How I took care of my Plantar Wart
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This is a simple webpage. I hope this page can help others to be more informed about warts and especially plantar warts on feet, by way of example with my experience with warts. I'll show before and after pictures on this page, of my treatment of a huge wart on my foot with duct tape, sulfur soap, and sulfur powder. It seems from my experience that washing with 10% sulfur soap or SAL3 soap, and using duct tape to apply over the wart is a great way to remove my warts. Now I want to make real clear that I am not recommending this for others, because I am not a doctor and so if you want to do something similar my advice is to contact a medical professional about your condition. I feel like it is important to say that especially here in the United States, because some people are sue happy, and love to try and make others responsible for their situation. So I am not recommending medical advice for you to act on - you should consider going to your doctor's office and asking your doctor should you need help, I am just reporting what I did, and how I took care of myself! Please be aware that this information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
If you have any questions, you may leave a message on the www.Wart1.com Message board under the topic plantar warts and look for my posts under my name rr22, or if you'd like, my email address is
. I like the Message Board, because that way, many of the same questions and answers can be seen and shared for others, and that saves us all time and makes it a lot easier. Also, if you would like to email a picture of your plantar wart to me, ( I may post - anonymously, of course, - any photos you send me on the plantar wart section of www.Wart1.com), just send it my way if you'd like, by email. You may also post your photos directly on the www.Wart1.com Message Board, if you know how to FTP a photo and you know the "http://" type of code for pictures. To our Spanish speaking readers, if you prefer to read this page in Spanish, click here. Sí prefieres leer esta página en español, click aquí .
I had been suffering for a long time with a real bad plantar wart on my left foot. It was becoming quite painful, and those characteristic black specks that you see on plantar warts started to multiply. I had a medical professional look at it, and she confirmed that it was a plantar wart, and was a real problem. When I heard that I may need to go to a podiatrist or other specialist doctor, and have the plantar wart cut out, and how others who had gone to doctors had the warts come back in clusters after having them frozen off, or burned off at the doctor's office, that's when I started to think on my own to come up with a natural more holistic way to heal, besides cutting ( I don't like the idea of someone cutting into my foot, if there can be another way) and the hassles of a doctors office, and going back over and over and all that insurance claims and paperwork and getting off from work hassles.
Finally, I found something that works for me. And I am here to report on it.
First of all, would you like to see what my plantar wart looked like? Here, take a look ...
So you can see, it looked bad. Just before I started to treat it, it started to bleed, so I knew it needed attention.
First, I started by using SAL3™ soap, which contains 3% salicylic acid and 10% sulfur as its active ingredients. I wash it, let it soak in the suds for a few minutes, then rinse and wash again.
Then I get some sulfur powder, also called flowers of sulfur or sublimed sulphur - it's the stuff we used in high school chemistry class, and I rub a little right on my wart. Just rub it in.
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Follow-up note,
"I've received lots of emails from readers wanting to know where I got my 10% sulfur soap, or the SAL3 soap and Sulfur Powder.
Buying it on the web is a convenient alternative to your drug store or supermarket. I got my soap and powder from www.SulfurSoap.com. They ship quickly, and have good service. And they also have a special deal for sulfur soap, and the SAL3 soap and powder, when you buy it together. One of their deals is 10% sulfur soap, a pumice stone, and powder. What I especially like about them is that shipping is free. Here's the link to the site, the package deals are near the bottom of the order form. Just click here.
I also want to thank everyone for the nice comments about this page, and it makes me feel great to hear all the success stories that others are having! Send me an email, and share your success story. Maybe we can post some of them for others to see. Would you like this?
One more note, I found that after the wart disappeared, that it tried to slowly come back. It was so easy just to wear the duct tape again, and that's the way I killed it!
Thanks again, for all the nice emails!"
My email is .
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I put that powder right into the hardened skin - didn't need a lot - just a little does wonders for me.
Then I get some Duct Tape, that's right, the grey heavy duty tape that you use for lots of other things around the house, and I cut a nice amount and apply it right over the sulfur on top of the plantar wart.
I leave it on for about 12 hours. What I do is to change it just before bed, and after I shower in the morning. Everyday I wash with SAL 3 soap. I suppose the original 10% sulfur soap is just as good to wash with, but I go for the SAL3.
