Remove Warts (Painfully)

Remove Warts (Painfully)
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So its summer again, and for me that meant sandals, and with sandals came a wart. I had a wart once before a few summers ago from wearing sandals and used those different treatments compound w, freezing, etc. However, none of them seemed to work as quickly or effictively as I wanted. Even after weeks of using compound w the thing had only shrunk a bit, so I created my own method, did it once and the wart was gone.
 
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1. Paper towels
2. Big toenail clippers (I think you know where I am going with this)
3. Bandaids
4. Disinfectant of some kind
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Jan 5, 2012. 6:51 PMilpug says:
Apply medical iodine to it a few times a day for about a week and it should shrink away to nothing.
Aug 26, 2011. 1:16 PMsskaar says:
naw this doesnt work at all i tried this before reading this and i used bleach with q tip and shoved it in the hole now its back in less than 3 months and it is twice as thick with two heads
Nov 29, 2011. 9:03 PMrbaca1 says:
bleach is a base, the exact opposite of an acid, the home acid you might be searching for is vinegar, or battery acid. though i'm not saying either of these will work, i've cut a wart out of my arm once, not very painful if you use a sharp tipped knife... also, little tip, do it in the shower to prevent a messy cleanup. once you cut about halfway around the base the whole thing is pretty easy to get a hold of, just put a washcloth in your mouth, hold tight and rip... tweezers to clean the remaining skin and a patch of gauze soaked in rubbing alcohol and neosporin should do the trick.
Oct 14, 2011. 4:46 PMcmcfarlane says:
I did this and it bled everywere, iv had it for like a year. ITs been burn off twice and iv also used over the counter products and nothing has worked. Fingers crossed this works :)
May 17, 2011. 10:21 AMGolem100 says:
My grandmother taught me a way to remove warts. I can use it but, unfortunately, I can only reveal it to a granddaughter of mine, of which there are none. If I tell anyone else, it will no longer work for me. And yes, it has worked.

As a side note, my grandmother also told me how to "talk fire out" and how to stop a cut from bleeding by saying words over it, however, I forgot how to do both of those.
Sep 13, 2011. 7:51 PMdsaik says:
If you're going to comment, please add something useful to this discussion.
Sep 27, 2011. 1:40 AMVirtuous says:
They definitely didn't say anything wrong and I enjoyed reading their comment. That was un-called for.
Sep 10, 2011. 7:46 PMbuilderofmanythings says:
I've always used the old nail and torch trick. I take a pair of pliers and hold the nail and heat it real hot. It doesn't hurt to much till I burn through the wart (since there are not any nerve endings in the wart) and when I feel the burn, I've gone far enough. This is the only way I've found that works for me, but if someone wants to try this I've heard the fumes from this process can cause warts in the nose if inhaled, so be carfull
Sep 6, 2011. 8:19 AMnobbsy123 says:
I have had problems with warts in the past. i tried filing them down with a nail file. The best bet is to use some acid. Acid kills the skin in the wart and the skin changes colour to a sort of weird browny colour then the skin falls off once the skin under it forms. There is no scarring and it only stings for a few minutes. I did this with battery acid.
May 30, 2011. 9:27 AMmde guzman says:
Hi, well , if ur a swimmer like me, chlorine will kill it. Also, most herbs or plants that humans use have a tendency to mess around with ur body, so GOOD LUCK!!!
May 9, 2011. 1:02 AMcjagielski says:
All u need to do is get some tinkture of benzoin, medical adhesive and a week or two of time. What u do is: Take a shower, dry the wart off after u get out, thoroughly apply tincture of benzoin and completely cover with the medical adhesive for the rest of the time until your next shower, then jjust before your next shower, remove tape and do it all again. U should start being able to pick chunks off after 5 days or so. . . Ew it's so gross dealing with plantar/common warts but it does feel good to kill them! Oh and this is a ZERO PAIN technique
May 8, 2011. 6:08 PMtcamp says:
when i was little i had 5 or 6 on all 10 of my fingers. i got tired of them and i picked mine off with my fingers. they never bleed or scared, inever had problems with them since then.
