Help with plantar warts?

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Been dealing with a few on my feet (top of the sole for reference) for a little while now, not too serious to cause any pain but still egregious. I'm curious if anybody has any tips on how to deal with them, be it over-the-counter or medical help.
 
Not specifically plantar warts but the only luck I've ever had with warts was cutting/digging them out. They're basically just a lump in the top layer of your skin so they pop out pretty cleanly without too much bleeding and heal up without scars but it feels like it's impossible to find a doc willing to actually do it, they want to do bullshit rounds of acid and freezing instead of just knocking out the problem permanently in 30 seconds. I ended up just doing my own with a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a fresh box cutter blade. It didn't even hurt that badly and I didn't have any way to numb it

For ones on the bottom of your foot there's going to be a lot of callus over them so you'll have to dig before you actually get to the wart but that doesn't hurt at all. The calluses on the bottom of the feet are especially resistant to acids/freezing so I highly recommend just getting them cut out and being done with them if you can find a doc willing to do it
 
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TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
Not specifically plantar warts but the only luck I've ever had with warts was cutting/digging them out. They're basically just a lump in the top layer of your skin so they pop out pretty cleanly without too much bleeding and heal up without scars but it feels like it's impossible to find a doc willing to actually do it, they want to do bullshit rounds of acid and freezing instead of just knocking out the problem permanently in 30 seconds. I ended up just doing my own with a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a fresh box cutter blade. It didn't even hurt that badly and I didn't have any way to numb it

For ones on the bottom of your foot there's going to be a lot of callus over them so you'll have to dig before you actually get to the wart but that doesn't hurt at all. The calluses on the bottom of the feet are especially resistant to acids/freezing so I highly recommend just getting them cut out and being done with them if you can find a doc willing to do it
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Cucktry Roads said:
Contact a foot doctor. I had some appear in 2007 and dealt with them till 2009 with rounds of freezing and acid doing nothing. Went to a foot doctor and he cut them out for good.
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I know that's what my brother's doing, so I might try to contact a doctor about it. Not sure how much it'll be for the procedure though.
 
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If you want to try freezing them yourself, which sometimes actually works, get a can of computer duster that comes with a straw like WD-40 does, shake it up really good, turn it upside down, aim directly at the wart with the straw, and spray the fuck out of it.

You can also use dry ice, though that's a bit harder to keep just on the wart and not get too much of the surrounding skin in the process.
 
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You could try the duct tape method.
You just duct tape over it, and keep it covered for a few days, or weeks, until you can dig it out.
 
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Salicylic acid and a sharp scalpel/craft knife.

Give it a belt or two or the acid over a day or two and then dig it out with the scalpel/craft knife.
 
Go to a dermatologist and have them freeze it off. It doesn't leave scars. I had a jeet doctor take two warts off with a scalpel and it was long, messy, and left large permanent scars. I had some on the bottom of my feet frozen off and it was easy ,fast ,and painless.
 
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Not recommending it as a solution, but I took some SARM's back in 2017 (when the quality was less questionable) and a wart I had been dealing with just sort of went away, along with a few small scars I had. I looked into it a little bit and one of the possible side effects from the SARM's was that your body might absorb scar tissue, and I guess that's what happened to me.
 
I'm going to recommend cutting it down as much as you can then hitting it with a cryo pen
 
I had a gnarly one that terrified me back in the day. It looked like an alien spore growing from my foot, really thought I was gonna turn into some fucking zombie or something. But I just duct taped and left it like that for a week. I tried to keep it dry. When I finally removed the duct tape it was basically gone. I dont know the science of it, and am not claiming to have any expert advice, just merely sharing my anecdotal experience with it. Never had one since.
 
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Brahma said:
I'm going to recommend cutting it down as much as you can then hitting it with a cryo pen
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Yeah, this is definitely important. When you freeze or acid or burn the wart you're not actually directly destroying the wart. You're basically trying to get your immune system's attention to that area. If you're just damaging the top of the callus and even the epidermis you're not hitting the dermis where the actual immune cells are so there's basically no chance of it working. If the doctor isn't scraping it down beforehand they don't know what they're doing and the callus on top is just going to get worse
 
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I had a gnarly one that terrified me back in the day. It looked like an alien spore growing from my foot, really thought I was gonna turn into some fucking zombie or something. But I just duct taped and left it like that for a week. I tried to keep it dry. When I finally removed the duct tape it was basically gone. I dont know the science of it, and am not claiming to have any expert advice, just merely sharing my anecdotal experience with it. Never had one since.
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Been trying over-the-counter freezing for a little bit, but I'm gonna try duct taping it for a week like you said just to see what would happen. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse because of it.
Brahma said:
I'm going to recommend cutting it down as much as you can then hitting it with a cryo pen
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I'm a complete pussy when it comes to doing that sort of thing on my own, admittedly, which is why I'm trying to stick to methods that won't potentially scar me physically (I already have two keloids I don't need a few more.)
 
Valstrax said:
Been trying over-the-counter freezing for a little bit, but I'm gonna try duct taping it for a week like you said just to see what would happen. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse because of it.

I'm a complete pussy when it comes to doing that sort of thing on my own, admittedly, which is why I'm trying to stick to methods that won't potentially scar me physically (I already have two keloids I don't need a few more.)
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If duct tape doesn't work, try electrical insulation tape. Podiatrists here started to recommend it for plantar warts that return post-surgery. It will more likely take 2-3 weeks for it to kick in. Not just one.
 
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Bumping this as an update, but I picked up some Compound W wart band-aids a few weeks ago. A couple minutes ago I took them off and the white skin on one of my warts was peeling off, didn't feel any pain though. Is this normal?
 
Valstrax said:
Bumping this as an update, but I picked up some Compound W wart band-aids a few weeks ago. A couple minutes ago I took them off and the white skin on one of my warts was peeling off, didn't feel any pain though. Is this normal?
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It's dying. Keep using them.
 
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Buy a bottle of salicylic acid (for warts, which is a high concentration). Use it as directed. Shaving it down with a knife does nothing but remove the top layer, it just comes back. The cryo stuff is painful and doesn't actually work as well as salicylic acid. Buy a bottle of liquid, not the scam medicated patches, DO NOT GET IT IN YOUR FUCKING EYES.
 
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