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

Hi I'm glad its working for you :-) I've heard that if you just leave it alone and just keep applying the vinegar that the black will dry out and eventually it will die. I've heard this can take a fair few weeks but will eventually work :-)

Because of the position my finger wart was in and the pain from the vinegar I was unable to leave it uncovered to dry out as I kept knocking it and as you will know this is highly offensive lol so i forcefully removed the black over a few days and it has cleared up wonderfully. I suppose it depends on you, whether you have the patience to wait and how much it hurts really. I don't think that telling someone to dig stuff out of their finger is very responsible so I shan't tell you that its the best thing to do but I'd just thought I'd let you know its what I did and it has gone completely within 2 weeks. Good luck whichever way you choose a victory is a victory :-) xx

I've been working away at mine for a month and a half already and I'm still overjoyed!! NOTHING has ever worked as well as this for me. Mine is almost exactly 30 years old and, while it hasn't "spread", I found that it DID "multiply" over itself. I have already been through 2 cores and even still see another deeper one. I have never been a "picker" or digger and the pain was so intense at times I couldn't even look at it. VERY careful paring away at skin/cores that emerged outward when possible is what I have done....couldn't imagine "pulling out a core" as I feel like this goes right through my foot. But, still, it kills the wart off and pulls it outward, so when it's dead, it should fall off or peel of on it's own.

I have found patience and persistence have been rewarded. On days when I can allow myself to stay off my feet more, I have persisted with the vinegar applications and grimaced through the pain. And I have also left it to dry for a few days in between vinegar applications. I feel this has been important since it seems that scar tissue is forming deep inside where the verrucca has been "pulled out from". I can see pretty pink scar tissue surrounding the mass that is still there - replacing the verrucca that was once there. I realized that it's probably important and wise to allow my foot time to heal and balance out. Mind you....mine is VERY old and VERY deep. I think I could have damaged my foot if I picked, scraped and dug too much.

So, dig if you like, but be aware that you can still get results if you find it too painful to dig. It feels like I'm killing off some alien that's been with me for 30 years and it doesn't want to die - it wants to fight back and cause pain. But the ACV is obviously killing it - slowly but SURELY!!

I will post more in a few weeks as progress continues! Good luck!!

Thank you both - the pain isn't as intense overnight now but it's just very red and swollen around the smaller wart and if I knock it then I almost pass out through pain! lol!

I will see how it goes over the next day or so and then decide if I should pare away or not!

Like many of you I have joined to share my story. After finding this thread after much searching in desperation I followed the advice and it appears to have worked! I used the acv for 2 weeks solidly, I would soak the cotton wool and duct tape it on in the morning and at night. It really hurt most of the time but I just thought that meant it was working. I did file it down to expose the skin, now my story differs here to many as the black dots didn't seem to rise or become exposed. The skin became white around the verrucas and they just seemed to go. There was no dropping out or turning black. When I could see no black I left them uncovered and they've just healed over. I'm over the moon after trying everything for about 8 years to get rid of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Hey, I wanted to share with you pics of my verucas to hopefully get some comfort that others are in the same boat as me but please be honest.

I tried ACV for 3 weeks every night at the start of the year but didn't work for me :'( and I'm going to the GP tomorrow to beg for a solution.

Here are my pics (there are gross and white cos I've been using salicylic acid):

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Thanks very much any responses greatly appreciated!

james29098 mine went kind of like your pictures, and I just continued to dig away and use a ped egg as well as the ACV and after a couple of weeks they disappeared, now I'm just trying to repair the damage to the skin.

Hi James29098 thanks for sharing the pics. I have recently gotten rid of a verruca on the side of my big toe and have one left to go. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to pain so good on you for trying to get them all at once! This is very similar to how mine looked, how painful is it? Do you think you could try to file away some of the white skin? A PedEgg is very good I would highly recommend one. But maybe tackle a few at a time, as it could be painful as new skin is developing, and be careful not to make the skin bleed. After you have filed, perhaps leave them alone for a few days to begin to 'dry out' look at what you are left with and start with the AVC again if needed. Just keep repeating and the little bu**ers should be gone. Let us know how you get on with your GP, in my experience they have been utterly useless! Please let us know how your feet progress!

Sarajayne, how are you finding your skin is healing? My foot now appears completely normal, sometimes a little dry, you'd really never know a verruca was there! Now time to tackle the next one..... I'm looking forward to the day I can go for a pedicure!!

Kathryn, mines not healing as well as I'd like it to, but then I kind of expected that seeing as I've spent so long dancing on them. Majority of the time the foot looks almost normal but there's a slight discolouration and when my foot gets too hot it's possible to see that something used to be there. I'm using sudacream, to try and help the skin heal and it seems to be working, but at least they're gone

Hi kathrynjbuck, this might be a long one so bear with me. Oh and if anyone has a look at my pics from the previous message I would like to know if anyone has veruccas on the scale as me, as I feel mine are really bad!

