[Warts And Verrucas] VINEGAR, VINEGAR AND MORE VINEGAR!!! You don't need to p...

Both my children had several verrucaes each. Yes, this was extremely painful for them and yes, they wanted to leave the vinegar dressing off. But, they persevered and, as many have said, they have all gone. For years we tried several types of treatment and nothing worked. One even had them UNDER her toenail. Now, they have all completely disappeared. Gone. No more! So, persevere is the answer. Its hard cos they do hurt like hell, but, if you take paracetamol or brufen if the pain is beyond endurance, that helps too. I never thought they would go. But they have!! Now I need to find a natural cure for nail fungus!!!! Anyone any ideas??

Hey, this thread has been great. Im 18 I have 3 warts on my hands and loads of veruccas on my feet, including a cluster. I originally tried apple cider vinegar on my hand warts following essentially the same method as on here and after two weeks the two warts i was getting rid off went black and after picking off the scab one of them healed and is now gone! It feels great to be able to High 5 and hold hands with people with my right hand wart free. The other one is still here but im having another go at it at the moment and the other small one went after only about 5 days of vinegar treatment (sweet).

As for the veruccas after trying f***ing eveything to get rid of them and nothing working I tried the vinegar as they had already worked on my hands. After 2.5-3 weeks of the treatment each night some of them have gone black but none have really shrunk or gone and I think I'm going to try freezing them again (my Mum is a GP and so has easy access to the equipment thankfully) any thoughts why this hasnt worked on my feet after the success on this website and my hands?

Thanks guys James x

I have had plantar warts for about 10 years. Tried all over the counter remedies, even at home prescription for burning warts. Paid $600 for laser removal. Just caused major pain and the warts came back worse than ever. I am soaking my foot in ACV now. Going to get some duck tape tomorrow. Planning on soaking minimum once a day. Ready for these to be gone. If I do the duck tape over night and let my foot breathe during the day, that should work? It hurts to walk as is, what is a little more pain for the gain

Does rubbing a potato on the wart work? My dermatologist recommended that. Haven't tried it yet.

I've had two verucaes for around 15 years now and they've withstood numerous freezing a at the doctors and the over the counter treatment doesn't work for me either. After reading so many success stories on this thread, I've decided to give the acv a go. I'm on day two, I used the acv all day and night yesterday and then changed the dressing this morning. It's not as painful as I expected but then at this point I'd do anything to get rid of them.

I shall repost in about a week or so, to update whether they've improved or gone.

First, I'd like to recommend that anyone interested read this ENTIRE thread from page 1 - there are many stories with followups and alot discussed. It's an interesting and informative read!

I've only just heard of Verrucas now...calling them "plantar warts" gave me only search results for that and never brought me here! Now, after trying everything, like everyone else here, I'm trying this (ACV). I tried white vinegar once but not with the same results. I've been doing the ACV treatment for about 2 weeks for one on the ball of my foot that is so deep, it affects the nerves in my toes sometimes (just tingly sensation).

I soak a piece of cotton with ACV and put it on with bandaids (plasters?) overnight and take it off in the morning, When the pain is unbearable, I give myself a night off. I pare it down in the morning, still have the black spot (root) inside. I can't imagine pulling the root out as I'm certain it's fairly deep from walking (alot) on it over these years.

I've been fighting with mine for 30+ years! Got mine when I was 18 and tried a myriad of over the counter things, freezing, duct tape, 35% Hydrogen peroxide, etc, etc....I agree with those here who are amazed at the results using ACV....it certainly IS doing something....yes it DOES HURT but I will carry on with it and report back. I won't be digging much, though, since it's WAY too sensitive and, I'm sure, VERY deep. I'll just keep at it as long as I can stand it and until something happens (like healing, root apparently coming out, etc.)

Lots of good advice in this long interesting thread....check it ALL out!

And...GOOD LUCK!! Stay the course!!

Oops! One important thing to add...to aid in COMFORT when you have to be on your feet during the day!!!

....buy a pair of foam insoles (as thick as will fit in your shoe with your foot) so you can carve out a divot in the insole where your ACV-affected verucca is. I actually made my own insole from a piece of craft-foam. I cut my insole to properly fit.