Mar 27, 2011. 3:24 PMjadam1 says:
lol I do this all the time, for even more effect, take a long shower before and get it really soft. The top will come off easy and the rest is soft and easy to kill
Mar 26, 2011. 6:18 AMHaileyBop1821 says:
Ok so i have a way to get rid of them for good and it doesnt envolve any clippers blood, and its pretty much painless. Take a hot shower so that the wart gets soft. After u take a shower put compound w on the wart, let dry. Then when thats dry u take a nail file. You would think this part hurts but it really doesnt. File the compound w off and the dead skin on the top of the wart. Continue to do this everyday for about a week. This is what i did when i had one on my ankle, it was gone, and has never came back! I did try the more painfull rout on my knee, by going to the doctor and having it burned off, not froze, It was effective but man oh man did it hurt! Not to mention i have a scare the size of my finger nail there now. So try out my method it worked for me maybe it will work for u! :)
Mar 4, 2011. 2:35 PMjmather-1 says:
I've had plantar warts but have been able to get rid of them similarly but always used mediplast, just use this technique: http://wartsplantarwarts.com/ I have had a small go away in 3 weeks.
Nov 27, 2010. 8:34 AMTH3MAST3R says:
I had a wart and i froze it and "dremeled" it(talk about pain) and it went
Jul 18, 2008. 12:08 AMratnator88 says:
lol i got pissed off with a wart once and ended up cutting at it with a kraft knife
Nov 15, 2010. 7:08 PMgps93 says:
I have done the same, it grew back, the dermatologist tried. It has grown back.
Jul 20, 2010. 7:20 PMRUSH752 says:
Well, I actually have a WART on my index finger, on top of my knuckle [talk about omens...] and am seriously thinking about trying the plier technique...I've already got everything prepped....the Soapy warm water for soaking my hand and for the sterilization of the equiptment, which I also have ready... ALSO, I've already taken all dead-skin from around the wart itself, and now only have the task of actually REMOVING the blasted Viral-Balloon that thought my knuckle was a good place to land...Ahem. I WILL SURELY LET YOU KNOW IF I SUCCEED WITH MY HANDY NEEDLE-NOSE PLIERS... --Frustrated ps. I've had this thing for over 2 years now. 8- |
Jul 3, 2010. 10:16 PMforwardbias says:
Airduster can, use a hollow q-tip, works well, electricty also works well, current will kill the wart and bad skin with the virus, with high frequency AC, it dont hurt, other than the wart you want to kill. Freezing can hurt though, and cutting, that leads to scars, and if you are not carefull, you need to go to the ER for stiches, and warts can travel through blood, you get blood everywhere, and just cause more warts. Freeze them, or use electricity. Simple drivers are online for wart zappers, they up a 9 volt DC supply, stepped up to over 100 volts low current. It will sting, but it works. It burns and kills the living cells infected with HPV, which HPV needs living cells to spread. Kill those living cells, the virus dies off with no living cells to replicate, and new normal tissue grows through skin regeneration. Dont let a wart on your finger f*ck up your date with someone, fry that f*cker with electricity!!! There is no gain without pain, sadly with warts, if you freeze them off or burn them off with electricity, its going to hurt. Warning: I said low current, dont touch an end of a 120 outlit cord to your wart, as it will kill more than just your wart, 15A short circuit amperage. That will kill you. Afew hundred volts to afew thousand, at low current below 9mA is good wart killer stuff. A plasma globe wrapped in foil, direct the arc to your wart while barefoot on good ground. It might hurt and your wart will smoke, but it will kill it!!! Make sure to burn holes into every part of the wart, to cauterize all blood vessils to the wart. When cauterized, blood cant go to the wart, it shrivels up, and dies, and normal skin grows.
