Has anybody had problems with non-healing, or slow-healing wounds? My friend got a cut on her head 5 weeks ago, and despite 3 rounds of antibiotics, it is still open and bleeding. She is going to a dermatologist tomorrow, but I wonder whether she shouldn't be seeing an immunologist instead ... or maybe to a vascular-type person because this is because of low oxygen circulation in the blood vessels?

There doesn't seem to be much on this type of skin problem in the RSD literature, so I would appreciate knowing whether anyone else has had this problem. And what they did about it.

Thank you.

P.S. The only relevant article I've seen recently was Effect of spinal cord stimulation in Type I complex regional pain syndrome with 2 rare severe cutaneous manifestations. Journal of Neurosurgery. 110(2):274-8, 2009 Feb.