Damn Wart!

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Bill Marsh

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Well, we talk about everythig else from underwear, chiggers, girl friends, health, wealth and relationship issues --- here is a stupid problem that is bugging me.

For about the last thee YEARS!

Have an incredibly resistant wart on the end of my finger, peeking out from under the edge of my fingernail. Left hand, longest finger, the one I show bad drivers in traffic!

OK, I have tried.

1. Wart stuff from the drug store. Salicycilic(sp) acid? --- worked a little bit.

2. Dermatologist --- Heidi at Kaiser. She said, no kidding, "I am Cherman und this vill hurt!" She grabbed my finger and hit it with liquid nitrogen I thought I was going to die. Thought about hitting her, but she outweighed me and was very muscular. (I am 210lbs). Later I am soaking it in a glass of ice water at a Waffle House with tears of pain streaming down my face. In a week the end of my finger came off in a huge blister. Two months later the wart was back.

3. Back to Kaiser for a DIFFERENT dermatologist. More liquid Nitrogen, but better focussed. Still a big blister and the wart was back in a month.

4. Back to Kaiser. This time some kind of bug juice. Big blister, wart came off -- back in a moth.

5. Back to Kaiser --- om a first name basis with Marilyn the Dermatoligist. More bug juice, but first a slice of the wart to be examined to see if it was cancerous. --- worried like hell for a week but nopers, no kind of cancer, just a wart. Came back in a month.

6. Marllyn says that warts are viral and my body wants to keep growing one there for some weird reason. "Got to teach your body it does not want to keep growing this wart back." -- Out came the Novacaine and heavy surgery on the end of my finger -- three months later (now) it is peeking out again.

Stump water? Shaman cures? Curses? Smoke? Frog pee? Buckshot? Ndn cures? (Help, Yvsa!)

I am open to suggestions!
 
So tell me, Bill, how much do you really like your first knuckle? I have a sure fire wart removal treatment.:D

Jake
 
Bill , from what I read the wart peaks out from underneath the edge of the fingernail ? Can it be a case of not getting the whole wart out due to its location ? From all I,ve heard over the years it is essential to get the "root" out .
I personally put a little alcohol in the liquid nitrogen . It supposedly lowers the temp by a few degrees and makes it taste better . L:O:L
 
Kevin the grey said:
Bill , from what I read the wart peaks out from underneath the edge of the fingernail ? Can it be a case of not getting the whole wart out due to its location ? From all I,ve heard over the years it is essential to get the "root" out .
I personally put a little alcohol in the liquid nitrogen . It supposedly lowers the temp by a few degrees and makes it taste better . L:O:L
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I think Kevin is onto something. Rip your nail off (easier than it looks) and dig the wart out with a sharpened screwdriver. When you wake up, your problem should be solved. :D

Seriously, I've had warts that were stubborn and took more than a couple of treatments with the liquid nitrogen (c'mon it doesn't hurt that bad). But once gone, they were gone.

Can't think of anything more extreme than surgery.
 
From what I've read under the fingernail is the hardest place to deal with them.

Here's what's worked for me in the past. I haven't had any for some time.

Foot. Sharpen up a SAK. Cut a circle through the dermis around the wart. Grab the wart with a pair of vice grips. Yank it out. You should be prepared for a lot of blood. They seem to be well vascularised. My theory is that after this treatment the wart understands it is not wanted and does not come back. There may be a more scientific explanation though.

Arm. - Fill a styrofoam cup with liquid nitrogen. Dip in a Q-tip and apply to wart untill it is well frozen down to the root. You need to locate a source of LN2 though.

The placebo effect seems to work well with warts, hence the numerous folk remedies. My dad told me of curing my uncle. He said he had a surefire cure for warts, but it was secret. My uncle didn't believe him. My dad excused himself to go to the bathroom, washed his hands, then came back and mysteriously announced he was ready. Then he rubbed my uncle's wart and told him it would be gone in a week. It was, and he got a reputation as a shaman.
 
Howard Wallace said:
From what I've read under the fingernail is the hardest place to deal with them.

The placebo effect seems to work well with warts, hence the numerous folk remedies. My dad told me of curing my uncle. He said he had a surefire cure for warts, but it was secret. My uncle didn't believe him. My dad excused himself to go to the bathroom, washed his hands, then came back and mysteriously announced he was ready. Then he rubbed my uncle's wart and told him it would be gone in a week. It was, and he got a reputation as a shaman.
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Most of the "healer"paths I have read of stress the fact that the patient heals themselves . The healer is just there to help . There is no more destructive power or healing source than our ownselves . If we cut ourselves does it not heal ?

The only oogy boogy cure I know of involves a piece of cats tail and a quart of gin . You give the cat the quart of gin or its going to claw the hell out of you when you lop off part of its tail . L:O:L
 
i have one that involves a dead cat swung around the head seven times (make sure it's clockwise!) at midnite in a laurel grove - only problem is it only works on the eve of the summer solstice, which just passed, so you'll need to wait a year to try that one. Millie & Blue volunteered to provide the cat when you are ready.....

the duct tape method has been used for corns on doggie pads for ages, didn't know it might work for warts tho.

i had one removed with the nitrogen from my left thumb a few years back, the nurse was this little bitty 5 foot nothin' blonde sweetie, controlling yourself to look good in front of her was worse than any old 220lb female storm trooper. it never came back
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Stump-water, LOL!! Been reading Tom Sawyer? :D

About 6 years ago I had a bunch of flat warts on my shin that I just could NOT get rid of. Liquid nitrogen & Q-tip, that over-the-counter wart stuff, the "dig it out with an SAK" method (not recommended), the "cauterize blood supply with a lighter and a needle" method (also not recommended). Nothing worked. The warts fell off for a while but were back in a few months. I'm pretty stubborn but figured that maybe I should seek professional help.

