old school - compound w. keep putting it on until you get all the "root" out. you wind up with a pretty good sized hole in your foot, put it'll close up.

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The Dr. Scholls Clear Away remover finally worked for me - the OTC freeze stuff didn't seem to do anything for me, but it could be that the combo of the two (freeze & Clear Away) was what really did do the trick. They say not to use them both at the same time, but I was desperate. :) I didn't have any issues with training through treatment.

My wife's been using the Scholls Clear Away on hers for months now... it's gotten marginally smaller so I can't say it's not working at all, just very, very slowly.

scrape em out real good. soak a small piece of gauze or cotton pad with apple cider vinegar and tape over the wart. it will take a week or two with changing the dressing daily. don't be alarmed when it turns black and then what's left falls off or out.

sometimes it works great and sometimes not. and i have no idea what creates the difference. but 2 out of three so far for me. a doc acquaintence recommended trying this instead of freezing.

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A long time ago, a whole lot of vodka and some needle nosed vise grips pliers worked for me. Still have the scar but I got down to the root and it never came back.

Stevia root liquid from a health food store. Place directly on the wart, and soak the pad of a bandage, apply. Change out 2-3 times daily. Worked like a charm. Took a few weeks, but was better than any of the other options I was given (including injecting some type of chemotherapy cancer drug directly into said wart or cutting it out). Recommended by a foot doc as a second opinion to the wackjob that wanted to inject cancer drugs into the bottom of my foot.

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I'm getting rid of one right now. I'm using the walmart brand, over the counter plantar wart medication.
They are little round stickers. I stick one on the wart and leave it for a few days, then I use a scalpel to shave off the top layer.
Then back on goes another disc. It's getting noticeably smaller as it works it way out. Good luck with yours.

X2. Compound w worked for me. The freezing products did not work even though I kept them applied for much longer periods of time than prescribed. I would apply the old formula compound w after showering. It took 12-14 days.

Don't screw around with all these "home made remedies", go to your Doc and get him/her to hit them with the liquid nitrogen, it's fast and effective. I would be surprised if you missed more then a day or two of running. I had six on one foot a few years ago and I was back running in a week. Then, always wear shower thongs when using public showers, it's the most common place to pick up plantars warts.

Had laser surgery for mine. Out of commission for a week or so. I think I could actually run before I was allowed to swim.

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Agreed, the over-the-counter is a waste of time if they're in there deep. I spent several months fighting a cluster of them on the bottom of my left heel, doing duct tape, salcytic acid, everything, going so far as to use a Dremel to try to drill them out. It was war.

It wasn't until going to my PCP over the winter that he suggested beetle juice: it's the saliva of a blister beetle, wiped onto the warts as a paste, that causes blisters. I had one hit and it didn't work. The second one, did; it was INTENSELY painful... walking on a deep blister on your heel was no fun, but the blister lifts the wart off the skin and out of the flesh, root and all. After a week and a half, I was able to run again, and the things were gone for good.

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Am I the only person for whom the over-the-counter freeze treatment worked? I had to hit it two or three times, but it eventually got down to the core of the wart and killed it for good. I tried salcytic acid (the little patches) for 2-3 weeks before finally resorting to the freeze-off, but they didn't seem to do much.

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OM_MY_GOD......


I just googled pics of plantar warts......the hair on the back of my neck is standing up......holy crap....


do they hurt????

Use a prescription medication called 5-fluorouracil.

I had a plantar wart that lasted for years and before getting a prescription for this from a dermotologist, tried everything commonly suggested: liquid nitrogen, salicylic acid, surgical cutting (done by a doctor), and maceration (covering with duct tape). FYI, running while using fluorouracil wasn't a problem.

Addition: I just googled it and found clinical trials claim that 95% of plantar warts are eradicated with 12 weeks use of 5-fluorouracil.

Funny you mention the blister beetle juice. I just came back from dermatologist with my son for warts and she used the beetle juice on him - turns out it is synthetic though. Freezing is still best for really deep ones.

If you go to the Podiatrist, ask how aggressive he/she will be. I had two on the underside of my little toe and he wanted to "experiment" with different treatments. The thing that ended up working was the home freeze kit and I completely ignored the instructions and warnings. Yes, I know the risks, but I was tired of four months of bi-weekly treatments. In 30 days, they were gone.

I had one that I bttled off and on for more than a year with salicylic acid (Compound W) - that was a waste of time. If it is big enough under the skin the liquid nitrogen crap will do nothing but keep you off your feet more than you need to be. Last fall I went back to the doc for about 4 or 5 applications of that garbage. I was off running/cycling for a lot of that time as the wart was on the ball of my foot and felt like a bad burn for a week or so after each of the applications. Finally I just said to do something more radical. He cut is out with electric current. Seems like that worked.

