Is this a wart?

[WalterDogg]

Hi, I have a small round circle on the inside of my toe. I don't think it's a plantar wart because there has never been any black stuff in the middle. Recently it has spread to the toe that touches the other toe. I went to a dermitilogist last year and he froze in about 5 times it appeared to get smaller but did not go away.

My question is --  Is this really a wart? How do I know for sure? What kind of wart is it?

Thanks

[chellybeans]

plantar just means on the foot. a wart is a wart typically. there does not have to be black stuff to be a wart. the black specks seen in many warts is simply dried up blood from a trauma that the area had. often warts on the feet are very difficult to eradicate taking repeat treatment and ocassionally electro dessication and curretage or excision(last option as you'd have an open wound). it may spread if you don't get it treated until the lesion is completely resolved and it may take several treatments. if allowed to spread to the bottom of your foot it may become quite painful.

[helper771]

If it is a wart I hope this helps, Plantar Warts are not fun, but this is what I did and it worked for me... I had never had any expierence with these warts and as such when my foot started hurting, I ignored it, but soon it became difficult to walk. I play basketball and found my foot in pain every time I played. I went to a foot doctor and was told I had a plantar wart. He told me about the different approaches (cut it out, freeze it, lazer it) but I knew all these things would precede to have a few weeks recovery time, so he said I could try Dr. Scholes (these were a joke) I found myself back to the foot doctors a few months later with a much bigger wart. So I took the next step and got it cut out (OUCH!) which is susposedely more reliable than freezing. Months went by and the hole on the bottem of my little toe finally filled in. For a few weeks I thought it had worked, but soon that same toe began hurting worse. I went back to the doctor and was astonished he said, "it came back with a fury," now I had five new warts covering the bottem of that little toe. He sent me to a specialist and she wanted to lazer them off, but told me I would be left basically with no little toe for some time. The first expierience of cutting it out was painful enough, I didn't want to go through something like that again. She then told me about the injections (ugh more pain). I was to the point I would almost do anything to be rid of them. I had to pull out of her another option, an immune responce cream. There were two steps, first cream I put on for a week, my whole toe turned white, and I peeled away all this skin (this hurts but the more you reveal the warts, the better chance you have). Then the next cream was the treatment, I was to apply this every night with duck tape (I found myself waking up in the middle of the night with my toe throbbing so bad I couldnt sleep, this means its working).I also took vitamin C,E, and beta carotine every day to booste my immune system. I did this for months and soon they shrank and turned pink and eventually dissapeared. It has been a year and no more plantar warts, the good thing about this stuff is, my body fought the warts off itself, now I have immunity to the warts as opposed to cutting, freezing, and lazering. THe key is to keep the skin off and the wart exposed to the medicine which is hard. I would find myself sitting for hours in pain as I forced myself to get rid of the skin around it. I even used a driminal tool and actually sanded at it, sometimes it bled, but this is what it takes. I hope this helps, I know how terrible those can be.