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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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  • mily
    mily

    Posted

    @ caz44582 how many days did you apply the vinegar after seeing the pink healthy flat skin? I'm thinking of still applying it for 2 to 3 evenings at least just to make sure.
  • andrebione
    andrebione

    Posted

    Hi guys. I'm 18, and I live in Brazil. I've registered here because I have periungual warts for about a year now, and I getting kind of frustrated with the treatments and results so far... First of all, I've been reading all your posts here, which got me excited and now I've got my hopes up. This "place" seems like, not only to discuss about the treatment with apple cider vinegar, but to share progresses, frustrations and advices, some things I really need to do. I APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD TAKE THE TIME TO READ WHAT I HAVE TO SAY, FOR I AM GOING TO STICK HERE UNTIL THESE FREAKING WARTS ARE GONE FOR GOOD!!!

    Going back to my little story, first of all, I was a nail biter. It all started when I left the habit behind. Instead of biting my nails, I started to scrape the lateral skin of my fingernails. I believe that is the main reason it all started. So, of course, scraping damaged the skin and, after a while, it started to heal differently. The skin got harder and not as "pinky" as it used to. I began to think it was a callus, so I started using an emery board on it and clipping with "wart infection" started about a year ago, when I thought it was some kind of callus, so I started using emery board on it, and clipping it with pliers. To my great surprise, the "calluses" didn't go away, and they were getting bigger.

    That's when I went for a doctor. She started a treatment with a weak (today I can say that. It was WEAK) salicylic acid formula that didn't do much. At that time, she wasn't sure it was a wart. Well, as time went by, I got prescribed stronger salicylic acid preparations. Nothing.

    Well, a year later, I have 6 warts. 2 on each side of my right thumb and index finger, 1 on the left side of my left thumb, and the last 1 I discovered 3-4 days ago, under the tip of my left middle finger. That said, this is what I've done so far for treatments:

    1. Only salicylic acids, in different and crescent concentrations.

    2. Imiquimode (immunotherapy. VERY EXPENSIVE and didn't do any good).

    3. Actual treatment: salicylic acid every day, before going to bed. Put a duct tape around finger, which stays until I shower the next night to reapply the acid. Once a week, I go to the doctor, she then does cryotherapy, followed by applying an acid which I think is called nitric acid (hurts like hell and turns the skin yellow). It's been months of this last treatment, and it only seemed to work once, when it developed an inflammatory reaction on one wart (the first of all warts, which is the biggest), after which the wart turned black and the I scraped it off, leaving a hole with pink "healthy" skin beneath. When this happened, the other warts (4, at that time) also got "better". To my terrible surprise and frustration, all of them came back. :'( Now I'm still stuck in this treatment, and it has its ups and downs: sometimes it seems it's working and getting better, only to show me it doesn't ever want to go away, to my despair. I found this page today, and now I know there's people who suffer and know what I suffer.

    I'm on medical school, and just the thought of graduating with these nasty warts on my fingers make me want to run away...

    Well, long story short, I'm still on treatment 3. If it gets back to 0 again, I'm trying Apple Cider Vinegar. Until then, I'll be around updating my situation and keeping up with your news, which I sincerely hope, will be good!

    • aubrey35090
      aubrey35090 andrebione

      Posted

      Hey Andrebione smile I was struggle with a plantars wart for 10 years and it recently spread and I got some on my fingers as well. I started using apple cider vinegar and I was seeing results but it was slow. Then I saw a video someone had made on youtube where they had used Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar which has the "mother" enzymes ect. It was more expensive but I bought it and it was worth every penny! They are almost all gone! Also, I dont clip or peel. I let them fall out on their own. It takes a little longer but these things are so contagious.
  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Since my last post on 9 April, yesterday after bath, i pulled at the central verruca with a pair of craft tweezers. The skin was thick but soft and the whole thing came off fairly easily with a little tugging...including a very tiny black bit. Didn't look like the root, just a dark spot. But there was no hole left behind as others have mentioned on this site. The area is now smooth, spot and paiin free but I'm still applied the salicilic gel just incase there is more of the virus hidden away inside.

    The tiny new patch growing next to it appears to have gone too. I can;t see/feel any hard skin there.

    The 'corn' has been harder to shift but is getting smaller with the salicilic gel application.

    I hope this means everything is clearing up .. after 2-3 years of putting up with it. Perhaps other people might want to ask GP for Salutec gel on prescription.

    I was reluctant to resort to ACV because of the pain.

  • caz44582
    caz44582

    Posted

    Hi milly. I really can't remember .. I think I stopped when I saw the flat pink skin.

    Go on longer than you think you need to ! Mines back with a vengeance

  • mily
    mily

    Posted

    oh my goodness ! will sure do! thanks for the heads up !!
  • reha
    reha

    Posted

    Would like to try this for small wart on my neck ....hope this treatment doesn't leave any white path after removal of wart
  • kat71767
    kat71767

    Posted

    Hi I wanted to share my story as I am finally verruca free and used this forum a great deal when I was trying to get rid of mine.

    I'd had my verruca for 2 years and after freezing at the chiropodist and all sorts of OTC medicines I had developed 2 more next to my original beast.