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OTC remedies didn't work for me.

My GP tried weekly nitrogen with no effect. The GP also tried a new-ish treatment that has been found to be effective sometimes, that is typically for genital warts and is meant to trigger an immune response, but it also didn’t work for me (and holy crap was that embarrassing to get the Rx filled!).

Finally went to a podiatrist, I wish I could remember what it was he used, but there was a regular strength and a really strong one, each one causes a massive blister to form under the wart to lift it then he would use a scalpel to scrape it away – repeat until the root was gone. The wart makes itself at home inside that thick layer of skin on your, so there’s lots of scraping. I could barely walk on the foot after the really strong stuff was applied from 12hrs to 2-3 days later. The regular strength wasn’t as painful, but wasn’t as effective, and it was combined with an occlusive tape (like the duct tape method). It all heals pretty quick though.

The virus that causes it will always be with you, so best advice is to nail the thing with OTC before it takes hold because the longer it’s there, the happier it gets and the more your immune system gets used to it.

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Compound W, duct tape, band aid. Use a nail file to file them down every time you re-apply. Slow but it eventually works. Be careful with the W...it kills all the skin it touches.

Try WartPeel from NuCara pharmacy. You'll probably need a prescription. My 11yo had a terrible case of plantars warts last year. Tried Compound W, Tried Duct Tape, tried freezing them, nothing worked. We tried a new podiatrist who finally prescribed WartPeel and in a week they were GONE. Had a little hole in his foot for about another week and no problems since. Our insurance didn't cover it...but it was only like $75 and well worth it. The pharmacy is a compounding pharmacy in Austin, TX. You send them the prescription and they mail you the drug. You put it on there with a little pick they give you and cover it with a piece of tape, daily for about a week. No pain. It was amazing.

http://www.nucara.com/index.cfm?nodeid=16119

+1 I got them really bad in high school and tried all kinds of OTC crap, duct tape, cutting them out with a knife, etc. Finally I sucked it up and when to the PCP, who took out the liquid nitrogen. Since they were so extensive I got multiple treatments but it worked great and have had no problems since.

Thanks for all the tips everyone. There is plenty to try out here and experiment with. It seems like one solution does not fit all which has been my experience so far as well. If I find a solution I will post back with the winning method.

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+2 on the nitrogen.

I had one show up on the 1st met head (nice spot for running) last sept.

whittled down every few days with a scalpel and OTC freezer treatments knocked it down, but not out.

salicylic acid pads, same frequency of scrapings, down, not out.

duct tape. the wart just laughed at that.

4 liquid nitrogen doses, from the doc about 2 weeks apart, finally got it.

my brother, OTOH, used duct tape on one on his foot in November, and it was gone before Christmas.

to the OP, try your experiment and let us know which works for you

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Just don't mess with it! I had 3 show up on the ball of my left foot, I tried duct tape, scraping and then ductape, had the doc freeze them, nothing worked for me. I just decided to live with it (I couldn't feel any difference anyways). A month or so later they are so small and smoothed over that I couldn't even show you where they are.

I bought some of the Dr. Scholl's salicylic acid and applied that everyday. Also I got one of those "foot graters." What I did is I would uses the foot grater to remove most of the dead skin off of the plantar wart, Then I took a sharp razor blade and would cut away as much of the wart as I could without bleeding. I found an optimized technique where I would come in at a very shallow angle and cut the skin. After I removed as much of the skin as possible (as much as you can bare), I would apply the salicylic acid again. Apply that acid a couple times a day. Don't be surprised if there is a hole in your foot. It will take a few months for it to completely go away, but that was the only thing that worked for me. Also clean the area with alcohol before you start cutting and grating. You can spread the wart to other unaffected areas.

I tried the freeze away stuff and it didn't do anything, so don't waste your money on those if it is a pretty big wart.

get a scalpel blade and cut it out. Toe nail clippers also work for this, you just have to dig a bit more and it seems to be a bit more bloody. Or you can hit up your friend/doc for some liquid nitrogen to burn it off. I ran about 5 min after freezing a deep one out of the ball of my foot. Did it hurt? Well it didn't tickle but didn't stop me from running.

Those, with the exception of going to my doc, have worked well for me in the past.

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I've had a few of these. Last one on the ball of my foot. Tried freezing it (at my Dr's office).
Then tried salcylic acid until it was down and having him freeze it. None of that worked.

Went to podiatrist. After IMAZ he cut it out. Then it got infected. Twice.

