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Anyone ever had warts on their skin from grappling? I have some warts on my legs and I went to the dermatologist and they said it's something I can get from wrestling. It's also contagious so obviously I won't be training for a few weeks until these gets treated. They put some kind of burning ointment on my infected area of my leg and the warts are forming into painful blisters. Will need this same treatment 2 or 3 more visits to the dermatologist office.

Anyone ever had something like this before?
 
kenpeters8 said:
Anyone ever had warts on their skin from grappling? I have some warts on my legs and I went to the dermatologist and they said it's something I can get from wrestling. It's also contagious so obviously I won't be training for a few weeks until these gets treated. They put some kind of burning ointment on my infected area of my leg and the warts are forming into painful blisters. Will need this same treatment 2 or 3 more visits to the dermatologist office.

Anyone ever had something like this before?
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Yes. Got a nasty wart behind one ear. I had it frozen off, lost one week of practice.
 
Quipling said:
Yes. Got a nasty wart behind one ear. I had it frozen off, lost one week of practice.
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Frozen off? Did it formed a blister too before the wart was completely treated?

I have like 20 small warts on both of my legs. The dermatologist said this will take 4 weeks to get it completely treated. Most likely someone spread it to me, or the mat wasn't clean. Either one. This is really annoying. I hope I didn't spread it to a training partner.
 
kenpeters8 said:
Anyone ever had warts on their skin from grappling? I have some warts on my legs and I went to the dermatologist and they said it's something I can get from wrestling. It's also contagious so obviously I won't be training for a few weeks until these gets treated. They put some kind of burning ointment on my infected area of my leg and the warts are forming into painful blisters. Will need this same treatment 2 or 3 more visits to the dermatologist office.

Anyone ever had something like this before?
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It's a common thing in grappling, dancers, any activity with lots of sweating and close contact. Most of the time a couple treatments of acid or freezing takes care of it. Rarely they can be stubborn and recur.

And I would add it's just a common thing in general. They are caused by a virus and its basically everywhere. You could get it from a doorknob,it from someone carrying the virus without manifesting it. Just one out many reasons to become a bubble boy if you're prone to neurotic thinking like me :)
 
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I know warts are on the list of skin conditions that my gym makes you promise to never train with. As a courtesy I would let the gym know that you have them so that they can make sure they are managing cleaning the mats well enough to prevent spreading skin conditions like this. You could also ask your gym to review their rules for skin conditions since if you got them from someone at your gym the last thing you want is to have them treated and then to get reinfected. Skin issues are pretty much just one of the the things you have to deal with grappling and beyond managing your own hygiene, you just hope that the gym overall maintains a good level of cleanliness.

We don't have this issue where I train so if this end up being common where you train switch gyms.
 
Had one on my middle finger that kind of went under the nail for awhile. Absolutely hated it, wrecked my self esteem. Couldn't really freeze it since it was under my nail. Tried hypnotizing, digging with a knife, and burning and eventually it went away.
 
AgonyandIrony said:
Had one on my middle finger that kind of went under the nail for awhile. Absolutely hated it, wrecked my self esteem. Couldn't really freeze it since it was under my nail. Tried hypnotizing, digging with a knife, and burning and eventually it went away.
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Digging under your own finger nails with a knife is hard core. Especially after trying hypnosis first.
 
Don't train anymore but when I did the only time I got warts was on my chin (I got about 15 warts on my chin/upper neck).

Went to the doctor and they did liquid nitrogen on the warts (took about 3 minutes) and the warts fell off after a couple of days (the extreme temperature ruptures the blood vessels in the wart and essentially kills it).
 
This is the crap that they don't tell you about before you start training... sometimes makes me want to go back to knitting class :icon_chee
 
kenpeters8 said:
AThey put some kind of burning ointment on my infected area of my leg and the warts are forming into painful blisters. Will need this same treatment 2 or 3 more visits to the dermatologist office.
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That's a pain in the arse, better to just have them frozen off. You can buy home freezing kits now.
 
I've had a few in the past and had them lasered off.

Just went to the doc and had a couple of them frozen off. It worked just as good.
 
seatea said:
That's a pain in the arse, better to just have them frozen off. You can buy home freezing kits now.
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Cryotherapy (freezing) isn't the most effective, and actually cost more. The dermatologist used Cantharidin for my case. The Cantharidin liquid ointment causes the skin under the wart to blister, lifting the wart off the skin. When the blister dries, the wart comes off with the blistered skin. You may feel some pain when the skin blisters. When you see your doctor again, he or she will remove the dead skin and the wart. If the wart isn't gone after one treatment, you may need another 1 or 2 more treatments.
 
Had a wart misdiagnosed as a callus once from a local Dr. At least I think he misdiagnosed it. It was almost the size of a dime and had the standard "pulp" for lack of a better term like a wart but he swore it was a callus. This was 15 years ago and they burned it off with some electric heat gun contraption.
 
Seriously what kind of fucking cesspool do you guys train in? Never gotten anything and neither has anyone that I have trained with at 3 different schools.
 
It's mostly luck. These things are doing the rounds in the general population and people don't notice. But BJJ roughs up the skin and that makes out more likely they'll get in. That's why they're common around the neck and sleeve areas because the gi rubs the skin. Add that to skin to skin contact and you're bound to pick up the odd thing. Might take years but might not. No amount of mat cleaning still stop it.

The worst thing I've got was molluscum. Common in kids but rarer in adults. The doc's here tell you to wait it out but that can take anything from a month to a couple of years. I froze mine off. Ugly shit though.
 
seatea said:
That's a pain in the arse, better to just have them frozen off. You can buy home freezing kits now.
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Yeah those home freezing deals only work about half the time tho. I had about 5 warts pop up on my hands and wrists. Tried the home freezing deal, no luck, went to the doc, got some liquid nitrogen sprayed on em
 
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