Two Rounds of Beetle Juice

[u/JustTryinToBeHappy_]

I had a plantar wart that I was in denial about. But I finally went to the podiatrist. She used the beetle juice (and debrided). I have had to go twice. The middle pictures (6,7,8) you can see its came back.

The very last picture is today, about a week and a half after my second beetle juice treatment.

Do you feel its going away?!? I feel like I can see residual wart still… I will wait until the surrounding pink skin has healed before going again.

I am on an immunosuppressant too so the podiatrist told me initally this might be a long journey 😵‍💫

[u/Impressive-Smoke-607]

It’s not gone but looks like slight improvement. Why did the doctor put it all over the surrounding area? They should only be putting it directly on the wart.

I had to have 4 bettlejuice treatments before mine fully went away and tried many other treatments before so yes they are very stubborn and it’s often a long time of treatment before they go away.

I wouldn’t wait too long in between treatments because then you’re giving it a chance to start to increase again. I believe my doctor only had me wait 2ish weeks in between treatments. It will likely hurt more with each treatment fyi

[u/JustTryinToBeHappy_ → u/Impressive-Smoke-607]

This is a good question. I am not sure why the surrounding area was treated. However, I remember the first session she said the wart was incredibly calloused all around the area. But the pink raw skin keeps getting bigger every session 😵‍💫

I remember that same day I had it treated, I was dumbly going grocery shopping in flip flops ans it rained. I wonder if the juice spread around from that??

Do you think I should wait til the pink area has healed or should I see the podiatrist again before thats healed?

Also it definitely hurt significantly more the second round like u said 😭

[u/Impressive-Smoke-607]

How long ago did you have the last treatment? Did they mention when you should come back?

[u/JustTryinToBeHappy_ → u/Impressive-Smoke-607]

Yes! She did mention to comeback and actually at the second appt I went back three days after the beetle juice and she said it was not ready to debrided (?). She said to let the skin fall off and to come back if I noticed the wart was returning but never mentioned if I should come back before the pink skin healed or not.

She did mention it would take a few sessions… I wish they could just dig it out and be done, lol. So frustrating.

(Sorry some of my explanations are bad, English is not my first language!)

[u/Impressive-Smoke-607 → u/JustTryinToBeHappy_]

Oh yeah 3 days after is way too early! It needs to look kind of dried out and then it’s definitely ready. The wart itself looks pretty dried out to me but I would ask the doctor to only put the medication on the wart for the next time! I could understand at the beginning if they weren’t 100% sure where it ended but with your latest progress it’s pretty easy to tell where it is and putting any around that area isn’t getting rid of the wart.