But it hasn't been back since. Somtimes excision is the only answer.

I ran about 20 days of the 100/100 last year with it infected. Didn't say it was
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Heres what I have had luck with.
1. Get a few mach3 razors and gently shave excess skin off wart. Just enough to smooth skin; you dont want wart/foot to bleed.
2. Put compound.w on wart followed by duck tape for a day.
3. Take tape off & Let wart dry out 2 days.
4. Repeat process. ..gently shave excess skin off...compound-w on wart followed by duck tape..let dry 2 days etc..

Always has worked for me.

Have you tried Duct Tape method? One of the best methods as far as I know...

My dermatologist froze mine off in a very quick office procedure. I was back running the same day. It worked very well.

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I've had them cut out a couple different times. Both times I had them cut back they just grew back, and these things were hallowed out big time.

I fought with them for a year and doc tried everything (cutting, burning, etc). Finally, i read that Tagamet can work wonders. google Tagamet and Warts. Closest thing to a miracle ever. They were gone within 2 weeks and never came back. Amazing.

Only thing that worked for me was quitting grad school. I fought those things for years... Freezing, shaving, etc. quit grad school and just started training a lot and they were gone in weeks.

In other words, try reducing the stress in your life and maybe your body can take care of things itself. Of course, quitting your job/school/ family/ etc. may not be an option. :)

J

Hey i totally got rid of some that were hideously hard to get rid of and i did it in a DAY, having tried all the obvious methods AND gone to the podiatrist four times. NOte: His treatment left me in revolting pain & could not work out as hobbling. Anyway: what worked. Plantar Wart is hpv - you have to clear THAT to kill the wart. So i got Andrographis Compound - a powerful blend of herbal anti-virals, took a therapeutic dose of that, Plus i mixed some powdered vitamin c with tumeric and crushed garlic...I applied that to it topically & next morning the wart
had turned black. That night, it fell out. It's a completely sort of self-invented method but it worked brilliantly for me. Good Luck!

I had a similar experience in high school. I had surgery to remove warts in both of my feet and had huge, gaping holes as a result. They ended up coming back. The Fluorouracil was the only thing that ended up working. It works best if you get a pumice stone or use a razor to trim them down a bit too. Good luck!

They thrive by you picking at and messing with them. They love the negative attention. That's why duct tape works so well. Ignore it.

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2 Table Spoons in 1 cup of water, 3 X's per day. Plantar warts gone in a week.

I have 2 on my right hand. I tried the tumeric mixed with raw honey, covered with duct tape, and it turned black and fell off within 72 hours.

From what I have learned, the virus is always there and never goes away. Certain diets can help keep warts at bay. From some basic research, I found apple cider vinegar (Braggs vesion) raises the human bodies natural pH. This is good for athletes & killing off warts and certain skin conditions.

I have some friends who soak a cotton ball in ACV apply directly to the wart, cover with Duct Tape, and leave over night. I found this to be painful as shit and a little overkill because the damn wart never hurt to begin with. But, I have seen it work on many people.

OFF TOPIC: 5 hour energy and coffe have NOTHING on Braggs ACV; this stuff gives you a great boost. I have found some other mixtures that I use before I surf in the winter in Delaware with lower 40's water temps; Raw honey + Bragg's ACV and a shot of Brandy all mixed in 1 cup of water. Taste funky as hell, but works. I wouldn't use this before a tempo run or a race. Winter surfing and the natural (and not so natural) bacteria's in the ocean plague many surfers with sinusitis. This has kept me from getting a sinus problem since I started it 4 years ago. Low pH in our bodies can cause many problems; ACV is also a great way to help with the "Endurance Munchies..." you know, the kind where you want to keep eating and you can't stop?

(FYI, I don't work for Bragg's, I just swear by it.)

I'd much rather deal with Plantar Warts than expose myself "unnecessary" to chemotherapeutic. I get them and I just shave them to keep them from hurting and they eventually go away

the liquid nitrogen will zap the shit out of it. Here are the steps i used.
1. cut a hole in a piece of duct tape and cover around the wart so just the wart is exposed.
2. take a can of that compressed air with the long tip on the end.
3. shake the can up and TURN UPSIDE down, this will help the liquid come out
4. Blast the shit out of the spot and the nitrogen will freeze/ burn it fast.
5. it will scab up cover with bandaid for about aweek, should be gone

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Don't screw around with all these "home made remedies", go to your Doc and get him/her to hit them with the liquid nitrogen, it's fast and effective. I would be surprised if you missed more then a day or two of running. I had six on one foot a few years ago and I was back running in a week. Then, always wear shower thongs when using public showers, it's the most common place to pick up plantars warts.

