I looked up what kills Candida, found that I should use a shampoo containing ketoconazole, kept Googling, found a paper stating that 2% ketocanozole shampoo is an order of magnitude more effective than 1%, learned that only 1% ketocanozole shampoo was sold in the US, and ordered imported 2% Nizoral from Thailand via Amazon. Shortly thereafter, dandruff was no longer a significant issue for me and I could wear dark shirts without constantly checking my right shoulder for white specks. If my dermatologist knew anything about dandruff commonly being caused by a fungus, he never said a word.
So I don’t want to seem like I’m missing the point here, because I do understand that it’s about the high variance of medical care, however:
I had this same issue, and did not have to import my shampoo from Thailand. I went to the doctor complaining about incredible itching and dandruff, the doctor ran her hand through my hair and diagnosed a severe fungal infection. They then wrote a magic order for 2% Nizoral and I picked it up at the pharmacy. Saying it’s “not sold in the US” makes it sound like there’s some sort of total ban on the thing, as opposed to it being prescription only. And while I get that if you don’t have a doctor to help you then prescription-only may as well be “totally banned”, they’re still not the same thing from the perspective of someone who might one day catch horrible hair fungus.
The basic point I’m trying to make is that the system isn’t quite as broken as I feel like you’re portraying it here. If for some reason you disbelieve me, I have the prescription and the shampoo bottle.
The basic point I’m trying to make is that the system isn’t quite as broken as I feel like you’re portraying it here.
Do you know why Nizoral is prescription-only in the US? The clarification you made is useful, but it sounds like you’re treating “Nizoral is prescription-only” as indicative of a less broken system than just “Nizoral happens to not be available in the US,” where I have the opposite intuition. Is Nizoral really dangerous?
If you want to treat the illness dosing the stuff higher is likely helping you. Having it at 5% is likely even more successful than having it at 2%. On the other hand, it also increases side-effects. If it wouldn’t The stuff isn’t good for the liver, so there a reason to discourage people from overdosing it.
Somewhere there’s likely a Nizoral dose that is actually dangerous. The general philosophy that there should be a dose that has to be expert approved isn’t that bad. I would prefer a more open system but it’s intellectually defensible.
That’s...not a real state of the world. If something that common weren’t somehow explicitly regulated I’m sure it would be available OTC. As a consequence, given not available my prediction options are between “so regulated that it’s literally just not a thing in the US” and “regulated enough that you can’t just buy it off Amazon, but still available by doctor”.
As for danger, from what I read Nizoral is not going to be a good time for your liver if you ate it somehow.
So I don’t want to seem like I’m missing the point here, because I do understand that it’s about the high variance of medical care, however:
I had this same issue, and did not have to import my shampoo from Thailand. I went to the doctor complaining about incredible itching and dandruff, the doctor ran her hand through my hair and diagnosed a severe fungal infection. They then wrote a magic order for 2% Nizoral and I picked it up at the pharmacy. Saying it’s “not sold in the US” makes it sound like there’s some sort of total ban on the thing, as opposed to it being prescription only. And while I get that if you don’t have a doctor to help you then prescription-only may as well be “totally banned”, they’re still not the same thing from the perspective of someone who might one day catch horrible hair fungus.
The basic point I’m trying to make is that the system isn’t quite as broken as I feel like you’re portraying it here. If for some reason you disbelieve me, I have the prescription and the shampoo bottle.
Do you know why Nizoral is prescription-only in the US? The clarification you made is useful, but it sounds like you’re treating “Nizoral is prescription-only” as indicative of a less broken system than just “Nizoral happens to not be available in the US,” where I have the opposite intuition. Is Nizoral really dangerous?
If you want to treat the illness dosing the stuff higher is likely helping you. Having it at 5% is likely even more successful than having it at 2%. On the other hand, it also increases side-effects. If it wouldn’t The stuff isn’t good for the liver, so there a reason to discourage people from overdosing it.
Somewhere there’s likely a Nizoral dose that is actually dangerous. The general philosophy that there should be a dose that has to be expert approved isn’t that bad. I would prefer a more open system but it’s intellectually defensible.
>”Nizoral happens to not be available in the US,”
That’s...not a real state of the world. If something that common weren’t somehow explicitly regulated I’m sure it would be available OTC. As a consequence, given not available my prediction options are between “so regulated that it’s literally just not a thing in the US” and “regulated enough that you can’t just buy it off Amazon, but still available by doctor”.
As for danger, from what I read Nizoral is not going to be a good time for your liver if you ate it somehow.