When I first got a wart, my friends told me that they had had them in the past and to just let nature take its course and my body would get rid of the virus. It made sense enough in my mind; it was a virus, not unlike a cold, and my body had killed off dozens of colds before. Unfortunately, my immune system seemed to like the virus and things only got worse. One wart turned into five, which turned into ten, which made me see my general practitioner for some advice. He gave me the same as my friends and told me to wait it out.
No word of a lie, a wart is a benign tumor. These things are highly vascularized and suck a whole lot of blood to the affected area. That means that the ones on my fingertips, where I had the most nerve endings, really hurt. It was a constant throbbing that only ever subsided because I just got used to the pain. If I thought about my fingers, they would hurt. I couldn’t type for long periods of time, the wart on my thumb made it impossible to play video games and even operating scissors was painful for me.
If you are suffering from warts, anywhere on your body, I would highly recommend you take care of them as soon as you notice it because, in my experience, it really does only get worse. Granted, there is a chance that your immune system will eventually catch on to the infection but there’s also the alternative.
I really wish I had nipped my problem in the butt before it got out of hand. The doctors didn’t want to treat me because they thought it was strictly cosmetic and would leave more ghastly scars than getting rid of the scars naturally would. I had a really tough time convincing them that there was much more to your hands being taken over by a mutant virus than cosmetics.
Please, heed my warning and trust me that if your wart problem does get out of hand, it will be incredibly painful. It’s much easier and less painful to treat a single wart than a body full of them.
My name is Justin Mills and I've just finished my BBA at Berkeley and I'm trying to decide what to do next. Up until university started, even into it a bit, I had warts all over my hands. It culminated with about twenty of them taking residence on the backs of my hands and the last one to go was a really nasty sucker under my left thumbnail. Anyways, I did finally get rid of them (after more than a decade) and wanted to help you guys out with the same problem.