I eventually went to a dermatologist, who listened patiently (if somewhat horrified-ly) as I told him what I'd tried so far, then gave me a bunch of little packets of some kind of stuff they use to treat people with, uh, genital warts. I rubbed it on my leg 2x a day for maybe a week. The warts all went away, and I have not had another one since.

Don't know what kind of stuff you've been given so far, but maybe you could ask if they have something stronger. Good luck! :)
 
When I was about 14 I removed from the bottom of my index finger near the second knuckle by ripping what I could out and then burning what was left with a piece of stainless welding rod heated to cherry red. Hurt like hell, but the wart didn't come back.

I have removed plantar warts for my son with garlic. I would cut a slice of garlic and taped it over the wart for 24 hours, and then replace it. After a couple of days, there was a blister (painless) that peeled off and took most of the wart with it. After about three of these cycles for each wart, they were gone and haven't returned.

LOTS of people swear by duct tape. Cut a piece large enough to completely cover the wart and leave it on all day. If you take it off for any reason, put a fresh piece on. The idea is to smother the wart. I don't know if you can get it to cover the wart completely under your nail. Maybe you can.

Another option is super glue. The reasoning is the same. Cover the wart and keep it covered and you will smother it. Just be sure that it is completely dry before picking your nose or taking a leak.:eek:

James
 
My Uncle Ray once got rid of one of my warts. Told me there was an old ndn lady that he would tell about it and told me to forget the wart, somehow I did and when I happened to think about it about three months later I looked and it was gone!!!!
I told Uncle Ray about it and he just grinned.
I kinda figured out later that there was no old ndn woman.:o
I wish I could be of help Bill.:(

Maybe if you forget about it?;)
 
My son had them, admittedly not under the nail though. We tried everything, and finally just went with the advice of a friend and taped it up. Not duct tape although that would certainly work, but just got a roll of regular bandage tape. He just made sure it was always covered, and changed the tape daily. No pain, it just went away.

Everyone is suggesting all these "rip 'em and cut 'em out" drastic measure, but all you have to do is read my response to Dan in the chigger thread and go with the MAPP torch and knife scraper and the problem will be solved. :D

Seriously, that's one problem I am glad I have never had.

Norm
 
Dandelion. Go find a fresh dandelion stem (I prefer the ones with seedheads, if the plant's helping you, you could at least help it sow its seeds), slit it open longways with your fingernail, so that you have a strip, and rub the insides all over your wart, and just let it airdry.

I did this to a stuborn wart on my heel. First the pain stopped, then the seed turned black and fell out. It took about three weeks, give or take, with maybe ten applications of dandelion. Compare that to twelve weeks of salicilic acid with no results.

My mother had had a stubborn wart under her toenail that had been there for years. I treated that with the Big D's juice, and she said it disappeared. I think it took three or four applications.

It may not work as well for everyone, but it sure helped my foot.

I had also read in the Foxfire book that you can cut the wart, put some blood from it on a penny, then throw the penny away and your wart would go away. But there's no scientific evidence to support that this works with any coin other than a penny. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Good luck, Take care.
 
at target and other stores now, you can buy a home freezing kit that has a little tube of some kind of compressed gas, and it concentrates it into a little tiny qtip like thing, brings the temp down to tissue killing levels, not as cold a LN2, but cold... doesn't especially hurt - i don't know where people are getting that from - stings for like a second - less than a chigger - and is "sore" for a day...

the instructions say "10-15 or whatever seconds", i do at least 30-45 seconds - skin turns white - frozen! then warms up to angry red, in two days it turns black then peels off. aggressive is me. the kit/brand i had was "wartner".

had some on my side of finger, on my toe, etc. keyword here being had. in one week, the scab/dead skin sloughed off and pink new skin underneath sans wart. literally 7 days. no blood, no worries.

so, in your case, i'd remove as much nail as i could, really trim it back, and hit it. you might feel it more being a fingertip, but just hold still, don't flinch, breath, and do it. if it's big/tough, try nibbling some of the dead surface skin off. if it's wide, you might have to overlap areas ({.)} perhaps.

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the dandelion trick sounds interesting. seasonal remedy. if fall/winter, i don't think i could wait. the duct tape method i tried for yucks - but i didn't want to wait 2 months either. i'm results oriented NOW i guess about that kinda thing.

bladite
 
I have a friend who kind of cut around a wart (top of big toe) wrapped some wire around it, and pulled it out. I guess it bled like crazy.
 
Sandpaper.

Sand it down to skin level.
The dead skin of the wart will get pushed out by
the growing skin surrounding it.
Sand it down every day.
i'd guess that the outer dead layer of our skin (Stratum Corneum )
anchors the dead wart tissue to prevent this 'out pushing'.
By retaining moisture, the tape treatment maybe softens this outer layer
to lessen the 'anchoring' effect to the wart
or maybe some other moisture benefit.

Do people whose hands stay in water a lot get warts?
does continual moisturizing prevent/eliminate warts?

hmm... maybe continual moisture allows the dead tissue of the wart
to just 'rot' or otherwise lose integrity--
as in the next post mentions the wart crumbling.

?

In any case,
the sandpapering works.

I also have used a disposable 2-blade razor to gently scrape off the top of the wart.
Also have used cheap rotary engraver with diamond point--
lets me get down below skin level a bit.

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