Pain Free Wart Removal - Duct Tape to the Rescue

Speaking from experience, planters warts are not a fun thing to have removed. After years of painful digging and scraping to get rid of a wart on one of my fingers, I decided I would need some professional help. I went to visit my doctor for what is know as "cryosurgery". In other words, he was going to freeze that wart right off my hand. They say "oh it doesn't hurt a bit". Yeah right! You may as well have cut that thing off with a dull pocket knife. The doctor told me to wait a few days and it would just "fall right off". That didn't happen. I went through more pain, again, for nothing.

A few days later I had to go pick up some things from my grandparents house. As I was explaining my horrific story to my grandma, my grandpa walked in and overheard. My grandpa has a very dry sense of humor and personality in general. As he turned to leave the room he said "oh just put some duct tape on it and stop your crying". Curious, I followed him outside and asked why he said that. He told me duct tape would make it go away if I wore it a week or two without taking it off. I thought the idea was a bit strange, but I didn't have anything to lose, at the least, it wouldn't work and I'd be right back to where I was. So I gave it a try.

Here are a few tips to using duct tape to remove warts:

I'm sure you have a roll of duct tape stashed away in your house somewhere. You don't need anything fancy, the typical, all-purpose, grey stuff works perfectly. In fact, I would recommend using the "regular" grey tape since it is what I used and I know it works.

After a day or two, you will come to realize that duct tape is not so sticky as you'd like it to be. Mine kept falling off and I'd have to re-apply constantly. I went on this was for just over a week and wasn't seeing a result until I got the idea to put a smaller piece of duct tape directly over the wart, and cover it with a Band-Aid. Try the waterproof kind for an even better hold! It stayed on at least 4 days longer than the duct tape had by itself. Then when the band-aid wore out, I simply switched band-aids without having to remove the duct tape.

I left my duct tape on for exactly one month (once I started using the band-aids) and I switched the actually tape only about once a week. You will just have to watch the wart and judge based on the progress you are making and the size of the wart you're trying to remove.

Each week the wart became less and less noticeable in size and was turning white and parts of it were flaking off or would pull right off as I removed the duct tape. I did not do anything to it, just re-applied a fresh piece of tape and waited. After about three and half weeks the wart was next to invisible. I decided to leave the tape off and let my finger be exposed to some air finally.

The next morning I got up and examined my finger. The wart was gone! 100% completely gone! I knew it was improving as the weeks went on, but I must admit I was very skeptical about it actually working. It did work, and now, four years later it has not returned in even the slightest form of a wart. Goodluck!!