Can I remove my own plantar wart?!
Question: I have a fairly large (about dime sized) plantarwart on the bottom of my foot. I'm trying an over the counter freeze off product but my foot is throbbing with pain. I work a job that requires me to walk on a concrete floor for 12 hours a day in steel toe boots. Is it safe to remove these things on your own? I'm desperate!
Answers: I have a fairly large (about dime sized) plantarwart on the bottom of my foot. I'm trying an over the counter freeze off product but my foot is throbbing with pain. I work a job that requires me to walk on a concrete floor for 12 hours a day in steel toe boots. Is it safe to remove these things on your own? I'm desperate!
OMG u let it go wayyy to far. With a plantar wart... as the name implies... its not a REGULAR wart.. it deeply PLANTZ itself into your foot. And the size that you are describing , I would probably take every 2 weeks for 3-6 Months of doing a freeze to get all the way down. All that hardness is dead skin, to get at the bottom roots.. you have to kill it from top to bottom.. which means killing top layers and eventually get to the root. IT WONT happen in a MONTH. Even with that size... thats HUGE MAN> I know I had a plantar wart on my heel .. and I really didnt do anything about it until it started hurting. Mines was nowhere as big as yours and I needed 3 seperate treatments , 1 month apart before it finally disappeared.
IF you cannot go to the DOC.
I would ..
Every 2 weeks do your freeze thing.
In between that , get the sycllic acid crap they use for warts and apply once or twice a day and keep the area covered with a square inch of duct tape. One the freeze gets in the deepest fastest.. but the size will require multiple applications, two the liquid mecince will help keep eating away at it and the duct tape has a low dose of the same acid on the ahdesive to keep it constantly battling the wart.
This method , I think it will be about 3-6 mo , like I said... before it will be gone.
As it gets smaller, the pain will not be as severe... its probably getting to a point were its hitting your nerves... and thats what the pain is.
You can remove as many layers as you want,as many times as you want,taking a chance on infection each time,but it will always,always come back until the condition causing it is taken care of.
My husband jerked around with his for about twenty years,then finally gave up and went to the Dr.,who removed it and re-positioned the bone causing it.A plantar wart is not actually a wart at all,by the way,but an extremely thick,deep callous.
He was on crutches for a few weeks,and recovery lasted six weeks.