Anyone with planter wart experience? Update it is gone.

[yeahdisney]

DS went to the Podiatrist for inserts he has a flattish foot. She Treated the wart with a third round of Oral medicine and a special deodorant. It finally turned black last week and tonight in the shower he dug the rest of it off, yippee it's gone.


DS's podiatrist will be back Thursday, he has a Plantar wart on the bottom of his foot. He has two more days of medication from 30 day supply oral med and the special hypercare solution twice a day. The wart is smaller, more yellow and harder about .6 cm round. Should I try to make other appt to see the podiatrist have it removed or should we repeat the med? When DD got had one couple years ago it was almost gone in two weeks, we had her finish the med course, that time the doctor said we might have to repeat the med, she did not say that with this kid but I thought she probably knew I'd remember. DS it not running his best in soccer and I'm sure it hurts to walk. We hit Disney in about 12 weeks I'd like him not to be in pain at home or on vacation. The doctor should be back Thursday. I am worried has anyone repeated the med and then still needed it cut to be removed? That would put us close to vacation time with a healing foot area and we wish to swim, healthy. Thanks

 

[fitzy819]

I was a dancer and dance teacher a few years ago and often danced barefoot in the studio. This meant I often ended up with planters warts. I saw several podiatrists about them and had them cut out, frozen, and so on and they always came back. I finally saw a doctor who told me to make large batches of strong tea (several tea bags in the water) and soak my feet twice a day. I was skeptical but after about two weeks all of my planters warts were gone and I had had one of them for years!

I have no idea how this works but it worked for me and several others that I have told about it. It never hurts to try and the foot soaks felt wonderful after being on my feet all day.

Good luck!

 

[bdcp]

My DS used Dr. Scholl's plantar wart treatment. It's cheaper and easier than a Dr. and it worked. I would see a dermatologist and not a podiatrist for a plantar's wart, if necessary to see a Dr.

 

[Betsy82]

Duct tape.

No joke. I had some for years, cut small pieces of duct tape, put a band-aid over top and they were gone fairly quickly.

 

[fuzzlekins]

I had one when I was a kid. The doc gave my Mom some type of acid treatment for it. It was on my heel, which made it really difficult to walk. It didn't take very long for the wart to dry up on the edges and start to pull away from my skin. Then one day it just fell out. It left behind a crater but there was no blood and no pain once the center fell out. The crater of course went away eventually and it hasn't come back (it's probably been around 30 yrs). So I would say keep using a topical acid treatment and that should do the trick. I have also heard of the duct tape remedy though.

 

[angwill]

My son has has plantars warts on his foot and has warts on his hands and has for many years. We tried the over the counter freeze away and wart remover that did nothing. We have used duct tape and medication we put on them for 6 months and he just got more and the ones he had got bigger. He had them burned and it was extremely painful for him for a year and a half and when one would disapear another would how up. He is now getting a new treatment of putting bacteria under the wart with a needle. It is the least painful after the medication and tape but so far that is not working either. Poor kid is in soccer and cross country and it has not been fun for him at all. We had a subsitute nurse who told us her doctor told her that they go away in 6 years if you do nothing. I told her to find a new doctor because DS had them for well over 6 years and nothing works.

 

[angwill]

I was a dancer and dance teacher a few years ago and often danced barefoot in the studio. This meant I often ended up with planters warts. I saw several podiatrists about them and had them cut out, frozen, and so on and they always came back. I finally saw a doctor who told me to make large batches of strong tea (several tea bags in the water) and soak my feet twice a day. I was skeptical but after about two weeks all of my planters warts were gone and I had had one of them for years!

I have no idea how this works but it worked for me and several others that I have told about it. It never hurts to try and the foot soaks felt wonderful after being on my feet all day.

Good luck!

This is the only thing I think we have not tried but I am going to and hopefully we will get some results.

 

[Jerseyguy's Wife]

I had several large ones on the sole of my foot under my big toe. It made it very painful to walk, and it actually messed up the way I walk. We tried freezing, burning, and acid. None of these worked. What we ended up doing was killing them with ultrasound. It was painless, and it worked. It took awhile, but when the warts finally came out, they were just little black lumps. I pulled them out of the crater in my foot, but they bled minimally, and really didn't hurt that much at all. I can definitely tell you that the area hurt less with the crater than with the wart. Good luck.

 

[4 Ears]

Ooo, I got this one! TEA TREE OIL! Twice a day, every day!, cover with bandaid, apply oil directly and onto gauze of bandaid. Wary will eventually dry up and peel off. Will have a small hole until new skin fills it. I kept band aid on for a week or so cuz was sensative and didnt want infection. This after everything and more listed above. Teeny tiny bottle should be around $10, smells horrible but has worked!

