6MP

My husband is not in 6-mp, but he has always had problems with warts. He needed to go the pulsed dye laser treatment route to remove plantar warts on his feet (treatment was about 1 year). He had tried freezing, the acid, going to a podiatrist and getting him to cut it out, etc. Only thing that has worked to get rid of them for him is the pulsed dye laser. My husband struggled with warts even before he was diagnosed with crohn's and put on remicade and prednisone.

I have noted that in general, people with crohn's seem to get more warts, and that they find it harder to get rid of the warts as well. It's almost like for people with Crohn's, their immune systems just don't notice that the warts are viral.

I think it may have to do with the underlying immune system malfunction that causes Crohn's that also makes you more susceptible to warts and makes it harder to get rid of them. I personally don't think it is specific to 6-mp. I don't have any hard facts for this theory, this is just based on my observation over time.

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I got a few funky side-effects from 6-MP. Last summer, the skin on the back of my right hand became frazzled and gnarled. My right arm looked far more tanned than my left arm. Plus I got quite a few new moles. (All gone now, I think.) As well as looking unsightly, it also itched like mad. This puzzled me for weeks, then eventually the penny dropped; I'd spent a week in August driving around a lot with my dad. Hot weather. Sun coming in on the driver's side (the right in the UK). One time we got lost, pulled over, and I sat there for 10 minutes, right arm resting on the open window, mid afternoon sun beating down on it.

My right hand/arm would never have reacted like that normally and when I did some research on Healing Well I found out that 6-MP can cause photosensitivity reactions. This is the sort of stuff that doctors don't warn you about.

I did have a bad case of warts on my hands for two years when I was a teenager, but then they disappeared and I have never suffered from warts again.

No warts--but I did have to have a small basal cell carcinoma removed from right near my nose in December. Patients on 6MP (or other immunomodulators or immunosuppressants) have a higher incident of non-melanoma skin cancers than other people. Now I'm really scared--and trying to figure out which is worse, staying on the 6MP or getting off it. I've had no other side effects and take a relatively minimal dose of 6MP (50 mg/day), but I'm worried now.

is believe that planters warts are from papillomavirus and there amazingly is no cure for this virus hence no cure for planters warts. I am planning on getting a biopsy on a wart from a dermatologist as the wart has yet to be identified as a wart.