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.