Apple Cider Vinegar for Genital Warts

Day 1: Applied ACV to warts with cotton that I ripped to fit the lesion at night. It didn't stick with tape probably because of the location. So I covered the cotton with toilet paper and then taped that down.

I also put on some cotton underwear to hold it in place much firmer. Barely slept through out the night mainly because I wanted it gone and kept making sure everything was in place. Also got up and changed the cottons this time just holding them in place with my underwear line.

Day 2: woke up to the bumps whitish gray and slightly swollen.

Took a bath like normal.

Then placed more ACV on the bumps this time it sting so badly I sat there for 15 mins holding it in place then cleaned it up with some Hydrogen Peroxide 3% and put on some cotton undies and headed to work.

At night I bathe as usual, then wiped the area with hydrogen peroxide waited for it to dry then applied the ACV which burned like hell this time around. I closed my eyes and prayed for the pain to subside, eventually it did. (Still looking whitish gray)

Day 3: woke up to them dark brown some parts still gray. Applied some more ACV for half an hour not long because it was starting to make my skin feel raw with all the stinging and swelling.

The area is now brownish.

Took a warm bath this morning cleaned the area with 3% Peroxide the applied some castor oil like I see some other people on here doing and it gave me instant relief. Then head to work. Does anyone else have white discharge?

At night I decided to stay committed as I'm hoping to have these things gone by weekend so I can heal. I soaked thicker cotton strips because the thin ones dried out too fast and slept with them over night tonight it burnt like the bitch it is.

Day 4:Woke up this morning with even more white spots that the spot treatments didn't pick up previous days and thicker cotton strips seem to have raise others to the surface. However the ones previously treated turned black like some people described here. Thank God it works

Now I have to apply the thinker larger strips at night to ensure the new found ones get going too.

I'm so disgusted but please the ACV works.

This morning I didn't do anything jus bathe and let it dry out. Letting it rest and heal for the intense treatment I'm about to do tonight.

After work I took a warm bath and washed myself properly getting ready for my ACV soak tonight. Looked in the mirror and the spot that had turned black this morning are now gone. Eeeee I'm so happy and excited. Thank you Jesus it works! It did leave red flesh colored skin in its place but idc I'm soooo freaking happy rn.

This journey has truly taught me to respect myself more. Use a condom with new partners and get their test results. Cause ain't no way. I'm not even a super active sexual person only been with 5 ppl my entire 24 years of life.

Anyways tonight I soaked a big piece of cotton like night before and slept with that on knowing I'm almost done with my treatment.

Day 5- Bathe and watched myself in the mirror it completely cleared one side of my vag opening. The other side is dark and has dark spots peeling and flaking very sore but I'm pleased to say I'm getting somewhere. The previous white spots have faded or fallen out idk prob wasn't warts to begin with. Happy to say I'm almost completely done one more side to go. Yayy!

Tonight as I looked in the mirror I noticed the chunk on my right side had fallen off after my warm bath where I rubbed my vagina clean to ensure no dead skin was hanging on for my treatment tonight. In its place were raw skin patches I can tell my treatment is almost over. I applied a thick cotton on both sides just incase and put on my undies to go to sleep. Little to no burning tonight. However, I will be continuing my treatment till I am certain it's all clear.

Day 6- Woke up bathed and cleaned the area with peroxide rubbed some castor oil on the raw skin, put on some clean loose undies and went to work.

Came home took a warm shower and looked in the mirror. It looks very white and some areas raw. I'm taking tonight off to give it time to heal a little. So far both sides looks cleared. Also some of the Acv got on my but and caused slight burns. This method definitely works, I approve giving it a try.

M/46/USA California & Nevada

In 2016 when I was 39, I cut the base my penis shaving with an electric razor. I really mangled the skin, & tore it up. Left a half a lentil sized scar on my penis, near the base, so far down that if I pull my skin up it can travel to my abdomen. But when aroused like 3/4” inch up the shaft. Thank Goodness, when aroused it really flattened out and was nearly invisible. You get the point. Worst day of my life. So much blood, I had to tie a tourniquet around it to stop the bleeding.