Day 1 no difference noticed after the first day.
Day 2, skin starts to soften a bit.
Day 3, skin softened a lot, and plantar wart wound begins to heal.
Day 4, more healing.
Day 10, see photos - plantar wart has closed and is healing! I washed every day with SAL3 soap, and let the suds from the SAL3 soap soak for a few minutes when washing.
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Emails received from readers
(we'll keep them anonymous)
I am so glad to see your article about your solution to a plantar wart. Aren't those little jewels a real nuisance? I have had one on my right heel since 1994. It has now grown and has spread to another one. I have tried every remedy you can imagine.
•Liquid nitrogen freezing
•Compound W (I must have gone through a gallon of the stuff)
•Pulling out by the root (hurts like hell and bleeds like a stuck hog)
•CO2 laser burnout
•Pulse Diode laser burnout
•Various patches
•Straight duct tape
•Rubbing off with a pumice rock
•Herpes creme
•Some mouse milk that a dermatologist charged a fortune for and did as much good as a handful of mud
•Over $1000 in local treatments from a dermatologist
•Others that I have probably forgotten over time
Not surprisingly, I still have the damned thing (now things). I will give your method a try. Your comment about being sued is very true and a real shame about our society. Trust me, I won't sue you even if my foot drops off from gangrene.
I stopped off at the local CVS drugstore this evening to try to buy some sulphur soap and sulphur powder. The closest I could come is Phisoderm, which is 2% salycylic acid (same as Compound W), but no mention of sulphur compounds. I had no luck with a sulphur powder. I see that you list web pages to buy this stuff. If need be, I will be happy to order supplies from the web locations you mention. However, I would much rather buy it locally. Can you advise me as to brand names that would be locally available?
I really appreciate your information that you have made available. You'll be a real hero if this works.
T.B.
Illinois
I wanted to drop you a quick note of thanks. After visiting my
dermatologist
on at least 12 separate occasions (every 2-3 weeks) and enduring both acid
(probably one of the most painful things in my life) and freezing (hard to
tell which one was worse), I saw some progress with my warts, but not
nearly
enough for the amount of pain I was going through. I could not walk for
days
after the treatments sometimes.
I had three very large warts on both feet, regretfully I don't have
pictures
of them. Finally one day I cancelled my appt. and went online to look for
alternative treatments. I was not about to go to the next step, which was
surgery, and had already been suggested by my doctor.
Needless to say I found your site and ordered some of the SAL-3 soap. This
stuff was an absolute miracle. Within about 5-10 days it was obivous that
I
would not need to see another doctor. By combining a good scrubbing in the
shower with a regular old washcloth and some duct tape when I was done,
the
warts improved in an amazing fashion. Today they are completely gone.
You can not imagine how happy I am to not have to wear socks to bed
anymore.
Thanks again!!
-M.N.
Pennsylvania
FROM: "M.D."
DATE: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:39:17 +0000
TO: rr22
SUBJECT Re: Planters
OMG....it's finally gone!!!! I've had that thing for over five pain staking
months. Only after I got very seroius about keeping it taped and cleaned
did it start to vanish. I used a pumice stone on it daily, I feel like that
sped up the rate that it started to disappear. Thanks again for your help!
Sorry for bothering you with this..i'm sure you have enough email to read,
no need for a response, just wanted to share my relief with someone's who
know how painful those damn things are.
>From: rr22
>To: "M.D"
>Subject: Re: Planters
>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:01:51 -0500
> >br>
>Hi,
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>Thanks for your email.
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>How's it looking now? Are you using SAL3 to wash with, powder on top it and
>then the duct tape all day and night?
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>I get lots of positive emails these days of success.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: M.D.
>To: rr22
>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:23 PM
>Subject: Planters
Hello,
Just came across your website, and I had to thank you for sharing your
experince. My partner thinks I'm crazy trying to take care of my
planters
wart with duct tape. It's slowly getting better and better...at least I
can
tell....but I guess it doesn't really look that much better till it's
totally gone. So finally I have pictures and someone's story to show
him
so
we can stop fighting over it.
This is the first page where I could actully identify what I had on the
bottom of my foot. Most pictures are of severe cases and didn't really
help
me positivly identify the wart. I have about two weeks left on this
darn
thing and it should be all healed up.
