My Nonprofit Reviews
Kirsten6
Review for International Topical Steroid Awareness Network (ITSAN), Dacula, GA, USA
Aside from my own personal journey through hell, made so much easier by having the ability to connect to other people in the same boat as me and feel the comradere, the love, and after that, the courage to go on... Aside from that, it is thanks to ITSAN there are now 3 GPs in cape town that have actually altered their attitude towards topical steroids and now endeavor to prescribe differently. This means that ITSAN has literally changed not only my life, but the lives of every eczema patient stepping into any one of their practices. Why? Because they never believed me until ITSAN. I used to rant about the evils of cortisone and even my own husband, also a GP, didn't believe me - he just thought i was an exceptional case, that my skin was behaving differently to everyone else's. Only after he watched the 2 videos on the website and went onto the forum and saw that literally hundreds of people were experiencing the same symptoms as me, did he experience an attitude shift. I needed that website to validate my experience, to confirm my suspicions, and to present my own argument to the medical profession in a scientific way, shifting their attitudes. The more doctors, especially dermatologists, that we can get to check out this website, the more people like me will be spared from months, sometimes years of hell during the withdrawal process or even worse, a lifetime of being a slave to cortisone, not even knowing there is way out.