Skin treatment?

[timothe]

Hello Ladies,

Recently, it was discovered that my fiancee has a rare skin disease.  She needs to apply a nitroglycerin cream to he skin.  Do you know if she can obtain this cream at the Apteka?  Do you know the brand name of this cream?

Thanks for your help!

[Bruce]

Sounds like another FSU misdiagnosis.  You should remember that medicine there is at best 50 years behind (with rare exceptions in Moscow and other big cities - but they did their residencies in the USA).  Get the correct diagnosis and treatment from a board certified dermatologist here  .

[Shadow]

If you want to give the name of the disease, I will be happy to inform you about possible medicine available in Russia.
And as my parents-in-law are both doctors I will argue the level of medicine in Russia.

[Mir]

Well I am a dermatologist!
So I can give you openion if you want to ask (you can PM me if you want to)

[SANDRO43]

Sounds like another FSU misdiagnosis.

Maybe our in-house Dr. House (Mir) can suggest alternatives to blowing her up .

[Mir]

Maybe our in-house Dr. House (Mir) can suggest alternatives to blowing her up .

Haha! I have been called many things but this is the first time I have been called a House
A few months ago a skin patient in a nearby hospital did catch fire! He was having a treatment where a parafine based cream was applied to a large part of his skin. During one such session he sneaked out of the hospital and lit a cigarette and woosh!
As far as I know the only disease where nitroglycerin cream is used is Raynaud's phenomenon/disease.
In this on exposure to cold the fingers (sometimes the feet and rarely nose and tongue as well) become white, then blue and finally red.
It is due to spasm of blood vessels folowed by increased blood flow.
The condition is uncommon but certainly not rare.
It is important that the patient is evaluated for other associated conditions that can be serious if not treated.

[BillyB]

Sounds like another FSU misdiagnosis. 

Sometimes even when the diagnosis is right, the treatment is wrong. My fiancee has high blood pressure and they treated her with blood suckers(leeches) applied behind the ears. Although blood sucker's saliva is proven to heal wound's quicker and better in some medical applications, it has no effect at lowering blood pressure from what I learned on google.

[timothe]

Raynaud's is close to what she has.  She thinks the creme is only for psoriasis, but I read on the internet that she could use it for this as well. 

I didn't know that Mir was a dermatologist, so I'll wait for his response.  (privately...I shouldn't really talk about her condition on a public forum.)

Thanks all.

[AnastassiaAsh]

Our skin is the 'mirror' of what is going on inside so to speak, what we eat and drink. Go deeper, guys, eliminate some bad food habits and you will see the results. It will take some time of course.

[ScottinCrimea]

timothe,
    I've seen both the best and the worst that FSU medicine has to offer.  Some of the doctors are incredibly good and some are in credibly bad.  I've cringed at some of the diagnoses and treatments provided.

When my wife was still in Ukraine and I was back in the US she was diagnosed with a skin condition.  The doctor got the diagnosis right, one which most American doctors would have missed, but the treatment was just plain crazy.  She prescribed a cocktail of about 10 pills and creams she had to take for three courses of 10 days each costing about $200 each course.  When I finally got her over her and finally convinced her that I knew what I was talking about I had her cured with two treatments of an over the counter cream costing about $5.

I'm sure Mir can help, and if you have further questions feel free to contact me.  I've learned that sometimes it's an issue of cultural differences and the language barrier rather than the medical issue itself that prevents understanding of what they have diagnosed and are treating.