Slow to heal

[adinack74]

Does Sjogrens cause injuries to heal slowly?  I cut my toe last Thursday and it still is sore and seems to be taking forever to heal.  I've noticed this with other minor cuts in the last year or so, too.
Adina

[iraisin]

Well, sometimes SJS prevents illnesses like colds and stuff, and sometimes it can do just the opposite. I'm of the sort that I don't catch colds or viruses - so I'm not sure if it has the same effect on healing.

I don't have a problem with healing, but my bruises take a while to disappear.

[mshistory]

I don't know if it's SjS related or not but I am a VERY slow healer. Also prone to infections.

[lynnmarie219]

I am also very slow to heal and I have chalked it up to both sjogrens and diabetes. With sjogrens your body attacks your own body/organs and not what it is supposed to attack like infection and other "invaders"  that cause us to become sick etc. So it would make sense that we can be slower to heal than "normal" (whatever that is...lol).

[THE BRIT]

  I now heal alot slower and scar more.  I put it down to the drying effect of the SJS on the skin, but it is a pain

[adinack74]

Thanks for the input!  All I did was stub my toe on a concrete driveway.  It cut and peeled up a tiny layer of skin.  Something like this used to heal in a day for me.  Now it's been 4 days and I'm still limping.  The docs are keeping an eye on my sugars.  I think I'm considered prediabetic.  I didn't think about that before.  It might be that
Adina

[EllaBlue]

Oh my gosh! I too am slow to heal. I was contributing that to my Lupus but maybe my combo of stuff is the culprit. All I know is it gets old.  Each and every operation that I have ever had, ended up with the incision being infected:(  It seems so unfair doesn't it?  We need a magic potion darn it!!

[jazzlover]

I definitely scar more easily. Healing is not TOO bad.

[Scottietottie]

Hi - I've always been a slow healer. I scar easily too.

[slccom]

Scars are memories of injuries past! Still limping from a toe stub could be injury to the bones and ligaments. I stubbed my right big toe some years ago, it hurt extremely badly, and I needed surgery a few years later. If I were in your shoes (which you probably can't really wear yet) I would make an appointment with a podiatrist and get it checked out.

Sharon

[Rebecca]

I have been wondering the same thing.  I find it takes twice as long for something to heal now.  I also notice that injuries, no matter how minor HURT more.  I stub my toe, run into the corner of a table, bump my head, smash my finger, cut myself....all these things tend to hurt way more than they ever did.  I feel like such a whimp!!!  I find out too that I catch other people's colds, etc. a lot easier than I used to and it takes longer to get rid of it.  I am super cautious about being around sick people and keep my hands washed.

[adinack74]

Thanks for everyone's input!  Today was the first day I could walk normally.  Of course, my 3 kids kept stepping on it this past week so that didn't help! 
Rebecca, minor bumps seem to hurt way more for me too.  The rheumy who diagnosed me said that that pain was due to fibromyalgia.
Adina

[Rebecca]

Glad your toe is finally feeling better.  I just saw my doctor today and she keeps dancing around the Fibro diagnosis but just won't give it to me.  Arrg.  I don't know why I feel I need her confirmation.  Another doctor 10 years ago already diagnosed me with it when he diagnosed me with Sjogren's.  She said some of my symptoms SOUND like Fibro but she isn't doing anything about it.