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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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  • vanessa88383
    vanessa88383 Guest

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    This forum has been more useful to me than anything else I've found whilst trying numerous treatments to get rid of a verruca for three years. 

    The vinegar hurts a lot but works better than anything else I've tried.  If anyone finds the pain too much to bear like I did, I found adding water to it (one third water to two thirds vinegar) made it much less painful but it still has the same result. 

  • eva34227
    eva34227 Guest

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    Hello. I have had a massive clump of mosaic verrucae on my left toe for 20 years now and I've tried everything! I had them frozen at GPs 14 years ago.

     But they came back. Discovered I have leukopenia (poor immunity) when I developed Hodgkin disease. Cancer was 'cured' but verrucae remained. Have kept comfortable by using an electrical hard skin file thing and Bazuuka extra strength gel and keep constantly covered with duct tape (which just comes off when my foot sweats). Read the vinegar post a about a week ago. Sometimes very painful but a few days ago loads of like the yellow skin came off in the bath. Now it seems quite swollen and mostly brown or back. Too tender to file and sore to walk on. Am I on the right track? No sign of any 'roots'.

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad eva34227

      Posted

      Hi Eva! Yes it sounds like you’re on the right path, mine would turn yellow with the vinegar and come off. I used to file and use a scalpel but to be honest I stopped this but continued using the ACV and it’s gone. I’m not sure if it was taking its time at the start to go away or if the filing was keeping the infection there. It can be very painful on healthy skin so what I did was cut out a piece of cotton pad the size of the verucca, soak, drain a little then put on the exact spot. I noticed the tape wouldn’t stick to my foot either so what I did was cover the wet cotton pad with a clean one then tape on top of this. I also found that by sleeping with a sock on my foot it kept the tape in place. The next day I would sometimes keep it covered with tape or just let it breathe. After years of trying different methods and going to a schropidist this is the only thing that helped me so keep persevering. I felt like there was a different being made for ages but now suddenly it’s gone! 
  • eva34227
    eva34227 Guest

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    I put the tape right round the toe to stop it coming off with a bit of tissue on top of the toe. Otherwise it's dead itchy! Complicated business. Keep it on over night but only duct tape during the day. If I don't wear sandals in this weather is getting funny looks as a.woman! Had some incidences of the vinegar being too painful so took it off and rinsed it which made it worse until it calmed down and I would be writhing around in pain saying "Make it stop! Make it stop! " Ha ha! Use Solpediene pain relief sometimes.

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad eva34227

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      They always seem to be in the most awkward of places. The pain can be bad but I noticed it was just the first couple of weeks then after that it really didn’t hurt so don’t be afraid to push ahead with it. I also used some Salactol on it every so often but it used to itch really bad when it even slightly got on to my normal skin. You could try that too, it doesn’t cost that much. I do think though that it was the vinegar that helped the most. I’ve been trying it from January/February I think and mine is gone after about six years! 
  • eva34227
    eva34227 Guest

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    It will be nothing short if a miracle if this goes after twenty years. I've spent so much on duct tape and batteries for my file. Also got fungal toe nail probably due to leukopenia and tried everything. Now on pills from doctor which seem to be working.

    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad eva34227

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      I really hope it works for you. It will take months, don’t give up! If you can, give up on the file and see how the vinegar goes for a bit. If you take some pictures as you go along and you will hopefully see that the vinegar treatment does make a difference. You have nothing to lose! Keep us updated I’m looking forward to seeing if this makes any difference for you. Fingers crossed!
  • Suzuki000
    Suzuki000 Guest

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    Hello

    I had a verruca on the sole of my foot for 30 YEARS I tried everything to get rid of it, including painful visits to Drs and podiatrists, expensive products etc. I gave up many times.

    Thanks to this forum I got it sorted. In the end, I came up with a refinement to the advised process, and when I followed this for ONE WEEK I finally got rid of it!

    LIFE CHANGING

    Here is the system that worked for me:

    1. buy Braggs organic raw apple cider vinegar (white vinegar was too harsh and painful, meaning i could not leave it on long enough, plus it destroyed too much healthy tissue)

    2. use very small precise pieces of cotton balls, rip off a piece and roll it very tight to the EXACT size of the verruca head - the more precise the better, as this will allow the vinegar to penetrate and recess right into the verruca and not make a larger hole which seems to trigger a cells growth rebound effect

    3. soak the small ball in the vinegar, and place PRECISELY on the verruca and tape it on there so that it stays positioned exactly on the verruca. The vinegar soaked cotton wool ball should cover the verruca and no more

    4. leave the vinegar on as long as possible. After 2-3 hours, replace it with a new ball with fresh vinegar. Do this for the last time in the day just before bedtime. 

