Plantar Warts!!

[squirtleuser007]

have you ever gotten one of these annoying little ball suckers? They hurt like he*l and are extremely ugly. I have 5 ... my dad took an interest in them with nail clippers... pretty self explanatory, huh? it hurt like heck for 3 days straight... feel free to share your stories here. also, when they fall out, is there a big hole where they used to be? and i cant do a blog, so i posted it here

 

[AlexoftheAura]

That's... disgusting, can't say I've ever had them though.

 

[squirtleuser007]

you are a very lucky man/woman/boy/girl... dont go barefoot in an indoor pool...

 

[slave1]

you are a very lucky man/woman/boy/girl... dont go barefoot in an indoor pool...

you got owned. i have had one. and it sucks. but it was in the middle of my foot so it really did not hurt. that is why you freeze them off

 

[squirtleuser007]

i tried it 5 times... did nothing but hurt. i used the wartner; it's garbage. doctor told me to make it bleed every day to kill it.

 

[Grandeza]

When I had a wart(not sure if it was plantar) but it was ****ing huge, the first thing they did was scrape it was a razor blade every day. After a week or two it was obvious this wasn't working. So the nect thing that happened was I got a shot to numb my foot. The shot was so painful and lasted like a good 5 seconds. Then once my foot was numbed, it was burned off with a little flamethrower type thing. After a few weeks the **** wart came back. so the next thing we tried was freezing it off and it had to be the worst ongoing process I've ever been through. During the freezing, it hurt and afterwards I couldn't walk on it. It was a big wart on my heel so that really hindered my walking. I got the wart frozen like every week and eventually the wart finally went away but I have a faint mark on my heel that shows where the wart was.

 

[squirtleuser007]

When I had a wart(not sure if it was plantar) but it was ****ing huge, the first thing they did was scrape it was a razor blade every day. After a week or two it was obvious this wasn't working. So the nect thing that happened was I got a shot to numb my foot. The shot was so painful and lasted like a good 5 seconds. Then once my foot was numbed, it was burned off with a little flamethrower type thing. After a few weeks the **** wart came back. so the next thing we tried was freezing it off and it had to be the worst ongoing process I've ever been through. During the freezing, it hurt and afterwards I couldn't walk on it. It was a big wart on my heel so that really hindered my walking. I got the wart frozen like every week and eventually the wart finally went away but I have a faint mark on my heel that shows where the wart was.

ouch dude... yeah, they can really be a pain in the ***... did the wart have black specs in it? if yes, it was a plantar wart. i sometimes take tweezers to them and literally pull pieces out of it. it doesnt hurt, but if there is one tough piece it kills. and did yours turn black before it went away? mine is black right now, and i dont know if thats good or if it's infected...

 

[GoldShadow]

I had some on my toes a long long time ago, not sure if they were plantar warts or not, but they hurt pretty bad.

Yeah, picking at them and pulling pieces out and bleeding them is a bad idea. It's a viral infection; even if you remove a large portion of it, you're not going to get all of it and it will come back. You have to either wait it out for the infection to clear, or treat it properly with chemicals/medication/procedures.

Try salicylic acid patches, they worked wonders for me. They're available in any pharmacy. Easy and painless.

doctor told me to make it bleed every day to kill it.

You sure about that? What kind of doctor was this?

 

[Fuelbi]

where do you get those warts from?

 

[UberMario]

where do you get those warts from?

These are just generic warts, you can get them from practically anything.
The good thing is once you get them you'll never receive that kind again!

It's basically a virus that causes the symptoms of a tumor, but it is non-cancerous.
If you ever get one, just let it go away naturally, or use salycylic acid, the "freeze-off" thing
is really a waste of money. It only reduces the amount of time you have it by two weeks at most.

 

[squirtleuser007]

I had some on my toes a long long time ago, not sure if they were plantar warts or not, but they hurt pretty bad.

Yeah, picking at them and pulling pieces out and bleeding them is a bad idea. It's a viral infection; even if you remove a large portion of it, you're not going to get all of it and it will come back. You have to either wait it out for the infection to clear, or treat it properly with chemicals/medication/procedures.

Try salicylic acid patches, they worked wonders for me. They're available in any pharmacy. Easy and painless.

You sure about that? What kind of doctor was this?

yeah, im pretty sure. he said to make it bleed everyday using either a nail clipper or tweezers(i use the latter) or even a scalpel. i used dr. scholl's salicylic acid treatment, seems to help it a lot. what does it mean if the wart turns black? that it's dying? the salicylic acid turns it black

 

[manhunter098]

Used to have several on my hands, but they fell off when I was like 10. I didnt do anything to get rid of them, they just left me.

 

[UberMario]

. what does it mean if the wart turns black? that it's dying? the salicylic acid turns it black

That's dried blood. Don't mess with it too much. (Keep in mind the wart is still part of your body, and is still attached to your flesh.) Whatever you do, DON'T CUT IT OFF, IT MAKES IT WORSE AND IT STAYS LONGER!

And to answer your "hole" question, you won't even know where it was after it disappears.

