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And docs go on…Steroids, anyone?

Question:

ENT re-prescribed massive Ceftin antibios, plus steroids, and a cream for the itching-till-madness ears. Felt so nice yesterday, before I took the ceftin, having stretched the last ones over the weekend and taking half the dosage then, and the body having a  short break -if the swelling seemed to show wanting to start again at the slightest chance… Iodine scan Sunday, with a guest at home…Poor him:(…Then Monday morning at 8:35, seing ENT again for results of scan…Maybe then my guest can sleep in late while I go wait at that hospital ENT emergency for outside patients…. Steroids are in nasal spray. A warning on a pamphelt to the patient to not let anyone use them as may be having very adverse effects on one not needing them for bad sinusitis. And a warning to athletes that while the medication is not listed on the drugs list for athletes, it woudl show up in urine tests, disqualifying them…while it supposedly does not get in the blood stream. Beats me how a spray can get from the nose to the bladder without entering the blood stream. Didn’t know there was a direct tube between the nose and the bladder;-). Dunno if was secondary effects of the spray or fatigue from carrying 200 bricks and woods in the house to make shelf units, but I crashed asleep within 15 minutes of taking the stuff. So happens that Graves is treated in the USA with steroids. Not in Canada, unfortunately, or was not the last time I checked, if I complained about that. Within 6 months with steroids, bye bye Graves for keeps over 90% of the time. With other stuff, bye bye thyroid gland, hello synthetic thyroidine for the rest of your life in 90% of cases, if not right away, somewhere down the line… The steroids then might help with the thyroid gland too. Yay! I also must say that after only one use of the spray, the spot that would never want to go away and reinflamme and sawell up the entire face, from base of neck to eye and forehead area, finally went down somewhat. There is hope it works then. But takes months apparently… I just hope I won’t grow a beard;-) Muscular fatigue is incredible with the massive dosage of ceftin. There, I don’t even know if the spray, not strong steroids, will counteract that bad effect of the ceftin. One can hope though it would help. I also had the impression that within 10 minutes, that stuff got to whatever is bugging me between my throat and my right ear… Making the ear hurt, unfortunately. But hopefully only temporarily… Cream against itchy ears seem to work. Was tired of being told to put baby oil or vegetable oil in my ears, when it had absolutely no effect whatsoever save making my ears smell like diapers or like salad, depending on which I would try;-) Me thinks the steroid might just work, if the eff4ect I feel after only one dosage goes on, and if not related to the taking the usual dosage of ceftin rather than cut it in two as I ahd to the last days to make it to the ENT apointment without no ceftin just before, and swelling up all over my face again. Lips having a hard time. As if bursting or splitting to try and make a whole for whatever is trapped in the jaw/sinus to come out…Those are spots on lips that were stitched after the assault, where an idiot at the emergency stitched the inside of the lips over the outside, i.e. stitched what came out of the split mouth and lips over the lips without pushing it back inside first. These spots have periodically split oopne on their own as if needing to take back their normal place and order, insides in and outside out. But this has to eb the longest and worse time they did that, where it seems endless and yet seems to havestarted from en side of the mouth and going through tot he other, as if it decided that this time it woudl do the entire whatever it needs to to get back to normal, regardless of what I think of it or what it feels like. Thank God, so far it does not look anything as bad as it feels and actually is. Whatever is goign on seems to be kept mainly under the top layer of the lips, only showing a bit, where I yet can feel the entire lips skin being ripped off, raw… As it heels though, I get to have more normal, less white and blue, lips and smile. Just more bumpy a smile for now, and smile too much and see it split an inch wide again… I decided to belieev that meant good news and healing. I’ll be darnbed: the spot that remained so "hard" under the skin, between nose and cheek, and that woudl get reinflammed the second I woudl stop the antibios DOES seem to finally start getting more diffused, less hard…It’s about &^% time!!!! Steroids were the next thing on the list of things to try and make my gp see were needed on my apointment of the ten, for the thyroid. Lordy lord, could they finally have come up with soemthign that will work?? I dunno how that treatment will work with the one I am supposed to start for three months on the tenth, for fixing the potential dammages of the long term massive antibios treatment…Steroids for now are for 35 days, might be renewed if needed or indicated… Hm. Thyroid gland bump down by about 25% too!!!! If ever that thryoid gland goes down with that weak dosage of steroids, I know one endocrinologist that will be told of it, and pressured this time to wrote a paper on their absolute need in the case of Graves disease, to get the Canadian food and drug to move their rear end… What is one supposed to do? Get the darn stuff illegally in some gym, or get registered for the olympics, to get them steroids through illegal means when medically indicated as the only real effective treatment??? Heck, they let poeple legally have a joint, morphine and cocaine for less trouble! Crossing my fingers that I woudl be seing the light at the end of the tunnel, and that it ainlt a train….;-) C —

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"Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message

news:bauvof$bmo$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… > ENT re-prescribed massive Ceftin antibios, plus steroids, and a cream for > the itching-till-madness ears.

Steroids made Jerry Lewis really fat…of course he’s dying, so I guess he’s not too worried about it.  "Kids these days, they don’t know ‘Hardly Working’, they don’t know ‘Cinderfella’!" You could probably get any prescription drug you want off an internet pharmacy, as long as someone writes a prescription.  Hell, in Mexico you can get *anything*. Laws controlling pharmaceuticals are much more lax.

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