Anyway....thanks for taking the time to post your findings.
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Recommendation: here's a good non-commercial message board about warts
www.Wart1.com, click here.
Starting today, November 23rd, 2003, I became a registered member of the message board.
My name on the message board is rr22, and if you'd like to ask me a question, or share something for others about plantar warts,
click here.
By the way, you don't have to register to use the message board.
You may remain anonymous if you choose, and just be a guest.
No need to leave an email address or anything like that.
I understand that sulfur is antiseptic, keratolytic and anti fungal, so this makes sense to me. By the way, I've received some emails asking. "What does keratolytic mean?" So I did some research in medical books and dictionaries. A keratolytic agent, such as mild salicylic acid or an agent like sulfur, encourages removal of dead skin cells - often times in the case of wart, the scaly upper dermal layers making up the topical surface of the wart. And removing the duct tape everyday, I believe I also helped remove some of that deadened wart skin. Somehow, I got to believe that the adhesive from the duct tape and the sulfur powder I applied directly on the wart, when combined underneath that tape must have been a nice goo-ie mixture, because my wart after that second week started to disintegrate, and my immunity system looked like it kicked in, and the healing process was on its way! I got to tell you, the first week, I did not notice results. The second week was slow, and later into that second week was when things started to happen!
It was a great personal success story to get rid of that nasty plantar wart!
So that's how I do it - to summarize, : the way I get my Plantar wart to go away - wash with SAL3 soap and get lots of suds to soak in when washing, pat dry with a towel, then apply a little sulfur powder over the wart, then place duct tape over it - clean twice a day
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2005 Updates, comments and recent emails received from readers
(I keep any emails from people anonymous)
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Today is Sunday, Jan 23rd, 2005, and it's been awhile since I've updated this page so I thought I would jot a few notes. Have you seen the Mayo Clinic report? - click here. Frankly, my opinion is that this Mayo report is WEAK! Notice what they say, "But a study published in October 2002 reported that duct tape may be as effective in removing warts as freezing them with liquid nitrogen (cryotherapy)..." Why do I believe the Mayo report is weak? All they say is that a study showed the use of duct tape may be as effective in removing warts as cryotherapy. WHAT THEY DON'T SAY IS HOW OFTEN THE WART COMES BACK AFTER CRYOTHERAPY! Unbelievable - these people at Mayo are supposedly so smart and thorough, but successful plantar wart therapy and the results people are looking for is getting rid of the wart completely, so it does not come back. I receive so many emails from people who say that they went to their doctor repeatedly, in many cases, for years for multiple freezing sessions, only for the wart to come back with a vengeance! I am disappointed that Mayo does not speak about results that get rid of the plantar wart for good! Come on Mayo people, I know you can do better than that.
To solve a problem, understand and address the root cause of a problem. Don't just remove a layer of the problem, but get rid of the underlying problem. In regards to plantar warts, it's a virus. The physcial hardened skin layers are effects, not the cause! If you surgically remove the hard callous tissue, you are removing the effect, but not the cause!!! So you have to eliminate the cause. In this case, it's the virus.
I want to emphasize what I believe the most significant difference is between the treatments, (besides the obvious pain and cost savings!). When you go to the clinic or doctor's office, and have surgery or cryotherapy, that is an evasive technique that attempts to remove the wart tissue (the effect). But how does it kill the virus (the cause)??? Whereas, the duct tape method apparently causes the immunity system to overpower the virus thereby killing the virus ( the cause). At the same time, the duct tape softens the hardened wart tissue, and the properties of sulfur works to create a hostile yet septic environment to help prevent. In addition, washing with the sulfur soap helps remove the dead skin (a pumice stone also helps a lot) and also cleanse the skin (sulfur has been known for thousands of years to be antiseptic, and antifungal). And the salicylic acid found in the SAL3 soap helps remove the dead skin cells.
