What they don’t tell you about Lichen Sclerosis treatment

Did you know?

…the clinical recommendations for the use of high potency steroid treatment of LS are based on evidence of ‘inconsistent or limited quality’, and there is no conclusive evidence for the need of evaluation for malignancy?

I did know this, so do the scientists, and yet, what are we being told/sold?

How is information witheld from patients

Complimentary holistic therapists like me see it every day – people who fell through the cracks of the mainstream medical system. Most people usually only turn to search for alternatives when they didn’t get effective help through the primary and obvious route. Often, those include not only patients that weren’t made better, but those who ended much worse off through this ‘care’.

They may have gotten on this train early on as infants, when they’ve developed eczema after some vaccination. They got ‘cured’ with a steroid ointment, and developed recurrent chest infections. By the time they’re ten, they’ve had so many antibiotics that their organism became weakened enough to now being susceptible to viral infections like mono. This causes another dip in the overall state of health, and now we have irritable bowel syndrome, allergies and asthma leading to more steroids and other suppressive drugs being prescribed daily.

This might lead to a long period of relative calm on the surface. After that, diseases just snow-ball. By twenty-five a person might have chronic or interstitial cystitis, by thirty lichen sclerosus, by fifty their first cancer.

All the while more steroids are being pushed as the best and main solution. Throw some contraceptive pill into the mix severely disrupting the governing systems of the body, and now it will take only a very skilled holistic practitioner to make sense of all the symptoms and what the body was originally protesting, and what are long-term side effects of the drugs persisting long after they’ve been discontinued.

You might counter – but surely, these approaches were scientifically, independently proven to be safe and effective.

Well, not necessarily...

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The last time I referenced this FDA based study on Clobetasol side effects, which I did while researching info for my article on steroid safety, it listed these:

· Pruritus (severe itching of the skin)

· Skin burning sensation

· Lichen planus

· Neuropathy peripheral (surface nerve damage)

· Breast cancer

· Renal colic (renal pain)

· Cellulitis (infection under the skin)

· Squamous cell carcinoma (a cancer of a kind of epithelial cell)

· Skin atrophy (wasting of skin)

…and now, the Lichen planus and Squamous cell carcinoma are nowhere to be seen. Well, at least there is still ‘death’ listed as a possible side effect…

The source was a study of FDA data I have referenced it in my article on Clobetasol side effects that I wrote a few months ago. It includes a paragraph that I just copied and posted directly from the study.
When I went to look at the study again, because I wanted to make another post about how one of the side effects is squamous carcinoma (which is another thing I was able to copy and paste from the study just a few months ago) and lo and behold, these reported side effects were erased in the meantime. If I didn’t copy and paste it back then, I would’ve thought I just dreamt it!

What is medical consensus and why you need to know

Medical consensus is a term used when there are no conclusive scientific data available on various medical phenomena.

That means there are either studies available that haven’t reached any clear conclusion, or there are different studies with opposing results.

“Consensus” is then an agreement used among the medical community to present one certain view although there isn’t any scientific evidence to back this view.

Consensus is used to preserve the authority and respectability of the medical profession, because it would lead to a loss of trustworthiness among the general public if doctors/science presented differing opinions on various forms of treatment.

One of such procedures commonly administered based purely on medical consensus is the evaluation for vulvar malignancy in Lichen Sclerosus patients.

A biopsy is an invasive procedure with many possible side effects and complications with long term effects, yet, patients are almost never informed about these, which is another form of medical consensus.

So now, when I share something from not only my own clinical experience, but based also on clinical experiences of millions of holistic practitioners world-wide, when people ask me whether I have a reputable source to back my findings, this source might not be available anymore. Not that it doesn’t exist, it was just purposely obscured.

So, who do we trust?

Learn to listen to your gut and your intuition.

Those who want to sell us on something, have always nice arguments ready, food for the mind. But the mind doesn’t see beyond what it does not know and so is easily fooled. Our body, our gut sense, is much wiser than that. It will always tell you the truth. Question is only, whether we know how to listen.

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