![]() ![]() There are ways to help prevent it, and to make sure TSW is recognized, respected and treated appropriately. The potentially debilitating symptoms of TSW can include burning, weeping, flaking, shedding, peeling, spreading, swelling, redness, wrinkling, thin skin, pus-filled bumps, cracking, itching, nodules, pain, insomnia, hair loss, shivering, fatigue, depression and disability.īut TSW doesn’t necessarily have to manifest like this. It can take them to a very dark place.” But TSW doesn’t necessarily have to manifest like this. Olivia Hsu Friedman, DACM, Dipl.OM, L.AC., Certified TCM Dermatology, who treats TSW patients explains, “This condition can degenerate to a place where a person is incredibly depressed, can’t function, can’t sleep and can’t hold onto a job. While the prevalence of TSW is unknown, it can potentially have serious physical, emotional, social, and financial ramifications. It is an indefinite prison sentence and a type of suffering I wouldn’t even wish on an enemy.” And, without being able to truly thrive out in the world (be it months to multiple years of isolation) a TSW sufferer can be impacted harshly with the destruction of their social life or social outreach. Emotionally, it is unbearably exhausting, and causes an avalanche of issues: loss of self, passion, partners and peace. “It means quitting jobs or needing some sort of physical and financial support - a burden left to a family member or spouse. “It touches every facet of your life,” explains Briana Banos, who has lived with topical corticosteroid withdrawal for years. Depression and disability, if withdrawal persists for a longer period of time.Steroid dermatitis, which can cause nodules and papules to form on the skin.Swelling or dermatoses in affected areas. ![]() Flaking, shedding, peeling, or spreading skin.The potentially debilitating withdrawal symptoms of TSW can include:
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