About to get a wart removed... what to expect?

[diehldun]

I know this might sound like an abolutely disgusting thread/subject to talk about, but in a couple of hours, I have to go to the hopsital to remove a plantar wart on the bottom of my left foot (it really does feel like painfully walking on a small rock).

This is my first wart... what should I expect? The doctors/dermatologist said they'd burn/freeze it off with liquid nitrogen or something :confused:


Do these "operations' hurt or painful? I have absolutely no idea what to expect (I don't know anyone else whose had a stubborn wart that won't go away after using Dr. Scholls)

This is a bizarre thread, but I'm a little nervous :o Thanks for any replies!

[kalisphoenix]

Dooooooood.... it hurts like being fingered by Captain Hook :eek: Worst pain ever!

[diehldun]

Dooooooood.... it hurts like being fingered by Captain Hook :eek: Worst pain ever!

:confused: :confused:

[vniow]

It didn't hurt so much when I had it done, I had a big one on my finger awhile back and they just froze it off. It stung a little but not anything worth crying about.

[Peterkro]

It didn't hurt for me when I had one frozen when a nipper,it certainly wasn't as uncomfortable as a wart on the sole of my foot.

[Jaffa Cake]

Plantar warts – are those like verrucas?

I had a couple of veruccas when I was 14ish – I had them on both feet, so I had them done a foot one week, the other foot a few weeks later. Basically I had them burnt off, which didn't hurt due to the anesthetic injection. It was that that was the painful bit, although it soon passed.

The doctor did his work while I was laid on my back on a bench. Unfortunately, one of the verrucas was on the underside of my heel, so the burning off ws performed with me keeping my foot up in the air – obviously I had to keep it very still. Obviously after a couple of minutes it really, really began to hurt holding my leg up like that! I was talking about verrucas with my girlfriend the other day (don't ask) and I told her this story – she looked puzzled and asked why the doctor didn't just get me to lie on my front. Never even occurred to me at any point in the intervening 15 years... :confused:

Anyway, I remember the leg-in-the-air-hurtyness much more than the injection or burning off, so what I'm basically saying in a roundabout way is you'll be fine! Good luck for tomorrow. ;)

[mkrishnan]

I had two removed by laser surgery about 10 years ago. It wasn't overly painful during surgery. They used a nerve block, though. Which is an awkward experience. ;)

The only *gross warning gross warning gross warning* thing that was nasty is that after surgery, I had to put a salve on it several times daily, and the salve would go on white, and get contaminated with blood and stuff and form into this sort of pink paste. It was pretty nasty, had to be re-dressed several times daily, and went on for quite a while -- maybe almost two weeks? The procedure abraded away tissue to a fair depth under the top-most layer of skin, and it took some time to grow back and close up.

Anyway, though, it worked very nicely, and I really didn't have problems after that. It did leave two (I had two of them on the same foot! :() quarter-sized scars on the bottom of my foot that are still visible.

I have never had the freezing procedure, so I can't comment on that.

Anyway, though, I hope you have the best of luck with it, and get rid of those awful things! I definitely don't regret going through the pain to get rid of them. :o

[kalisphoenix]

I suggest some serious morphine, man. Hurts worse than receiving fellatio from Jaws.

[scem0]

I got a wart freezed off my toe when I was ~11 and I thought it was going to hurt a lot. At first, it feels a little odd, and then a tiny bit painful. I thought it was going to build up to an intense agony, but it never did. So, go expecting pain, and leave happy that you never got it. :)

scem0

[iBlue]

I suggest some serious morphine, man. Hurts worse than receiving fellatio from Jaws.

that's twisted!

no really, it won't hurt that bad, don't fret. it will annoy you to walk on for a week or so though. i freaked out something fierce (i felt like a witch, a wart?!) but i had the sucker "burned" off via cryogenic freeze. it was annoying but not altogether bad. it worked by the way, no problems in years. i just wish i knew where i got a damn wart, that made me mad.
[blushing now, having admitted this]

[diehldun]

just came back from the hospital... the first 10 seconds weren't bad at all, but it stung quite a bit for the next minute or so, then disapated. Now, it's just a little annoying walking.

The worst part is that I need to check back in a month, and may need to continue the process.

[iGary]

just came back from the hospital... the first 10 seconds weren't bad at all, but it stung quite a bit for the next minute or so, then disapated. Now, it's just a little annoying walking.

The worst part is that I need to check back in a month, and may need to continue the process.

Plantars warts are the worst.

You can't cut the freaking things out without them coming back.

(I've tried, ended up in the ER for stitches - Derr)

[puckhead193]

i had a wart on my foot and the dermetologist froze it with liquid nitrogen. Didn't hurt at all just tickled :cool: