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foot ulcers, slow-healing sores, diabetic foot ulcers, leg ulcers
This is a thread to discuss surface ulcers and sores that stubbornly won't heal.
I've been thinking about slow-healing or un-healing ulcers lately (because several people have this condition in my life) and thought it might be a good discussion to have. This is definitely a thing that is related to age, fried nerves, poor circulation and diabetes type 2.
Other types of ulcers have been discussed here on this site (such as ulcerative colitis). (both with regular VA-overload and accutane usage)
One of the things I've noticed, after being low-medium VA for 6+ years is that I heal faster, and with less pain. I got a deep paper cut (sorry I know I just made half of you shudder--paper should be banned!). And I wondered as I covered it from my eyes, and was afraid to look.... how long I was going to suffer before that thing closed up again. And yet I have barely noticed it.
QUESTION, if you are sick enough to be having ulcers that don't heal, (and lets say you know you are diabetic or pre-diabetic) do you need to go low carb or carnivore to push your blood sugar down? Should you start up a hobby of forcing down that blood sugar and monitoring it very closely?
I also think that Nestor's breathing ideas could be helpful to try to push some blood to the extremities.
I was going to say movement, but one of my friends is super active and still having issues.
@joe2 (and anyone else)
We have a friend with this problem and it is getting worse. I've looked back at some posts, some saying vitamin C is counterproductive to helping with infection, some saying antibiotics aren't necessary to get over infections.
Anyways I'm really getting worried about this friend. Any ideas out there, trying to help old people with lingering foot/leg infections/ulcers?
@lil-chick diabetes type 2 is not caused by sugar/carbs themselves. It is about inability of the body to use it properly. In older, obese people where it is not realistic to start exercising etc. and start to losing weight. I would recommend low carb diet. But making sure that those fats are not inflammatory so no seed oils, no chicken wings binges etc.. But mostly ruminant fatty meats, eggs, fatty fish, cheese if tolerated is ok.. Veggies low in oxalates.. I wouldn't care much about vit A. Sticking to keto diet will be hard enough by itself..
It is important to make sure that he person has enough choline when will be consuming more fats..
It will be hard at first as the body is adapting and there will be probably a lot of herx reactions as candida and stuff is killed of when sugars are not coming in..
This is not for fixing the cause, but tool to manage symptoms and prevent more damage from chronically elevated blood sugar..
But over time if the person can do it and will lose a lot of body fat it can fix the cause which is most likely simply obesity, fatty organs etc..
Moving the body to have good blood flow to the legs is key for healing..
Also managing stress that alone can keep high blood sugar..
If she can do fasting that is great tool as well. Slowly increasing the window where he is not eating. 12 hours a day during the night is normal. I would try to push it to 16 hour window with 2 meals a day. To let the body use all that excess fat that is preventing insulin and sugar from working properly.
SO that is what I would recommend. Diabetes in young people who can become more active I would pick low fat, higher carb diet and for older, more obese or people who can't move much I would pick keto diet..
ALso there could be deficiencies of all kinds. B vitamins like B1 is key for sugar metabolism. Minerals like potassium, magnesium, zinc, chromium.. Most people are deficient in all kinds of things..
thanks so much @jiri. One of the problems with older people is they are so resistant to change. I get it, I'm working my way towards this resistance to change... haha
A person might have to start with like... one small thing in their lives...
I don't think this person is overweight or diabetic, strangely enough... but people can be having pre-diabetes long before a diagnosis, I suppose.
@lil-chick yeah most people don't change even when they know they will lose legs due to diabetes etc.. It is crazy to me.. I would eat my own poop if I knew it would made me healthy..
Ive been very fortunate not to have major eye or feet problems with less than optimal blood sugar control 34 years into type 1 diabetes. Praying that continues. That said, over the last year or so I've noticed faster wound healing, like when changing infusion sets from the insulin pump where the lump where the little plastic tube has been for a week takes a few days to go away completely compared to a week or two previously. This may be another thing I can credit to low vitamin A but I cant say for sure.
Hi @lil-chick,
Here's a new startup company focused on this issue.
Check out the names of the founders on the under the Our Team link.
Any more details available?
Age? Size? Weight? Activity level? Diet? Other symptoms?
Woman, somewhere in her 80's, still works, generally well but lately falls a lot. Not diabetic or overweight. The ulcer is the result of an injury that never healed properly.
I was just asking the AI about scurvy (since scuvy causes leg ulcers)
It had some good ideas, actually. Of course it said high-dose vitamin C, vitamin C foods. But also addressing underlying causes such as alcohol usage, malabsorption.
Quote from ggenereux on February 22, 2026, 7:51 pmHi @lil-chick,
Here's a new startup company focused on this issue.
Check out the names of the founders on the under the Our Team link.
https://comasmedical.com/contact/
Ooh! I see there's vitamin-A-overload-friendly founder on that page! So cool!