Remember people, that duct tape, washing with sulfur soap and sulfur powder is very inexpensive ( I bought the whole pack of soap and powder for only $14) and something that I did at home, and not in a clinic or doctor's office - $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Just my co-pay for a first consultation visit at the doctor's office costs me $30! I've receive emails from people telling me that they've paid well over $1000 out of pocket to doctors, gone through multiple surguries and freezings, and still have plantar warts! That should be a huge wake up call to a patient, that all the pain, expense and treatment did not work! Anybody who has had medical treatment in a clinic these days, knows that medical practice is BIG BUSINESS $$$$$$$$$$$$$. When was the last time, that you had your money refunded to you at a doctor's office, when all those expensive doctor's visits did not solve the problem? I've heard from people who have spent over a span of many years at doctor's offices with unsuccesful surgeries and freezings, trying to get rid of their plantar warts. Isn't a definition of insanity, repeating the same error over and over again? And paying $$$ for it, - sound like insult to injury, and greed. Why should't that first doctor's office visit be refunded? And all the others too? Think about this, if that same doctor took his Mercedes or Lexus into the auto mechanic, and the auto mechanic did not solve the problem correctly the first time, would the doctor just keep paying the mechanic each visit to try and fix his Mercedes, without solving the problem ----- I don't think so! .... Just something to think about people. But the business of medicine in the USA today, I suppose is another topic, entirely too big a problem for a little webpage like this one to try and help solve. For me, I just want to report on how I rid myself of a plantar's wart, and to share emails to help all of us learn. So here are a few received these past few weeks ... :
FROM: "Kit"
DATE: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:26:19 -0600
TO: rr22
SUBJECT Plantar Warts Are History!
Thank you so much for telling how you got rid of your plantar wart. I could not believe the progress that your pictures showed. My son has had plantar warts (2 large and 4 small) for about 6 months now. I have tried many things and was just about ready to start the freezing treatments at a podiatrist's office. I decided to research treatments on the internet before subjecting him to all the pain. I read your story and decided that I would try it. What the hell, its only $15.00. We soaked his feet twice a day for 2 weeks before Christmas break and at first it was looking kind of nasty but I realized that each time I removed the tape little bits of the warts were being removed. The largest (dime sized) wart was all but gone in 10 days and his smaller ones were still hanging around when Christmas holidays hit. At that time, we decided to go on vacation and we did not do his feet for over 2 weeks. When we resumed the soaking it took one time before pulling the tape off to see that all 3 wart "cores" were pulled out on that single tape strip. AWESOME! He is now WART-FREE!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your remedy. I will most certainly pass your wisdom on to anyone who needs it.
Thanks Again,
Kit
From: AL
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:18:24 -0600
To: rr22
Subject: sal3 soap
Hi, I wanted to try your treatment idea, but where do
you purchase sal3 soap?
Thanks,
AW
(comment from rr22 - I get this question a lot - I ordered my SAL3 soap at www.SAL3.com. If for some reason, you don't want to order online from them, then use any 10% sulfur soap that you can find in your local stores. I get my sulfur soap which I now use daily in my shower for prevention at www.SulfurSoap.com.
FROM: "C.S."
DATE: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:30:29 -0600
TO: rr22
SUBJECT questions
Hello!
I read your article and am quite interested in what
you have to say. I have had an ongoing battle with
warts for about 4 years now. I have utilized a number
of treatments to no avail. I recently consulted a
podiatrist who recommended laser surgery. 6 weeks
later nearly every single wart that I had previous to
the surgery has returned (in exactly the same spots).
I am very frustrated and upset by my predicament.
Judging by the pictures and what you described in your
article, you had one large wart. I have what is
called "clusters." There are several small warts in
clusters. I know that you are not a medical
professional, but in your opinion would this method of
soap and sulfur powder work with this variety?
Thank you for your time and opinion,
C.S.
(comment from rr22 - here's another example of unsuccessful medical treatments - over 4 years, then she went to her podiatrist and he lasered her plantar warts, and they came back with a vengeance! How about asking your podiatrist about washing with SAL3 soap or sulfur soap, applying a little sulfur powder, and using duct tape 24/7 until it goes away? Ask your doctor what kind of condition your skin is in. Maybe after all that surgery and skin harm he did, your skin needs to heal up? I don't know - blessings and good health. Please keep us updated - send another email and let me know. I can share your email for others to read on this webpage so we all can learn, if you'd like.)
