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If they can't throw some medication with pharma kickbacks at you, they probably won't do much at all. My 6 month old son was put on topical steroids for a smal

If they can't throw some medication with pharma kickbacks at you, they probably won't do much at all. My 6 month old son was put on topical steroids for a small rash on his back and the doctors solution when this turned into a progressive issue was more and stronger topical steroids. Eventually I learned about topical steroid withdrawal, and after a hellish withdrawal period, my son has no real skin conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpW4VV2bsD8&t=28s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpW4VV2bsD8&t=28s And yes, my son at ~1 year old was red and bleeding like that head to toe. When I brought up steroid withdrawal I was rudely dismissed by multiple doctors including dermatologists. Doctors currently have willful blinders on at a minimum, and some may be a true embodiment of evil. I hope the whole for profit medical system crashes and burns.

Enginerrrd 4y ago
Steroids are so commonplace and old, I really doubt anyone was getting pharma kickbacks in the case of your son. There's just a large range in quality amongst doctors. What you're calling "willful blinders" or "true embodiment of evil" is more likely just a failure to adapt out of a simple paradigm: {Inflammation}->{Treatment = steroids}. And a failure to recognize when that was causing a loop. Maybe they forgot about steroid withdrawal. In fact, as someone with quite an interest in pharmacology and some background as a paramedic, this is the first I've ever heard of it, and I love obscure medication issues.
- reedjosh 4y ago
  > Maybe they forgot about steroid withdrawal. As I mentioned in my comment I mentioned steroid withdrawal to many doctors when my son was literally only sleeping an hour or so a night from itching and I was dismissed out of hand. If its not kickbacks, then its such a terrible arrogance as to be evil. How can a dermatologist not know of my son's condition? Particularly seeing as steroids have been around for a while as you've mentioned. Even when I brought the idea to the dermatologist, after a bit of head nodding his solution was another two weeks of a yet stronger steroid to `calm it down`, and then to taper. There's a nonprofit trying to get doctors to properly acknowledge the condition. https://www.itsan.org/ https://www.itsan.org/ There's as I linked above about a million videos of people recovering from TSW as well. There's even a study out of Autstralia that followed 10 children with what was called bad eczema, but after a withdrawal period every child at max had pruritis on elbows or knees. https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content_files/files/pdf/99/6/5412.pdf https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content_files/files/pdf/... If my job were skin, and topical steroids was one of the main things I used as a tool, how could I not know about these issues? You'd have to be such a hack that nobody would consider you a professional, yet the same dermatologist that offered yet another round of steroids had his office on the penthouse suite of a downtown building with a showcase displaying awards. It may seem hyperbolic to you, but you didn't live through this like I did. You didn't see your young child in complete misery due to medical authorities you thought you could trust misguiding you. It's evil of some form.
  - hedora 4y ago
    I had some digestive issues, and the specialist’s diagnosis boiled down to: I have the same issue. You’re getting older. The correct diagnosis was: That sounds like chronic inflammation. Hit the gym and lose 20 lbs, fattie.
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Enginerrrd 4y ago

Steroids are so commonplace and old, I really doubt anyone was getting pharma kickbacks in the case of your son. There's just a large range in quality amongst doctors. What you're calling "willful blinders" or "true embodiment of evil" is more likely just a failure to adapt out of a simple paradigm: {Inflammation}->{Treatment = steroids}. And a failure to recognize when that was causing a loop. Maybe they forgot about steroid withdrawal. In fact, as someone with quite an interest in pharmacology and some background as a paramedic, this is the first I've ever heard of it, and I love obscure medication issues.

reedjosh 4y ago
> Maybe they forgot about steroid withdrawal. As I mentioned in my comment I mentioned steroid withdrawal to many doctors when my son was literally only sleeping an hour or so a night from itching and I was dismissed out of hand. If its not kickbacks, then its such a terrible arrogance as to be evil. How can a dermatologist not know of my son's condition? Particularly seeing as steroids have been around for a while as you've mentioned. Even when I brought the idea to the dermatologist, after a bit of head nodding his solution was another two weeks of a yet stronger steroid to `calm it down`, and then to taper. There's a nonprofit trying to get doctors to properly acknowledge the condition. https://www.itsan.org/ https://www.itsan.org/ There's as I linked above about a million videos of people recovering from TSW as well. There's even a study out of Autstralia that followed 10 children with what was called bad eczema, but after a withdrawal period every child at max had pruritis on elbows or knees. https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content_files/files/pdf/99/6/5412.pdf https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content_files/files/pdf/... If my job were skin, and topical steroids was one of the main things I used as a tool, how could I not know about these issues? You'd have to be such a hack that nobody would consider you a professional, yet the same dermatologist that offered yet another round of steroids had his office on the penthouse suite of a downtown building with a showcase displaying awards. It may seem hyperbolic to you, but you didn't live through this like I did. You didn't see your young child in complete misery due to medical authorities you thought you could trust misguiding you. It's evil of some form.
- hedora 4y ago
  I had some digestive issues, and the specialist’s diagnosis boiled down to: I have the same issue. You’re getting older. The correct diagnosis was: That sounds like chronic inflammation. Hit the gym and lose 20 lbs, fattie.

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