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VINEGAR, VINEGAR AND MORE VINEGAR!!! You don't need to pay money to get rid of these things!! Listen up people, if you want to see quicker results just use vinegar to get rid of your awful warts or veruca/s!! Get either white wine vinear or apple cider vinegar, cotton wool balls and some duck tape. Break the cotton wool into smaller pieces (slightly larger than the veruca or wart itself) Soak these cotton wool pieces in vinegar and place directly over the veruca/s. Secure in place over night with plenty of duck tape. Do this every night. In the morning, remove the tape and shower as usual. Let the area dry up during the day and leave alone. After only a few days you will feel slight tenderness in the veruca area and you will notice that it changes colour, becoming darker. I think that this is because the veruca has absorbed the vinegar and the flesh is decaying and drying up. This is the only thing that has helped me with mine. Don't waste money on over the counter products-its a waste!! Don't have them cut out or frozen or lazered-off until youhave tried this for at least 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure this will be the most effective thing you've tried! And easy and natural and cheap. Try it!! Good luck!!! xoxox :ok:

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  • james31851
    james31851 Guest

    Posted

    Also I am taking ACV pills, and using tea tree oil and oregano oil topically after each soak and any other time I think of it. 
  • Rainbowroad
    Rainbowroad Guest

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    Hi all, hope your treatments are going well! Thought I would give an update and also get some words of wisdom. This is now my sixth night applying ACV. It started to raise quite a bit and the black bits have been becoming more prominent. It hasn’t turned black like previous have stated but more like a dark yellow colour, same colour as the vinegar actually lol tonight is the first night since I started this treatment that I decided to par the verucca with a scalpel as I did think it would be good to get underneath. There was quite a lot of white stuff and even when I finished I couldn’t get to the end but I noticed that I couldn’t see any black bits anymore. Not sure if they’re possibly lurking further underneath but the smaller verucca did seem quite pink underneath. I will be continuing with the treatment anyway as I do think there may be a while to go yet but I’m thinking that this treatment is possibly working? Bearing in mind it hasn’t hurt once which I’m wary about as I’ve used salactol for a while and my foot was in agony. Maybe that hurt my foot so much that the AGV doesn’t affect it? 
  • Rainbowroad
    Rainbowroad Guest

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    Hi all, just giving an update on my treatment. It’s been around 13 nights now that I’ve been using the ACG (minus one night for rest) and ever since I pared the verucca down with the scalpel it hurt like hell and as started to go black. I pared it down again today, but it was hard to get rid of all the black (originally I could see the skin underneath was purple like it was bruised but has now turned black,and it seems like it could be the roots coming to the surface?). It started bleeding for the first time ever today when using the scalpel so I stopped even though there was a lot more to go. Apart from this both veruccas seem to be the same size nothing has changed there. Anyone have any tips on how long it takes before they start shrinking. Should I also perhaps put a new bandage on in the mornings also as currently I do the treatment at night after a shower. Thanks! 
    • mattvinyl48
      mattvinyl48 Rainbowroad

      Posted

      Just keep going. Healthy skin should start to appear. Remember that it has gone in a long way and is shrinking from inside eg getting shallow. I still have a hollow in my heel where the verruca was.

      ​It could take several more weeks check out other people comments on here.

  • elmarkio
    elmarkio Guest

    Posted

    Hello everyone,

    Firstly, thank you to everyone who has posted all of their tips over the past decade! This must be one of the longest running posts in forum history? I've read all 17 pages, so much hope!

    Could someone who has gone through this offer some advice please?

    On Wednesday 28th March (day before I found this forum) I applyed nail varnish and duct tape to my verrucas  - I've got a small patch around the size of a 10p.

    That started hurting, so after finding this forum I switched to ACV. The pain has been bad, as every one else describes, so I switched to Occlusal (salicylic acid) for a night or so.

    Yesterday, I did some digging and took quite a bit out (it looked weird underneath the skin I pulled off, like the middle of a raviolli) but now it's quite sore and I've gone quite far down to the pink skin...

    So what to do?rolleyes

    Should I give it a few days of air? Cover it up with a medical plaster and duct tape it on (currently what I'm doing)? Keep dabbing with ACV or Salicylic Acid?

    Any help appreciated, thank you!!! cheesygrin

    Pics of the current situation...

