Apple Cider Vinegar for Genital Warts

Yeah - So I was really shock to learn that I had contracted HPV when I had my yearly pap smear since I had just lost my virginity 3 months back. I had waited so long and right out of the gate I get an STD. I was very much disturbed but my gyno said since I was young (24) I should get rid of it rather easily (even though it will always be in your system). Fast forward 2 months later, I find razor bumps between my bum, or I think they are razor bumps, don't think much of it until I find this rather odd looking skin tag at the top of my labia. I go online looking at pics and my random skin tag still looks pretty innocent until I noticed that time passes (2 weeks) and it never wants to leave. Did the vinegar test and find out its GW (believe me you know when you have GW they turn white as chalk). Do another vinegar test and find out that my random razor bumps between my bum are clusters of GW from my vaginal opening all the way to my anus.

I felt pretty horrible but decided to do something. Found this AMAZING website and this is what happened. I have done the ACV treatment for 5 days now. I just wanted people to know that for some (like me) ACV might take a bit longer than expected. I didn't feel any burning until day 3, I am on day 5 and I feel like I have just wiped my a$$ with cyanide because it hurts sooo bad but things have gotten smaller, grayer, and at time even black. The GWs (3 of them) on my labia are nearly all gone and the others are hanging on for dear life. I give them one more week. I at times put a little tree oil but I really can't stand the smell so make sure you put some on when you are staying in.

All I can say is, stay strong and stick to the program. It might take a while but I promise you, you will notice a difference. I am taking a break this weekend since I do not think my skin can take so much ACV but come Monday these suckers are going DOWN !!

Stay safe, healthy and strong and for goodness sake DO NOT FORGET THE VITAMIN E!!!!!!

Everyone's comments have been helpful so I wanted to share my own story. Found some small skin tag-like bumps around the shaft of my penis last year. Went to the doctor. Told me it was nothing. I tried dabbing it with Apple Cider Vinegar and Tea Tree Oil. The ACV turned it white, and the TTO made it dry, but it didn't really go away. I was in what I thought was a great relationship so I didn't worry too much... we were okay with it even if it was GW.

About 7 months later, visited a dermatologist in my home country. She diagnosed it as molluscum contagiosum and froze them off. They came back and seemed to come back in larger clusters.

Went to a third doctor who thought it was HPV and gave me Aldara. The Aldara got rid of some but just about burned a hole in one area and I had to stop using it. That area has healed but it's still a little discolored.

Went to a highly recommended dermatologist who finally told me for sure, this was HPV. She burned them using a strong concentration of trichloric acid. They all scabbed up, but mostly they were still there. It really just seemed to burn the top off, but not deal with the underlying wart.

By this time I was fed up with the doctors. None of them seemed to even understand genital warts and HPV. I would read and read about how common it is, and yet I'd been to 4 different doctors and everyone just seemed to be winging it. The relationship I was in when this all started was over. I wanted to move on but really couldn't. I was a mess.

So I got back online and found sites like this. Previously, I had never taped the ACV to the affected areas...I had just held it there for like 5-10 minutes. This time, I got a bunch of cotton balls, medical tape, and ACV. I taped it to the worst affected area and left if overnight. When I woke up, there were a lot of white spots, and the one most stubborn "wart" (it's weird for me to call it that because it has never looked like one, more like a skin tag), was black on the inside.

I've read a lot about warts falling off, but these things were more like skin tags. I repeated the treatment a second night and a few warts turned black in the center and started to scab up. They later turned yellowish on the inside, and instead of something falling off, what I'm seeing is the core of the wart hollowing out, as if there are mini-craters where the main warts were. They are healing up now, but it's going to take a few days.

After that I wrapped my entire penis and found other areas that I thought were fine seemingly having some activity below the surface. Lots of white spots. After leaving the ACV on for several hours, there were a couple areas where you wouldn't have noticed anything which had turned black like the larger wart.

I really, really feel like this is working. Unlike the freezing the and the trichloric acid and the aldara cream, which seemed to treat the areas from the top, ACV seems to get down to the root of the wart and kill it from the inside out. It also helps me identify where there are...there are plenty that you don't really see. And it makes sense. From what I have read, these are essentially benign skin tumors that feed on blood vessels, and I think the ACV acts upon those blood vessels the wart is feeding upon. I think. Who knows...certainly not the doctors I visited.