Jun 14, 2010. 5:13 AMkazumz says:
Best way to remove: You need: Nail Clippers, Small ones. Salt Tissue, Lots of it! Balls to manage pain. I had one right up my nose, it was un-noticable, I left it for about 3 years but then I had enough when it decided to spread closer down my nostrel so It was starting to become noticable, One day I decided to use the Ol' Methodio of removing it yourself, I dont like the doctors personally. I got the clippers right on it and Squose slowly and steadily, It was VERY painful, my eyes were watering and because of the pain being caused in my nose I was sneezing from the reaction. I got half of it off only to see that I needed to finish it off, It was only a small thing and was easily grippable by the clippers, So I squose again sneezing and eyes watering pain blistering and blood everywere, Got it off. I then Put pressure on it with tissue to stop the bleeding, I then remembered that ofcourse it can spread through blood and infection so I ran downstairs and grabbed the salt, put a little on my finger and rubbed it in, then I washed my hands in hot water to get rid of seeds. A week later and it has gone light brown, I decided to give it a whipe where it had been and to my surprise 90% of it has gone and not regrown, A little bit still hangs there but It it grows again so will that get ripped out too. Dont forget to wash your Clippers afterwards, hands and all. You dont want a wart appearing under your toenail do you? By the way, there was a CRAPLOAD of blood, so be careful.
Feb 13, 2010. 9:54 PMboodlehead79 says:
About a year ago, I noticed a round, scaly, hard growth on the outside of my left ankle. Well, being a picker of flesh-wounds by nature my whole life, I picked and picked at it.  Then one day, I nicked the very top of it off while I was shaving my legs, and it bled and bled and bled. Once the scab healed, the raised scaly growth came back just like it had before.  This time I was obsessed; I knew something was out of the ordinary, and all I could think of was physically cutting out whatever the hard round orb was under my skin. At first, my mother examined it and told me it was not a wart, but a wynn (sp?) (a raised area of the epidermis filled with clear, puss-like fluid that you can pop with a pin, and it will flatten, for a while, anyway).  About a month ago, I tried this by picking apart a brand-new safety razor, sterilizing the blade, and cutting around the growth, and found that it was not a wynn, for no puss came out, but lots of bright red blood, instead.  I was certain at this point that this was a wart. I cut and cut and dug and dug under and around it, digging out all I could, leaving a big bloody pool on the floor around my foot, the white towel I used had turned scarlet, and every surrounding area for that matter was smeared with blood, as if a massacre had occurred.  After, It felt as if the wart was gone at first, then the scab formed and healed, and now, the wart is back just like it was before I did anything.  I lost my job and benefits due to the economical woes of the past two years, so I have no insurance for a professional to remove it. That is why I came to this website.  And I will sterilize and cut until the day I dig this SOB out!!!  Thx for any suggestions ya'll may have, if you have them.  I will gladly try them.
Apr 28, 2010. 10:39 PMBerkin says:
Oh, that sounds horrid! Hope you manage to dig it out eventually. ;)
Mar 19, 2010. 2:18 PMsilencekilla says:
why do u shave ur legs dude only girls do that
Apr 9, 2010. 9:46 AMboodlehead79 says:
I'm not a dude. ringmeat. I am A FEMALE. Pay attention and read for context clues, doofus.
Jan 14, 2011. 12:06 PMyeolddingdong says:
he messed up BIG time
Dec 25, 2007. 8:52 PMDisconnected says:
Merely clipping isn't enough for a deep wart. Plantar warts are the worst. You have to kill the roots in order to get rid of it permantently. A bottle of fine whiskey and a good hot soldering iron should do the trick. :)
Dec 26, 2009. 12:18 PMCapnTac says:
I had some on the bottoms of my feet a couple of months ago, I just repeatedly using some acid that my dad got sbout a year ago, and then dug them out with some nail clippers. Didn't hurt too bad,
Jan 25, 2009. 11:30 PMhoihoi151 says:
he is right merely cliping isnt enough. do wat i did. get out the old pocket knife sharpen her up. make a square cut around the wart, tilt it, and slice underneath the roots. oh u will know when the roots have ended when blood starts pouring out of ur foot. i have done this twice now. didnt know how much blood there was goin 2 b, ruined the carpet. if u dont have a strong immune system make sure 2 clean everything b4 during and after.
