How Do I Find A Doctor Witha Experience Who Can Treat Me

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Wildomar, CA

He fire ups and painful cysts that don’t drain all the way after times of antibiotics from a $2700.00trip to er

June 25

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I assume you are not in Canada?

I am not knowledgeable of any other health system outside of Alberta, however I would highly recommend if you can pay to see a specialist/ dermatologist they are the best route to go with a chronic skin condition. Go in having done your own research and hit them with ALL the questions no matter how hard it is. Then have them properly explain everything to you.
I am at the point in the game where I have my boyfriend do the kenalog injections into the flareups for me and I can do all rhe other care including: resorcinol cream daily, weekly injections of simlandi and daily dosage of aldactone orally. I anlso had some deroofing surgeries to rid of the large spots that wouldn’t go away. And it seems to be working if I can keep my stress down.

Sometimes it can be really challenging to find a trustworthy professional but that’s why it’s important that you question their every move and recommendation (I.e., why this treatment? What about this treatment, have you seen it in practice, does it work? What are the side effects? Cost? Frequency? Long term risks? Etc.) my dermatologist hated when I probed for answers but the only way to get anywhere is to keep asking until you get answers - coming from someone who works in healthcare - you are your best advocate 😊

Hope this kind of helped. Good luck!

June 29

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