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Remove Warts (Painfully)

Step 2Remove the wart

Remove the wart
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Before you do anything disinfect everything the wart, the clippers, your hands, etc. The first time I didnt use any, and I paid for it ... with my life! (luckily I had a few extra lives chained up in my basement, and when satan came a knockin he gladly took three of them in exchange for mine)

Set the paper towels down where you will do your "surgery", since warts have a tendancy of bleeding like one of the hemophiliac children I give papercuts to for fun.

Put the clippers around the wart and clip, and clip some more, and some more. Dont stop until it is a bloody mess, and then clip some more. You really want to make sure you got everything, or else you will have to do it again. The part of the wart that is raised above the skin will normally not hurt when you clip it because there are no nerve endings in it, but once you clear that it will hurt a bit, but only a bit.

Stop crying, apply more disinfectant, and put the bandaid on. Your done.
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29 comments
May 16, 2012. 7:23 AMMissSweetyLulu says:
I just followed this procedure...I hope it goes for good.
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 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.
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.
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!
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
Dec 21, 2008. 7:55 PMTheCorsairMalack says:
Finally! Everyone I know always stares at me like I'm crazy when I say that if I've got a mole or wart or whatever, that I just cut it off. You, my friend, have just received a cookie.
Aug 26, 2008. 11:59 PMjasontimmer says:
I've got a great way to make this painless- get a hold of some lidocaine solution (I have my sources) and some insulin syringes (not used, of course!) Inject 2 ml underneath the wart. You've got about 30 minutes of numbness. I had my girlfriend do this for me when I had to cut open a deep ingrown hair on my elbow. I couldn't feel a thing as she sliced it open with a scalpel. Alternatively, you could hold an ice cube on the wart for a while until it went numb.
Aug 27, 2008. 7:40 AMj626no says:
where can you get insulin syringes if you arent diabetic?
Aug 27, 2008. 9:24 PMjasontimmer says:
Well, I work at a hospital, but I bet you could find them if you did some searching, either from a friend that's diabetic or in the healthcare field, or on the internet. Even when I wasn't working in healthcare, I never had a problem getting my hands on that stuff.
Jun 28, 2008. 10:53 AMgarden burger says:
i tried this one last year on a wart on my toe. it hurt a lot and the wart grew back. I tried to cut out the root of the wart. i tried freezing it of with a kit twice. its still here
Jul 1, 2008. 5:09 AMlast_decoy says:
a mate of mine did the following.. same as above, however used pure acetone. if i ever get a wart i will not try any of this!! sounds painfull as!
Sep 30, 2006. 4:51 PMjeebee says:
Put Lemon coat cut into piecies into vinegar. Keep in the dark for 7 or 8 days, then apply a piece off the lemon coat (white side in) onto the wart. Change it every day until the wart falls off by itself (may still need help in a few cases). Many plants produce a milk like liquid which dries warts. I used both solutions many times. The second solution is quicker, but may hurt a bit (burn sensation).
Jun 16, 2008. 2:23 AMPrometheus says:
Milkweed has been shown to be effective to remove warts...
Mar 28, 2008. 8:12 PMrobdbeal says:
I'd be very careful when it comes to the milky sap from most plants. The milky sap is a lot of the time a very poisonous substance. Sometimes it can cause anything from blindness to intense vomiting or even death.
Aug 30, 2008. 7:09 PMJamesRPatrick says:
Like, in a jungle? I've never seen anything that dangerous in the states. I'm not even allergic to poison ivy.
Jan 25, 2009. 11:36 PMhoihoi151 says:
we have one worse in northern australia. the 'stinging tree' the plant produces tiny glass like shards that have backwards facing spikes, brushing up against this plant will stick thousands of these shards in2 ur skin. the then leach in a poison causing xtream pain. these shards r near impossible to remove and there r cases where the side effects have lasted for more than a year.
Aug 30, 2008. 7:10 PMJamesRPatrick says:
That's it! I should try poison ivy!
Jun 16, 2008. 2:24 AMPrometheus says:
When you eat them, not when you put them on your skin.
Mar 29, 2008. 12:33 PMjeebee says:
Yes, many do, but these plants I talked about have been known for ages to cure wasps. I've used them many times with success and no side effects.
Sep 26, 2007. 10:17 PMcoerul says:
What's simpler and less bloody is putting apple cider vinegar on a bandaid or gauze with tape and repeat every day until the wart is gone. This is much less bloody and less painful. I don't think I could handle mutilating my skin. D:
Sep 26, 2007. 6:51 PMbillybob345 says:
yeah i did that once I cut it off with a razor blade it was fast and easy and it diden't hurt because there was not any nerve endings in the wart. but i did not go down far enough. So i used some wart remover on the open wound IT HAS TO BE OPEN or else it will not get in and disolve then a couple of days later it was gone. no more wart!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 9, 2006. 2:41 AMnak says:
I did the same thing with a mole
Apr 11, 2007. 6:18 PMoxdeltaxo says:
Dude if that mole was cancerous you could have been taking a big risk.
Oct 19, 2006. 7:48 PMzofo300 says:
wat...ouchie
Aug 13, 2006. 3:52 PMtoothless says:
You taped a mole to your wart?

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