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If there's one thing that always happens here at 3000dias, it's a request for prescription medication.
– what medication are you using?
– what dosage works for you?
In a disease as agonizing as hives, you can understand people's interest in knowing what the solution is to get well soon.
But this whole asking for directions thing can be a very dangerous path!
Come on, your prescription works only for you, and that's rule number 1 of everything.
I even notice frustration when we question why one person needed 1 year of treatment while the other has been undergoing treatment for 3 years.
It happened like that to me! Firstly because within the steps of urticaria treatment , I was already on the last steps.
O treatment for chronic urticaria follows a medication guide, which progresses according to the need for control and non-response to initial treatments – like steps. If the patient being treated in the 1st step does not achieve complete control of symptoms, the doctor must advance to the 2nd line of treatment. After a few weeks of treatment in this 2nd step, the process is repeated: If the patient has not improved, they must proceed to the 3rd line of treatment. After some time of treatment with the 3rd line, the doctor must assess again whether the patient has achieved control of symptoms. If yes, the patient should continue treatment. If the patient does not achieve complete control of the disease, the doctor must advance to the 4th step.
These steps are as follows:
I felt a little lonely and distressed to see that the treatment steps were only increasing and I wasn't getting better. Right now I'm on the third stage of treatment since 2016, and I have a lot of news from those who have achieved remission of the disease on this stage in just a few months.
Every process that deals with our organism is organic – we can say so – it is free, and always authorial. We do have some predictions, but the rule doesn't work the same way for everyone. We are complex living beings, and our organism always responds differently – even if only a little in some cases.
The good news in all of this is that if you have the diagnosis correct diagnosis of your disease, you are better positioned on the treatment path, and that makes all the difference!
Before I knew exactly what I had, I lived the dangerous corticosteroid relief – which is a medicine apparently so effective that it almost sounded like magic to me, I resorted to it whenever possible to get well as quickly as I could.
But it is a type of relief that is not recommended. It is a medication for occasional use, it does not treat the disease.
I remember once reading somewhere that it worked as makeup for those who have acne and other more visible issues on their face. You use it to fix something that needs to be corrected at the root of the problem. In the case of acne, with a different diet, a good specialist and even treatment.
Bringing this metaphor to light, in the case of urticaria, the corticosteroid leaves you ready to continue a day that you cannot miss due to unpredictable symptoms, but it holds it for a few hours or very short days, because the symptoms will soon be there again. .
The danger of this is precisely that you make changes to this “makeup” that only lasts for a short time. And when you realize you're taking the medicine almost every day, like a treatment that actually isn't.
There are some risks to frequent use of the medication, many Side effects involved, and the need for strategic “weaning” done together with your doctor, I talk a lot about all of this here.
The idea of treatment for CSU – chronic spontaneous urticaria – is to create true complete relief, with symptoms controlled and you can achieve it!
Since I started my life with hives (still without knowing it was urticaria, much less the type – UCE) there have been many advances. A lot has changed, research has been developed and new treatments have been released.
You can now access this knowledge and, within the treatment steps for the disease, find your place. Some patients will only need one step, others will have to advance 2 or 3 more. But that doesn't necessarily matter!
What matters is your story and your improvement. Take responsibility for living your own life: no one is more interested in looking good than yourself!
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