Wart curiosity is gettin the best of me....

this probably belongs in medical but i want to get some attention to it first..

ok so for about 10 years i've had a wart on the side of my finger (or i assume to be a wart anyways, it's certainly not a mole, it's raised, if left alone developes a white 'head' and is very hard/calous... can also be sore to strong pressure/sharp edges)

anyways since 13 i've been trying to get rid of it.... first i started off by cutting it out (not off, i'd cut into fresh flesh) with a knife, when that didn't work, i did the same thing but followed by 20 seconds of direct flame from a lighter, when that didn't work, everything above but following with an ice cube on it til i could no longer stand it (2-3 mins?)

yet it always grows back....

then i moved on the to the conventional wart treatments (those lil bottles of pure funk you're supposed to put on it...) never went away... then recently i started using that dr. freezeoff crap on it... 8 treatments and still it stays.... i've resorted to just cutting it off with a nail clipper when it gets large and 'white' again...since when it's not there, it doesn't hurt really... but the longer it stays un messed with, the sorer the area tends to get...

so my question is... is this dangerous? i only ask cuz i know messing with moles can indeed cause them to become cancerous... but if messing with a wart were dangerous they woudln't have over the counter products, would they?

anyways i'm just wondering... i've pretty much accepted the fact it's NOT going away (i've tried everything under the sun) atleast with any home remedie so all i can do is cut it off when it starts getting sore....

Hmmm...well I'm not sure how dangerous it is, but it really can't be too good to keep chopping it off n shit.

Since nothing else has worked try the psychological wart removal method. It kinda worked for me back in the day. I'll explain why it is only kinda after I tell you what the method is.

Go to the store and buy a a few potatoes. When you get home, rub the potatoes on your wart, then bury them in the back yard. Wait a few weeks and the wart should be gone.

A doctor told me this method when I was probably 10 years old. Apparently there is some evidence that warts are a psychological thing (don't ask me to prove this Im just remember what some crazy doctor told me back in the day) and you can trick yourself into getting them to go away if you want it bad enough.

The potato works because the idea is that a kid will spend his own money on the potatoes so he will want the treatment to work so bad so he doesn't waste his money that the warts will eventually disappear. I say this kinda worked for me because once the doctor told me this, I thought it was stupid and didn't want to waste any money on the potato, so I just pretended I did all that shit in my mind and before I knew it I had no more warts and none ever came back.

Weird, I know

yeah that ain't gonna work for me :p first, my wife loves potatoes... so we always have 'em next i'm not a kid, so the 1.00 i'd spend on a few of 'em wouldn't hurt me financially and of course lastly... i'm extremely immune to placebo effects.... although i kinda do have a placebo effect always....

to explain, i always have ot take a higher dose of whatever medication then the average person because i'm so convinced it won't work.... even if i've never taken it before in my life (although it has been tested not only by me but a doctor, by first giving me lower dose seeing it doesn't work then observing it actually does take that extra bit to get it work right..)

appreciate the effort tho but i just pretty much know that won't work for me.... you have any idea how warts are tied to the psyche? if i knew how i could perhaps identify what might be causing it and help get rid of it..

I had one just like that on me finger. I would cut it off but it came back. Once I cut it off then dug a little seed thing out of it. Then I put some wart remover on it and it never came back. I warn you though that it was painful as hell. Hurt way more then a tattoo.

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Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho

yeah that ain't gonna work for me :p first, my wife loves potatoes... so we always have 'em next i'm not a kid, so the 1.00 i'd spend on a few of 'em wouldn't hurt me financially and of course lastly... i'm extremely immune to placebo effects.... although i kinda do have a placebo effect always....

to explain, i always have ot take a higher dose of whatever medication then the average person because i'm so convinced it won't work.... even if i've never taken it before in my life (although it has been tested not only by me but a doctor, by first giving me lower dose seeing it doesn't work then observing it actually does take that extra bit to get it work right..)

appreciate the effort tho but i just pretty much know that won't work for me.... you have any idea how warts are tied to the psyche? if i knew how i could perhaps identify what might be causing it and help get rid of it..

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Yea i knew it was a farfetched idea, but it seemed like you covered any other method I could think of. I'm not sure how it is attached to your psyche. I remember I always worried about them and I kept having new ones pop up on my fingers. After that trip to the doctor where he pretty much told me it was a psychological thing, I just sort of forgot about them and stopped worrying about it. I'm not sure exactly how much time went by but one day I remember looking at my fingers and all the warts were completley gone.

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Originally Posted by Jizzle Blizzle420

I had one just like that on me finger. I would cut it off but it came back. Once I cut it off then dug a little seed thing out of it. Then I put some wart remover on it and it never came back. I warn you though that it was painful as hell. Hurt way more then a tattoo.

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lol perhaps you should look up some of my injuries.... and i've been digging this thing out since i was like 13..... to where i bled so bad i had to actually put pressure on my finger for 5-10 minutes to get it to stop oozing blood...

problem is it's not working...

ok new question, WTF exactly keeps the wart coming back? it's obviously not the head....

Im pretty sure they have a seed. Dont quote me on that though lol.

where's birdgirl or FBR when i need their medical expertise =/

i'm getting so sick of this thing.... i'm about ready to just cut a huge chunk outta my finger hoping it'll leave.... (quite honestly i'd rather be mising a part of my finger hten put up with this thing for another 10 years...)

ok since bird's now lurking round here somewhere.... ~cough bump cough cough~

...same thing here...mine is 40 years old. We are friends now....:thumbsup:...