Everything is clearing up now and I'm just waiting for the skin to heal. I'll do a second round of ACV and then I'm planning on doing this every month, forever, to make sure it doesn't come back.

I'll try to check back in.

I had a single hemispherical wart about 1/8 inch in diameter on the shaft of my penis. It was about 1/16 inch tall. I tried the cotton method using ACV, and it turned part of it white, but not the whole thing. I kept applying ACV often, trying to only get it on the actual wart. The skin around the wart became very tender, but if I kept the ACV mostly on the wart, there was little or no pain.

The most interesting thing is that the wart didn't disappear all at once. Only half of it turned black, and that part fell off. With reapplication of the ACV, another section turned black and fell off. Over time, the entire wart disappeared. It seems that the ACV can only penetrate so deeply, so it can only "kill" a layer at a time. As that layer falls off, the ACV can get to the next one. Patience is the key here.

Even though I had to go through 4 different cycles of having a layer die and fall off, the whole process took no more than 3 weeks. It helps to be merciless with the wart by applying the ACV directly to the wart (with a swab) as much as possible.

I hope this helps.

Hello all, i am finally back to give a final update. By 11/24/08 i have to say that my warts were all gone! Sorry i took so long to update. I know most of the people who have posted say that it only took about 3 days for the warts to go away, but for me it took about 2 1/2 months for them to go away completely. I would have to take breaks cause the acv was really irritating; i would have to let my skin heal for a few days and then continue. Also i suspect the longer that it takes means the warts are deeper or layered or are a stubborn strain. But i just kept at it and eventually they went away.

I did have a considerable amount of skin irritation that needed a lot of t.l.c. I would have to stop treatment and use vasaline or antibiotic ointment or sumthin to lubricate and protect the raw areas. Once the skin had recouped and healed i noticed the warts were less and less each time, so i just kept at it until one day the warts were all gone! I have no scarring and the skin is nice and smooth as if the warts were never there at all. I am so pleased for acv and this site. I really hope this information and final update helps others dealing with this horrid problem. Good luck!

Heres my update! 6 days of using the ACV, Tea Tree Oil & Vitamin E. Every single wart is gone! The entire area has healed & there are no new signs of any new warts. I know this is no guarantee that I couldn't have a relapse & get more but I am glad there is a treatment that will get rid of them.

This site's such a blessing! It's amazing how well ACV's been working, I'm so happy I'm trying this remedy vs medical treatments that odds are won't make me better.

I developed what I thought was a skin tag over a month ago. Went to the doctor who said it could be either a tag or a wart (which was the furthest thing from my mind). My pap & cultures both came back negative so I didn't give it another thought. But when the original small tag started spreading out a little I began to worry. Soon after another bumpish looking thing started to grow next to it. Both were in the crease of where my thigh meets my groin. Now I've been online looking at pics of genital warts & none matched what I had. Now it's been a month--Saturday I decided to do the white vinegar which I know can cause false positives but I needed to know. Sure enough both bumps turned white and surprisingly more white bumps showed up. Also, once I applied the white vinegar the first bumps looked more like the online pics. The white vinegar really did draw out the wartish side of these things. I could clearly identify 5 warts... as of now thanks to ACV 3 are gone & I'm working on the last 2 (one's the first wart that I thought was a tag, it's stubborn as hell but breaking down more and more each day).

After reading other testimonies here's my wart kit
- ACV
- tea tree oil
- Mederma and aloe vera gel alternately
- paper tape
- half a Q-tip
- hydrogen peroxide
- positive attitude

There was a lot of trial & error with taping the ACV-treated cotton to my skin. So I went out and got first aid paper tape. It's easier to adhere and comes off much easier than using a band aid. Next thing I did was use Q-tips instead of cotton. I broke the Q-tip in half, dipped it in the ACV and taped it over my warts.

ACV burned my good skin pretty badly. I'm using Mederma and think I'll be fine in a week or two. I'm also using aloe vera gel in between. Tried my Vitamin E oil but it's so thick.

The 3 that are gone never turned black but stayed white (1 turned whitish-gray). I never picked, pulled or tugged. One came off in the shower and I think the other 2 just fell away. I continue to apply tea tree oil to those areas to make triple sure that nothing grows back.

