Apple Cider Vinegar for Genital Warts

The past 6 months of my life have been very stressful with work, travel, and family. I have not been eating or exercising as well as I normally do, and have not been drinking enough water either. And I have been drinking more alcohol than normal and smoking marijuana.

Then a couple of days ago I realize the couple of bumps I have down there are not in-grown hairs or pimples. Absolutely horrifying to me to realize they are general warts. So so gross and embarrassing. It was the first time in my life to ever have them (and I am hoping my last).

First I freaked out, called my BFF, cried. THEN I made an appointment with my doctor, THEN I started researching home remedies and reading about Apple Cider Vinegar on this site. I thought it couldn't hurt to give it a try.

I did not do the Q-tip Band-Aid method however. I was concerned about leaving the vinegar on the wart for that long.

Here is what I did. I just got some Organic ACV with the veil of the mother in it (I don't know what that means but apparently it's good for you). Shake up the vinegar, soak little pieces of paper towel OR a Q-tip in the vinegar, then gently press directly onto the wart. Leave it on for a couple of minutes, then get a fresh Q-tip / paper towel, soak it, press gently on the wart again. Repeat this process until each wart has been treated with ACV for about 10-20 minutes.

It will start to burn and turn white after about 5 minutes, that's how you know for sure it's genital warts. The burning is not so bad you can't stand it, but if it ever gets too much, just take the vinegar off the wart and end the treatment until next time.

I have been doing this twice a day, once in the morning and once at night. After 5 treatments, the warts are so much smaller, I can tell this is seriously working very well. I still have another 5 treatments until my doctor appointment, so I'm hoping they will be cleaned up by then.

However, I will say, it's important to still go see the doc when you get warts in my opinion. You have to make sure they are not inside anywhere, plus there are probably a few warts you can't see but are hidden in your private areas. I think I have one on my butthole and in one other area that's pretty hard to get to by myself with ACV. So, I'm hoping the doctor can just quickly burn those off, and then I can focus on just eating healthy and exercising and getting my body back in balance so I can suppress this horrible disgusting virus.

Final note, After the ACV treatment, I swiped my surrounding healthy, non-wart skin with Aloe because the little bit of ACV that touches it can make it dry and itchy.

So, Yes, ACV works well to reduce the size of the warts after just 2-3 days, and I'm sure if I keep using it it will remove the visible ones all together. But, I advise to go to the doctor too. Not something you want to take risks on with at-home remedies alone.

I had INCREDIBLE PAIN and a discharge coming from the anal area and said discharge would burn my skin and the swelling would hurt like HELL when going to use the toilet. This discharge would have a yellowish color and gross smell. When you have any type of discharge is best to keep cleaning and drying the area to stop spreading or damage to skin.

The Dr. told me it was candida and gave me some pills ($30) and it was gone in a week. A year after, it came back, I wasn't able to go to a Dr. So I googled as I already knew what it was. I found ACV baths... basically you take a bath with half a bottle of ACV daily, I would also stick a garlic clove down there and let the bath be as long and hot as possible to let the skin absolve everything (it would burn a bit), also used greek yogurt in the area afterwards and drank a lot of it everyday, (the good bacteria would help the immune system evict the fungus demons from the body) I would this very soothing and helpful as it was COLD and refreshing. IT disappeared faster than with medication!

Experience 2: HPV / WARTS!!

This was SCARY. It started with one peanut sized thingy below the anus. It got itchy at first, then it grew and discharge begun... I thought it was candida again, but then other friends started trailing right below towards my BALLS, they where little ones that clustered in a line, then more on the side!! And they all had discharge that didn't smell and was transparent. After research I had no doubt I had HPV. Sad thing is I have been married at this point for 2 years. Anyway, they all grew and got painful and super leaky when sitting, I wanted to die. As if that wasn't enough the little f*rs started popping up near the tip of my penis. But these are just red flat small thingies on the foreskin. I wanted to go to a Dr. but decided to give ACV a go.

