Doctor experiences

I usually get a prescription for a tube of  Clobetasol with one renewal on it whenever I go to the clinic. I have never had to fill the second one because the prescription expires after one year and I never usually finish the first tube in that time. I have only been using it for flare ups becuse I was warned when I first got it to only use it sparingly and to be very careful about washing your hands after use. I am in the middle of a flare up right now so I have been using it twice a day and I usually do that for about a week. I find that even after it has been open for about a year it still works fine. The thing with drugs passing their expirely date is, it doesn't stop working all together. It just makes it less potent,. So you will still get some benefit from using it, but it may not be as strong so you may need to use a little  more of it. 

It is interesting that quite a few of us are artists!... it seems a bit strange!!

I paint Abstract paintings in acrylic and oils on large canvasses, and sell the originals, and prints, through Fine Art America.   That being said, my creativity has suffered recently, health wise it seems that there is always something, and therefore I am just really focused on getting myself back to good health for the remainder of 2014...

What about the rest of you painters? What is your medium and what do you like to paint?

 

I went to a family doctor because I thought I had a re-occuring yeast infection. She told me she had no idea what was wrong and basically told me to go home and said I probably had a bad diet and was lazy (I eat extremely healthy, am a healthy weight and excersize often so this was not acceptable). She told me to come back in a year if the problem didn't go away! I had to insist that she refer me to a specialist. Luckily the gyn she refered me to was VERY good and he saw an issue right away and gave me a biopsy. I think that we need to figure out a way to help doctors become more aware of this disease. I bet you a lot of people are experiencing the same doctor care that we did and are not insisting on second opinions. 

I think LS is a very good example of something individuals can pretty much diagnose themselves with the help of the internet. I keep reading that LS is often misdiagnosed as thrush and herpes. We know our longterm pattern, while a doctor only knows what she sees today.

I smack my head when I think I did self-diagnose years before I went to a gynae about it. That would be about ten years ago. There was much less info online back then. I think the best thing we can do is spread the word among women, who can all easily check into their symptoms. A campaign of 'use that shaving mirror for health, not for going Brazilian!'

I know from my own experience I went undiagnosed for decades mostly because I was denying I had any discomfort every time I had sex. I was sure I couldn't keep a mate if I withheld sex. Often it was a yeast infection and the cream cured it. When I was leaving a marriage in 1988 at age 37 I actually wrote a letter to my husband explaining that his obsession with sex had permanently turned me off it and that eight years of virtual celibacy in our deadlocked union had caused the 'use it or lose it' phenomenon and my labia had begun to fuse over my clitoris. But did I tell a doctor about my concern? No. Fortunately, resuming sex re-opened my labia and I was good for another decade or so.