I have some common warts on my fingers and I play guitar. Suggestions?
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June 21st, 2010
Recently, a handful (haha) of common warts have developed on my fingers. At first, I thought they were tiny blisters from doing something, but then I realized what they were. They aren’t nasty looking or anything, but I wish they weren’t there. I am pretty sure that they come from the HPV, something that has to be naturally fought off by the immune system on an indefinite and unpredictable schedule.
Now they have begun to affect my guitar-playing, by hurting on my fret hand when I do certain slides, bends, etc.
Does anybody have an idea of how to cure them or how to play guitar without pain from them?
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Liquid wart remover and cover it with a band-aid. The wart remover eats it away like acid and the band-aid helps to smother it, making the time it takes to get rid of the wart faster. There’s really no way to play guitar and it not be painful with warts on your fretting fingers.
Go to the doctor and have them frozen off. Call up your family doctor and ask if they have liquid nitrogen for warts – if they don’t, they’ll probably be able to refer you to someone who does.
You could switch around your hands (become opposite handed) and use the warts like plucks! ;-)
Use medical tape to cover the warts with a piece of banana peel before you go to bed each night. Take it off in the morning. Do this every night until the warts are gone. It’s worked for my husband and two of my kids who had warts on their fingers. It’s been a while, but I want to say the warts were gone within two weeks.
We’d tried over-the-counter wart removal products and they didn’t work at all. I read about the banana thing and decided to give it a try. It was painless and seems to have been effective since (knock on wood) the warts have stayed gone.
Eh, I wouldn’t fret about it.
I have had success with the liquid wart remover as well, but my brother hasn’t had any success with it at all, so I think it really depends on the person. Personally, I’d go out to the drugstore or pharmacy, buy a few different treatments (freeze, solvent, etc.) and then try out those for the length of time they suggest. There’s a good chance that if the treatments don’t work within the first few weeks they won’t at all.
Get some wart remover and freeze them off.
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