In order to mark out where to carve the divot, I carefully painted my verruca with lipstick, carefully placed my bare foot inside the shoe with my new insole and gently pressed down onto the insole to make a lipstick print. Carefully take out your foot so as not to smear the print. Take out the insole and carve out a hole where your sore verruca is. The insole should stay in place better than a corn ring would.

I find this helps take the pressure of the painful, healing verruca.

So Hi everyone, I joined this site purely to comment on this discussion. I thought I had it bad with my 1 measly wart on my middle finger but listening to some of the horror stories on here I won't harp on about it to much. Basically I caught it from my 3 yr old daughter who had a bad case of molliscum which is a form of child warts and eczema combined they covered the whole of the back of her legs and made her really miserable. The doctor prescribed eczema cream for the dry skin around the molliscum and said to ignore the warts they would go in around 2 years!! What the doctor failed to realise is that the eczema cream fed the wart virus and they rapidly spread all over both legs we were at our wits end and we tried EVERYTHING including cider vinegar, this did help but never got rid of them completely. We even tried bursting the bigger molluscs as the 'root' rose to the top this cause my poor lamb so much pain so after months of research on the net and plenty of alternative cures I found that molliscum can only be fully killed from the inside out I.e building up the immunce system. We bought childrens viamins and alongside cider vinegar after 1 month it died never to return :-) success.

Anyway this was briliant for my daughter but in between all this I aquired a wart on my middle finger which has been an awkward bugger for over a year. I've tried the counter freezing method 3 times now to no avail :-( I've tried banana skins and all that has happened is that the wart has become angry, swollen and painful so much that I can't even use that finger for anything at the moment.

So I began the cider apple vinegar treatment yesterday, it's caused a heck of a lot of throbbing but its not unbearable and today I have noticed the black spot rising to the surface :-D progress is all I needed to keep the faith. It hurts like hell at the moment but I will continue every day until I have killed this horrible, horrible virus. I just wish I'd have known about this when I was 14 and had verrucas all over my feet, I couldn't walk and had to have them forcefully removed which has caused scarring and tenderness in that area.

Have faith and be persistant and we will win the wart war!!

I will continue to update my progress as it occurrs Good luck everyone xxx

UPDATE!

all FORTY-ISH of my horrible gross verrucas are gone! that giant cluster verruca... is gone! after 15 or so years its finally gone!

i wasnt sure at first but the skin seems to be healing ok. what i did worked! YES apple cider vinegar IS the way forward! i thought id leave an update only after the skin is healed normally so here you go.

YES at times it was painful but it was a lot bearable than anything else ive ever tried (see previous posts)

so yea. for me a few days with a vinegar soaked cotton ball duct taped to the area and secured with medical tape. the a few days with just duct tape and medical tape. then scrape away dead skin. and repeat. thats all i did!

it works. this thread has been a lifeline!

why dont thedoctors recomend it as works for most people, including me when between toes. My then gp said it will go away on its own, wasnt bothered about pain and discomfort.spent loads on treatment and vinegar worked best.

I thought I'd post a little update after 2 nights of vinegar, ouch is all I can say. I woke up and took the bandage off this morning and the wart was swollen, as was that side of my finger I couldn't even wash my hand it was so painful. After a few hours and a shower it felt much better and less painful I used a nail file and rubbed down the top layer of skin and applied another bandage (It's in a really awkward place and hurts like hell when knocked) otherwise I'd have left the bandage off longer. Later that night the wart was very prominant and black spots where at the surface so I cut the black spots out as much as I could with sharp steralised scissors. There is still some black specks left which I can't get to so I've applied another vinegar bandage for another night. Considering the mutilation I have inflicted on this unwelcome intruder today I have to say there is hardly any pain tonight and I am hopeful that I have removed the worse of this nasty little blighter. Tomorrow morning I suppose will tell me what I need to know :-)

I hope your all having success xxxx

Thought I would post an update

I spent the first two days just using the cotton wool balls soaked in ACV tapped to my foot. On day three, they had turned black and I went at them with tweezers, I got most of it out (caused a little bleeding with my enthusiasm) and replaced the ACV soaked cotton wool balls.

I then changed the cotton wall balls and tape each morning and night, using a ped egg type product to rub down each time. On day four it became very painful to walk, but I persevered with it and by the end of the week they were completely gone; there was some scabbing from where I'd made the area bleed and there was also bruising however today the scabs have gone and so has majority of the bruising and I'm glad to say it's been worth it. I have new clear pink skin and my foot is healing really nicely.

