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Consultation: Verrucas
Verrucas can be extremely painful and amazingly difficult to get rid of, although many can clear up on their own. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there are 8 million of us suffering from them at any one time! So it’s up to Dr Pixie McKenna to sort out these two patient’s verrucas when they visit her for a consultation.
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Hey, I'm 14 nearly 15 and have had verrucas every since i was like 10 and everytime they're gone they come back! and now it's just getting ridiculas. I've only just started using treatment again - bazuka that verruca. and basically it's usually failed in the past and judging by the above comments and info that I have googled just now (i've never actually looked them up before) cream does not work and i'm way too scared about the cutting situation! bleeding? sores? hurtingness? it's all too much for meeeee i'm not good with the idea of pain at all. i have 9 on my left foot and 1 on my right and haven't tried anything else apart from not long ago i tried freezing it with a home kit and that didn't work infact after that i've had loads pop up and never ever had this many...ever. Maybe i should go to a doctor? My mam says we should just see how they go for now and if within 4 weeks they don't leave (even though it says 12 weeks at the most) we're seeing a doctor :| oh nooooo :(
I first got a verucca on my right toe about 12/13 years ago, I tried all the chemist treatments with no success, now I have 5 on my right toe, 1 on the ball of my right foot and 2 on my left thumb. At the end of my tether after trying all chemist treatments I rang a chiropodist who has suggest Tea Tree oil, so I will try that and see what happens. Otherwise the chiropodist said i would have to go to my GP and be reffered to a skin specialist. I am truly fed up now after all this time and extremely embarrassed at the unsightly mess on my foot and thumb.
i'm 14 and ive noticed lately that i have loads of verucas on my foot.. ive tryed everything .. lately ive been filing them and it worked a bit but then they started to bleed so i stopped it! i dont no wat to do.
i have a verruca wich i have for about 5 years stood on a stone wich made me eassilyy cach it. 2 month ago i went to the doctors and got some acid stuff to put on. this makes it more painfull. and i also have to file it which causses more pain. reaccently though its starrted to bleed a lot when i treat it which is painfull as it feels like someones stabbing me. its not that bad and only one. but it deep
i have had a verrruca on the side of my left heel and on the bottom of my left foot for 3 years now i have tried wartner, had it frozen by liquid nitrogen at the hospital used a banana skin on it and they are not going away. My mam pears it off with a blade but 2 days later the crust comes back again i am really fed up off them i wud really be gratefull if you could help me solve this problem thanks.
I have had 7 verrucas on my right foot and 5 verrucas on my left foot for as long as I can remember and it all started off with just the one - but unfortunately they rapidly started to spread. I heard that rubbing a potato over them was supposed to cure them or a banana skin but really they were just old wives tales! I have been to the doctors and had them frozen and I have also used lots of treatments to try to cure them but absolutely none of them worked except one which had zinc in it. It cured the two verrucas on my right toe but unfortunately hasnt done anything to the others. Talk about annoying!
Hi...I have a verruca under my toe nail..I must have had it now for going on 4years...its very sore..and it keeps bleeding..I have had it frozen..acid on it..gels etc..nothin works..i went to the gp and they put me on a list to see an nhs chiropodist..I've been waitin to see someone for 3yrs..and finally last week i got in...she told me that the nhs can only provide me with 3 sessions to treat this verruca...she cut it off last week..boy that hurt...made it bleed tremendously..then wrapped it all up and next time she says shes gonna treat with acid..so again..will see if this works this time..mines in such an awkward place too...horrible little things arent they...
I've also had very persistent verrucas on one foot, the worst for something like 7 years. The usual gels have not made any difference. In desperation I got an appointment with a foot clinic: they removed much of the skin, and then suggested I use grey duct tape over them - you cut a piece to completely cover it, and then every 4-5 days take it off, allow it to dry and file the dry skin down. It sounds strange, but there have been clinical trials, and it works for some people. Whether it works by denying air to the verruca, or there is something antiseptic in the glue, they do not know, but if it works, why not try it? It hasn't cured mine (yet - after 3 months), but does seem to have shrunk them and, perhaps more importantly, stopped them from spreading.
Zinc supplements helped my skin heal after a nasty "nest" of veruccas on my heel. We treated it with proper verruca creams and kept the area covered with the little spongey corn plasters when in shoes. I used some diluted dettol to wipe down the inside of all my shoes to make sure it didn't get re-infected. I also washed all my socks on a "hot white wash" and regularly bleached the bottom of the shower to make sure I wasn't spreading them that way. In the end the creams helped shrink the verrucas and bring them to the surface but they were not going, so I had to dig out the little ball of verrucas from my heel with a pair of tweezers that i'd sterilised, and gave it a good wipe with savlon afterwards. It didn't hurt. Fingers crossed no more verrucas since. Clean your shoes....clean everything you stand on and keep it covered while you're treating it to stop them spreading - re-infecting.
hiya, im 14 nearly 15 and i have a verucca on my left foot which i have had for about nearly a year now and i have another one producing on my right foot in my tow where it bends where all the skin lines are. i need help to cure please ugently
