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Reoccuring growth on my thumb?
I have been a fingernail biter my entire life. and as long as i can remember doing this i have always bitten off hangnails, and broken cuticles as well..... yea i know... filthy habit..
To ease your stomach, I have quit biting my nails... now at 25 years old.
I have always been someone who hates any little imperfection on my hands, if a piece of skin snaggs on anything throughout the day, and i dont have a pair of clippers, i have always used my teeth to get it.
Anyway, since quitting the nail biting, i have also stopped chewing the surrounding skin of my fingernails. and have discovered a growth on my thumb, towards the corner of my nail, closest to the nuckle. I always thought this was a callous from excessive use of my hands... but it occured to me that i am right handed and there is no reason to have a callous forming on my left hand.... ?
I have looked up various photos of growths, warts, callouses, and such, and the closest thing i can find that resembles it is a "planters wart" but i remember this being on my thumb forever...and its always been something ive either bitten or clipped off. it is hard and painless to clip like a callous, but will bleed. ther are fine pin tip sized blood dots in it, which a planters wart discribes as tiny blood vessels that fund the wart...
So, if that is the case, It also says that they form in damp places, and only after contact with HPV virus. This makes little sense to me since i have been through extensive medical screening due to another health issue, and many many times have i been checked for various diseases. I am having a hard time thinking that i could be carrying HPV and them never tell me. plus, i have never sheilded this growth from anything, since ive always just thought of it as a callous, and the planters warts are supposed to be contagious to yourself and others. I would assume this would have spread elsewhere on me, and my husband throughout the years if it were contagious, or that it would have gotten to a very large point. or that chewing on it over the years would have made it distroy my insides...? and it hasnt. its hardly noticeable to anyone, except myself. I didnt know if there was anything else that looks or acts like this that is something else?
3 Answers
- 8 years ago
They are over 100 HPV types. HPV types that cause plantar warts or warts of the hand or other non genital areas are common warts these warts are not linked to the HPV types that are genital they are 40 genital HPV types.
The warts of your hands are one of the many HPV types that cause commoon wart but these warts are not of the same HPV types that are genital.
Warts often show when an immune system is weakened. Warts of the hands can be more common for people who bite their fingernails. Warts should not be clipped or bitten off.
common warts also often feature a pattern of tiny black dots — sometimes called seeds — which are small, clotted blood vessels.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/common-warts/DS00...
HPV types that cause hand and common warts are different from the types that cause warts in the genital area. The exception is the rare occurrence of warts in the genital area in young children that are due to these "non-genital" HPV types. Likewise, genital HPV types are only very rarely found in lesions outside the genital area.
http://www.asccp.org/PracticeManagement/HPV/Natura...
This link will give you more information on common wart HPV types and genital wart HPV types
- 5 years ago
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- 8 years ago
You're going to live its alright, it is a rough biting habit that can happen that causes the thumb to swell up. just put some tylenol all over it and maybe some aloe vera to help reduce the swelling. And excessive use of your hands may be the cause of this. I didn't read all of it but i tried to give some insightful information..
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