Months later a scar developed over the wound site. I tried to exfoliate it off, tea tree oil, poke it with a needle to see if it was a fluid filled boil. Nothing helped. In fact, I felt it was slowly growing.
Finally in 2018 I decided to have a professional look at it. I went to the top plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. I told him my story & I showed him and he immediately declared. "You have HPV! ” "I can cut it off and put a stitch and you'll-“
"Doc”, I replied, "its not HPV I just finished telling you it's a shaving scar." He disagreed. I walked out and didn't do anything about it. Seeing that no women ever noticed it, & a condom covered it, I just figured this was my “scar” for life.

Fast Forward to 2023,

6.5 years later. I felt this scar was becoming more visible. Especially when flaccid, bc skin was all bunched up. I looked into scar removal creams, and scar therapies. One day during my research, someone said that ACV works good on scars. Desperate to try anything. I got the good ACV w “the mother” and started applying it. Basically painting it w a Q-tip, for like a half hour. The “scar” turned white like most people in this thread report, and by day two the wart tripled in size, was pulsating, stinging, & all around reacting negatively to the acv. Plus a few junior warts sprouted up around it. What have I done? I thought. Someone in this thread described the wart getting “angry” and I can certainly agree. Now there was no hiding it, the area was red and white, was quadruple in size & in a cold sweat I thought I mutilated myself beyond repair. I immediately searched for the best dermatologist in Las Vegas and made an appointment. The guy is so good his next appointment was 3.5 weeks out. I booked it, and thought if someone else had an opening sooner I would go.

Then something remarkable happened. Three days later I looked at my scar, and there was a black scab on the top of it. But aside from that it looked much improved. I thought perhaps this is what has to happen? The ACV has to desiccate the scar, and destroy it top down? With my derm appointment now 3 weeks away, I said let me give it another go. So I applied Apple Cider Vinegar in the am after my shower once a day for like 10 mins 5 days in a row. Same result. Got worse again. White, yellow, stingy, pain, bleeding, cracking, the whole 9. At exactly 2 weeks before my appointment (March 14,2023) I sad let me stop so the derm can look at this not fresh from an ACV treatment. So I did not do it for 2 weeks. The scar never looked so good after scabs fell off. I even considered canceling the dermatologist appointment! But, because the guy was so highly rated, and I waited almost a month at this point I figured why not?

I go to the dermatologist, and tell him my story, and show him. Again, this Dr. tells me I have HPV. He checks my whole area and can't find another wart. I tell him, no doc it's a shaving scar. He says HPV. I say so you think I just happen to have HPV on the trauma site and nowhere else? He said yes and told me I could freeze it off, use a slow acting cream, or an aggressive, fast acting cream. I said give me fast acting. I'd rather get this done sooner than later. He prescribed me Condylox cream.

I went to 4 pharmacies in Las Vegas and no one carried it. No one carries HPV cream in Vegas? Finally one pharmacist said they could order it for me, it was $900. I was aghast!
Driving home it dawned on me. OMG, I bet everyone who has a cold sore, a wart, or a chancre etc probably tells the doctor they cut themselves shaving. They ignore it and go with their instinct & med school training.

By the time I get home, I decided I was going to go back to ACV. Especially since Condylox got mixed reviews online. Believe me $900 would have been a small price to pay, if reviews said it worked and was great.

I begin ACV treatment again. The tiny “wart”, almost undetectable at my appointment time once again goes white and balloons up to 3x+ it's size. To anyone reading this, this is the hard part. Seeing it look worse than before and thinking you're doing more harm than good is nerve wracking. I stayed with it. Because of its location I could not tie something to it and leave it on overnight. After 10 mins it would always slip off or move so I decided I was just going to bathe and slather the wart in Apple Cider Vinegar every 3 hours for 30 mins. Yes it stings, yes it throbs and hurts and looks awful. I feel like I know my body. I'm not into big pharma and I always look to natural cures and healing before anything else and by day 3, even as bad as it looked I could feel the Apple Cider Vinegar was doing something. Sometimes during a session the site would “fizz” like there was sparkling water in it. It also felt like a valve was released, and toxins were being sucked out of the wound area into the cotton ball. It broke open. More scabs more white and yellow skin around it, but in a weird way, I could sense progress and healing. Day 5 was 3 days ago. I said today is aggression day. I'm going to do 30 mins every 2 hours. (I never diluted btw) Qtips, holding a cotton ball on it for 30+mins and I even put like 2” of Apple Cider Vinegar in a glass soda bottle, put the opening completely around the wart and flipped it over, maintaining a tight seal so that the wart was completely submerged. Intense stinging pain, but also “healing” pain if that makes sense. Like putting peroxide on a knee scab as a kid. The wart is destroyed right now just double scabs, & redness around the site.