One wart that appeared on my vulva was trickier. I tried dabbing ACV over it nightly because it burned too bad to keep ACV on it longer than 10 seconds. But after 4 days there was little improvement and actually took on the cauliflower look. Deciding to step it up I knew I had to have the ACV on overnight. Using my Q-tip/tape method worked and I just kept my legs closed and went to bed. IT BURNED LIKE HELL but I breathed through it !!! Woke up with some broken skin on my vulva where the ACV burned through. Skin's so sensitive in that area so this isn't entirely a surprise. Thanks to another post I put hydrogen peroxide over the area then used Neosporin since it's has antibiotic properties. But the good news is that in one night it looks diminished and my main concern is to treat that broken skin since I don't want it to develop into an infection.

So here's my process that has evolved over the past 5 days. At night when I come home from work I take a shower. I dry off and put some hydrogen peroxide on some cotton. I squat over a mirror and clean the warty areas. They turn white but that's what's supposed to happen. I follow up with tea tree oil and apply it to pretty much my outer vagina but paying close attention to the old wart/newer wart areas. I give myself a break and fix dinner etc. At night I break a Q-tip in half and dip it in ACV then tape it to the warts. Good night.

I take another shower in the morning. I dry off and squat over a mirror and do the cotton/hydrogen peroxide application. I let it dry and apply Mederma but to the good skin only (that burned from the white vinegar on Saturday). I don't use ACV or tea tree oil because it's so strong and I don't want to go work smelling.

This is a process and requires tons of patience!!! But stick with it. If it burns let it!!! That means the ACV is working. I can say that the warts that got the Q-tip/tape are gone and the ones I was dabbing are still hanging around. I am getting more aggressive but don't want to tear my vagina up. I think I'm going to take a day off from ACV today/tonight. I will report back with hopefully 100% wart-free news!!!

Take what you can from previous posts but you'll find a process that works for you in time especially if you have stubborn warts.

I haven't had sex with anyone for a while and don't know why these warts appeared. But I can tell you that at this point it's a moot question. I'm not going back to those relationships and I want to get my vaginal health together so this won't affect future relationships. I'm deciding on celibacy for the time being so I can heal and give HPV a chance to prayerfully disappear. I know it's a virus but I also know that in a year or 2 it may clear out on its own. I pray for everyone's good health and am very grateful for everyone's posts. I read all previous posts and there was so much great advice. I hope my post can be helpful to someone too.

Lastly, here's what I remember
- Wash your hands frequently!! I'm so paranoid about spreading these nasty things that even if I think about them I feel like I should get up and wash my hands!

- Spray out the crotch of my pants with Lysol before putting them in the laundry

- Wash wash rags, towels and pantyhose with bleach and if not colorsafe then ammonia or vinegar. Let them pre-soak first but don't soak anything in bleach too long.

- Clean your bathroom or wherever you're treating yourself every day!! I am extremely conscious of keeping this space clean. Spray it down with Lysol. You should also be conscious of when you touch your bottles of tea tree oil, ACV etc. I always use clean hands but take the extra step of spraying down my bottles etc. with Lysol.

- Don't feel bad!! This is a problem that thanks to ACV can be treated. Be patient and be very thankful that it isn't worse regardless of how many warts you have. Persevere, get healthy and get over it :)

I've been dealing with GW since I was diagnosed in December with having two and the dr applied tc acid to them. Each month another couple seem to show up and we have been doing the tc method, which is taking forever and making me miss several days off of work for the appointments. I wanted to try Aldera, but the dr kept putting me off on giving a prescription. When I did more research on Aldara, I found out why...which further research lead me to this website. I started to treat my GWs with the ACV two days ago. In doing so, I also had noticed a small white bump right in the v of my top lip and it got me to wondering if the hpv could have been spread to my mouth through oral. I applied the treatment to my lips to see if anything white would show up and and low and behold I seen a couple areas at the corners of my mouth and the surrounding areas that showed patches of little pin head sized cluters ... so if you are participating in oral, there's a chance you might want to check your mouth also just to be on the safe side. I'm starting to gargle and also do a shot of the ACV along with all the other recommended vitamins from this site. I sure have learned a very valueable lesson and quite frankly am petrified to with with anyone else again unless I am certain they are STD free. I sure hope to be done with this ordeal soon and sure wish they would come up with something for the general population that could combat and protect against this nasty virus. It's pretty devastating... Best of luck to everyone.

