It is becoming a world wide epidemic: Abusing steroids needs to end. Dr. Lahiri (based in India) has been making strides in this area. He is very open with the fact that steroids can be a saving grace/necessary to the medical community as much as they can be one of the most harmful drugs if… Continue reading Raising Awareness for Steroid Abuse
Hey everyone, Just stopping in to share my newest YouTube video for Red Skin Syndrome and Topical Steroid Withdrawal. You can go to my YouTube page to view my past videos, or go to the top of my blog and click on ‘Topical Steroid Withdrawal’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Tr-jZbdNs&feature=youtu.be Love, B. R. Wren
Hello kiddies. So, 13 months in and I’m slowly but surely progressing. I still have problem areas (ankles, hands, knees, and parts of my face), and that plastic skin is still hanging around, but I feel so much better than I did a year ago. I can’t believe it’s been 13 months, but I have… Continue reading 13 Months TSW
Hey guys, So I am feeling SO much better after that ER visit at the end of December. I finished up the antibiotics and started to get some of my energy back. My skin has it’s trouble spots still, but overall, I’m trying to start stretching and doing (very) light exercising. Slow and steady, especially… Continue reading 12.5 Months TSW
It’s so crazy. Happy Anniversary to me! Well, I know what you’re thinking… why on earth would you want to celebrate a year of struggle? Easy, two words: I survived. I just had the most jaw dropping year of my life, and I am still standing. I am stronger than I have ever been before. I… Continue reading 1 Year of Topical Steroid Withdrawal
I am not an ITSAN affiliate, nor do I speak on their behalf. This is an account of my personal opinion of ITSAN, and of how this organization is run. ITSAN, The International Topical Steroid Addiction Network, has helped myself and many others start a conversation about a very important subject. The group’s slogan, “Red Skin… Continue reading A Letter for the Largest Organ
I know your pain. I know exactly where it hurts, deep down as well as superficially. It’s everywhere, under and over, and in-between. There doesn’t seem to be an escape. We search for ways to explain this hurt, this unyielding, overpowering suffocation that is Topical Steroid Withdrawal. It’s usually to no avail. The dictionary just… Continue reading A Letter to the Suffering (TSW)
I’m tired. I’m exhausted from all this. But, that’s life. This condition doesn’t give you a vacation. And it’s hard to explain that to people. It’s so slow to heal, slow like the line you wait in at the DMV to get your name changed. I’ve yet to do that — get my name changed.… Continue reading 11.5 months TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal)
This post is coming almost 10 days late. I wish it was because I was partying so hard that I just didn’t have time to sit down and write about my 11th month of this condition, but unfortunately that’s not the case. December 14th, I left for Toronto to see my husband and to spend… Continue reading 11 Months of TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal)
This recap may be a bit rushed this two weeks. So much going on! I went down south for Thanksgiving to be with my family, then started a cleanse, and now am about to be gone for 2 weeks in Canada to see my husband (who I have not seen in 3 months!). First, the… Continue reading TSW 10.5 Months
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