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Multivitamins

Matt32
  • By Matt32
  • Posted November 19, 2008 at 9:57 pm · 8 replies
  • In Health matters
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Can anyone recommend a good multivitamin? I've been asked alot by home health nurses who still tend to me 3 times a week if I am taking any but at the moment I am not. After 3 failed surgeries to close a wound, I'm starting to see some improvement after being recommended by my family physician to go to another specialist. As of right now, with the same wound I've been dealing with since January, the specialist has now told us to cover half of the wound with Prisma and continue using the wound vac on the other half as it still has a little bit of a tunnel that up to this point hasn't healed.

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Dunitgood

I just take Walmart multivitamins, but I'm curious how you could still have tunneling after 3 surgeries. Didn't they do a flap surgery?

wheeledsweetiepie

I get my multi-vitamins from http://www.drweil.com/ ... this site has some significant health and nutrition information as well as offering vitamin supplements.

Matt32

Dunit,

To answer your question, that was the original plan but the doctor I went and saw said that where I had lost so much weight, it would probably be easier to just pull the skin together. The 3rd time it was done, I was admitted into the hospital for a few days only to return home and after a week of being home, the stitches came apart. My family physician recommended the new specialist I've been seeing for nearly 2 months now and I found out then that there is still a tunnel in the wound to deal with. Reason being for that is a bone infection for which I was prescribed 6 weeks of antibiotics.

1newlife2

Oh God, that scares me. My brother is dealing with this right now at rehab, he is new injury , 3 months. They have wound vac in. However the Nutritionist suggested that he should eat a lot of protein and avoid sugar. I think they also give him Zinc and Vitamin C
I have friends who swear to home remedies but I didn't want to mix that with hospital treatments but if you want I can ask.
Where is the wound? How big is it etc? Are you diabetic?

Matt32

Hi 1newlife2,

To answer your questions:

1. The wound is at the bottom of my rear close to my leg.
2. The last time it was measured it was 16cm x 5cm x 3.5 cm.
3. Yes I am diabetic.

Right now, all I'm doing is following doctor's orders by using the Prisma on 1/2 of the wound with the wound vac on the other 1/2 and also trying to get as much protein as possible.

Matt32

To 1newlife and any others dealing with pressure sores:

If you are thinking about hyperbaric treatments, my advice to you is think twice before you do that because I learned recently from a nurse who has 30 years experience in wound care that hyperbaric treatments are NOT meant to do anything for pressure sores

wheeledsweetiepie

Consider getting your bare bottom into the sunshine... a great healing influence... no sunburn though. Are you proactive about managing your diabetes?

Matt32

yes. right now my family doctor has me on 3 different meds for diabetes and I've been on them for quite awhile.

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