We are our own doctors

So, having struggled with what the doctor wouldn't diagnose as a verruca, struggled when the chiropodist said it probably was a verruca and having been told they usually go after a year.

After having had it for almost three years and suddenly feeling it painful I finally gave in.

Yesterday I bought freezing stuff. Nothing doing. It steamed and froze and didn't hurt and didn't blister.

I went to the doctors today who said yes - it is a verucca - no there is nothing we can do. Nothing. Just leave it. Get a chiropodist to file it down if the skin thickens. There is no treatment that works. They say in the surgery you only have ten minutes maximum. I was in and out in two. 'What is the problem? Oh yes, that is a verucca. Yes it looks like it might be painful where it is. No there is absolutely nothing we can do at all what so ever. Is there anything else I can help you with today?'

Almost like I could conjure up another ailment she might have a better chance of solving.

No everything else is fine thank you. I was hoping, as a doctor, skilled in all sorts of things medical, you might have had a clue how to solve a little think like a verruca but clearly I was wrong. Apologies for bothering you and I will try really hard to come up with a 'proper' illness that you can deal with next time!

Sorry - do I sound a tad frustrated. I love walking. I need to walk. A now it is blinking painful.

Pesky little thing. I have dug at it with scissors and scalpels over the years, I have tried to freeze it and am now back to bazooka and hoping the chiropodist will be more helpful when I next see her.

Meanwhile I plan on nuking it with everything I can lay my hand on because one way or another the blasted thing is going.

Some simple scrapping today - this one another for the treasure trails album and from the Puddles trail the other day.

 

 

The album is an 8 x 8 and so it is very rewarding to be able to print and use a picture running the entire height of the page.

 

I made the flowers with my new Tim Holtz flower dies - a little gift to myself for half term!

 

 

I love that the flowers are much smaller than many I make which means they are not too lumpy for scrapbook pages.

 

Today I am thankful for

• a book I wanted from the library - I still can't get over how fabulous libraries are. Free books. On hand. To bring home.
• Nigel - my verruca isn't in an easily accessible part of my foot. He is GOOD at applying Bazuka.

 

Comments

[Joan Old]

My daughter had a verruca as a child and the doctor applied liquid nitrogen to it. Only needed the one application and the verruca was gone. Don't know if that treatment is still used, but it certainly worked.

[Scrapdolly]

Thanks Joan
The doctors don't do it anymore as they say it doesn't work.
You can buy liquid nitrogen stuff - which I have done. Seems the doctor was right - didn't work.

[Jackey]

Try tea tree oil that is what the dr suggested to the parents of primary school age children and it worked.
Jackey

[Barb in AK]

Just wanted you to know how sorry I am that you must not only suffer through this ailment, but also through unhelpful doctors. I don't blame you a bit for self-medicating and trying everything you can. Praying you find relief quickly!

[Amanda Jane]

You have my sympathy, they can be so painful. This may sound daft, but cover it in black insulating tape. I had a verruca for years that gels and freezing didn't cure. Then a friend told me how she had treated her son's verruca with the tape. Use a file or pumice to remove the dead skin, then cover it with the tape (held in place with a plaster as it tends to come off). It excludes the oxygen so the verruca begins to die. I did this morning and evening for 2-3 weeks and it worked. I've also used this method on both my children on new verrucas and it only took a few days for them.

[Jan steventon]

My hubby is diabetic and can't use the freeze stuff. What he did and it's worked twice. Take a bit of banana skin the same size as the verruca, banana skin side to the verruca. Put a plaster on it and leave it for a few days it should come away with the core of the verruca and heal. If it doesn't work repeat the process I promise you it will get rid of it.

Jan