# Painful white bump on underside of toe. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painful-white-bump-on-underside-of-toe/151726 "2003-01-30T21:38:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painful-white-bump-on-underside-of-toe/151726/1 "2003-01-30T21:38:38Z")
What happened to my toe? Yesterday, completely out of the blue, I started suffering intense pain in the big toe of my right foot; the pain worsened when I varied the weight on the foot (it felt like it was going to explode. When I got home, I removed my sock to find a small white bump in the middle of the underside of my toe - it looked a little like a blister except it was only about 2mm across - certainly the white middle part was dead skin. I reasoned that maybe there was a thorn embedded underneath it, so I opened it up with sterile tweezers; there was no fluid inside, and it started to feel better almost immediately, but the area around it was darkened and sore, not unlike a bruise. What happened to my toe? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painful-white-bump-on-underside-of-toe/151726/2 "2003-01-30T21:40:34Z")
Sounds like a plantar’s wart to me. If it gets bad, you can have a doctor remove it. Only takes a couple of minutes. Of course IANAD. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painful-white-bump-on-underside-of-toe/151726/3 "2003-01-30T21:41:14Z")
Could be a wart / verucca (sp?) see a doctor if it don’t go away in a couple of days. Cheers, Bippy