Kinda gross, I know, but I have heard a lot worse on this forum. I have a plantar’s wart on the bottom of my foot that has started hurting a little. Nothing bad, just an annoyance, but I am worried about it getting worse as I get closer to race season, so I contacted a dermatologist who recommended immunotherapy. Basically, they inject a substance that creates an immune response from the body and ends up with your own antibodies attacking and destroying the wart. Just wondering if anyone has had this done, if it was effective, and (the real question) how much time off from running (and possibly biking) did you have to take? Thanks.
The medicine that is typically used is bleomycin. Works pretty well, but it REALLY hurts to inject and there is often a pretty significant blister response after that will definitely inhibit running for a while. Can hurt almost as much as just burning/cutting the darn thing out. It does not always work (like all “wart” treatments). I typical cut out solitary, well defined, smaller lesions and reserve the bleomycin for larger or multiple ones that makes removal not practical.
Best of luck.
Really surprised they did not freeze it with liquid nitrogen
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If you want to get rid of the fucker, buy some Food grade hydrogen peroxide 35%, use a piece of sandpaper and scrub up the wart, dip a q tip in the h202 and hold it on that wart for about 15 mins, i bet its on its way out by the next day, that will also create an immune response.
Or you could get some apple cider vinegar, dip a cottonball in it and tape it to the area every night until it dies. either way is cheap and effective.
OR…OR…but duct tape on it, compound w, all these things will work and be cheap.
i had a plantars wart before and the doc just kept shaving away at it with a scalpal twice a week… this went on for a month. he eventually let me borrow a few scalpals to shave a few layers everyday. he said it was deep and it’d take awhile to actually get at the wart. day after he gave me th scalpal, i returned with no plantars wart but a hole in my foot. i dug that bastard out. doc said it look like i scooped it out with a small ice cream scoop. get a blade, focus on your breathing and dig him out! the hole will fill back in!
have you tried duct tape? always works for me.
I have used the creme called Aldara with great success on all warts. Expensive drug but worth every penny.
Thanks for the advice.
I’m going to HTFU and dig out a rusty razor blade (even though I have clean ones around).
i had a plantars wart before and the doc just kept shaving away at it with a scalpal twice a week… this went on for a month. he eventually let me borrow a few scalpals to shave a few layers everyday. he said it was deep and it’d take awhile to actually get at the wart. day after he gave me th scalpal, i returned with no plantars wart but a hole in my foot. i dug that bastard out. doc said it look like i scooped it out with a small ice cream scoop. get a blade, focus on your breathing and dig him out! the hole will fill back in!
your nutts! wow.
i left one on pinky my toe for a year and I woke up one day and it was gone. the pool is a nasty breeding ground for these little f’ers. flip flops, dry your feet, and DO NOT USE hand sanitizers ever. that crap can help breed warts on your hands like wild fire. i try to never wash my hands and i always use gloves when washing dishes or even washing the car-bike-dog. unlesx I am going to eat with my hands. americans are overly clean. i think humans need a little funk to stay balanced…
I currently have about three warts on the bottom of my left foot and it’s been a battle between me and them for almost a year now. I freeze the damn fuxkers about once a week and apply salicylic acid afterwards. Sometimes it gets smaller and sometimes it doesn’t. But I’m in it for the long haul and I’ve got a long life ahead… so these leeches will lose the battle one day. That I swear.
I had great success utilizing an OTC product call DuoFilm and Duct tape. Took over a month of once or twice daily application however, did not interfere with training.
Unfortunately, I probably have the most experience here with both plantar warts and all of the solutions mentioned. I advocate total war.
At one point, had them on the ball and heel of one foot, and several on my hands. I sort of avoided even diagnosing them and finally after migrating to my hands I sought treatment, which was a very long and unpleasant affair.
Started at dermatologist - she tried bleomycin for the feet, as they had been there for several years. For the unacquainted, bleo is a chemotherapy drug, so it literally seeks and destroys and isn’t too selective, so to put it mildly, it hurts like you wouldn’t believe. The bottom of feet = shitload of nerves. By contrast, liquid nitrogen tends not to hurt that much, but often is ineffective. After seeing how neither treatment worked, she recommended laser surgery.
So off to the laser surgeon, who primarily worked on hair removal, but did this on the side. First they need to numb the afflicted areas, so you get a nice needle in your feet, right into the wart, which is already a sensitive area. Fun. Then the surgery, which you don’t feel other than the sensation of the laser pulses bouncing into you. Then you leave the office. By the time the novocaine wears off, you are in intense pain, as the whole area becomes a growing blood blister that you will eventually burst just to relieve the pressure. Think the kind of pain that prevents thought.
Anyway, it was almost a year of periodic laser treatments before they were eventually all killed. A few things learned - treat them early, as they get bigger, they get buried underneath more layers of skin, which makes them very difficult to treat.
If you get them early, they’re actually fairly easy to kill - I had a few recurrences which I was able to treat myself. Here’s what you do - you need to first remove the layers of skin covering the actual wart. The OTC cures you see are salicylic acid, which soften up the skin. I would strongly recommend the type that come on stick-on pads which you can keep on for a day or two. When you remove them you’ll see that the skin can almost be peeled away. If you have a scalpel, cut away the dead soft skin. I would recommend applying another pad at this time and repeating, after which you’ll have a pretty good shot at seeing the actual wart, which may look like a red blood spot, maybe with blood vessels leading away from it. At this point, you should use an OTC freezing solution - they’re widely available, and work if you use it right. Since now the wart is visible, it will never be more defenseless. When freezing, be careful to be sure you’ve actually frozen it. In my experience, you need to tap the applicator a few times to make sure that the freezing solution gets applied, which is something you will not be confused about, as a big spot of skin gets suddenly frostbitten. It stings a little, but goes numb, and afterwards is painless. Within a week it should fall off, and you’re all done.
Enjoy.