    5. remove the vinegar ball just before bedtime. There will be a 'hole' where the vinegar has penetrated. Pat this dry with toilet paper. If you have done this right, the hole will be small i.e. not really larger than the size of the verruca. You want the depth of the hole, not a big wide shallow hole. The root of the verruca is quite deep...

    6. IMPORTANT STEP: get Bazooka (google it) or similar verruca/wart OTC treatment gel. FILL the hole with this gel - again, dont go wider than the actual hole containing the verruca

    7. leave the Bazooka in place overnight. It works well as it seals the hole, and doesnt ruin your sleep like trying to keep the vinegar working through the night

    8. in the morning, after you shower use a small pocket knife or similar to trim away the hardened Bazooka gel. Carefully remove it all

    9. FINAL STEP... immediately repeat the steps to create a new vinegar ball and tape it securely in place

    The right combination of the vinegar and OTC gel will get rid of the verruca the fastest and with the least pain and hassle.  

    So try this for one week, be VERY diligent to follow it and I think you will be surprised with the result.

    REMEMBER once you think the verruca has gone - KEEP GOING for up to another week this is to be sure the verruca root has been removed. Many people think they have killed the verruca but the root is still intact and it will slowly return which is very demoralising.

    GOOD LUCK!!!!!

    • eva34227
      eva34227 Suzuki000

      Posted

      Oh my goodness! Left it bare today - not even duct tape. Had a bath tonight and all the black stuff just peeled off. I couldn't believe it. Too sore now to do vinegar at the mo. Might do it tomorrow. Have just put Canesten anti-fungal cream on for the mo. Still some white skin there so will continue until the whole things gone.  Just hope it doesn't cover all over black again or I'll be back to square one again.

  • Suzuki000
    Suzuki000 Guest

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    My advice is dont leave it bare - tissue will regrow verruca will be stimulated also

    Follow my advice - make sure the hole is small and fill it with a salicylic acid gel product like Bazuka

    This will seal it, stop the pain (it stings initially) and prevent the tissue grow back 

     

    • eva34227
      eva34227 Suzuki000

      Posted

      Are you kidding? It looks and feels far too sore to put Bazuka on it. Will try later.
    • eva34227
      eva34227 Suzuki000

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      I am near giving up. Been at it for three months now. Feel so close to them going but they always end up drying back to hard skin again like the mossaic verrucae I started with. Keep the acv on every night but had to dilute it as the pain was too much to endure. Agony tonight even with diluted avc. Feels like i’m never going to be free of these things. Can hardly put my foot down at times as the pain is so bad. How much longer?
    • Rainbowroad
      Rainbowroad eva34227

      Posted

      Are you soaking a small bit of cotton bud in ACV? I used to cut a tiny little bit to make sure it didn’t go onto the good skin. Then cover it with a new cotton bud and cover with duct tape. Sometimes it hurt the good skin and I would then put sudocreme or Vaseline around the outside before doing the treatment again. To be honest I was doing it for a couple of months and it kept going back to normal skin but then one week it just disappeared and I mean I had this verucca for about eight years. I would try the sucocreme or Vaseline around the good skin and don’t dilute the ACV it will just take it longer to work. Mine was in agony at the start but then using just a small but it didn’t hurt again. Keep trying it will definitely work for you!
    • eva34227
      eva34227 Rainbowroad

      Posted

      I have to soak a cotton wool ball in avc as I am not targetting little verrucae but a big mass of mossaic verrucae on the ball of my big toe so it's really hard to target specific places.  I have to dilute the avc or I end up rolling around in agony. I can't use smaller bits of cotton wool as I don't know where to target. It just becomes a mass of swollen white/yellow skin. Some peels off in the bath but most won't. I might try to use some cream to cover more sensitive areas but, like I say, I can't tell which bits are verrucae covered and which aren't.

    • elmarkio
      elmarkio eva34227

      Posted

      I went through the same pain with acv so I switched to using tea tree oil instead. You can cover the lot that way, and after a while of filing, digging and keeping it constantly covered it went. Worth a try rather than giving up.
    • Dick_Doom
      Dick_Doom eva34227

      Posted

      Hi, I found one of the most important parts is making sure you mask the area well so that all your good skin is protected. I used electrical tape for that job cutting it into small strips. The only time I suffered discomfort was if the cotton wool was too wet with ACV or I had not masked the area well enough. The pain always came from good skin being burnt by ACV. Hope it works for you. It did for me!!
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