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Ok, fighting the wart again.

right now, my finger is taped up, I'm learning how to type with a taped up finger, and seriously?

Fucking OW.

"5. "C" what you can do. Vitamin C is mildly acidic, so it may irritate the wart enough to make it go away. Apply a paste made of crushed vitamin C tablets and water only to the wart, not to the surrounding skin. Then cover the paste with gauze and tape."

Mildly? MILDLY? I'm assuming it's because I already have been working on the wart that it now feels like...ya know, I don't know how to describe this feeling. It's almost like a fiery blade keeps piercing the open wound. Salt in an open wound, a kick in the nuts, you know. :-)

Oh well, I want the damned thing gone. And gone for good now, as I'm tired of it going away for a little bit, then coming back.

And no, this isn't a record for entries from me. Hell, I THINK i'm up to 5 or 6, and on my worst bored day at Anthem, I'm pretty sure that was 8.

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[sarcastibich.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the wart removal bandaids? I don't remember who makes them, but they have a special pad with a weak salicylic acid that helps get rid of warts. Salicylic acid pads are what my dermatologist prescribed for a wart on the ball of my foot when I was a kid. I'd wear them all day, then soak my foot at night and my dad would help me trim the dead skin away from the wart. It helped get the majority of hte wart gone, then a couple of liquid nitrogen treatments were used to kill off the root. As I understand it, the key to getting rid of a wart is to kill of the root/core. BUt then again, I'm just a lab monkey chemist, not the mad scientist.

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*nod* I've tried the bandaids (put out by two companies, actually), and the Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away. And, I tried a Duct Tape therapy I'd read about online that seemed to help. The problem, as you said, is the core. No matter what I've tried, the core seems to remain. This time, I'm going to try mixing several therapies...the acid band aids, the freezing, the Paste of Vitamin C, Duct tape...amongst all of it, fanatically, SOMETHIGN should work.

Hey, being a lab monkey chemist instead of the mad scientist can have its perks. Have you ever read Narbonic? :-P

http://www.narbonic.com

[dependonyou.livejournal.com]

Ugh, warts. I know how you feel all... too... well. ::nods and sighs:: I've been working at ridding myself of some SIX warts on my middle finger, left hand... for months now. Last year about Thanksgiving I had ONE wart there. Went to the DR, and she removed it... only for a sister an inch or so away to crop up a few months later. I bought Compound W for that, and for my thumb (the wart is in a WIERD place there), and my index finger on my right hand. I started putting on the Compound W. Know what happened? My middle finger wound up with SIX OR SEVEN warts all in a two inch area. >.< But now, finally, after constant application from the little tube, I think that I'm starting to get to the root. ZOMG does it hurt like a sonnofa... I mean, honestly. Cut you to the core, I feel it almost to my wrist sometimes it's so sharp. Not quite, but I'm sure you know what I mean. ::sends healing your way::

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*nod* Had this one for, well, a long time. I'd go back and see how many entries I've made on it, but I don't know that I want to sift through that many entries.

I've tried several efforts to get rid of it, and the duct tape thing seemed to work well for a bit, the strips seemed to help, the freezing also seemed to help. But, none of them are getting the core. Grrr...argh. :-)

so, this time, it was a solution/idea i found online. And, it worked, but makes typing a bitch, and since my job is typing up tickets for people with problems, that made it a bit worse.

S'far as them coming back, multiplied, basic idea I've read is that it's very persistent, so touching it with other fingers can do that (I guess I'm lucky it hasn't gone to my thumb, or nail). This one is RIGHT where my finger hits the f key, so every f key I hit is a little bit of joyous pain. (no, not a masochist, that I'm aware of anyways).

It's just annoying. :-) I need fewer physical annoyances in my life, and that one I can actually control, to a greater or lesser extent.

Thank you. :-)

[dependonyou.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about touching them. Good to know. I'm lucky the one on my thumb hasn't gone under the nail. You know where some people pick at the skin of their cuticles? Right at the corner, basically? Yea, imagine the intire inside of my cuticle from the corner at least half way down the side of the nail. I had it for a month or two before I realized "hey, this isn't a cut that won't heal... this is a wart! Eww!" I'm soooo glad it didn't spread under the nail where I can't get it.

I don't know why the ones on my middle finger (palm side, joint of finger to palm) multiplied. I never touch there, unless my hands are clasped at least. Only other time I can think of is when pressing on the medicine to 'feel the burn', but then I'm not touching the skin, just the layer of medicine. ::shuts up now::

I hope yours go away soon, and mine too... The one on my palm side is particularly annoying/painful. Usually when I drive...

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*nod* That's what the sites say, the problem is, it's almost impossible NOT to touch them. I've taken count of how many time my fingers touch my arm, or leg, and that's a pretty high number. *nod* So, that basically means warts suck. :-P

Well, the comment with meds, freeze away, or such, is that you throw the applicator away and don't touch it, as the skin that sheds there can still pass the warts around.

It seems to be. I might recommend the whole "crushed Vitamin C" paste to you. :-)

[goldstep.livejournal.com]

There is a skin irritant technique I've been using lately. I realize it's a blister treatment that I'm applying to this, but I think we used it on a wart my brother had once when he was about 10 (so I was 6 and remember it vaguely). I can't get it to work on the sides of my feet because it involves too much tape to get it right, but it works on the huge ones that make up the entirety of my little toes.

Yes tape. The sterile tape from the drug store. Wrap just tightly enough that you are slightly in pain -- it subsides in a few minutes. Only unwrap if you are putting something on it, it gets too wet, or if you are disguised by the color the tape is turning (it starts to look like black sock fuzz for me) and then just rewrap it asap.

Less pain. No new blisters. And gets bloot to the area to fight infections. So in the case of warts, I belive it causes them to get just enough white blood cell attention or something.

Meh, it's not good but it is better than cutting it out.

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*nod* This sounds similar to the Duct Tape therapy I was using for a while, and am still tempted to use. I'm wondering if I can make all three of these treatments work well, but we'll see.

Yeah, much better than cutting it out, but the temptation when it comes back..:-P