Originally Posted by DavidHC

Sorry to hear you've had issues post biopsy. Mine wasn't as bad, but it didn't fully heal for a month, and became quite infected. I used antibiotic ointment, which didn't work, and then alcohol and peroxide, which finally did the trick. But I can say that my wounds have been healing very slowly and poorly for some time now, likely due to immunity issues. I've noticed this for a while now, certainly ever since the SFN started.

One of my most consistent symptoms is neuropathic itch, and itching in general, and early on I recall scratching a place, say the top of foot or my hand, and then the skin would break open very easily, then the next day it would get infected. It was almost as if I has something trying to get out, some fungus or bacteria, and perhaps it was precisely that.