Compound W - The "W" Might Mean "Worthless"
Written: Dec 17 '00
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Pros: Cheap.
Cons: Doesn't work very well.
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| swoeste's Full Review: Compound W Liquid |
I tried Compound W for over a year, using it almost every day for that time. I followed the instructions on the bottle correctly, yet the results I had were less than satisfactory. After using the product carefully, and for a long period, I have never considered using it since.
Like lots of people, I had warts. I assume, like lots of people, they just appeared one day, without warning. I had no prior history of warts, and the sole wart I first noticed on my ring finger was the very first. It wasn't long before other warts appeared; they started showing two and three at a time. Besides being on the fingers of my right hand, they spread to my right palm, then to my left fingers and palm. They looked nasty, and I didn't want them there, so I decided to try Compound W.
Compound W is a rather thick, gluey liquid in a small bottle, that has a short applicator "stick", to daub the product on your wart. Once out of the bottle and on the wart, it dries to chalky white crust over the wart. While some have reported a burning sensation when applying Compound W to a wart, I never felt that. After repeated applications for several days, the skin around the wart starts to redden, and become sensitive to the touch. On about the third or fourth day, the top layers of the wart begin to peel off.
About that time you start to think you're making progress, when a large part of wart falls away. However, that's only an illusion; the portions of the wart that you lose are soon replaced by new growth, so what you get is a wart that's eventually just as big as it was before, though you had a temporary reduction in its size. That's true despite using Compound W all through the time described.
You can keep using it on the regrown wart after that, but it never goes completely away. You'll likely find, as I did, that continued use of Compound W starts to affect the health skin around the wart; your skin will continue to redden, and eventually it will die, and crack, making a good place for a bacterial infection to start. That makes things even more complicated, since you started with a viral infection (that causes the wart), and you end with a viral infection (the wart) and new bacterial infection. Should the new infection spread, you'll need something else for that.
I used four bottles of Compound W, and I only succeeded in getting rid of two of the smallest warts I had; the rest just stayed, and kept regrowing. How did I finally get rid of them? I didn't. Given time, they eventually went away on their own. I'm sure their appearance, and their disappearance, was related to the amount of stress I had at each time.
I would not recommend Compound W for treating warts, since it was only marginally effective on even the smallest warts I had. I would recommend going to a dermatologist, or some other medical professional if you have a problem with warts.
Recommended:
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