On and On

Well long time no post.
Have things got better - well kind of!
We have continued the treatment religously and the following pictures show the progress in August.

You can see how black the one on the side of my foot got.















This next one shows quite well how the rest of my foot is begining to suffer a bit, the pink skin is very sensitive. The plasters at the top of my foot are where the verruccas covered in Avoca are.
















One of the hardest things about treating verruccas is knowing when they are in retreat and you're getting on top of them.

















































Not long after this picture we decided it was better for the skin to be uncovered to allow the healthly skin to harden up. We started to Avoca all the verruccas and then cover with very small plasters. (Very small circular ones bought from ebay, cheap and do the job!)

Meanwhile we had been using the Avoca pen on the top of the foot. Applying for 3 days consecutively and then scraping off with a disposable razor.
















Looking better!

Going in the right direction!

As you can see, things are changing! The biggest thing is that my feet no longer hurt :-)

They seem to be turning black one by one. You can see the nasty one on the side of my foot is going greeny black. The large white area that swelled up has gone and the verrucas seem to be slightly smaller. The heel is still being covered with vinegar soaked cotton pads and surgical tape.















The top ones that have been treated with the Avoca pen look very black. I am still rubbing with an emery board and then using the pen once a day. Covering each with a small plaster. I am uncertain as to how long to carry this one for and what to look for to know if they are gone or not.



All in all it looks a hell of a lot better than a few days ago.

A step in the right direction?

Feeling a little more positive............
Gave my feet a long soak in a bowl of water as the skin is suffering from being covered all the time.

The white area at the top of the picture is now greatly reduced due to scraping it with a razor.
You can just about see the big crator on the side of my foot has gone black, thats by far the most painful one. I'm waiting for the pain to lessen before I scrape that one. The foot itself is much healthier, I'm not using duct tape any more just surgical micropore which allows the skin to breathe. I didn't see the point of continuing with duct tape as I'm covering the verrucas with cotton wool soaked pads so they're not getting any light anyway.















Wasn't quite sure what the avoca pen would do. You dip the tip of it in water and then rub it onto the verruca for 1 minute. It looks as though nothing has happened but after a while of being covered with a plaster it turns black. You can just make out the black beneath the plasters.

Once they were all re-covered I moisturised the rest of the foot with baby moisturiser and it made them feel sooo much better.
















So today we have reapplied the avoca to the ones at the top of the foot and are still vinagaring the ones on my heel. We'll see what tomorrow brings!

No Pictures

The last two days have been tough. No photos as,to be honest, I'm trying not to look at them. The most painful ones have now begun to go black in the centre of the crater, I sincerely hope this is because it is dying. The biggest group (the bottom section of the picture below) have now formed this white/yellow kind of base.. when you touch it it is solid as a rock, and is raised about 13mm so obviously walking is very very painful.
I decided to use a razor blade and scrape, had quite a good effect actually. Over the really painful parts of my foot I was really gentle though. On the top of my foot a few of the verruca tops actually came off, so for the first time I used the avoca pen (Silver Nitrate).
On my other foot my toe had swollen. I think this was the tape although the verruca was one of the nasty ones that has gone black inside and is quite raised up. I thought long and hard and decided to go for it and scrape the most painful one. It actually wasn't that bad as long as I was gentle it was a bit like grating garlic!!!!!
I then used vinegar and gently taped it with micropore.
I used vinegar for the others again, but even so this is a tiny step forward, I managed to touch the verrucas and they have been SO painful, its almost relieved a bit of pressure of them.
Im now thinking of the next step forward. Hmm...

Eeeew

Didn't manage to last 48hrs as the tape was coming off and the foot were painful so we wanted to check it wasn't about to fall off. I think its safe to say the vinegar is taking effect. My foot is sore to walk on, so as its the summer holidays I'm trying not to spend too much time walking about.
Some of the craters are looking more grey now, and many have swollen.
















These are the ones on the side of my foot (the top of the previous pic) and are by far the most painful at the moment you can just about see how they are going grey in the middle.

Fed Up!!!!

Begining to feel a bit desperate now to be honest. As you can see the white bits have continued to become craters. I managed to take a bit off with a razor before vinegaring them again. Have decided to put the vinegar on a cotton pad and tape up for 48hours and leave well alone. I'm worried that by uncovering them once a day and scraping that all I'm doing is stimulating them.
On the upside, still no pain, I thought once I'd scraped them that placing the vinegar on them would be murder, but it was fine. They just a feel a bit sensitive thats all.

ETA: sorry if this is becoming a depressing blog, I'm going to kill the buggers if its the last thing I do.

Who wants feet like these?

Feeling a bit negative at the moment as we've been here before and I was really looking forward to wearing sandles this summer for the first time in years.
Anyway, still no pain although the feet are not surprisingly very tender at the moment.
The white puffy areas are not quite as big as last time. Strangely enough the top part of the foot doesn't seem to go white and puffy like the bottom. The ones here are younger but have still be there for around a year.