Agreed....I had some small ones to start out with, I tried the simple stuff which works for others but did not work for me - I put-off going to the Dr for a freeze thinking it would leave me out for too long. By the time I finally had time to justify going in, they were considerably worse. Sand paper, the saylic acid, freezing, etc were no match and I made no progress after several treatments. Eventually the Dr resorted to injections (don't remember what it was, but she explained it was similar to that used for cancer treatments to kill the skin cells). The injections left me in extreme pain for a few days, and in significant pain for about a week as everything blistered, etc) but I continued to do my runs and even had a half marathon in the middle of one of them.


Long story short, don't avoid getting these knocked out sooner rather than later. Chances are you can get rid of them with freezing if you catch them early. The freezing is not that bad and should only cause you to miss a day or two and could save you from the more extensive treatments.

I like Mark Twain's remedy

(straight from wikipedia)

Tom Sawyer proposes "spunk-water" (or "stump-water", the water collecting in the hollow of a tree stump) as a remedy for warts on the hand. You put your hand into the water at midnight and say:
Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these wartsand then "walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody. Because if you speak the charm's busted."

This.

I finally went to my doctor on Monday for what I thought was a wart and it turned out to be a calcified sweat duct. If you have medical insurance it is cheaper to simply go to the pediatrist to start with.

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That's a good policy, but my case wasn't "unnecessary." My "last resort" was surgery, and not even that worked. I'd consider my case pretty extreme though, so definitely explore other options first.

I had some on my left hand for about 10 years. I tried everything and continually tried everything. Compound W, freeze, burn, cut, duct tape. What work the best was garlic. I crushed up some garlic and put it on a smaller wart. I covered that in duct tape and left on as long as I could. It came off and I noticed nothing but within a couple weeks it went away and I was shocked. I put it on the big one that seemed to fight everything and it beat that one too. Plus, I barely kept the garlic on it. But it still went away.

+1 for using sharp, curved nose toenail clippers. Had one on the ball of my foot, had to work my way around it to cut the deep root, but after a year or so of doing this home surgery every other week, I got the bastid.

I have had others that stayed on my foot for a decade or more, then just gave up all of a sudden.

Viruses, go figure

At least you don't have Planters Nuts!

I had one on my foot once. Tweezers. Pulled each of those little suckers out. Hurt a lot, but only took an hour. Then put some duct tape over it and never had a problem again.

Weren't you worried about blood poisoning or causing a servere infection? (Yikes!)

Had one on each foot frozen off today, hope it works.... :)
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Patience and perseverance. I takes a long time to get rid off plantar warts.

I've been dealing with these for over five years... Having tried everything I am now spreading the word on what works.

Take a look if you have had plantar warts for at least 2-3 years and have tried everything over the counter:

http://howtokillplantarwarts.webs.com/

Heat the tip of a Phillips screwdriver with a flame (stove, butane torch, gas grill) and slowly apply it to the wart. Do this for a few minutes. Ive gotten ride of several warts like this.

Hey all, this is my first post.


I recently had success with a plantar wart that I'd been dealing with for around 2 years or so. I started a blog about it a few months ago and was able to get rid of it using the duct tape method along with salicylic, epsom salt soak and digging away. I also used some other things that helped with the process. It was a pretty deep one and it took some time after beating it to a pulp for it to heal up. I wrote a blog about it which you can check out for more details of my success and some pictures. http://stubbornwart.blogspot.com/

I've had 2 in my lifetime………tried everything under the sun, including freezing. The only thing that worked for me was exactly this! Hold it on there for as long as you can possibly stand, then hold it on there another 10 seconds!

CC

Oh man that sounds painful! lol... whatever works though! If I get get another one I may try that. Although I don't plan on getting another...

This sounds painful & unsanitary, even with the heat applied to the screwdriver.

To remove the wart I had on my foot, I visited a podiatrist who cut & froze the wart. He also prescribed a paste from a compounding pharmacy, which I applied twice a day over the course of several weeks. Before applying the paste, it was necessary to soak the foot in warm water & scrub away skin with a pumice stone. After six or so weeks, everything is healed up just fine.

I still have a good deal of the paste left, so, when I get home, I'll re-post with its name. Or, if you're in the San Antonio area, visit Dr. Czelusta in Garden Ridge; he'll take good care of you & your feet.</shameless.plug>

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A doctor should burn them off not freeze them off. I had 7 removed with something that looked like a soldering iron and burnt the warts (looked like it was shocking the wart and smelled like burnt skin). He did inject a numbing agent before burning. After it the surface was burnt, he pulled of the dead skin and burnt it again until it was gone. You will have open wounds on your feet, but they heal in about a week. I had this done in 2008 and they have never returned. This was after I tried the acids, duct tape, and freezing them to no avail.