At first I naively stuck a piece of toilet paper with ACV down my crack and left it there since I had so many. WRONG. It burnt the S*t out of me and nearly killed me. As many said, don't apply ACV on healthy skin as it will burn it. What this blessing substance does, it kills the virus or bacteria or fungus by destroying the skin it's in layer by layer! The pain was unbearable but after reading this page I had to keep going (persistence will pay off) I went to see and they ALL TURNED WHITE AND DOUBLED IN SIZE. I knew I was doing something right (read somewhere that if they turn white they're warts and if they hurt like that, they are definitely warts, but dunno if that's for sure a reliable diagnosis?) I kept at it for two days like 3x / day and each time they would turn white, then start slowly pealing and then go back to flesh colored but smaller. It doesn't hurt when you apply it, but after 5 mins, so apply it fast then bite a towel! For large ones like mine you must work your way through its layers as it peals of and BE PERSISTENT. Now they are pretty small and nearly dying. They don't hurt anymore and I think I might be out of the woods but who knows. The smaller ones just slowly disappeared. I am just glad the pain is gone and you can tell when your skin is feeling better.

Thank you again and I wish everyone reading the best, this may or not be your fault as HPV is not only sexually transmitted, and it's hard to even detect. But the fact of the matter is you are not alone and are being proactive. USE ACV!!!!! Good luck!!!!!!

I was very skeptical at first to even attempt this even after reading mostly positive responses but I am sure as all of you know, it doesn't take long until you're desperate to get rid of them. That said, I followed the directions to the postfrom 2008 from El Ahr (copied and pasted below) and although it is early in the healing process they are finally gone! I didn't read much into all the vitamins and pills he's talking about towards the end (though I am sure those would help) but mainly into 'how to' process. Also the entire healing process will take around 2 weeks for the wart(s) to be gone and the skin heal into fresh pink skin. Just follow the steps he gives and continuously keep the area as clean as possible. I will say despite how clean you keep it through out the process it will look pretty gross, no lie & DO NOT have sex while you're in the process of this. My only real tip of advice is to be careful about your piece of cotton is not too big (cotton balls should be no bigger than the area of skin you want gone, so keep that in mind) and also from the piece of cotton obsorbing too much ACV and will start to burn unnecessary skin, so just be sure the cotton ball is dampish but not soaking in ACV.

All you need:

-ACV

-Hydrogen peroxide

-Cotton balls / Qtips

-LARGE box of bandaids of various sizes (it will help, trust me)

-Zinc oxide ointment (CVS/walgreens)

Other than that, good luck!

