Planters Wart
So... I have a plantars wart on my heel. At first I thought maybe I had stepped on something like a splinter, but then I showed my mom and she figured out it is a wart. This little bastard is really painful. I can run ok, but my heel will be really tender for the rest of the day. How do I get rid of this thing? I have seen freezing kits and over the counter stuff with salicylic acid. My wife suggests rubbing garlic on it (she is into natural remedies).
I will also mention that back when I thought it was a splinter or glass I took a knife to the area and dug around trying to find something. Did I do anything that will make it harder to treat it? Please help!
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I had one a while back. I tried all the OTC stuff....no luck. I ended up going to the podiatrist who had put the industrial strength acid on it every night. Then about every week or so, I would go into the office to have him cut away the dead skin.
It has been a little over two years and it hasn't come back yet.
Joe
The OTC stuff might not get deep enough to kill the root and it will just drag out the process longer.
We finally got into the skin Dr. and they applied blister beetle juice, (don't remember the chemical name) to cause an inflammatory reaction. They paint this gel on and 2-3 hours later you need to thoroughly wash it off. After 2 hours the wart area had a half dollar sized blister on it and was extremely painful. By morning it was slightly larger, but about 3/4" of inch thick.
I tried to drain the fluid, but the patient wasn't very keen on my use of a needle on her foot. She could not walk on it, so off to the convenience care Dr we went. The Dr. numbed the area, drained the blister and for good measure proceed to cut the wart head off. Not a good day for my daughter as the topical numbing didn't work on the underlying tissue.
After the wound healed, we continued with the salicilic acid patches as directed by the skin dr. After two more months, the wart was declared gone.
Our daughter's Dr. basically called the treatment medieval. You can freeze it, use a chemical burning agent or surgically cut it out. Our daughter wouldn't go for freezing and the beetle juice stiff seemed less invasive. It wasn't, but it worked.
Sorry for the long way around here. Just wanted to paint the realistic picture of how it may go. Get it while it's small though.
My suggestion....pour some 'Tussin on it!
But in my family is was that red liquid antiseptic.....mercurochrome(I know I'm dating myself). My Mom used it for everything! My younger brother and I crack-up talking about that now....especially since the FDA declared it as "not generally considered as safe and effective" in 1998....whooops!
It's so hard going through the treatment knowing how much it hurts and that it will take you out for a few days. I think it was good that you cut out as much as you could. I would advise having it frozen by the doctor. Remove as much skin as possible, let the dr freeze as long as you can handle then freeze again.