acv treatment for genital warts: i cant't believe it im wart free again! in 2000 i got my first genital wart on my penis went to the std clinic and they gave me aldara i used the whole package no results then like 3 months later the wart just fell off in the shower 2004 surprise same wart was back this time with friends went back to the clinic no results ever 2 years ago went back to clinic got a acid treatment HURT LIKE HELL! warts turned black and flat then came back larger in a week then tried everything i could find for sale online with no results just killed my pockets very depressed thought i was stuk with them a few weeks ago i got frustrated with them was destrying my sex life thought a woman would say something about them and got online again found a site where people used acv on their hans and feet with good results so i said to myself i have nothing to lose i'll try it on my penis believe it or not i've never bought acv before so i bought the one that cost the most it was mussellmans found this site and took some tips from here and there but it all sounded too good to be true i used a q tip end soaked in acv with a band aid on my penis but it kept falling off and didnt sting at all like everyone said then i googled most potent acv to see if anything would come up and it said unfiltered or raw acv is the most potent i looked at my bottle what do you know mine was neither wnt back to store seached hard and found one dusty bottle in the back called bragg unfiltered acv tried it that night also started taking centrum vitamins this time i sat naked on my couch and kept dabbing the warts with q tip HURT LIKE HELL! i was very happy because it was the first time i felt that out of all of the products i tried kept it up for 3 hours cut a tiny part of q tip the size of my largest wart and used a band aid the little round ones this time it stuck a little better hurt so bad almost couldnt sleep next morning skin around warts hurt and was very red did same routine next night hurt a lil more next day warts turned white hurt so bad i had to rest a day and used antibiotic ointment next day warts were black with scab back to my routine still hurt next day took shower was happy to see that my largest and oldest wart was 3/4 gone just fell off with scab in the shower i was never this happy about something in years! continued my routine had about 4 warts was down to one it was the next to largest thought ot wouldnt go away its now the 14th day and im happy to say it fell off this morning in the showre IM WART FREE AGAIN! i can't believe it i have a feeling they will never come back almost forgot to tell you the last week iwould put 2 teaspoons of acv in a 12 oz bottle of water and drink it at night also when io would dab my warts with the q tip i continued it for 3 hours it would dry then a dab dry then adab over and over after everythjing i tried even the doc nothing worked but this and it only took 14 days t wish i knew this 9 yrs ago i never leave posts but i feel its only right that i let everyone no about this thank god for this site i feel like a new man i will have a smile the rest of the day take my steps and it will work I PROMISE! keep it up until they faal off some take longer then others everyones bodys are different good luck i know what you're going through

About 6 weeks ago, i noticed 2 small warts developing, I went to a doctor that prescribed me Aldara. After a week of using Aldara, I noticed redness and ulcers in the area. My Dr told me to stop using Aldara to let it heal. I stopped using it and the warts went away for a few days after the affect area was healed and then started developing warts again. So I continued with my aldara treatment. After not seeing any results, and fearing the same redness and ulcerations. I decided to try ACV.

After just 3 days the warts are gone! I started my treatment by drinking an ACV tonic. 2 teaspoons with a glass of water(8-10oz), 2x a day(you can add a teaspoon of honey if the taste is unbearable). I used the cotton tip from a cotton swab soaked in ACV and left it the warts for 15-45 minutes several times a day.I wasn't able to tape it in place, like others had recommended because it was in the folds of my vulva and they were really small. Make sure to use a fresh cotton swab tip every time. ACV burns a little but not as bad as the side effects from Aldara.

After the first day/application the warts turned white. The second day I noticed some redness and irritation, and it burned a little when i treated it. My warts never turned completely black, but did turn greyish in the center( I'im assuming this is because they were really small, I'm talking tip of a ball point pen small). In between treatments, I applied a small dab tree tea oil to the affected area, and after every time I used the rest room because it would just rub off. I stopped treatment on the 3rd day because on night 2 the burning was unbearable, luckily the warts had fallen off. I still applied a small amount of tree tea oil to the area several times a day. The infected area is slightly pink with white and minor irritation. I think the white is dead skin that is going to fall off soon, much like when you get a blister.

