My Oncologist freaked out on me when he realized I was using Taclonex, a topical steroid.\u00c2\u00a0 I was given it by my dermatologist to treat what I know know was Reiter’s Syndrome.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t realize any of it was a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 My oncologist freaked out so much that I went into a full dysesthesia attack.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun.<\/p>\n
So I stopped the Taclonex, even though it was working on the Reiter’s Syndrome.<\/p>\n
Today, I told my dermatologist this story, and he pooh-pooh’ed the concerns of the oncologist, citing several studies that showed that topical steriods do not make it into the bloodstream.\u00c2\u00a0 And at the same time was a touch defensive, trying to reassure me that he would never have give me something if he was not 100% confident it was safe.<\/p>\n
So it doesn’t make it through my skin into my bloodstream… but I had *skin cancer*.\u00c2\u00a0 Or am I falsely relating the surface with the site of the original cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 When the real risk are those rogue cells floating in my bloodstream?<\/p>\n
So whose instructions do I follow?\u00c2\u00a0 How much pain can I take from my fingers?\u00c2\u00a0 How much of the pain is the infections (which I go a prescription for)?\u00c2\u00a0 With the infections under control, will I get some of my fine motor skills back? (I’ve been having trouble picking up pills, keys, gummi bears, and other small objects b\/c the tips of my fingers are so sore and my finger nails are mostly gone.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, opening the magnetic clasp on my computer is a comic affair: I find some spoon, or USB cable, or the corner of my iPod Touch, slip it in, and lift it up two or three inches, and let gravity pull the bottom half away from the top half (it usually lands on the table with a thud)<\/p>\n
So whose instructions do I follow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Oncologist freaked out on me when he realized I was using Taclonex, a topical steroid.\u00c2\u00a0 I was given it by my dermatologist to treat what I know know was Reiter’s Syndrome.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t realize any of it was a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 My oncologist freaked out so much that I went into a full dysesthesia attack.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading Dermatologist versus Oncologist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,11,13],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-decisions","tag-interferon","tag-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}