Crazy person removing a wart with a soldering iron

[Iwanushka]

That's just plain stupid, liquid nitrogen is used for that....

Pro tip: Go to very good doctor to do it. I had one on my palm! which was removed and I will have the mark of remains forever on my palm. Get a good doctor.

I did that, and my case was bad one, usally warts are bumps on the surface mine were under skin (under and near nails almost till the bone - the worst case stuff) it took around 10 sessions to get that crap removed)

Note to myself (never use public transport without gloves if you got cuts on your fingers...

[Delta]

Dave!  Can we get a "Warts" sub forum?

(Trying to think of a "warts story" / "war story" type joke......)

[Rerouter]

when i went to the snow as a kid i let my hand get far too cold, and even banging it on the ground didnt register a response, so being a kid picked away at a wart with a pocket knife until it was removed, filled it with some creme and put a band aid over it, once my hand warmed up it bled more than i had hoped but the wart never came back,

[Zero999]

Wow, I've just watched the video, as I was at work and couldn't watch it, when I commented last.

He definitely used far too much heat, for too long. My wart was much bigger than that and I didn't cause as much tissue damage as he has. It did blister but it didn't swell up like that and it didn't leave a scar.

[vze1lryy]

I had this issue on my toe as a teenager. Nothing worked to shrink it. I went to the doctor expecting to be in extreme pain, was shaking like a big wuss, and they froze it off. I felt nothing, it never grew back, there was no scar.

Technology.

[ez24]

With all these wart stories - maybe this should be a sticky 

I believe the ones on the bottom of the foot are called "planters"  - had a couple of them

[Karel]

I started to get warts when I was 12 years old, on both hands.
Every year they grew bigger and some more appeared. I tried to remove them myself, it hurted like hell.
I used a special product that contained some acid. It only removed the top. The warts always came back.
I went to a specialized doctor who freezed them a couple of times. My hand was useless for a day
(I had many big warts and she did tyhem all at once so my hand was a big blister).
After many tries, some of them very painfull, I gave up.

And you know what? When I was 17 years old, one day I noticed that all the warts started to shrink slowly.
After one more month or so, they all disappeared and they never came back. I wasn't doing any treatment
at that time.

[TerraHertz]

3 or 4 years ago I was at the doctor's for something (forget what) and asked if he could also remove a small bump I'd had on my right index finger for years. Not quite a wart, just a bump.

He said sure, can burn it off but it will take a little while for the anesthetic. I said skip that bit, why wait, just do it now. He knows I'm nuts, so did it. Mainly I wanted to see if I could hold still.
Yes, no problem.

[Rerouter]

So is that where the alias comes from terrahertz , needed a proper description for what it felt like that day,

[TerraHertz]

So is that where the alias comes from terrahertz , needed a proper description for what it felt like that day,

No, actually I was surprised how easy it was. The pain is intense but small... and you know it's not a real injury. So 'deciding to ignore it' isn't hard at all.

Compared to sharing a property for years with a PTSD-crazy passive-aggressive ex, it didn't even move the needle on the dial.

[ZeTeX]

Surprised that the floor didnt break, those balls must weight a ton. 

[peteb2]

Warts... bain of my life. I remember at school, really early days, some kids had large obvious ones on their fingers, elbows, knees etc and when the knocked them the things would bleed like crazy. I never had any until i became a teenager and overnight there they were aggressive as hell, appearing everywhere. The big 1/2" diameter obvious tough-topped one on my knee was clobbered off totally one afternoon in a scateboarding crash... The bleeding session that ensued called for 'skateboarder's cred' then to just let the 'claret' drip down my leg, keep skating and cleanup later. Months passed and i discovered that where that blood had been there were now what must have been hundreds of new warts all starting to appear, all down my leg. Within another month they were established and very obvious including some terrible things on my elbows and a couple of meanies on my fingers... Part of me believed it was from touching that blood at the time but i dunno how true that is....

Then one came (inward) on the heal of my foot that hurt like hell, and my then GP called it a verruca. I recall to this day the shocking pain of him burning the thing out. My questions to him about what to do with the other warts were virtually glossed over and it became a sort of dis-interesting problem in the moment.

Then one random day as i was by now 3/4s of my way through Teens-hood, i suddenly noticed every wart was going soft and shrinking and within a month the entire cluster down my leg to the nasty things on my elbows to the things on my fingers were GONE.... They all simply vanished.

Sadly though the story doesn't end. Now i'm in my mid-life (with the usual mid-life crisis a bloke has like which next brandnew Aussy V8 ute or car am i gonna buy) i notice there are a few warts sneaking back. Small little things that itch or keep being clobbered off the fingers or feet. I sort of understand why the OP took to his with a soldering iron. (I have been known to use my best SMD sidecutters on the annoying buggers). I wonder if blasting them with a bit of RF plasma or HV corona (anyone seen an electronics build project wart zapper anywhere?) would sort them or just make them grow out bigger. My biggest worry are the tiny ones i noticed recently starting up near my eyes (where the blood vessels are) and on my eyelids and just what options my GP will offer or will they all suddenly go away again.... (my eyesight is the most important sense next to hearing and then my fingers on my hands so i can make an income from electronics)  The 'ole human body can be a weird thing.

[ez24]

From another crazy person.


In my early 20's I had problems with planters warts (bottom of feet) and athlete's feet.  Tried everything including doctor visits.  Out of desperation I soaked my feet in full strength chlorine (for clothes) until I could not stand the pain any longer.  Then I went through shock of watching my feet turn black and all my skin peel away.  To this day (40 years) I have not had any problems with either one. 

But I wonder what I did to my body and DNA.  I would not do this again.  Did I get crazy because of this or did I do this because I was crazy?  Like the chicken and egg question.

[Circlotron]

Where I used to work once, the storeman was IMO a slightly crazy and occasionally fairly abusive guy. We didn't alway get along... One day he came into the workshop and asked me to use my soldering iron on a wart on his elbow. I was grinning from ear to ear while he was yodelling his head off. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.   

[sarepairman2]

christ, i wonder if he smoked a dust blunt before doing that LOL 

[gnif]

I have had both general warts and plantar warts, in all cases I removed them myself and with side cutters. I found the trick was to nip around the outer circumference of the wart, which is painful but quickly the pain stops (like in the video) and then pull the wart out with the cutters, using them like players, this way the entire root of the wart comes out with it. Bleeds for a bit, but none ever returned.

[hendorog]

I'm currently trying to remove one with freezer spray from a compressed air can turned upside down. Used a bit of heat shrink that was the same size as the wart to stop it spreading. It stings a little bit, but I wouldn't call it painful.

[mtdoc]

Warts resolve when enough of the cells are destroyed to expose the human papilloma virus antigens to the body's immune system so it can mount an effective response.

You don't need to "burn it off" or "pull out its roots" ( they're not plants!).

Freezing with liquid N2 is the standard doctor's office treatment, but treating with salicylic acid or the tip of a Metcal at 600 degrees can be just as effective if enough viral antigen is exposed. Even Duct tape and a pumice stone has been shown to be effective!

[@rt]

I did the same to a wart in my finger in my teens using the preheated metal part of a lighter. It made a blister underneath and didn't come back.

[Psi]

I wonder if you could kill a wart with ultrasonic waves.
Those ultrasonic mist/fog machines hurt like hell if you put you finger on the transducer. Must be causing all sorts of damage.