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I had no idea what it was under the ball of my foot. It felt like a really deep zit. I finally googled the symptom and came up with plantar wart. Dr. Scholl's Clear away worked in about two weeks, replacing the little tab of salicylic acid and pad cover every day, or after a swim. It's good to trim the little dots of acid-covered rubber to the size of the wart, or it will burn a hole exactly that size down to the wart. The treatment was less painful than trying to run on the wart.

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PSA in the Plantar Warts thread.

Never walk around the pool deck (or especially in the shower room) barefoot. Don't even touch the floor with your feet. This will greatly reduce your risk of picking up plantar warts.

Yes! That's what ultimately worked for me, but it was more of a combo of the pads with epsom salt soaks and wearing duct tape prior to using the Dr scholl's pads. These two thing opened up the wart which let the salicylic acid work. The first time I tried the pads without doing the rest they did nothing. I highlighted the process a little more on the blog I mentioned in a previous post.

Go to the podiatrist and ask for the high concentrated salicylic acid. My doc calls it green slime. If you can keep a band aid on it for 24 hours at a time it will peel out in 2 or 3 days. Completely painless.

THIS. But the videos on YouTube are disturbingly entertaining. Same goes for cyst removal videos.

All of my Masters swim mates walk barefoot and I never do. But they think I'm the weirdo for wearing shower shoes....

I have had planters warts for decades and this is how I got rid of them. I got a prescription from my doctor for a very strong acid from a compounding pharmacy. The acid is a liquid brush on with Salicylic Acid 20%, 5-FU 5%, in a DMSO solution. The compounding pharmacy I got mine from is Town & Country Compounding in NJ. I put the solution on a minimum of 6-8 weeks and put duct tape onto of the warts after the solution was put on. Smaller warts can be a much shorter period of time. I could have stopped earlier but I kept applying to acid to be sure the wart was dead. Over the counter acid is not strong enough to be effective regardless of how many months I would apply it.

Earlier I used duct tape and tea tree oil for 3 months. It was successful in getting rid of some of the small planter warts. It did not work at all on some warts that were the same size. I don't know why it worked on some warts and not others. It did not work at larger warts. I don't know if the tea tree oil helped or not but I did have success with the duct tape on some small wart.

My sister went to a doctor and had her planter warts cut out. She regretted it and I would never recommend taking that course of action. Because the doctor is essentially going to cut large holes in the bottom of your foot. She ended up with nerve damage and was unable to walk for week.

I like the strong acid solution because is a gradual slow process and the bottom of your foot does not get too damaged by a sudden trauma like freezing or cutting. If you keep applying the acid eventually it will kill the wart even if it is large. It could take three months or more. Here is more my business. I do divorce mediation work in Rhode Island.

Got a script from the DR for a high strength salicilic acid paste. Basically triple strength compound W. Used as directed, applied with q tip, covered with a bandaid, repeat daily and used small scissors to cut off dead skin each day. When you think its gone, keep treating for another 10 days to get the very deep roots. BTW, I ran every day during the process.

Hey there,

I had the same issue awhile back where I had this huge plantar wart on the ball of my foot. Thought it was a callus for the longest time until it wasn't going away. Decided to take a second look at it (after 2 months of pain and agony!) and saw there were tiny black dots, which was a clear sign of a wart. After some research, I decided to go the all natural route. Of course there are plenty of over-the-counters you can try like mentioned on this thread but there are also some really good natural and home remedies that work. I used a combination of ACV, banana, and nail varnish that got rid of my plantar wart in 3 days! I explain how I did it in my guide called Verruca's Kryptonite. All it takes is some persistence and dedication with the right ingredients to treat these annoying little buggers. I know these can be painful especially for an athlete. The trick is to prevent it from coming back so you do not have to keep dealing with the pain.

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Viruses don't like a temperature outside a certain range.

Soak your foot in very warm (but not hot) water for 15 mins. Dry it off. Scrub it with a pumice stone to loosen the top layers.

Aspirin is a acetyl salicylic acid. It's only an acetyl group on the acid molecule. Grind up an aspirin, mix with a bit of water, then smear it on the wart. Seal it by using a 1" x 1" square of duct tape, which will be impermeable to air. You can also just put the aspirin directly on the war and seal it with the duct tape. Repeat 2-3 times per day.

I did this process on a relatively new plantar wart, and it was gone in 4 days, never to return.