05/26/2008: El Ahr from Cairo, Illinois writes: "Genital Warts: (This is long but it is WORTH THE READ. I DETAIL HOW TO MAKE THOSE WARTS DISAPPEAR FOR GOOD!!! Don't waste your money on any gimmicks - this advice is free and it worked for me). I was a HUGE skeptic when I first decided to try a home remedy for my warts. When I first realized I had warts on the shaft of my penis, I cried with shame. I scoured the internet, did tons of research and panic took over as I sought a way to get rid of this taboo STD. And if you stumbled across this website, I'm pretty sure you've felt the exact same thing I've just described. But ladies and gentlemen, SAVE YOURSELF THE EMBARRASSMENT of having genital warts a part of your medical history. Before you go see a doctor, relax, take a deep breath, and from this moment forward, put yourself in a POSITIVE state of mind because everything is going to be alright. I found this site MONTHS AGO, but I have waited to post until now (three months later) just to be sure this wasn't a fluke. To begin, everybody's body is made up a little different, but I swear on everything that is holy and dear to me, this worked for me and I feel like a new man. I followed this procedure and by the third day, my warts fell off: First, start off by taking a nice warm shower. Clean your whole body, and pay special attention to the area with warts. I suggest taking a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the shower with you so that after you're done soaping up and rinsing, you can poor it directly on the area just to kill off any wart particles that may cause the nastiness to spread. After your shower, dry off. Get some regular sized bandages, some cottonballs, and some Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV). ACV is cheap and any kind will work. Take a bandage and cut a strip of the adhesive part off the bandage. This strip will serve as "tape" to hold the cottonball in place. Then, take a cottonball, rip off a piece that is about the size of the wart, and roll it up nice and tight. Take your little ball of cotton and soak it in ACV. Squeeze it gently so it wont drip, but don't squeeze it so much that the cotton ball is dry. You want to leave some ACV in there so the wart will drink it up. Next, take the ACV-soaked cottonball piece and put it in the middle of the adhesive strip you cut (on the sticky side). It should stick to the strip. Then carefully, place the cottonball directly over the nasty little wart you want to kill. Gently push the advesive srtip onto your skin, but don't push too hard. Once you've done this, cover that strip with a small bandage to keep in place. I've read some people report that this stings a bit. It stung a little for me by the second day because ACV might take off a little bit of the good skin around the wart. But TRUST ME, it is worth the sting and after a bit, you should get used to it. If anything, put yourself in the state of mind that "the sting is the wart dying. " That will help you to grin and bear it. Do this in the morning after your shower before you go to work/school/wherever. When you get back home in the evening of the first day, when you take off the bandage and adhesive strip, you should notice the wart to start to turn whitish-grey. Take another shower, and repeat the process of soaping up, soaking in the warm water, and pouring hydrogen peroxide on the wart right before you get out of the shower. Follow the same procedure with the cottonballs, the ACV and the bandage strips and leave it on through the night. When you wake up in the morning, you will notice the wart turning a blackish/dark-grey color. That means its working. Do this for two more days or until the wart just falls off in the shower. If the skin around the blackish wart turns whitish, that ALSO means it's working. I think one other person on here has addressed how to take care of your skin AFTER THE WART FALLS OFF. You may notice that when the wart falls off, the skin underneath will be raw. You may see like a little hole in your skin. Thats a good thing, but your REGIMEN DOESN'T END THERE!! Once the wart falls off, if you are in the shower, IMMEDIATELY rinse off the area and pour hydrogen peroxide on the skin. The area will turn white and bubble up (the reaction from the Hydrogen Peroxide killing off the germs). This is a good thing so don't freak out. Then rinse off. You may notice that when you rinse, the raw skin may stay "whitish. " That's okay. Thats just the hydrogen peroxide that is in the skin now. When you get out the shower, dab some hydrogen peroxide on a cotton ball and hold it on the new skin for few seconds. Then CAREFULLY take a cottonswab and put some antibiotic on it (like an ointment with zinc oxide in it) and dab it on the raw skin. DON'T smear it all over, just dab it right on the raw skin. Cover it with a bandage, and for extra caution, once you are done putting on the bandage, take some hyrdrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol, dab it on a cotton ball, and wipe the area where the bandaid is just to be sure you aint spreading wart germs. Repeat this for an additional four to five days and the area will heal up like brand new. You will never even know a wart was there. In total, you can be like new in about 2 weeks time. In addition to this direct method, I have decided to build up my immune system. This not only has prevented new warts, but I swear I haven't gotten sick AT ALL. Im sure that by now, my body/immune system has killed off whatever virus was in my body that caused the warts. On a daily basis (and I take this with food so I don't ruin my stomach), I take 1000 mg of vitamin c, 1000 I.U. Of vitamin E, 25,000 I.U. of vitamin A (as beta carotene), 50 mg of zinc, 500 mg of lysine, an Echinacea and Golden Seal complex pill, a One-a-day multivitamin, and Garlic Supplement pills (2 at a time). I spent only 30 dollars buying all these pills at a drug store, and it has been every bit worth it. They have lasted me already almost four months and I feel great. If you read up on these vitamins, ALL of them are known for either boosting the immune system or helping the body kill viruses. They really really work, I swear by them. For those of you freaking out about your genital warts, TRUST ME you're not freaking out nearly as much as I did. I almost went crazy living with them. But I followed the advice of people who have been through this before me, and I am passing the advice down to you coupled with my own little tricks. It upsets me that there are so many jerks out there that try to charge you for advice to help you get rid of these nasty little things. I learned everything on this posting on my own, and it WORKS. Also, I would HIGHLY recommend trying this remedy first. Don't waste your money on unnecessary doctor visits and prescription drugs that are probably gonna do you more harm than good. However, don't take this message to mean you should not see your doctor. If there is something wrong with you, by all means go see him. But for a genital wart that you can get rid of on your own? In such a short amount of time? Save your money, save your time, and follow this procedure. You are not alone, and you WILL get rid of them. Thank you Earth Clinic for this wonderful site!! Good luck and God Bless

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.

