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Grace · Dooney & Bourke

UGH!

ILoveChoo · Hermes

you can have the doctor freeze it off or give you something prescription strength.

needsfashionadvice · Kate Spade

It might be a plantar's wart, I had one on the bottom of my foot that would not go away until the doctor froze it off.

relrel · Marc Jacobs

Duct tape.

Seriously. Just a little small bit right over the wart and it dries it up enough to be "picked" off or "scraped" off. I would try this before paying to see a doctor.

NCshopper · Hermes

needsfashionadvice wrote:

It might be a plantar's wart, I had one on the bottom of my foot that would not go away until the doctor froze it off.

If it's growing inward, then it's a plantar's wart and the only real way to get rid of it is to get a doc to freeze it off. I had a few of them when I was in middle school and they can be kind of a PITA. They grow from the outside in and they can start to be painful after awhile. Since normal wart remover isn't working, you might want to see if a doc can take care of it for you.

Grace · Dooney & Bourke

Although I'm really curious to try the duct tape thing, I made an appt. I'm too impatient and want to go get a massage

Kelly · Hermes

NCshopper wrote:

needsfashionadvice wrote:
It might be a plantar's wart, I had one on the bottom of my foot that would not go away until the doctor froze it off.
If it's growing inward, then it's a plantar's wart and the only real way to get rid of it is to get a doc to freeze it off. I had a few of them when I was in middle school and they can be kind of a PITA. They grow from the outside in and they can start to be painful after awhile. Since normal wart remover isn't working, you might want to see if a doc can take care of it for you.

I had some plantar warts for a while (I had an "outbreak" it seems, because my pedi equipment spread it or something? But once I bought everything new again I haven't had them since)

Anyway, my dermatologist actually gave me some cream for genital warts (yeah, THAT looked nice when people saw it in the bathroom!!) It worked pretty well.

Grace · Dooney & Bourke

relrel wrote:

Duct tape. Seriously. Just a little small bit right over the wart and it dries it up enough to be "picked" off or "scraped" off. I would try this before paying to see a doctor.

relrel, I just wanted to let you know you were totally right! My PA did not want to freeze it off since it was on the bottom of my foot (could be painful and blister...). So she suggested compound w at night and when it dried cover it with duct tape and peel it off in the morning. If I would have listened to you in the first place I could have saved my co-pay

relrel · Marc Jacobs

Cool...I'm glad the duct tape worked! It's nice to be right once in my life...

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Having had a GIANT (the size of a 50 cent piece) blister on the bottom of my foot in the arch (I have never been in so much pain, it oozed for a week!) I'm glad they didn't freeze it off. I am so mad the doctor didn't warn me that it would be so painful. It was barely better in time for a romantic getaway in Toranto. Bastard doctor!

-gd

Metric · Gucci

relrel wrote:

Cool...I'm glad the duct tape worked! It's nice to be right once in my life...

actual duct tape? like the silver kind?

relrel · Marc Jacobs

Metric wrote:

relrel wrote: Cool...I'm glad the duct tape worked! It's nice to be right once in my life... actual duct tape? like the silver kind?

Yep! Crazy, huh? I don't think it has anything to do with the chemical manufacturing of duct tape or anything like that, simply that it's completly air-proof (dude, I know that's not the right word!) and doesn't let in any outside air or moisture. Something to do with the weave of the fabric-like sticky stuff, I guess.