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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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I have 2 verrucas on my left foot and 5 on my right foot! There absolutely horrible! All though i must say they arent as bad as the people on the video's, i still get emmbarrased by them. I have missed 2 gymnastics lessons because of them but i HAVE to do it next week. Im dreading it! Im scared people will spread rumours about me, thinking its from poor hygeine! Verrucas are just annoying!!!
I have over 20 verucas on one foot and have been having every trastment possible. Th doctors have tried for over 4 months and nothing is workng. They say I have a poor immunine system. The crotherapy is very painful. I was willing to go through it but again it isnt working. Unless you have gone through it you can't understand the pain and embarrasement
hello,
i have a verruca on my foot for about a year and a half ive read stories that it goes by itself but it hasnt so what will be good for me to use onit to help i go as i want ot gone byu christmas time.
At my GPs' surgery there is a wart nurse, but she only treats warts that are not on the feet, i.e. not verrucas. If you have verrucas you just get a little slip telling you how to do the DIY duct tape remedy, which doesn't always work.
I am 23, and like most people i have tried gels, homapathic remedies ect but the verrcuaswont budge!
However after using, this sounds weird, urine on my verruca it almost amediately fell out!
good method, if you don't mind using wee on your foot!
hi there people. i have had verrucas on both my feet for a long while, about 16 in all. there are two big ones which keep bleeding and i dont know what to do about them. it was only recently when i went to my gp and asked her about it that she said that actually i didnt have any verrucas just the mark left over. if ya wanna check to see whether you just have the remaning 'scar' just soak the foot/hand in warm water and them with tweesers or a scalpal (i got one at uni for my med degree) try and find the blood supply ( the black dot) in the fleshy bit of the verruca. if it hurts it is good cos it means that the flesh is alive and there is no verruca there. i really hope this helps . xx :D
Hi There i had a verruca for about 2 years (3years ago) got rid of it, well at least i though i had. one appeared about 8 months ago in the same place (on the heel of my foot) i treated it a few times over the last 2 months. i though it was going. i hadnt caught it or anything was just sitting reading a book, and i felt a very wet feeling beneath my foot. my verruca had just poored with blood. it wouldnt stop so i quikly got a cold compress of cotton wool and cleaned it up. raised my leg above my heart and left it there for ten meinutes but it still was gently pumping out blood, so i raised my legt for ten more minutes and that seemed to have given enough time for the plateletts time to dry.. it bled again but not as much about 15 hours later. im not sure if this is anything to worry about.. but i cannot find any information online about it.
ive had a verruca for about 8 months and ive tried to hide it. and whilst filing my feet to caught it and now it is bleeding. ive stemmed the bleeding but now im worried what to do next.
Hello.
I'm 31 and I had verucca's on my right foot as well as on my fingers for about five years. I'd been going to the wart clinic at my doctors once every four weeks as well as using Bazucca gel in between.
However recently I read somewhere (can't remember were I read it) that tea tree essential oil was suppose to be good at getting rid of them. So whenever I'd washed my hands and especially at night I dabbed some on all the verucca's.
After about three or four weeks they just disappeared. whether it was coincidence and they were disappearing anyway I don't know, but now you wouldn't even know I'd had them.
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It worked for me!!!
Hi guys. Just thought I'd add something here. I had a wart on my finger like some of you guys and had it frozen loads of times – made no difference. I tried "Cuplex Gel" and it worked a treat! The whole thing just came off. The same with my girlfriend too – was pretty impressive. Have a deep varucca on my foot though and it wasn't so effective with that. Worth trying on the finger though. Good luck!