 

[J3nn78]

I had about a dozen on my feet about 8 years ago. They were painful to walk on. I tried every home remedy and OTC remedy available and nothing worked. I went to a podiatrist. I saw her every week for close to 3 months for acid treatments. She would scrape off the dead tissue and poke acid in with a stick. It was the most painful thing (worse than childbirth) but they have been gone ever since.

 

[Jerseyguy's Wife]

Ooo, I got this one! TEA TREE OIL! Twice a day, every day!, cover with bandaid, apply oil directly and onto gauze of bandaid. Wary will eventually dry up and peel off. Will have a small hole until new skin fills it. I kept band aid on for a week or so cuz was sensative and didnt want infection. This after everything and more listed above. Teeny tiny bottle should be around $10, smells horrible but has worked!

Awesome. I'm surprised I didn't think of this (even though I didn't do it myself). I am a massage therapist who dabbles (okay, a bit more than dabbles) in aromatherapy and the medicinal use of essential oils. And I can honestly say, I put tea tree oil on damn near everything cause it's: antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial. It will kill just about anything.
Oh, and I like the smell of tea tree oil. Smells a bit like camphor, but then I was a nurse first, so I love medicine-y smells.

 

[shoney]

A few summers ago, I got several on both feet. It was painful to walk. I tried several over the counters. they were expensive and did nothing! I finally made an appt at a podiatrist and for 1 $20 co-pay, they froze them and they never came back!

If I were to get one again, I would run straight to the doctor and not buy any over the counter meds!

 

[Dopey420]

Many years on wrestling and martial arts mats for our family means we have lots of experience with plantar warts! They are very painful! The only way to treat them is at the podiatrist. We have tried everything: duct tape, over the counter meds, freezing, banana peel, tea tree oil, every home remedy that we could find.

Go to the podiatrist, get it burned off with the acid or the liquid nitrogen and it will heal quickly. Otherwise you are just extending the pain unnecessarily.

 

[kidshop]

Oregano oil. My dd had a rather large one, and I didn't want the treatment to hurt her. I had warts burned off in the past, and it really hurt. I bought Nature's way oil of oregano from amazon in capsule form and just broke them open and put in on the wart pretty much just at bedtime. I started on a Tuesday, with in a week and a half it just fell off, shriveled like a craisin! There was no damage to her skin. Duct tape didn't work, but apple cider vinegar applied started to turn it black before my shipment arrived.

I now keep oil of oregano on hand for any sort of skin ailment. It's great stuff!

 

[HM]

I've had one twice. First time in college. Went to student health once a week for a few weeks to have it frozen and scraped until the rest fell out. The second time, I went to my dermatologist to have it taken care of. Frozen and cut off there as well (two treatments).

 

[msaseifert]

Duct tape.

No joke. I had some for years, cut small pieces of duct tape, put a band-aid over top and they were gone fairly quickly.

I second the duct tape. Daughter had a huge one on side of her foot. Everyday, we let it breathe but everynight we soaked it, filed it with nail file to remove dead skin, put compound W on it, then covered it with duct tape. She slept with duct tape in it and then in the am we repeated....took about 7 days to be rid of it!

 

[Gigi22]

Had a plantar wart removed from the bottom of my foot years ago, so this was old school treatment. Dermatologist injected the bottom of my foot with freezing, cut out the wart, and cauterized the area around it. The most painful part was the injection.

 

[Ginny Favers]

This is my plantar wart experience:

I was 12 and had a little pin-prick bump on my foot. My mom thought it was maybe a splinter so she attempted to get it out with a needle. Bad move. Since we didn't know what it was, somehow it just kept growing and growing for a few months until it was the size of a dime. It not only grew wide, it grew out, until I could no longer walk on it. Finally, while I was getting out of the shower, I caught it on a towel and it fell off, taking the root with it, which was about 3/4" into the bottom of my foot. It began to bleed like a mother and did not stop bleeding for nearly a week-- it was just this giant hole in the bottom of my foot. Over 25 years later, I still have the scar.

So my only advice is, don't wait to do something about it.

 

[BLLB]

My DS had 2 which were treated by the dermatologist. A combination of topical medication and freezing.

 

[Judique]

I had one when I was a kid. The doc gave my Mom some type of acid treatment for it. It was on my heel, which made it really difficult to walk. It didn't take very long for the wart to dry up on the edges and start to pull away from my skin. Then one day it just fell out. It left behind a crater but there was no blood and no pain once the center fell out. The crater of course went away eventually and it hasn't come back (it's probably been around 30 yrs). So I would say keep using a topical acid treatment and that should do the trick. I have also heard of the duct tape remedy though.

More than 30 years ago, but basically the same experience! Salicylic acid - in a white paste form. Apply for several weeks and cover with a bandaid, and soak every day(15-20 minutes) and scrape away gently the dead skin then reapply acid and bandaid. Eventually the root pops out - it dries into a hard dark ball - very small, and there is a small crater left, but no more pain!!!!