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 ♥️

They immediately went white and it did sting. I did 2 hours each night and one hour in the morning. I'm on my 4th day and half of the cluster is gone. I started tearing up I couldn't believe it. THIS IS LEGIT! I never saw them fall off, I was just doing my progress check up and they were gone!! I've done nothing else to treat me like hydrogen peroxide or tea tree oil. Just apple Cidar. Couldn't be more stoked!

After a few days the warts start turning black and after about a week they shrink, scab over, and fall off with minimal scarring. This can be done to larger warts or to the tiniest of warts.

If it burns that means its working! You are essentially burning the wart off. After a couple of days it was like greyish slimy discharge and it left what looked like gaping holes Again I wanted to die and thought I burned myself when in fact I had burned all the warts off to the root and now the skin was left.

Ok so now for healing the skin. Its important you really work on your immune system while doing the treatment. I started taking Vitamin E, C, and A as well as started drinking green tea every day and tons of water a day. I also bought organic castor oil and started soaking the cotton in that and stopped using Apple Cider Vinegar for about a week to just heal. I still had a few left but at that point (8 dys after just using only Apple Cider Vinegar on the cotton ball) I would soak Apple Cider Vinegar but Then coat the cotton ball in castor oil. # days of that and then nothing burned anymore. I knew by that point had burned them all away :) I had a very very severe outbreak in my bum and a minor outbreak in my vagina. All in all it took a month of healing to which all the warts were gone and everything looked back to normal.

APPLE CIDER VINEGAR WORKS but you must be patient, and really be focused on healing. Once you start there is no going back lol so just see it though and you wont regret it. Yall should soak the cotton ball and really check your entire genital area in my opinion as yo might be surprised like I was. better to just deal with it now and get rid of them. I also cant stress using Organic products like castor oil or vitamin E when healing the skin. Personally I have an adverse reaction to tea tree oil so I didnt use it but others have here. Just make sure you heal the sin while also burning off the wart so that you dont have scars. It took me longer to heal because of how much I had to do but Im so happy Im finally free of these things. Best of luck to you all.

About four months ago, I found this website. I found the ACV treatment option, and was so excited to try it. Well, I tried it for about a week and saw no improvement, so I just gave up. I tried other things like Tea Tree Oil, and although I know you are NOT supposed to use it on genital warts, I used the Compound W gel and freeze. The gel works better than the freeze, but nothing worked to get them completely gone.

So, I decided about two weeks ago to give the ACV treatment another go-around. This time, it worked! My genital warts are almost completely gone. I have a high pain tolerance, so I decided to try the cotton ball and band aid treatment. Before bed, I would get a cotton ball and tear it into small chunks, dip it in ACV, and put it directly on my warts, and cover it with a band aid. I only have two warts, and they were pretty big in size when I first noticed them. I've had them for about a year and a half, and it's been so embarrassing. I notice when I wipe after I pee that small chunks of dead skin are coming off, and I suppose the virus is coming off with them! It's probably going to take some time, but I would predict in the next month or so I will be wart free.

If you all have not tried apple cider vinegar, do so. Don't get white vinegar, it doesn't work the same. Hallelujah for Earth Clinic!

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.

I cannot tell how grateful I am to all the reviewers for sharing their experience and letting people like me know that such a simple remedy exists for a problem that scared the **** out of me.

I applied ACV for one hour in the night before sleeping and then one hour in the morning for two days and the results are seen. My heartfelt thanks to this website and all the users. Please do not give up hope, I am sure this will work wonders for anyone suffering from Genital Warts.