The GP was sort of helpful (my mums a GP and so said the best way to get something out of them was to winge about pain A LOT) so I said they had really started to hurt under pressure and the GP was sympathetic and took pics of them to send to the dermatologist people to see if there was anything they could do. GP didn't instantly refer me because she didn't know if/what they can do and so said to leave it with her (so she can look into it) and to ring her in a couple of weeks to find out, so maybe good news, I'll post a message then, fingers crossed.

As for the veruccas themselves, I gave up on ACV treatment for the timebeing as it wasn't giving any results after 3 weeks of doing it every night. And when i did use ACV i felt no pain at all when it was on. I had three warts on my hands also which I treated with ACV and got rid of two without and pain at all (after 2 weeks they just went black, i picked off the black and let it heal and BAM gone, which is awesome) the third one however will not budge ( http://picpaste.com/pics/IMG_1757-s73lnkGy.1394894160.jpg excuse the white bits just badly applied wart paint) and often does cause huge pain when ACV is used, so i just use salicylic acid at the moment.

For verucca treatment, as i truly have had enough (in truth they don't hurt i just hate them) I am sticking to filing with a pumice stone hard every night and salicylic acid 26% and freezing them with liquid nitrogen every 2-3 weeks and they are very slowly getting smaller (i think), I'll keep posted on any changes.

And if anyone would like to took at my pics from about 3 posts ago and see if they're veruucas are anything similar would be very appreciative, thanks.

It's now been 3 days since my verrucas have gone, I've used Sudocrem to help the healing. I didn't have any holes as mine didn't drop out they just sort of disappeared, I have been left with some sore looking areas. Well, 3 days in and they're hardly noticeable and I've just given myself a pedicure and I'm sooooo happy! You've all been great and I just wish you all the same success that I've had. This really is a miracle cure and I've no idea why doctors and chiropodists don't recommend this as treatment.

So I have been treating my plantar warts on my heel with ACV, duct tape, warm water soaks, and shaving it down with a ped egg for a few months now... I don't take a lot of pics of the progress but i do have 3 on my phone including 1 from yesterday... I see it is obviously working but now I can't tell if there are still warts there or how much longer I have to keep it up because I haven't seen really any difference in the past week of continuing to treat them:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b117/Nagoshiffxi/1969386_10152112531261731_1495712268_n_zpse89fac33.png

Can anyone else give me their personal opinion?

Hi james29098. Thanks for posting the pics. This does look really severe. I thought mine were bad! They do however look the same as mine, they just cover a larger area. It is unusual that you have no pain considering the position on the sole of your foot.

I posted a few months ago and tried the vinegar day and night for a good few months. It was agony and to top it all it didn't work. Two months ago I decided to try again but this time just dabbed on the vinegar in the morning and evening and covered it in tape for rest of the time. There was very little pain and I'm glad to say that I think they've gone. I'm just left with a kind of dark mark like a bruise but the skin is smooth. I just hope it doesn't come back!

Ok so I' started the ACV treatment today after seeing a small plantar wart on the ball of my foot last week. I've been reading up on the methods and after tryin water proof bandaids and duct tape I can't keep the vinegar from the cotton ball from squirting out when I put pressure on my foot. Any suggestions? The duct tape I do have is not the best perhaps I'll try and get some 3M brand tomorrow.

Hi JayD0976 - can you just do the treatment at night and that way you aren't putting any pressure on the foot?

My wart is on my finger so it's a little different for me

The update on my beast of a wart then.....

Had a strange reaction to the small wart on the front of my finger, I think it infected as it went very swollen and then red and incredibly sore to touch. I persevered for a while with that one but it was getting angrier and angrier looking so I decided that sense must prevail and have left that one for now to try and beat the infection.

The other large periungual wart on the side of my finger responded really well to the first week of treatment. The pain was really intense but I kept at it. It went very black and the skin that was already dead from all the other wart treatments that I have tried in the past went very white and raised. In the end I had to try to pare away the dead skin to reveal more of the wart roots. I dug away the dead black bit carefully day by day and it almost looked like I had fresh pink skin there! I could see a few more tiny roots at one side so I decided to continue with the ACV treatment.

It's been 3 days since I started on the pinker more clearer looking skin and the pain has been horrific!! I have a very high pain threshold (Crohns Disease sufferer!) but this has woken me up so much and made me feel actually sick! Last night I gave in to the pain and had to remove the plaster. For about an hour thereafter the pain was even worse as the air and circulation got to it! Anyway the area that was clear and pink is now all black again and I don't know if perhaps there were underlying wart roots there or if it's blood seeping from the other parts?

Anyway I am going to give it a day or two rest (I need some sleep too!! lol!) and then restart!

Phew! Thanks for reading!

Yes, I think that's going to be my new plan. During the day I'll wear the S. acid pads and then durin the night ill wear the ACV. Give it a couple hours during the day to death dry out and maybe give it a scrub with the pumice stone.