Genital Warts Treatment: My Experience Part 2

[stayfoolish]

It has been exactly one week since I have visited the doc and TCA was applied on the warts. Just a guesstimate, but I would say that I had 10 total warts around my external vagina and rectum, combined. There are about 4 warts that the TCA seems to be working.

I was in a lot of pain (well, pain is relative) over the weekend. The TCA did it's job in those areas and essentially burned off the infected skin. So I had an exposed wound where the TCA was working. I applied neosporin to help speed up recovery. No clue on the effectiveness of it. But I just treated it as if it was a healing scab on any other portion of my body. Those areas seem to be healing fine.

The other 6 spots where the TCA did not seem to work? My theory is that the TCA was not applied very well there. I did notice that when I got home last week. So that is my theory.

I am supposed to go back next week. No doubt I will get a second round of TCA applied, in the areas where it did not work.

Overall, I am happy to see that it seems to be working. I am paranoid about getting more warts, and seem to be over thinking anything that could resemble a wart. I suppose that is normal.

I did get an HPV test while at the doc's last week. From reading some other questions on the forum, however, I wonder if that is going to tell me what type of low-risk I do have. That is a question that I need to have answered.

Good luck to all that have to encounter this problem. I will provide another update after my second round...unless something else significant happens between now and then.

Any questions, comments, concerns are welcome. Thanks.

[stayfoolish]

Thanks, Mitchlaw. I did have a pap done on my initial visit to test for any HPV on my cervix, i.e. high risk hpv. I actually forgot to ask about those results...assuming no news is good news. Although I will ask when I go back to the doc again.

I updated my story, and added a part 3 to this forum, if you want to see any updates.

Good luck with your struggle!

[Mitchlaw]

There is a test to determine which strain you have, but if I remember, it's really expensive (and isn't covered by insurance pretty much anywhere). If memory also serves, I believe it can only be done for high-risk strains. Chances are, that wasn't the test you had done. If it was just a normal pap, you probably won't know. At least, with the normal pap, you'll be able to rule out high-risk HPV.

Thank you for posting this, as well, it's nice to hear a (thus far) successful story. I am currently struggling with HPV (common warts), but have been on struggle street for ten years and am far from getting them completely rid of. Hopefully, in a year's time, they'll be gone and I'll be free. DCP (0.05%) in acetone seems to be working so far, albeit at a really slow pace. I haven't switched between DCP and Scycillic (I think that's how it's spelled) acid like I was told, because the DCP is crazy good, crazy painful, and is MUCH stronger on my skin than my dermatologist thought (when I first visited him, we'd tried everything up until DCP, and he applied DCP 20% to my arm to sensitise me to it, and I still have a scar from it - it was 6 months ago).

Thanks again for posting, and I hope all goes well with your treatment.

[isitoveryet79]

you do know that there is cream you can apply at home that are less painful.  just incase you would like to go that route.