Ointment For Healing?

[allenlondon]

Long shot, I know, but I wondered if anyone here had suggestions for an ointment for this wound.

WARNING! The photo is of a healing wound on the end of an amputated stump, so persons of a nervous disposition, don't click the link.

What I'd like is some sort of ointment/cream/whatever that (a) helps close the wound and heal it, and (b) (wouldn't it be nice) that stops it hurting!

SEE WARNING ABOVE BEFORE CLICKING.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ECEIqQIy_O9zwfSGuS58lvYkoB0F5sxS/view?usp=sharing

Thanks.

A.

[allenlondon]

Thanks GenuineClass (I've heard it takes a few 'fittings' before they get a prosthetic device to be as comfortable as possible. )

In my case they’ve been failing since 2005, so perhaps I’ve got funny legs.

Never mind, could be worse! (ta for the link).

A

[Peter Pedant]

// allen, this is one of those circs where I am going to say DO NOT take any advice apart from your medical team.//

third that

you are under medical supervision innit

and I think you said you had the amputation for vascular insufficiency?
Go back the people who did it - - -

[allenlondon]

Curiously, no. Alcoholic neuropathy - undiagnosed broken ankle - six months walking - orthopaedic surgeon said we can either remove it, or ‘fuse’ it, i.e. stick all the busted bits together in one unmoving lump.

I chose to try amputation. Wrong choice? Bit late now.

Surgeon was a good geezer, but once they’ve done their chopping, they tend to see it as Job Done, and then it’s down to the ‘Prosthetic Rehabilitation’ team, who WERE very good until they got flogged off to a private company.

My fault, of course. If I hadn’t spent decades inside a bottle, something else would have got me.

Irony alert. I’d given up the drink two years before the broken ankle.

Forgiveness alert. I forgave the GP who failed to send me for an xray, despite my repeated visits to his surgery complaining of my sore ankle. Pity he didn’t apologise, though.

And so it goes.

[Peter Pedant]

no or yes
I have got the job done bit
but they havent - got the job done
that is why you go back .....

it looks unhealed ( ! ha pun intended)
it deffo needs attention
I thought it was vascular pathic but it is clearly neuropathic
you may ( or may not) have been walking on an unhealing anaesthetic stump
and this is not a situation where
kiss kiss and manuka will work

[Peter Pedant]

oh the technical term is charcot ankle
I have never seen one

[allenlondon]

First 6 or 7 years were fine. The ‘pad’ they construct of folded skin did its job, but gradually it wears away, and you’re left with bone. Then you can start getting pressure ulcers on the base of your stump.

On and off for ten years I either had ulcers, or was getting over them. They DO heal, but out of the blue you get a small break in the skin, and back they come.

Sometimes I get fed up, othertimes you put up with them.

Shame about being teetotal...