From: A W
To: rr22
Subject: plantar warts
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:59:41 +0100 (CET)
Hi,
I am from Germany and I read with interest through
your article. My former girlfriend has terrible
problems with her plantar warts. She has five of them
at the balls of both feet. They are so painful that
she isn't able to walk on them longer than half an
hour(even with foam rubber-cushions), and she is
completely unable to walk barefoot at all. Her warts
are very thick and deepseated; sometime they are
painful even with rest in bed. She is afraid to go to
a dermatologist having cut them out as she knows of
the experiences of other women which had undergone
this extreme painful treatment without success. Any
other form of treatment has failed so far. Do you
think your form of treatment would work
also with these very deep and painful warts? Has your
wart been similar to them? (I have made pictures of
the feet of my former girlfriend, but I don't have
access to a scanner to mail them to you).
Many thanks for your answer in advance,
cordially,
AW
(comments from rr22 - your girl friend is in a lot of pain. Have her go to her doctor, show her this webpage, and get the doctor's advice on treatment. In the meantime, you need to be careful about getting those plantar warts. These warts are contagious. My advice is to wear sandals in the bathroom and shower, and to wash yoru feet regularly with sulfur soap. I keep a bar of sulfur soap in my shower and I wash my feet everyday as a precaution. I also take a bar with me to the gym when I use public showers, and I always wear sandals at a public swimming pool and in public showers. That's a lesson learned. Anyway, please update me on your girlfriend's status, and how she is doing. Blessings for good health - rr22.
Today is Sunday, Jan 30th, 2005, and I received a lot of emails since last week's webpage update. I'm told that they are having some techical difficulties on the WART1.com message board, whatever the reason, I've been receiving lot of messages, that's OK, I like to receive good news from people and it makes me feel so good when I hear the success stories. Here are a couple more to share that I received this past week.
From: "C" at an aol.com address
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:26:06 -0600
To: rr22
Subject: Re: Plantar Warts
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In a message dated 1/23/2005 8:26:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, I had replied to "C" and asked her the following questions:
how is it now?
Is is healing?
She replied as follows,
(My seventeen year old daughter's plantar wart) is GONE!! 3 weeks to the day treatment began, her plantar wart is gone. It is nothing short of amazing!
Thank you so much for your help! Note from rr22 - these type of emails help make my day - thank you for sharing this success story!!!
From: Sheila
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:47:51 -0600
To: rr22
Subject: Thanks
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I found your website last after going to the doctors to get help for a Plantar wart, which I have had for almost 20 years. It is now the size of a dime and has several brothers and sisters, almost the same size. I have had everything done with no success. I am very excited to try your remedy. My doctor did recommend using the duct tape while I wait for my referral to the dermatologist. She did not mention using the soap and powder. I ordered my soap and powder today and cannot wait to get started.
Thank you,
Sheila
From: "CN" from a yahoo.com email address
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:27:40 -0600
To: rr22
Subject: Plantar Wart
First I would like to give you some compliments on a
very well done website. It is insightfull and
informative, especially the pictures. After seeing
the picture I now know what it is that I have (without
having to pay lots of $$ for a doctor). What I've got
has changed over the last few months though. The
picture of the Day 10 is a great example of what it
used to look like. Just flat with the dark dots in
the middle. Right now, a few months later, it pretty
much is a small hole into the bottom of my heel.
Sometimes it is incredibly painfull, especially when
I'm putting pressure on it, and remove the pressure,
then OUCH! Just wanted to make sure this is something
similar to what you went through. And if your
treatment will take care of this for me. Thank you so much! Important note from rr22, - does it still have the black dots (rete pegs)? These are the capillary blood vessels that nourish the plantar wart. So if you have the pegs, it is still alive. Call your doctor and ask if you should keep the duct tape treatment until the black specks are gone. Also, are you washing everyday with either a 10% sulfur soap or SAL3 soap?
I just learned how to take a picture of my desktop computer screen. So when people send me emails, I can share the actual message with you. I will post some of my favorites ( positive and negative) in the future.
That way you can see the actual email, except that I will remove the email address of the sender and the last name. If I post your email and you would like it removed, just send me an email. No worries.
If you would like to see more emails from readers, click here:
God Bless and Best wishes for you and to all for good health and healing. Listen to your body! Remember to help keep your immunity system as strong as you can - plenty of sunshine, good natural diet( together with colorful vegetables and fruit), and exercise - in the meantime, I will try and update this page as often as I can to share - rr22.
My email is .
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