# Warts: when the cure is worse than the disease **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131 "2004-08-23T20:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131/41 "2004-08-25T12:21:36Z")
> [@Lwaxana](#): > > OK ya’ll think your wart storys are bad…I can top them all > > WARNING very gross… > > ok I warned ya, > > I had to have my uvelu… um uvalu…(hell I can’t even say it right) that thing that hangs down in the back of your mouth. Anyhow I had to have that removed because warts. > > I noticed several years ago that I had a little growth on it but I didn’t worry to much about it, well over the years it got bigger and bigger. In the end it was twice as large as the thing it was attatched to. When it started to interfear with my breathing I decided to get it looked at. First he took a sample to see what he was dealing with and it came back as human papilloma virus, so he wants me to go under a general and have it removed. I don’t handle general anna. well so I ask if it can be done with a local. So we set up a time and date. Few days later I am in his office, he numbs it and uses this thing that looks like a sodering iron and burns the wart off, only to find more behind it. So he gets out some kind of scissor looking things and begins snipping them away, then burns the area then snips somemore then burns and on and on… All the while I am sitting there with smoke and the smell of burnt pork coming from my mouth, even the nurse gagged a few times. (the doc kept saying he would never have this done awake :rolleyes: nice thing to say just then ) In the end he ended up removing all of the…um hang down thingey and part of the roof of my mouth were that is attatched. Now I have to have a scope look at my vocal cords and general area around them every 2 years to make sure they (the warts) haven’t spread. > > He ask me a lot of personal questions, like if I preform oral sex on anyone with warts, if I used to chew at warts on my (or anyone elses) skin sucked my thumb as a child while having warts on and on and on. We never did pin point why I ended up with them there but…just my luck I guess. But for those of you who “chew” them off…STOP NOW. Aside from the fact that I won’t be able to sleep through the night ever again after reading your post, I’m curious…how’s the ol’ gag reflex these days? ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131/42 "2004-08-25T14:18:07Z")
> [@Lwaxana](#): > > OK ya’ll think your wart storys are bad…I can top them all > > WARNING very gross… > > ok I warned ya, > > I had to have my uvelu… um uvalu…(hell I can’t even say it right) that thing that hangs down in the back of your mouth. Anyhow I had to have that removed because warts. > > I noticed several years ago that I had a little growth on it but I didn’t worry to much about it, well over the years it got bigger and bigger. In the end it was twice as large as the thing it was attatched to. When it started to interfear with my breathing I decided to get it looked at. First he took a sample to see what he was dealing with and it came back as human papilloma virus, so he wants me to go under a general and have it removed. I don’t handle general anna. well so I ask if it can be done with a local. So we set up a time and date. Few days later I am in his office, he numbs it and uses this thing that looks like a sodering iron and burns the wart off, only to find more behind it. So he gets out some kind of scissor looking things and begins snipping them away, then burns the area then snips somemore then burns and on and on… All the while I am sitting there with smoke and the smell of burnt pork coming from my mouth, even the nurse gagged a few times. (the doc kept saying he would never have this done awake :rolleyes: nice thing to say just then ) In the end he ended up removing all of the…um hang down thingey and part of the roof of my mouth were that is attatched. Now I have to have a scope look at my vocal cords and general area around them every 2 years to make sure they (the warts) haven’t spread. > > He ask me a lot of personal questions, like if I preform oral sex on anyone with warts, if I used to chew at warts on my (or anyone elses) skin sucked my thumb as a child while having warts on and on and on. We never did pin point why I ended up with them there but…just my luck I guess. But for those of you who “chew” them off…STOP NOW. Holy cow. I’ve switched to duct tape today. The wart (and a quarter sized area around it) is far too senstive to work on right now (cutting it off) so I’m leaving it until the weekend when some of it heals. I’m going to take a bath (something I don’t do) and read Harry Potter to get nice and pruney. I should be able to remove a big chunk of it. Too bad it’s on a “hard to reach” area of my foot. It’s pretty annoying to even wash, let alone cut. Thanks for all the help folks! Even you guys with the horrible stories. **Lynn Bodoni** , no offense, but I’m not ever going to shake your hand if we meet 😃 ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131/43 "2004-08-25T14:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > So do these warts literally “fall off”? Or do they get reabsorbed into the skin? With the amount of white icky skin from the acid, a quarter-sized hole is going to drop off and that ain’t going to be any fun. I used the acid method on mine (I dont know if duct tape only would be different) but one day while scraping the entire yucky white crusty area tore loose from the rest of my foot, so I gave it a mighty scrape and the wart and dead tissue came out. I was left with about a 1/2" diameter hole that was maybe 1/6" or so deep. No it isn’t any fun at all, but it’ll heal up. Hope you get it out of there soon, I remember how painful they are well. ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131/44 "2004-08-25T15:07:03Z")
About a year ago I read about the duct tape cure here in the SDMB, before that I had had about 4-5 warts under my feet, one was about half an inch in diameter and made it really uncomfortable to walk or stand on my feet. I had lived with the large one for atleast 3 years. After about 2 weeks of duct tape the large one had begun to go away and the small ones where pretty much gone. One more week and I where wart free and I still am to this day. I can not express the relief I felt when I realised that they had finally gone away, I had begun to think that this was something I’d have to live with for a long long time. So - thank you SDMB for making my life better 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warts-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/261131.md?page=2)