HPV is a virus that needs to be fought off by your immune system, so I increased my vitamin C intake as well. I had a pap that came back negative for HPV, but that doesn't mean you don't carry the virus, it just means that no HPV cells were found in the cervix. As a side note I also suffered from acute depression/anxiety, and after drinking the ACV tonic my symptoms have also improved greatly, and overall in a better mood.

I am going to continuing drinking the tonic, and applying tea tree oil and do one more ACV treatment once the irritation goes away. I am so thankful for stumbling upon this site because the ACV treatment is way more effective than Aldara. I hopeful that the warts will not return again.

Ok so I've been using ACV for the past week, I did it for 2 days in a row then I took a break for one day and then I did it again for 2 days. First 2 days I kept it on overnight, then I kept it on for 3 hours, and then for about 6 hours. My results so far are positive and I am being optimistic. I've been treating 3 spots and today 2/23 I am seeing warts turn black in 2 areas, and the ones at the opening of my vagina are not turning black but they are getting smaller, as if they are melting. I've noticed slight bleeding when I wipe the area with paper. My husband works in the medical field and is highly skeptical of any natural remedies and I can't wait to tell him the good news when he comes back from work! He is a bit impatient because we haven't had sex in like 10 days. Today I am going to try soaking tampon in deluted acv and sticking it inside because even though I can't see if there are any on the inside, there is a possibility that there might be and I want to make sure they are gone, so I will be working on my inter-vaginal ones now that I know the acv is working.

Genital Warts/Apple Cider Vinegar:

First, thanks to everyone for sharing their stories and tips. Like others here, I've had great success with Apple Cider Vinegar. I'm female, and there are already plenty of helpful posts here about what to do, so I won't repeat them. I just wanted to add one tip that I've stumbled across. Guys, this may be too much info for you -- sorry. Or, maybe there are parts of the male body that this applies to, too...?

Anyway: For warts inside or around your vagina, it can be difficult or impossible to apply a bandaid/etc along the lines suggested by some posts - they're too hard to reach and/or the surrounding skin is too moist. But it seems that, for the cure to work, it's important to have the vinegar on there for a while. For these areas, I've used a mixture of vinegar and salicylic acid ointment, which you can buy at the chemist/pharmacist. Salicylic acid is also an old-fashioned "keratolytic" - ie, a cure for warts (how this virus has expanded my medical vocabulary...). It has a texture similar to vaseline, so it clings to the skin. I mixed some apple cider vingar and a few drops of tea-tree oil with it and used a q-tip/cottonbud to "paint" some warts inside my vagina. I did this three or four times a day, and the warts flared white, then quite quickly began to disintegrate.

So, keep this in mind if you have hard-to-reach warts and are wary of the tampon approach. One note: the Salicyclic acid I bought had a strength of 2%. I think you can buy ointments with much higher acid content, but I'd be wary of these. Too much Salicyclic acid can be unhealthy, and as you'll be inserting it internally, where it can be absorbed by your bloodstream, I think it's probably safest to stick to a low strength, especially as the vinegar will be doing the real anti-wart work for you.

Good luck, everyone!!!

I just had to drop a line to say that this really works! I was horrified about 2 weeks ago to see what I thought were GW down there, but I figured I'd give it a few days to see if it went away on it's own. When it didn't, I knew for sure that I had GW, and was mortified at the idea of going to my school's health clinic and being lectured on what a terrible person I was. So instead I got online and began researching. I came upon this website on Sunday, and later that night I decided, what the heck, I'll try it. I went to the store and got store brand apple cider vinegar and marched back home. I put it onto a bunch of toilet paper and then bandaged it to my vagina, and hopped into bed to give it the night to work. I woke up about 3 hours into the night because of the burning, and got up and took it off. I looked down there with a handheld mirror and saw all the white spots. I washed it, and went back to bed. The next day, when I got home for school, I did another hour. Today, I woke up to some bleeding, and upon inspection, the two biggest warts are now gone, all that's left is a raw area that I've been applying vitamin e to. I've still got a few areas that I'm working on, but I can't believe that in two days, I already got these results! It's amazing!!