     

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      Hi! I’m not quite successful yet but mine looks quite like yours at the minute. I haven’t filed my down in a while but the vinegar actually made the top of it rise and fall off. I’m going to keep going with the vinegar but make sure it’s just in the verucca itself because I find the pain comes from the AGV touching normal skin. I’ve tried the salicylic acid too but it didn’t seem to work for me but the odd time I will use it along with the AGV treatment. Do you find it difficult keeping the duct tape on mine is nearly in the same position as yours but doesn’t seem to stick the best. 
    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      Hi Rainbowroad, are you a Mario Kart fan by any chance? cheesygrin

      Thanks for the reply, I'll give it another go with the vinegar. My duct tape stays on well - I go lengthways down the middle most of the time, so the width of it doesn't go over the middle like a bridge.

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      I sure am! smile kept trying with the vinegar and see. I must try it that way and see, I’ve just noticed it coming off quite easily and I don’t want any air to get in. Hope treatment works well for you 
    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      I wish I'd have picked Yoshi as my user name now cool  Good luck to you too! I'm cracking on with the vinegar too, let me know if you have any success!

  • elmarkio
    elmarkio Guest

    Posted

    I switched to tea tree oil a few weeks back as I just wanted to walk again! ACV gets very painful eek

    It's looking a lot different, what do you guys reckon I should do now? I've got Occlousal, Salactol, ACV, Vitamin E and Tea Tree Oil all to hand lol

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      Mine is looking very similar to yours. The skin around gets sore with ACV for me but only at times and then calms down. Mine verucca seems to go yellow, then same colour as yours, then black and falls off and it’s the same cycle again! Doesn’t seem to be getting any smaller so I have the same dilemma. I’ve tried salactol and will put it on every so often but still no luck! I think peserverence is key. 
    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      Just looking at your previous pics, it’s looking so much better!!
    • Dick_Doom
      Dick_Doom elmarkio

      Posted

      If ACV is making you sore then you are probably not protecting your healthy skin properly. I would spend a lot of time using electrical tape to cover the areas of heathy skin so that only the verruca  is visible. Also you have to make sure that there is not too much ACV on the cotton wool. Make no mistake that if ACV gets on healthy skin it will burn it and cause you pain. The only pain I experienced was when I did not protect the healthy skin properly. I also only treated the verrucas late at night and left them uncovered during the day. It takes time but it works. Mine have totally gone and that's been well over a year.

    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      I'm not a fan of either occlousal or salactol because it's a pain to file off, it's probably easier on the ones that look like a mole hill, but on a flat one I can't help but file the area around it too redface I went to the chirpodist on Friday and she said it was smaller and too keep on with the Sallacylic Acid.

      I'll probably just rotate everything I've got on a whim and keep it covered with a plaster lol

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      I use it every so often but now I haven’t been filing it off, just covering it with the ACV soaked cotton pad and it seems to just fall off then. Also if I get salactol on healthy skin it itches the hell out of it for about five days! 
    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      Just wondering if there has been any change since you posted this pic? Shortly after mine looked like this and has changed a lot since, nearly unnoticeable but still keeping up treatment incase there’s still something lurking... I’ve been alternating between Salactol and ACV 
    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      Hi Rainbowroad!

      This is what it looks like now. I've laid off the Occlousal and Tea Tree for the last week as I've been on holiday, and I also wanted to see what it was like (Occlousal just makes everything look white so I had no idea what has happening.) I have been keeping it covered with a big plaster every day for the last month at least.

      Have you been keeping pics of your progress?

       

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      I was but it started to make such a difference that I stopped! I’ve noticed mine getting much smaller but now I’m stuck at it being the same size and nothing happening. I gave mine a rest for a couple days too as I was away but I’m back on the ACV. Mine seems to be a relentless process of soaking the ACV in, falling off then covering over and doing the whole thing again! Can’t really notice any black dots anymore which I’m hoping is a good sign but there is still a shape on my foot 
    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      How's the treatment going? Is the shape still there? No more black dots?

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad elmarkio

      Posted

      Yea good, still no black dots and the shape although slightly visibly is disappearing. Never thought this day would come lol I’ve tried so many things over the years and it was being so stubborn I never thought I would have gotten this far. Still using ACV three to four days a week and although it’s taking a layer off in and around the area it’s looking way better than before. What about you? Any difference from the last picture?
    • elmarkio
      elmarkio Rainbowroad

      Posted

      Great news! smile Our feet seem to be following the same trajectory, I can't see anything there at all with my bare eyes, so I'm a bit stuck now with when to step putting stuff on it :S

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