    My New Years resolution was to get rid. I bought some regular vinegar, cotton wool, duct tape and sticky bandage. Each morning i would apply vinegar soaked cotton to the warts and duct tape them. I followed up with the bandage to hold in place. Every couple of days I would file them with an emery board. The went white and puffy and then developed a black centre. I didn't dig at them or pick them but carried on with this for nearly 2 months. The pain at times was excruciating. Walking was difficult and sometimes they stung so badly I had to rip off the cotton wool. After 2 months I gave it a rest. 3 weeks later I had my annual skin exam at my dermatologist and the gave them a blast with the cryo. They went shiny and hard and then one night they just flaked off. I've been putting on imiquimod 5% on the site where they were and now I have pink skin and can see my lines on my toe - toe prints if you will. I believe the vinegar broke the back of them and the final freeze finished them off.

    Persevere it works. I had my first pedicure in 2 years and loved it!

  • sarah-jane13365
    sarah-jane13365 Guest

    Posted

    I have had a verucca on large toe for around 25 years and have tried everything.. Done the vinegar thing with duck tape and low and behold the dam thing has come back..  Painful as well, has to be on the foot I broke too eh.. lol..  back to vinegar again unless I can chop toe off

     

  • Sandyh
    Sandyh Guest

    Posted

    I have had verrucas for years but they r multiplying. Have been 2 doctor and have been told there is nothing else I can try. So I saw this about 10 days ago and have been trying it since. I haven't noticed any change apart from a wee black bit in one of them. Feel like giving up but going on holiday soon and feel I won't even enjoy the pool as ill have 2 wear verruca socks. Bright white feet! How attractive lol
  • Jezebelmare
    Jezebelmare Guest

    Posted

    I have joined this forum just for this post alone as well. I have been working hard to try and get rid of my wart but it's extremely persistent! This is the first wart I've ever had and I'm not sure in on the right track or if I need to be more aggressive when cutting away the middle? Here are some pictures I've taken over the course of the last week:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Jezebelmare/Mobile%20Uploads/image-4.jpg

    if you view it counter clockwise that is how the progression has gone. This next one is how it currently looks today:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Jezebelmare/Mobile%20Uploads/image-5.jpg

    please please someone give me some guidance and let me know if I'm on the right track. I've had this silly thing for going on almost 10 months and it kills me to walk. I'm also an equestrian and my foot rests right on it when in the saddle. It's limiting my activity level and nothing else has helped.

  • AnonUser
    AnonUser Guest

    Posted

    Hey guys! As everyone else has said, this forum has been very useful! I've had a verrucca on the sole of my foot for about a year... but it was very small and doesn't hurt that much, and I read on loads of website they usually just clear up themselves, so I kidn of just left it.

    However, it's been over a year and now I have decided that I want it off my summer in three weeks. I tried my first night with the ACV and I took it off this morning, and my verrucca has poofed up loads and have gone white! It's so much bigger and worse looking, when before you could have easily not seen it!

    So, I have some questions.. how long does this treatment normally take, because I don't want to go on holiday in 3 weeks when it is in it's big and poofy phase sad I'd rather just wait! And if I do wait 2 weeks or soemthing and it doesn't seem to be working, how long do you think it will take without the vinegar for the swelling to go down and for it to become small again? I just don't know whether now is a good time to do this, basically, or whther I should wait until we are back to school in September?

    Thanks again for this forum. Any advice would be much appreciated! smile

    • aubrey35090
      aubrey35090 AnonUser

      Posted

      Good luck to you!  My ten year old verruca is in the final stages of healing and it is almost gone in two weeks but it might take you longer.  It won't stay white and puff.  In three days to a week you will get a black spot on your foot and then it should scab over and fall off.  Some tips, use only raw unpasteurized organic apple cider vinegar,  I used Braggs but spectrum is good too.  I used the processed stuff at first and it made my skin super raw and painful.  If it does start hurting, just mix the vinegar with hot water and soak your feet twice a day for 20 minutes instead of putting straight vinegar directly on your skin. .  Apple cider vinegar works by causing the skin to produce more skin cells faster than the wart is producing cells and it pushes the wart off the foot.  It does not kill the virus so be be very careful when touching the wart because it's highly contagious!  It will spread to your hands. I recommend disposable gloves. I also used a product called h wart from healing oils that works from the base of the wart and I noticed much faster results once I started using it.  Warts also occur because of potassium and/or zinc deficiency so I started taking zinc orotate twice a day and increased my potassium through meals as well as taking vitamins A, C, E, garlic, and echinacea. 
    • AnonUser
      AnonUser aubrey35090

      Posted

      Thank you so much for the advice! I didn't do it yesterday, but I'l start again tonight, and hopefully it'll clear up by my holiday in 3 weeks! 

      My vinegar is called "Classic cider vinegar" by the brand "aspall"... It doesn't specify whether it is pasturized or not.. only that it is 5% acid. I hope that is the right sort!

      Thanks again smile

  • aubrey35090
    aubrey35090 Guest

    Posted

    I should have mentioned I removed three already but the original one has taken the longest so I know it's working! 
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