I would totally recommend this to anyone who's had trouble getting rid of verrucas, ACV really does work!

Hello, ive had a verruca on my thumb for many years and i've also tried many treatments that cost a lot of money and given up hope because nothing has happened. As its on my hand it is very obvious and not attractive. I searched and searched for new remedies and i came across the forum. I am going to try this remedy and hope it finally gets rid of the horrible verruca.

I was wondering would white vinegar work just the same as white wine vinegar? And also, how long do you think i should do it for to see big results?

Thanks

I've joined this site specifically to post on this thread. Here's my tale of woe and success.

In my early twenties I developed a few verrucas on my big toe, my doc advised to leave them and as he predicted they went of their own accord.

Flash forward to hitting 40 and another one appeared. I left it as before but it remained, set up home and multiplied. For the last four years I've had a horrid cauliflower growth, consisting of a cluster about the size of a 5p, on the side of my big toe with three others underneath dotted around it. I'm convinced filing it down only spread the little beggars.

Here's what I've tried:

The little circular patches which reduced it for a while but it always grew back. Painful and made my toe throb.

Bazooka gel only ever kept them in check as I was never brave enough to dig down to the root!

Hand sanitiser did nothing.

Bought a home freezing kit but wimped out after reading of the potential pain.

After finding this discussion I decided to try ACV. I'm excited to say it worked as well as I hoped!! Within two days my cauliflower had halved in size and I could see new pink skin ))) This spurred me on and I've been using it for two weeks now. Two of the 'satellites' have disappeared. The third is vastly reduced and black and my cauli has almost gone. I'll keep going with the ACV til I'm certain.

Morning and night I used a small cotton wad (pinch the top off a cotton bud) soaked in ACV placed over the verruca and secured with a waterproof plaster which stuck really well, no need for duct tape. I didn't have to dig, only file back gently a few times, as they seemed to shrivel up and die off. I've been lucky that mine were not very deep.

There's been little pain though a couple of times my surrounding skin went white and tender so gave it a break.

I'm a very happy lady and looking forward to getting my feet out this summer

Thanks to everyone who posted, this is a fantastically informative and encouraging thread. To newcomers I'd recommend reading from the start.

Hi all, 10 days on and we seem to be wart free!!! :-)

The day after my last post and another evening of vinegar the black spot returned so I pulled it out with some sharp tweezers, I did this 3 times all together over 2 or 3 days until there was literally a huge empty crater left in my finger. This must have been one ridiculously deep rooted wart its no wonder it was so painful and freezing didn't work at all. Once I had removed every bit of black the pain immediately went and since then I haven't covered it over I've left the air to do its thing. It shrivled and shrank and a layer of dry dead skin formed which came off yesterday and it has now practically gone, new skin has covered and I am so pleased with the results. It really does work, and this thread has been wonderful. Good luck everyone xxx

Hi All

I have had a periungual wart on the side of my nailbed for about 2 years now. I have tried EVERYTHING known to man to get rid of the little beggar but nothing has worked. Infact it even grew a little neighbour wart on the front of my finger too as it was obviously feeling very lonely!!!

Anyway, I stumbled across this forum when looking for other methods to try and decided I had nothing to lose and bought some ACV. I have been soaking a bit of cotton wool to both warts and covering them with waterproof plasters for the last 6 nights. Firstly one word, PAIN!!

Oh my giddy aunt with bloomers! Throb throb throb! It wakes me in the night and I have to get my hand into a position to try to reduce the blood flow! lol! The worst bit though is when I remove the plaster each morning, I honestly feel sick with how painful it is! I can't have anything go near the finger as it's so sore and if I accidentally tap it (which I have done!) I almost have to be peeled off the ceiling! haha!

Anyway, both have gone black so I am guessing that it is working. I am a little unsure of whether I should be filing it down or trying to pick out the black bits because over on the ACV website it says not to and to leave it?

I am not sure I could even touch it with a file or scissors etc because it's so sore and all the skin around the smaller one is bright red and very sore too...

Should I try to pick at it or simply keep soaking it and let it 'fall' off itself? I just wonder whether I need to help it along? lol!

I do have high hopes for this treatment though! Seems like the only thing in years to have responded!

Thanks all