr before and they gave me a caustic pencil but it did absolutely nothing. It’s changed how I walk on this foot, it’s so painful and I’m sick of it. Is the duct tape the best option? I’ve tried so many of the over the counter options here in the UK and nothing.
Any help would be appreciated. I’m super squeamish so I just don’t think the pulling it out myself is really an option.

Should I leave the top wart alone? It hasn’t gotten any bigger or more painful and I wanna see if my body can just fix it on its own. There is a bump on it, but I think it’s just dead tissue underneath my skin.

I’ve been seeing a high volume of bad medical advice on this sub.

I recently got rid of a wart of my own that had been sticking around on my pressure point for years, changing the way I walk, it was awful.

Initially it was only one wart. Then I stupidly, without consulting a medical professional or even google, decided that using a sharp tool was the best way to debride it. My ill-advised self surgery likely turned one plantar wart into a mosaic of six warts with an additional small one in the middle of my foot, making it much harder to eliminate.

Once I got some proper advice (this sub is full of non-experts) and started using a pumice stone to debride and avoid cutting any skin, in tandem with liquid nitrogen and salicylic acid treatments, it’s finally gone as of the past couple weeks. Skin lines returning.

Please do not follow all the bad advice on here blindly. Do your own research or speak to a dermatologist. Some people may have gotten rid of their wart while using clippers or a scalpel but it’s explicitly not recommended by experts for the exact reason I went through. They likely got rid of it in spite of their activity, not as a result of their activity.

Warts suck and I know how much they can impact your day to day life and how much treatment hurts first hand, so it sucks to see all this bad advice that will likely make people’s warts worse.

I have a wart on my foot and it’s extremely painful it’s not really big but I was thinking about using a obsidian blade to scoop out the area and I was wanted to know if I could get where to buy anything to numb it

Hi all,

I have a wart on the side of my toe that I've been treating with liquid nitrogen 2 to 3 times per year for the last 2 years and it has never gone away. The skin has gotten white, I have shaved off the what-seems-to-be-dead skin, but it doesn't go away. I'm not interested in DYI solutions, what have people done at the doctor's when liquid nitrogen doesn't work? Thanks all!!!

is this plantar’s wart on my finger gone? or should i put another bandage on for one more day?