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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I also use incense for wart removal. Light the stick and push it into the skin for burning. It worked well for the wart on my hand, but did not do the trick for the wart on my toe. After getting frustrated, I just cut it out. hurts to walk but getting better. Day 3 now.
The wart on my finger loostened up when I burnt it with the incence, allowing me to pull it out, with a little effort. The wart on my food it was heavily attached to the surrounding skin and would not loosen. Hence the cutting.
Wart #1 on the bottom of my foot appeared and became very painful to walk on. I wasn't willing to pay a doctor fee just so i could be squeemish. I sharpened my leatherman knife blade sterilized it and a the pliers over a candle. Dipped both in ice water and then alcohol and washed my whole foot thoroughly. I used the knife blade to cut about 1/8 inch around the edge of the wart. I then used the pliers to pull the wart from my foot. The root was close to a half inch long. I held "sterile" gauze over the bleeding firmly while I heated the knife blade on the candle to near red hot and removed gauze while quickly carterizing the hole created. The hillbilly surgery as I call it took about 5 days to heal completely. That was 3 years ago and I have not had a problem since then.
Wart #2 and #3 I have had as long as I can remember. #2 on knuckle of my index of my index finger had a tendency to be sensitive to the touch so I removed it today with toenail clippers and I'm quite sure I got the root. It bled a lot but I cleaned and bandaged it.
Wart #3 may lead many of you to believe I'm insane. It's on the fingerprint side of my right thumb and I would not trade it for the world. It never hurts and acts as sort of a callous when working or a stylus on my touchscreen phone.
In conclusion I don't think clipping/cutting off warts is a bad idea. So long as you do it right. And each person is different. I almost never get sick and heal at a near odd rate.
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.
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. :)