I have search articles that gW will goes away by thereselves so I didnt mind them.after 2 mos by BF found one on his penis not too big maybe just a size of this "0" im so upset that I have transfered it to him.not so sure coz we both have several partners before mine was 2 he have more than 5 partners before me..

Anyways to make the story short yesterday I started to soak a cotton in ACV and inserted it to the opening of my vagina it stings like hell.it burns like hell!! It does! Its so painful!! I left it for about an hour then I check them they all turned white even those without bumbs all of them there are flat as if normal skin they all turned white and rough!!! Im really so scared on how they turned out the next day right before I took a bath I soak it again for about 20 minutes then romoved it before I take a bath the whole day was very heavy feeling I felt like a have a soar inside.

Last night I did it again(the soaking) this time I felt like im soaking an open wounds in an alcohol!! I have high tolerance in pain but this was really different its like 10x more painfull than the first! I bear it for about 20 mins then I washed it off quickly because it really painful! Right after I felt like its swelling its soaring.. I took a rest for about am hour then I started again..

This time I didnt stand for 5mins I took it off! Its really painfull my legs my whole body was shaking!! I feel so cold! ( From the beggining right after I put on the soak cotton in Apple Cider Vinegar I started to feel the urge of urinating. I'll took it off after I pee ill put it back.) right after I took it off did take a rest then put it back oh!!! I couldn't take more mins so I take it out again..it really hurts more than u think of.i couldn't stand for 10seconds!!!,

but im pretty much sure 100% sure its working..while in the process in my day 2 there are some dotted blood stain in the cotton I can also see some small tiny red dots on my vagina looks like sone of them were already remove.i can say its really do worked! Problem is it soars its rough, and im still shaking.

Then I did think of some allternative I can't just give up im on my way to cure..i can't just wait again for nothing but a bunch of this freaking warts to multiply. Then I thought of baking soda ( avid user) coz I can't stand the pain for the whole night I did put powder on it I mean all entire of it then wear a panty liner it did soar.. But not llke how I feel with ACV tomorrow morning ill try to soak it again with ACV

ill give update tommorow pls pray for me getting well and oh my bf's GW also soak his with an cotton ball with Apple Cider Vinegar over night. He didn't know that im in the acv& baking soda treatment he wanted me to see a doctor again for diagnosis before doing the treatment.. Don't also want him to see my GW it's really embarrassing and horifying..so sad...😢

I got something like a skin tag. I don't know if it's a wart but definitely it was a skin tag. But I got it just days ago, around a week, I applied a vaginal cream, not fully knowing what this skin tag was but it only made it worse. It grew more. I'm going trough a very stressful time so I guess maybe that's why it happen, also I'm doing a breast tumor treatment and that's kind of having secondary effects on my body. This being one of them. So I came up to this site, read all reviews and decided it was worth a shot.

Now I can take pain, so I was ok with that but damn it sting so bad yet put up with it. The skin tag turned white as soon as I put the AC and a few more showed up.

Now I have only been with 2 people in my life and with condom so I have yet to do the medical check and I'm hoping it's not but it's sound like it is. Yet I'm sure this is something that can be beaten.

Anyways.

After next day, I really prayed to God for this to work, and the skin tag turned black and bleed a little. The others just rip without pain. Very little ones.

I did the same for 2 days, morning and night and middle of the day, did not diluted the apple vinegar and that really made the other skin very irritated but I treated it with vitamin e.

Now the tag is gone and my skin is looking much better.

I also slept with a cotton with vinegar for a couple of hours then took off because of the Burning sensation.

I think I need to do weekly baths of ACV and take a lot of crushed garlic.

I will also do white yogurt cleanings to keep everything healthy.

I have nothing against modern medicine but if I can avoid it by choosing natural medicine then I will do it. It is very healthy without extreme side effects.

Also I think if this happened to me it's because my body is telling me I need some radical changes in my life. Which I'm so open to do them now.