Chronic Foot Wounds and Staph Infection Recovery

I’ve had three foot wounds over the last three years, each took about 8 months to completely heal. Were it not for CDS, DMSO, and some supplements (L-lysine and L-Glutamine being the most helpful), I’m convinced that I would have lost my foot.

The first wound was when a small boulder rolled back on my ankle when I was climbing the side of a hill. It hurt so incredibly badly that I had to take strong pain killers every night for 7 months, just to be able to sleep. During treatment, the doctors found that I had peripheral artery disease, and they did the rotor-rooter thing on and artery in each leg. The CDS and DMSO cleared up the infection, and the increased blood flow helped finish up the healing.

The second wound was very strange, as I started getting severe, stabbing, jolts of pain on the top of my foot, just above my middle toe. There was no visible wound at first, then a concave black scab started to form. I suspect that I may have been bitten by a recluse spider, when I put on a boot, barefoot, that had been in my garage for 8 months. Either that, or it was a staph infection. It got really bad, and by the time it looked like a body part out of The Walking Dead show, it did test positive for staph.

I found a protocol on this site, for diabetic foot wounds, and followed that (CDS, diluted, foot bath for 30 min/day, then DMSO, then spray with CDS 3000 undiluted before bed). That got rid of the infection, but healing was still very slow. My wound care specialist recommended a product called Juven, a drink powder to help with wound healing. I took that twice a day, and The Walking Dead foot completely healed. The primary active ingredients in Juven are L-Lysine and L-Glutamine, 7 grams of each.

Then I got a wound on the back of my foot, above the heal, where my 12 year old Keen sandals were rubbing. The padding had worn off, so there was just some rough stitching left. It started off like just a small blister, but would not heal. It gradually got worse and worse, until the wound was the size of a quarter, and 3mm deep. It also tested positive for staph.

I kept doing the CDS/DMSO protocol, got rid of the infection, but the wound was not closing up. Then I remembered about Juven, but didn’t want to pay almost $80 for 30 packets of the powder mix, so I just bough a bulk tub of L-Glutamine, and I already had several bottles of L-Lysine, so I started taking that, and the wound healed up pretty quickly.

Just wanted to share what worked for me, and express my thanks to whoever wrote up that quick foot wound protocol that I followed.

I would have posted before and after pictures, but I did not see a way to upload them.