Hello all you smart people on this site!
I am 14 months in remission via a 3-drug trial cocktail --O+V+Z. Hooray!
I am noticing a blossoming of warts. Yes, WARTS. This proliferation (on feet and hands) is probably due to my non-functioning immune system, but since I've not read posts about warts on our site, I thought I would ask about your experience.
Best,
mouseandchair
I was diagnosed with CLL because my immune system went into free-fall. My neutrophils dropped to 0.4 - into severity level 4 territory. Warts flared up on both hands. I gradually reduced the worst of them by applying a wart treatment, then sanding down the dead wart cells, being careful not to go too far. That helped somewhat, but they only disappeared as my immune system recovered.
Neil
Ahaaa! Thank you and Jammin. Especially for the warnings, as I tend to get pretty aggressive with these pesky things.
When I was a child, I had a couple of warts in my hand. No one seemed to care about them much except me.
One day my brother and I were playing tug-of-war with a spiral from a note pad. It ripped one of my warts clean out leaving a hole in my hand, which then of course began to bleed profusely.
My brother ran to get my mom at the neighbors. She was reluctant to leave her cup of coffee but my brother’s pleas finally convinced her.
It stopped bleeding after awhile and the other wart disappeared a few days later. Apparently they were connected.
I don’t recommend this as a treatment!
🤣
How interesting. In the few years before my CLL was diagnosed and throughout W&W whenever I was ‘under the weather’ - simple cold/virus etc - my fingers and toes would come up in red itchy bumps. Not warts but a skin reaction. I would need steroid cream to help control it.
I burnt one off with a match in my teens. It never came back. Don't do it 🙂
Thank you, LeoPa. I will NOT!
WHAT NEXT?
Referral to a CLL specialist? Not yet....!
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