Day 36

Getting better. At this rate, I'd say that this will not scar.

Day 28

Looks like it's healing. It's not perfect, and maybe I'll have to start over with the apple vinegar, but I definitely don't feel anything underneath where the wart used to be. The only thing is that it's taking a while for the area to heal. Maybe I'll carry the scar for life?

Day 25

Well, it looks like I may have made some progress. I left the wart alone, and it crusted over in about a week. Problem is, it's beginning to itch like crazy. Plus, the crust is now cracking over. I'm also getting the itch to kind of pick it off, like I would for a scab.

So, I do pick it off. Just a small piece, just to see what's happening underneath. I was afraid that I might have another open wound, but it's not the case. What I see encourages me to pick off the rest of the crust.


Maybe I'm being a little optimistic, but it looks like it's healing!


This is what it looks like now that I've removed all of the crusty stuff. You'll notice that I've left something behind, a little to the left on the center. That's not part of the scab, it looks like. Rather, it looks like it has taken root, although it's the same color as the crusty scab. My guess is that it'll fall off on its own once its good and ready.

Day 17

Nothing new here. The vinegar did it's thing, and my skin is irritated, yet again. The big change that I'm seeing is that there is a lot of brown - the same type of brown when I first started this endeavor.

I noted at that time that the brown flecks that appeared after applying the apple vinegar was probably the capillaries that were feeding the warts. If the above brown areas are also capillaries, this means my wart has gotten worse? There sure is a lot of them...

I didn't feel much of anything last night: no throbbing or any other sort of pain from the vinegar. I think may lay off the vinegar again. I obviously did a lot of damage here, and will wait to see what happens.

Day 16 - Later That Day

The roughness of the surface on the red area is bothering me. Now that I think about it, it feels like the beginnings to the scabrous area on the warts that I got rid of, you know, when I first started applying the apple vinegar. I've made another decision:

More vinegar. I think the wart virus is still around, and if that's the case, I'm probably better off applying more weak acid now, to get to the virus, as opposed to waiting around and essentially starting from the beginning again. I don't want to go back to square one and wait another 16 days.

I take the cutter knife, sterilize it again, and start getting rid of the rough surface that's covering the red area. I think I made the right decision.


The red area is not so red anymore. In fact, in some parts, it's actually very white--is it fat? Skin? Thin pockets of warts?--especially around the depression I noted in the past couple of days.


I'm pretty sure the job is not done. More vinegar, cotton balls, and band-aids to get rid of the remaining suckers.

Day 16

I've made a decision. It's quite apparent at this point that I'm gonna have to get rid of the callused area, since it threatens to cover the red area. If I can't see what's going on, I can't take action, assuming I'll have to take action. So, I get a cutter box knife (they're pretty sharp), sterilize the blade portion I'm going to use with a lighter, and go to work.


Getting rid of the callused area, seen in the above picture, shows me that the red area is actually bigger than I thought.


I think maybe I should clean and disinfect the area, so I take an alcohol swab to the wart. The above is what I get. The light from the flash highlights the roughness of the surface. Also, the red area, circled by the callus, is not as red as in the past couple of days. Maybe things are progressing for the better?

Day 15

I've used the flash on my camera to take a picture of the wart, something I haven't done in quite a bit. The strength of the light is showing me something I hadn't noticed yesterday. There are flecks of dark inside the red area.

Are the capillaries making a comeback? If so, that would mean that I haven't gotten rid of the wart at all. Worrisome.

Also, the crusty stuff was kind of bothering me, so I scooped it out with a pin, something that I know I shouldn't be doing....*sigh* The process is pretty slow. Is it getting better or not?

Plus, it kind of looks like the callus is going to end up covering the red area, which at this point I'm assuming is what remains of the wart. If so, wouldn't that mean that my wart's going to be, in a manner of speaking, "protected?"