I have been trying to heal a tunneling wound for five months now. I am eating protein, staying off of it 95% of the time, packing it, keeping it clean and basically, doing all that I can to get this thing to heal. Unfortunately, it has only gone from about 4.8 cm to 3.5/4.0 cm in length.
It is becoming difficult to get one of those Q-tip ended sticks in it to measure. The Q-tip end is too large to fit. Drainage color is looking okay and I have nursing coming in once a week to look at it. About two months ago, they tried some collagen/porcine material in it to see if that would help, but gave up on it after about three weeks, because they decided that it should be healing faster.
I really do not want surgery. Do these things eventually heal? The tunnel is becoming more narrow. Today, I tried to get a 2 mm dermal curette into the tunnel but it would not fit.If there's too much drainage sitting down deep is that bad/non-healing environment?
I am not staying completely off of it. I will get up at night and do constant pressure releases. It does move some of the drainage out of it better when I do this.
It is becoming difficult to get one of those Q-tip ended sticks in it to measure. The Q-tip end is too large to fit. Drainage color is looking okay and I have nursing coming in once a week to look at it. About two months ago, they tried some collagen/porcine material in it to see if that would help, but gave up on it after about three weeks, because they decided that it should be healing faster.
I really do not want surgery. Do these things eventually heal? The tunnel is becoming more narrow. Today, I tried to get a 2 mm dermal curette into the tunnel but it would not fit.If there's too much drainage sitting down deep is that bad/non-healing environment?
I am not staying completely off of it. I will get up at night and do constant pressure releases. It does move some of the drainage out of it better when I do this.
tunnel wound
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