Day 6, after aggression day I planned to just going to do it 2x. Maybe I'm burning the healthy skin around it, so let me do 2 sessions today and one tomorrow before evaluating. Now there is just scabs. Nothing looking “warty”. I begin to paint the area and scabs w ACV & nothing. No pain, no stinging, nada. Usually, after 2 mins the site would immediately “react” to the acv. Now nothing. Am I in the clear? I can't say for 100% certain. But like I wrote earlier. I do feel like I am in tune w my body, and I do feel this worked. When the scabs fall off and I see how it healed I will do Apple Cider Vinegar again and see if anything reacts. I will update y'all and try and answer any questions you have.

I can't be certain if this was a scar or HPV, it's certainly reacting to the Apple Cider Vinegar as if it was hpv. I was very sexually active '16-'20. None of my partners ever reported getting warts. But, after this last session, I feel like I am rid of my little devil. Now just 2 scabs remain, but I see healing pink skin all around & closing in. I'm from the generation where double skinned knees were the norm in summer. So I know what my body looks like when its healing, and this is it.

I'll post again in a few weeks with an update. But, so far so good.

Okay. So I found a few small warts. One in my inner butt cheek, one on my outer labia and one on the mons. I OVERDID it. This forum has been my go to because of the honestly. I did not dilute the apple cider vinegar and did 3 nights of cotton balls taped with paper tape. It was too long and too strong. But I wanted immediate results!! Ugh I have 2 painful ulcer like wounds around the places where the warts were…. I think they are gone but the skin is so damaged I have no idea… I also went balls to the walls and slathered my whole nether regions with 10% zinc sulfate… also prolly should not have done this. I have not been able to walk straight or sit down. I'm currently airing my bay out wearing a robe. I'm still using coconut oil… but I found similar reaction of TONS of zit like bumps everywhere but especially where the tape was located. I have these tender bumps allll over there. I'm at first freaking out thinking is the the start of new warts. Not sure. But they all have white heads on them so even as an RN I don't trust what I'm seeing on my own body. I'love been downing vit c and ordered oral liquid zinc supplements I'm going to start taking to get at the root of my immune system. Thank you every one who shared their story. It really was helpful. But yeah use the vinegar like they stated 10-15 min at least start so you don't end up like me my sad vag.

Maybe my results aren't as good, because I didn't want to soak my asshole in acid for longer periods of time. The skin of my anus is really sensitive and I've had some eczema there in the past. So I put some vaseline on the healthy skin around my anus, and applied a 50% ACV / 50% water mix with cotton tips. I used a mirror, dipped the cotton tips in the mixture, applied it on the warts, and repeated this for a minute or 5. After, I would 'let it burn' for about 20 minutes, then I'd apply some jojoba oil with a drop of tea tree oil, and some zinc ointment (this helps the skin to heal, and studies show that using topical zinc in combination with other methods can speed things along, so I gave it a try). Whenever I was short on time, I would just apply the oil and ointment straight after.

I also drink some dilluted ACV (don't forget to rinse your mouth thorougly, as this will damage your teeth), and got myself a shiitake-supplement (AHCC), and a zinc supplement. Primarily because I will definitely not be putting ACV up my vagina (I have warts on my cervix too, but none on my labia), and I want to heal this from the inside out.

