Those of you with non healing wounds

Alright so quick sidenote. I have had crohns for most of my life and got an Ostomy in 2010. I had my rectum and anus removed at the same time and it has not healed all the way. After trying a bunch of traditional methods it's healing very very slowly.

I had talked to a friend of a friend back in December who had the reversal surgery. His stoma site wasn't healing very well so they gave him growth hormone shots. It ended up closing up within 6 weeks he said.

I really didn't know much about it so I didn't really do research on it until my brother mentioned it. He knows quite a bit about health and muscle building so he suggested the idea of HGH (Human growth hormone). He basically explained about how being on so much prednisone steroids for so long, it shuts down the gland that produces it. Well he told me that in some crohns patients it doesn't make enough to heal properly. I did some reading on the internet and read a few case studies where it was successful in non healing wounds.

I had an appointment with my doctor on Friday and asked him about this. Now he's pretty pessimistic when it comes to out of the normal ideas that they have been using in the hospitals (ie: anything other than just dressing it). He actually sounded really interested in this idea. He said to give him a few weeks to do some research and will let me know at my next appointment in a few weeks.

Anyone know anything about this kind of treatment?

I have been dealing with mine since December 15. It is 3cm deep and my doc says not making any progress. She wants to put the wound vac back on but it doesn't bother me enough to want to drag that darn thing around. The current method of treatment is a length of aquacel ag inserted the depth of the wound each morning. I see the doc on Wednesday so I will let you know if we made any progress with our current method.

Blueglass- Yes I am having trouble putting on weight. I been eating a lot, but still not gaining. I am not really sure of any complications. The articles that I read didn't mention any. Hopefully there are none! This isn't a gaurantee that my doctor is going to do it for me. He could just say there is not enough evidence or he doesn't agree with it or something.

Allbluezoo- I tried the wound vac for 3 months and I have tried just about every kind of packing and unfortunately they did not work for me. The only thing that I have had luck with is Ulta Silver Gel. It has some Antimicrobial properties so it helps fight infection.
Good luck with your wound. I definatly know what you are going through. Especially after 2 years of this.

Another UC wife- I always like to trust the doctor but sometimes the typical treatments that they use at their hospital just dont work for some people. My original surgeon who did my stoma surgery and was treating my wound finally gave up and said "Some people just live with permanant wounds the rest of their life". I was pretty devestated. At this point the wound was 7cm, bleed all the time and I couldn't sit pretty much whatsoever. It was very painful. I thought so this is what the rest of my life is going to be like??? He ended up sending me to a reconstructive surgeon who said it was infected pretty bad and that we are going to treat it instead of doing reconstructive surgery. I am pretty mad that my original surgeon and 3 wound care nurses never caught it for over a year. It would be a very dangerous and invasive surgery and he said that if I am not healing now, the reconstructive surgery would fail.
So again I am hoping that he actually would like to try this or at least something that he doesn't normally do. Because I had tried all of their typical treatments and nothing has worked for me.

I have an appointment with him in a few weeks so I will let you guys know what he has to say.