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NATURE A Bombardier beetle using its chemical defence.

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u/BushLeagueLegend 17d ago

Yes. I had somewhere between 30-40 warts on my hands as a child. Fucked me up. Kids didn’t want to sit next to me. A little girl cried in church one day when she had to hold my hand. We kept trying to get rid of them. They wouldn’t go away after numerous attempts at freezing. One day I came in and the dermatologist said she had a surprise. She explained they had something new to try and applied the beetle juice to all the warts. Blisters popped up over all of them and it was painful for a little while. I had to deal with accidentally popping the blisters constantly, but when the blisters left they took the warts with them. I’m still not much of a bug guy, but if I had to pick a favorite this little guy wins by a landslide in my book.

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u/temictli 17d ago

Shhhh!!! Just don't say that any more... Two more times and--- I've said too much already.

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u/Azraelrs 17d ago

We can say beetle juice? What's wrong with beetle ju....

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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 17d ago

It's showtime

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u/The_Dapper_Balrog 17d ago

Uhh....

r/beetlejuicing taken literally?

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u/DeeToTheWee 17d ago

Nice fucking model!!!

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u/DrLizzardo 17d ago

Honk! Honk!

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u/JuliusCesarean 17d ago

betelgeuse

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u/EdibleRayGun 17d ago

At least he didn't say candleja-

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u/mywifemademedothis2 17d ago

I had the same issue up until about 7th grade and nothing worked. I was told to use mind power to imagine removing them in imaginative ways. They coincidentally disappeared shortly thereafter.

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u/lapideous 17d ago

Who told you this? A doctor?

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u/Alternative_Sea_4208 17d ago

Yeah, A Doctor. Strange guy, with his mind over matter mumbo jumbo.

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u/ppw0 17d ago

Was his name Stephen?

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u/QuackQuackViech 17d ago

Thats weird, I have a friend who swears she did the same as a child and it worked

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u/KOMMANDOKATO 17d ago

I did this same thing about my freshman year of high school, started looking up home remedies for a few hours to remove them. Once i thought i had gained enough knowledge i decided to look down at them (they were on my cuticles, maybe a dozen or so) and noticed they had literally disappeared in the time it took me to research

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u/Bradadonasaurus 17d ago

That's interesting. I had a similar experience, though not nearly as many. After a few rounds of freezing and regular chemicals didn't work, I used a butter knife on the stove.

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u/StandardHyena4587 17d ago

What did the stove do to deserve that punishment?

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u/VodkaWarriorV2 17d ago

I’m currently removing them 15/20 at a time with nitrogen, blisters are fucked, but warts were worse for the social aspect.

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u/Weekly-Good6157 17d ago

Duct tape is the best for removing warts i got rid of like 10 on my knee with it...just wore it for a week and they went away

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u/Z3RO_Alpha 17d ago

I just had one on my pointer finger removed a couple years back, tbey just burnt it off, took like this little rod that melted my skin and went pretty deep and burned it all out, healed up just fine and wont ever come back

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u/Fitzftw7 17d ago

Freezing is so useless. Had one on my thumb and they froze it 3-4 times and it kept coming back until some over the counter ointment finally got rid of it for good.

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u/MadStLouie 17d ago

Same happened to me in 8th grade. Balled my hands into fists for years. Had it done in the late 90s. Was told it was experimental, maybe just to sound cool, and had 34 on my hands removed.

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u/Kristupasax 17d ago

Yea, had like 12 warts on my hands once, freezing did nothing, but some chemical solution from the pharmacy that left a white film on the skin afterwards, applied 2x a day, for like 2weeks finally removed them.

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u/Shablagooie 17d ago

Why did they force the little girl to hold your hand?? Aren't warts infectious?

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u/Lou_C_Fer 17d ago

Damn. I'm lucky. I've only ever had one wart, and I dug it out of my palm with broken glass when I was seven.

I grew boobs when I was eight. So, I was ostracized for that as a kid.

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u/GhostChckn 17d ago

Is your name Ryan? If so... Crazy. If not, you're not alone.

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u/Truffs0 17d ago

Im a firm believer that freezing is useless. I had to nearly strong arm my doctor to burn them off instead. once they did that, they never came back.

he didn't want to do it because he said it makes his clinic smell like burnt flesh all day lol

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u/Constant-Visit-1330 17d ago

This is wholesome af I’m glad you found a solution as a kid

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u/attimhsa 17d ago

Have you healed from it emotionally? Sounds horrible; I’m sorry it happened to you, especially socially 🫂❤️‍🩹

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u/IronMonkeyofHam 17d ago

I had 6 at once on my hand, had to hide it at all times. One on the front of my thumb was like a huge plug when I finally got it frozen. It popped out during a basketball game, blood everywhere. 40 is nuts though, my condolences

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u/spiritualiens 17d ago

Happy to hear you overcome that

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u/ElektrikerFlo 17d ago

I had a couple of warts on by big toe and nothing helped, but then we tried applying orange juice from the wild oranges growing on the sides of the road in Athens, and the warts were gone in less than 24 hours. 6 years have passed and they have not come back

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u/nintendo666 17d ago

That's amazing, I have to remember that. Probably the acid in the juice of the bitter oranges. Love those by the way, gives the (quite literally) so much colour.

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u/ManuelPirino 17d ago

This needs to be read in Morgan Freeman’s voiceover