Here are my takeouts:

• ACV affects your healthy skin too. I read some reviews where people would mention AVC only hurts the warts. That's nonesense, it's highly acidic and it WILL burn your healthy skin. Definitely try to protect your healthy skin with an oil or vaseline barrier, if possible.
• Dillute it! I used a 50/50 mix.
• My warts never turned black. They did become white and slightly bigger right after exposing them to ACV.
• Because it was almost impossible to protect my healthy skin (because the warts were everywhere), the skin cracked a little and there was a little blood on the Q-tip on the third day.
• Take rest days. General acid treatments advice you to use it for 3 days and then take 4 days off. I think that helps with ACV too. It gives your skin some time too heal. I used ACV for 3 days, took 2 days off, and so on.
• Get some aloë vera gel to apply in between treatments when things get really painful.

Some backstory:

I was a little hesitant to try ACV. I was diagnosed with HPV after a pap smear. Had some wart-like textures on my cervix, but nothing external. A month or two later, I noticed two small bumps near my anus. Told my GP and she said 'Just leave them, when the HPV clears, they'll fall off'. Big mistake, because a few weeks later, my anus was covered in warts. She tried freezing half of them off, but that literally had 0 effect. She told me to wait a week for things to heal, but I never even felt like there was something that needed healing.

I really hope my current battle plan works out.

My warts have never come back and I did this in 2012. Of course everyone is different. Good luck 🤞!

Well, I'm coming in late to this game but I want to say thank you to everyone for the input. For two months I've been suffering and my OB/GYN has just been not helping finally I stumbled across this forum and started trying the Apple cider vinegar and literally two days later they already started to heal ♥️

1. The best result I had was from a dermatologist burning them off with heat (not freezing them off). After burning them off, the dermatologist applied some sort of acid to the area for a few seconds. This was painful, but 100% effective. In his words "it's all about 100% cellular destruction of the infected cells". Which is why he burned them off plus acid. Note, burning them off without a doctor is not something I'd try.

2. Apple Cider Vinegar + home freezing kit takes care of most of them, but occasionally they came back. For me, it's about 90% effective.

3. Freezing them off is what has been the least effective, like it hardly works is expensive and hurts. I'll never try this again.

My current home remedy is clean the area, then swab down with ACV for a few minutes, then use the freezing kit, then dip a piece of cotton in ACV and tape in place for a few hours. I repeat this daily till its gone. After its no longer visible I continue applying salicylic acid to the area for a week just in case there are a few infected cells hanging around that I can't see. Hope this works or else its back to the dermatologist.

first week- cleaned with hydrogen peroxide, then applied organic "mother" apple cider vinegar (brags brand from Sobeys) with a cotton ball and a bandaid for the night only. In the mornings id clean with hydrogen peroxide and reapply a little bit of Apple Cider Vinegar with a q tip then leave un covered and go to work. I did notice the wart turn super white and after a few days a few black dots. Super swollen, wart looked twice as big.

week 2- the white stuff is very slowly peeling off, no more black dots just white with a very swollen bump. The wart cracked a bit from jerking off and I stopped treatment and use polysporin. Continued treatment a few days later.

week 3- the results were still really slow, so I upped the treatment. I found the hydrogen peroxide was really harsh so I stopped using it all together.

New method- clean wart in morning with soap and water, dry and pat dry out the water (kind shrinks after draining the liquid) then I apply apple cider vinegar with a q tip for about 5 minutes til the wart soaks it up and gets big again. The I fold toilet paper and soak that and apply it to the wart and bandage it up for the day. After work I repeat the cleaning, soaking, and bandage until bed time where I do it all again.

now the wart is finally shrinking, more and more white is removed every morning. Theres some blood showing up which is making me happy. I'm going to keep doing this method until I see no more white when I apply acid.

I almost gave up treatment thinking the wart wasn't responding because of how swollen it was, I'm glad I upped the treatment, once that whitewashed away I knew it was working. Dont freak out if your wart swells up, it's full of acid and its part of the process. I wish I could share pics of my progress because I was seriously confused about when to stop treatment. I haven't stopped treatment yet but I'm hoping a few more days of this and ill be ok, still no scab.

Reading the stories from this forum has really helped me through this, thank you everyone who wrote about your experience. This was a very traumatic experience for me. I developed severe anxiety and lost about 10 pounds. I had no appetite and worried constantly, had the shakes. Finally seeing progress after 3 weeks has me hopeful.

Ill give and update in 2 more weeks