Feb 25, 2009. 12:25 PMninicraftone says:
There's no need to cut it at all... just shave down the top outer layer with clippers or a nail file and then.. start picking at the wart with your fingernails... pick and pull and twist it a bit when you get it separated from the surrounding skin. Keep going with the picking and twisting and pulling until the wart is very loose.. At this point it will start to bleed a bit and become tender while you pull at it... You're getting close now... persistence pays off... when the wart seems like it's hanging on by a thread give a final tug and twist and 'voila' you will be holding your wart in your fingers and there will be a deep hole where it used to be. Watch out for the copious blood flowing out of that hole... Have something handy to absorb it!
Jul 6, 2009. 2:40 AMredneckjaybyrd says:
I had a wart on my finger several years ago and just took a pair of pliers and yanked it out and it pulled the roots out along with it, before that, I tried cutting it several times but it kept coming back bigger every time, the pliers was a permanent fix, the roots were just over a 1/4 inch long.
Sep 22, 2008. 9:35 PMyallrfags says:
oh man a couple of years back i had 3 of them in one foot that i left and hoped they would go away by themselves... well they didnt and i ended up having to get them burnt out by a doctor. ever since then i have had 3 almost 1/4 inch holes in the bottom of my foot. if you dont think that i very deep get out a ruler and compare to your foot!
Dec 14, 2009. 7:10 PMnotagain09 says:
As a little girl I had a 3 warts.  One on the top of my main nuckle on my finger, one on the knuckle that joins your finger to your hand, and one under my pinky fingernail.  I had them frozen off at the doctors.  I remember a sting here and there, I guess that was when he was hitting individual roots, but overall not too bad of an experience.  Haven't had one since and they never came back.

Now that I am in my 30's, I haven't dealt with this in what, 20 years?  I just realized this week that the "dry skin" on the edge of my thumb is not just dry skin that I have been picking at for about 6 months.  It's a wart that grew into two with a split inbetween.  I noticed this because after a bath one night last week, I looked at my thumb after soaking for a while and it was clear with black lines all in it.  UGH!  Anyway, after reading all over the internet for resolution, I soaked mine in very hot hot water, and started clipping away until I didn't see any black lines with brand new clippers that I will eventually throw away.  The bleeding started, and I dried my finger off.  Then I heavily applied clear fingernail polish,  to the entire area which I will re-apply for a few days until I see deadened skin from the wart not being able to breathe.  I will then soak it again in very hot water and repeat the process until it is gone from the root.  I will also try the duckt tape if this doesn't work in a week or two.  Luckily the polish didn't sting.  I just knew with that raw area that it would hurt, but it didn't. 

Will come back often to let you know how it goes.  :)
 
Oct 21, 2009. 8:21 AMJodex says:
Works. I have done this before...
Jul 31, 2009. 5:25 PMCat on my Lap says:
I recently tried to self-apply liquid N2. I've never gotten frostbite or outright frozen tissue before. It wasn't so bad at first, but once it started to thaw out...that was painful. Speaking of pain, ice the area for a while to reduce blood volume and numb the pain. Has anyone tried application of Coke? It has a pH of ~2, due to the phosphoric acid content, I imagine it'd be a potent exfoliator.
Jul 18, 2009. 9:42 PMJR737 says:
If you have a wart that won't go away, seek professional help. Attempting to remove it by cutting can cause serious medical complications such as infection. It is dumb and unsafe to remove warts and moles by yourself.
May 21, 2009. 10:40 AMdannapaola27 says:
yeah that wont do i have a BIG WART !!!! i cant remove it anybody got any ideas well i used dr.skols medicine for my little warts and yeah you have to go deeper to kill the roots yours is so small u should see mine its like 2 cm long !! god i hate it !!! ohh 1 more ? did it take of ? (by the way if any other people are w/ u the blood r like seeds if someone touched the blood a wart will grow on their hand it happened to me now i have 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 26, 2009. 7:42 PMshortE says:
look at the related videos and do the first 1 may seem stupid but it works
May 21, 2009. 10:33 AMdannapaola27 says:
omg i cant watch it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 12, 2009. 5:56 PMRCS82 says:
Compound W Extra Strength and a scalpel. Use the compound w to deaden the skin for a few days, cut off dead skin with scalpel, repeat. This worked for me to get rid of a particularly deep plantar wart. Ended up only a little bit painful at the end, but by that point I was about 5mm under the surface of the skin.
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