Ouch.

Just hacked off a wart off my finger with a knife. Sterilised the knife with a lighter first. The hole in my finger canes to buggery now.

It is safe to do that though, right?

Bit late now, anyroads.

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Reply 1

joz12345

you should really just use the treatments for warts and wear a plaster until it heals .

Reply 2

L0RA

Unless you've got the root out it will grow back :smile:

Reply 3

dh00001

yea chances are itl grow back, plus youve left yourself with a nice open wound youre going to have to keep clean. keep your eye on it and use proper treatment next time

Reply 4

person 34

This is one of the best threads in a while, "just hacked off a wart."

Reply 5

Marianne

Well there was a weird bit inside that I pulled out afterwards... It didn't bleed but has gone all scabbed overish.... Hmm... Canes a bit less now. Got one on my thumb which I might have a go at later....

Reply 6

Sopheh

Should be fine. I cut off the end of my finger a while ago and I was told that as long as you cut off less than a 5p it will fully heal over and grow back.

Not that I know much about warts, but still. If it's bleeding lots, then it might help the pain to keep it raised in a sling on your shoulder or something, but all you can do really is just keep it clean.

Reply 7

Marianne

Cheers, I'm down the pub tonight so I'll dip it in alcohol every now and again (vodka probably) to keep it clean. :smile:

Lol I sound like I'm trolling the forums here, but it is/was a genuine question!!!

Reply 8

Clarence

That just made my body shiver.

Reply 9

*soph*

Clarence

That just made my body shiver.

Just think, when you're nursing, you'll be dressing wounds like that...

Reply 10

Bubblebee

How rank! Don't doctors do it properly for free?

Reply 11

Fluent in Lies

I dug one out once too. It actually went away. I do have a very slight scar :s-smilie:

Reply 12

sufiankane

i ahd one on ma foot, i just cut it off, it regrew, so cut off again, regrew, cut off again, regrew, ot was painful but i didnt mind the pain. Then i got annoyed so i dug in with a knife and it stopped.

Reply 13

Meep!

You do know that warts actually have a root? As long as you've got rid of that, it won't come back. If however, you haven't got rid of the root, it'll just grow back.

Reply 14

Helenia

Seriously UNrecommended treatment here, guys. Just use an over the counter remedy rather than mutilating yourselves!

Reply 15

Marianne

But if you're emo and have a wart it's like two birds with one stone, right?

I have had warts frozen before, but it took 6 or 7 PAINFUL goes at the wart clinic which is why I got the knife out. :smile:

It feels better now though :smile:

Just a crater like a black head would leave.

Reply 16

Meep!

Gosh, that's a nice description...

Oh yummy, a blackhead crater! *shudders*

Reply 17

yellow96

I agree with lessthanthree - it sounds satisfying as hell. Almost made me wish I had a wart myself.

*Hangs head in shame*

Reply 18

thefish_uk

To be honest, I think if you got an over-the-counter gel for it you'd end up doing pretty much the same thing.

I once had a wart on my hand. I tried putting the stuff on every night, picking it off etc but I just ended up with a bigger pile of anti-wart stuff on my hand. Until one day my dad said "hang on, let me have a look" and proceeded to attack the thing and try and scrape it off in whatever way possible to me going "ow". So I did end up with a painful crater, but I never had any trouble from that wart again.

I'm just saying that even if you get the proper stuff from the chemist you have to be pretty damn vicious in order to remove the bugger. Had the same problem with a verruca on my foot a couple of years ago.

Reply 19

ßlαcksωαn

I think it's fine. I used to have a wart and it annoyed the hell out of me so I filed it back with a metal file, haha, and then pull the rest out. And it never came back :smile:

Just make sure your doesnt get infected.