Unbelievable results. I first noticed a growth around my shaft about June 2006 and since then, have had 5 more pop up around the region. I always read that they would 'eventually go away' and that they were not a serious health concern, but still was bothered by the fact that they were there. I read up on Earthclinic, and decided to try the ACV method to treat the warts. I did a test run on the smallest wart, taping the head of a cotton swab soaked in ACV over it overnight. I woke up to find the wart white in color. Went to work, repeated the process before bed and found the wart nearly black the following morning. Went to work again, followed the same procedure, and when I awoke and showered the following morning, what was left of the wart fell off in the shower. I followed suit with the rest of them, and am now wart free. I would like to THANK and PRAISE whoever discovered this.

P.S.: I found that using the adhesive part of a 'bandage'(aid) worked much better than tape.

I just started seeing my warts about 2 months ago and got kinda worried. About a week ago I started reading about genital warts on the internet and it made me even more worried, thinking all i could do is go to the doctor to get rid of them. which i didnt want to unless i really really had to. Then I saw this site and read all the comments about using ACV. I didn't think that it would work for me but i thought i might as well try it. I used tissue and poured just a small amount of the ACV on it and taped it around all three of the warts just over night. I'm on the third day of it and they are almost shrunk down to nothing. first day they turned white or greyish, second day were pretty much all black, and now just about gone. I'm starting to just use a cuetip with the ACV for about 10 minutes a few times a day because surrounding area is kinda sore from it. im also hydrogen peroxide to clean it all and aloe and vitamin e lotion to help heal it. I'm taking multi-vitamins and garlic just to maybe help it a little. I'm sure within the next couple of days the warts will be completely gone. This website has helped me and i think the ACV will work for anyone.

I've read about ACV for a long time and tried it a few times and must say it works. I'll caution you that a lot of this is speculation, but comprehensive info is hard to find on the internet since dr's seem content to charge for zapping and frying the nation's genitals.

First off, I became aware I had GW cause I spotted a pretty prominent one (almost the size of a pea) between my scrotum and thigh. Tried Aldara... nothing, so I actually just cut it off with sharp scissors.. it ain't been back... lol.. I started wondering if I had others I couldn't see though, so tried the ACV to see if anything turned white. I did find another flatish wart in almost the same place on the opposite side of my scrotum, a handful of real small ones on my shaft, and two nearly microscopic ones on the head of my penis... but the kicker is that almost the entirety of my scrotum (at least the spongy sort of adjustable tissue that expands and contracts in different temperatures) turned bright white.

I couldn't find any good way to tape anything to them, so I just took to dipping the entirety of my junk in a cup of acv for 30-45 minutes a night. First night, no probs.. 2nd, mild stinging.. 3rd.. stinging.. 4th.. STINGING.. 5th.. stinging so bad that I was sweating and begging god to make the clock move faster. The results though, were awesome. One of the larger warts is gone. The other is half its original size. The ones on the shaft and head developed black heads that fell off. I think they may need another go of the acv in a few days, but they're almost gone.. but again, the scrotum. I found dozens, probably hundreds of little warts I couldn't have otherwise detected. More wash off every morning, and for the first time in three years my scrotum doesn't itch and burn. The skin is going back to a beige color after 3 years of always looking red.

I'm 35 and had a lot of sex 12-15 years ago (before hpv was on the radar) so these are probably mostly all very old and established warts. It wasn't until a much more recent encounter that I developed the two I was able to notice, and they died quick. I don't kid myself. There are probably some I've missed and some stubborn ones, but what a dramatic difference. I plan to let all the scabs fall off in their own time, take a few days, and go back at it again.. The kind of tissue they're growing on seems to make a significant difference in how easy they are to kill. Scrotum and foreskin = easy. Tip of penis or urethra = stubborn. Take the pain, take the time to do it right, and take the embarassing step of telling your gf so she can take care of herself too, or you'll just get it right back again. Do yourself first, and then explain you've discovered a little problem you both share, but that you have a real good treatment too!

If you can see one, you have 5. If you can see two or three, you have dozens. If a careful examination shows 5 or 6, you're loaded with em. It's like spotting a flea on a dog. I say drown as broad an area as you can for as many days as you can stand the pain. Then spot treat for a couple more days.. then take a break for a week and go back at it to make sure they're all gone. Don't forget the insides of your things and the mysterious nacha/taint!