 

[GoldShadow]

yeah, im pretty sure. he said to make it bleed everyday using either a nail clipper or tweezers(i use the latter) or even a scalpel. i used dr. scholl's salicylic acid treatment, seems to help it a lot. what does it mean if the wart turns black? that it's dying? the salicylic acid turns it black

Yeah if it turns black it generally means that the cells are dying (not dry blood). Dry blood can turn black-ish, but if the skin and wart are all turning dark black it probably means it's dying, not blood.

These are just generic warts, you can get them from practically anything.
The good thing is once you get them you'll never receive that kind again!

Sort of. Regardless, you can get plantar warts more than once. It's not exactly like chicken pox.

If you ever get one, just let it go away naturally, or use salycylic acid, the "freeze-off" thing
is really a waste of money. It only reduces the amount of time you have it by two weeks at most.

Extremely variable. Some plantar warts will only last a few weeks; others can last for up to 2 years or recur. Some can be very painful, some may not be. That's why it's best to get it treated one way or another.

Don't mess with it too much. (Keep in mind the wart is still part of your body, and is still attached to your flesh.) Whatever you do, DON'T CUT IT OFF, IT MAKES IT WORSE AND IT STAYS LONGER!

And to answer your "hole" question, you won't even know where it was after it disappears.

Yup, I agree with the rest of this though!

Of course, keep in mind I'm not a doctor and that it's always best to ask a real healthcare professional in real life.

 

[squirtleuser007]

Used to have several on my hands, but they fell off when I was like 10. I didnt do anything to get rid of them, they just left me.

my doc said that every couple of years, the body goes through some kind of "housecleaning", getting rid of every bad thing in the body. you must've gotten the warts right near that time...lucky... thanks fr evrething guys

 

[UberMario]

Yeah if it turns black it generally means that the cells are dying (not dry blood). Dry blood can turn black-ish, but if the skin and wart are all turning dark black it probably means it's dying, not blood.


Sort of. Regardless, you can get plantar warts more than once. It's not exactly like chicken pox.

Maybe I should've phrased that better, there are hundreds of different viruses responsible for plantar warts, so if you get a certain variety once, you'll never get that particular one again. Any further warts
after the recovery are a different variety. That's why certain warts last longer than others.
(That's why there is no cure to the common cold, there are over a thousand varieties that require different mixes of chemicals to kill, thus making a cure non-viable)

Also I thought he ment that it was speckled with black, not completely black, my mistake.

 

[squirtleuser007]

there are also black specks that i pull up, and they contain what looks like a red string(blood, obviously) attacthed to the end.

 

[-ACE-]

Lol I've had around 3 or 4 of these in my life. I just dug it out with my pocket knife and it never came back each time. Just gotta get all those little specks out. Pain don't hurt

 

[squirtleuser007]

haha, thanks.do you know what the specks are?

 

[UberMario]

What color are they?

 

[squirtleuser007]

black. i was referring to -ACE-'s commment. i heard somewhere they are nerve endings(yeah right)

 

[UberMario]

black. i was referring to -ACE-'s commment. i heard somewhere they are nerve endings(yeah right)

LOL Heck no, if it's they're little specks of black over red "strings", it's just the blood that made contact with the air.

 

[squirtleuser007]

oh, ok, that's it?

 

[UberMario]

Basically, it's harmless. No reason to pull it out, you'll probably just end up hurting the live tissue under the wart. Also, before applying the acid, try soaking your feet in warm water for two minutes. It makes it easier for the slycylic acid to penetrate.

 

[squirtleuser007]

hehehe, you said penetrate... anywho, that's what i do. thanks for the pointers!

 

[NightSky]

Accually i have and had this little wart-like thing for like 2 years..its not really ugly or anything its on my left hand and it just sits there hasn't changed or ever caused any problems...i just think its weird and nobody knows what the **** it is its just....weird..

 

[UberMario]

hehehe, you said penetrate... anywho, that's what i do. thanks for the pointers!

What's so funny about the word penetrate?

BTW, you're welcome.

 

[Pi]

I had a wart on my finger
I wanna say a corn on my foot, idk thought it was a splinter at first,t hen nit like, became bigger
and ingrown toenails on both big toes

I took it upon my self to pick at them till they got fed up and left me alone
it worked
eventually
I remember first time I got the nail out of my toe, had ice on that to try and numb it, hurt like a *****, each time after it hurt less and less now I can juss clip it a little and tear it off w/ little to no pain if it starts bothering me again

w/ the wart I'd shave it down w/ a nail file till it would bleed, or try and pick pieces off, suffocate it in a bandaid/tape till it got all like white and get pieces off, cut some pieces off w/ nail clippers, took a **** while for it to go but it did

for the 'corn', w/e it was on my foot, I could pretty much peel the whole thing off, and have a tiny hole in my foot, that hurt like hell too the first couple of times, but each time after less and less, and went away, like a few months i think, wart took longer, it ****ing bled like a mo fo too, double bandaid it and you could still see it, pretty cool imo