Has anyone else here struggled with a persistent verruca?

[Arnie Pye]

Warning - disgusting story alert - but also a bit funny.

When I was a teenager I had a wart on one of my fingers. A friend gave me a bottle of Compound W, which contains salicylic acid. The bottle was one she'd used herself but not finished and it was several years old. The contents were extremely thick. (I bought another bottle a few years later for a different wart and it was really runny and totally useless.) The thick stuff would stay where it was put.

One weekend, soon after I started using the acid stuff, my father ordered me to wash the car. I used hot water and rubber gloves. When I was finished I yanked the rubber gloves off and it took me a few minutes to realise my wart had been removed with the gloves. The acid in the Compound W had stuck to the gloves. There was a small crater in the finger, and the wart never came back.And the removal process hadn't hurt at all.

 

[InitialConditions]

Warning - disgusting story alert - but also a bit funny.

When I was a teenager I had a wart on one of my fingers. A friend gave me a bottle of Compound W, which contains salicylic acid. The bottle was one she'd used herself but not finished and it was several years old. The contents were extremely thick. (I bought another bottle a few years later for a different wart and it was really runny and totally useless.) The thick stuff would stay where it was put.

One weekend, soon after I started using the acid stuff, my father ordered me to wash the car. I used hot water and rubber gloves. When I was finished I yanked the rubber gloves off and it took me a few minutes to realise my wart had been removed with the gloves. The acid in the Compound W had stuck to the gloves. There was a small crater in the finger, and the wart never came back.And the removal process hadn't hurt at all.

I love a story with a happy ending.

 

[Rick Sanchez]

This is a topic that I have seen discussed a couple of times over the years. Seems like most MECFS patients react entirely normal to warts, from what I remember from other threads in the past.

It does seem like a very small group, this is not the case. But this might just be because even amongst healthy people a small group would be expected to react abnormally?

Personally I have had a wart on my foot for almost twenty years now. A wart on my finger for over a decade. I`ve tried every treatment, they always return, even when I manage to make the wart disappear, it just comes back within 3-6 months. I got MECFS as a child, so the reason the warts have not disappeared are not age related.

I don`t even know if there is any way to calculate the chances that a wart does not go away after twenty years, especially with multiple treatment attempts that were temporarily successful. Seems unlikely enough that my MECFS might have something to do with it. Who knows though.

Freezing never did anything at all. I honestly have lost count of the amount of times I have had my warts frozen. Only thing that temporarily got them gone for me was acid.