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Reversal of Corticosteroid Damage?
For about a year, on and off, I was prescribed various anti-fungal and hydro-cortisone ointment and creams by my doctor, and later my dermatologist to deal with itching on my scrotum and at the base of my penis shaft (where it meets the scrotum). No treatments seemed to help, so I eventually gave up on all prescription, about a year later and hoped the issue would resolve itself. It has now been a year since I gave up on doctors, and nearly two years since my problem began (august of 2009), and I find that my scrotal skin is hypersensitive. Just wearing pants causes me to experience itching and soreness. I don't know if its normal because i can't really remember how the skin used to look, but there is a "shinyness" about the skin, particularly where the penis hangs over the scrotum. In addition, the fordyce spots in this area are extra pronounced. I did a bit of my own internet research, having given up on my doc, and came across some unsettling information about steroid induced skin atrophy. I am in a panic that the cortisone treatments have permanently damaged my skin. Is this likely? I notice no striae, which i've read indicate atrophy, but the skin does seem to have lost some of its colour, and is, as i mentioned before, "shinyer"than before. Is soreness and itching a symptom of atrophy? Will the atrophy be resolved over time on its own? (I am only 20 yrs old.) In my panic I have searched the web for methods of reversing atrophy, and have come across a great deal of information about a product called "Tretinoin," which apparently helps to reverse skin atrophy. Is it advisable to use this or something similar on an area so sensitive as the scrotum? Obviously I will return to my dermatologist in person to ask, but I was hoping to get some insight from you. This condition is severely depressing as it is always on my mind.
Doxycycline 50 mg tablets once or twice daily for 3 to 6 months to reduce redness; this tetracycline antibiotic is particularly effective if symptoms have been provoked by strong corticosteroid creams but it may also help burning and redness of unknown cause.
What is the cause of genital dysaesthesia?
The cause or causes of genital dysaesthesia are often difficult to pinpoint.
The sensations are due to overactive nerves in the affected skin.
Symptoms due to compression of nerve fibres on their pathway from the spinal cord may be similar, for example pudendal nerve entrapment. In this case other symptoms such as urinary symptoms or disorders of sexual function may occur.
Redness is caused by vascular hyper-reactivity, perhaps due to release of vascular activating substances from the nerve endings in the skin.
Redness may also arise as a consequence of long-term application of strong corticosteroid creams to genital tissue; on the face, this is called steroid rosacea.
Genital dysaesthesia may be a similar condition to erythromelalgia, a disorder in which there is burning and redness affecting the feet, or less frequently, the hands.
The cause or causes of genital dysaesthesia are often difficult to pinpoint.
The sensations are due to overactive nerves in the affected skin.
Symptoms due to compression of nerve fibres on their pathway from the spinal cord may be similar, for example pudendal nerve entrapment. In this case other symptoms such as urinary symptoms or disorders of sexual function may occur.
Redness is caused by vascular hyper-reactivity, perhaps due to release of vascular activating substances from the nerve endings in the skin.
Redness may also arise as a consequence of long-term application of strong corticosteroid creams to genital tissue; on the face, this is called steroid rosacea.
Genital dysaesthesia may be a similar condition to erythromelalgia, a disorder in which there is burning and redness affecting the feet, or less frequently, the hands.
the name of the diagnos is
MALE GENITAL DYSAESTHESIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AFTER 6 ****** YEARS I FOUND IT!!!!!
MALE GENITAL DYSAESTHESIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AFTER 6 ****** YEARS I FOUND IT!!!!!
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Did you read this PDF?:
Red Scrotum Syndrome Treatment with Pregabalin: A Case Study
Look for it online.
I am only offering this as information (which you may already be aware of.). Never try anything like this without first consulting your doctor.
If you already tried this, did it work?
I wonder if it also returns the skin's appearance back to mormal, thicken the skin? Or is it only to treat the pain?
Red Scrotum Syndrome Treatment with Pregabalin: A Case Study
Look for it online.
I am only offering this as information (which you may already be aware of.). Never try anything like this without first consulting your doctor.
If you already tried this, did it work?
I wonder if it also returns the skin's appearance back to mormal, thicken the skin? Or is it only to treat the pain?
the medicine is making me better and better...I´d say the pain is down 70 percent now....this is a ****** miracle..after six years in hell!!! and no ****** doctor could tell me this...I found it by accident....i got a major cyst in my face and went to the doctor for acne medicine and got this antibiotics...first i thought i was just imagining getting better but then I google tetracyklin and cortisone atrohpy and suddenly i found the diagnos i have and what the problem is...it´s a nerve damage!!! after 6 ****** years!!!!! i was suicidal...this summer I was hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic cause i was ready to commit suicide...now i feel like i have my life back....i thought miracles just happend in movies...listen...the skin is still thinner and the atrophy caused by the cortisone will never return to norml...but i don´t give a **** about that..i just wanted to be painfree....i can´t believe this...I called my doctor and asked hos long I can take the meds he said 6 months...then i have to stop...don´t know if the pain will return...i have no idea but I don´t wanna think about it right now...I promise you all to come back here and tell you what will happen when i go off the meds ...can you believe this ****...by pure accident i got this meds...for something else and it worked for this as well....6 years I had this ****** hell...I feel i got my life back....I wanna be realistic and maybe it´s just gonna work during the time I take it...and maybe i will get the pain back then...but right now i´m just enjoying it...this meds can´t bring the skin back to normal and i will never be painfree 100 percent but this is good enough to want to live again...I haven´t had sex for 2 years now cause lost interest in sex due to the pain...now i´m thinking about getting a prostitute just to see if the sex will be good and painless and i could tell you guys haha....jesus christ this is a miracle!!!!!
ok guys...you really need to try tetralysal antibiotics. For the first time in 6 years i notice a relief. It seems like steroid atrophy acts similar to rosacea and those antibiotics are described for acne and rosacea. I found this study from India and why antibiotics can give people like me a relief. The only sad thing is that I assume this is no cure yet a relief during that time you take the antibiotics. I wanna be realistic here...it´s not a cure..but the best relief so far. The itch and burning sensation is down 50 percent.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088930/
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also read all this!
http://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/male-genital-dysaesthesia/
http://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/male-genital-dysaesthesia/
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