Best way to get rid of warts?

[octothorp]

Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your thumb.

[SeeGeeWhy]

I had some pretty gnarly ones from working out barefoot in a dojo for years. I let them get really bad before I sought treatment (thought they'd go away on their own).

I tried every type of topical treatment, pill, duct tape in combination with the freeze + laser.

The thing that got a majority of them to go away was a children's ucler medication, but I think that it screwed with my liver since I had a high enzyme count in a blood test after taking them for a while. I think it was called Cimetidine.

[4X4]

I had one on my finger that wouldn't go away with the nitrogen treatment the doctor gives, nor that crap in a little bottle that I believe does nothing at all.
I got rid of it by keeping it under a bandaid for a couple weeks and then when it was all mushy, I scraped it out with an exacto knife. Now I have a scar that looks like a wart .

[blankall]

I used to get planters warts as a kid, and got one on my hand. The best method for each wart really depends on the nature of the wart. How deep it is, what size it is, where it is located etc...

So you essentially have to try a bunch of different methods until you find the right one.

The Dr. Scholls pads will usually work put require a lot of patience. From what I can tell they essentially just kill the skin around the wart. So you have to wait until enough skin is dead that the the entire thing comes out. You will know when this happens because the entire things should come out and it will be round like a ball as opposed to flat on the side that grows into your tissue.

Freezing will only work with the shallow ones.....

Fortunately I haven't had one in over a decade.

[Galakanokis]

Good ol' fashioned pair of pliers and a swiss army knife! Did the trick for me.

I had one on the bottom of my foot for years that countless Dr. visits never cured. So I took matters into my own hands and got rid of the sucker. Whisky helps too.....

[mikey_the_redneck]

Okay, I got a home remedy treatment for warts. My borther had them during baseball season.......this was many years ago.
Our neighbor, who was a medicine-man, suggested rubbing the yellow pigment of dandelion on it and cover it up with a band-aid.......it worked.