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What Causes Acne On Face And Upper Back On Taking Weight Gain Tablets?

Hello, please help me! i have used chinese ginseng kianpi pil herbal medicine or what i thought it was herpal! It is supposed to allow you to gain weight rapidly with no side effects! and turned out to have corticosteroids inside them! I have used it about two years ago for more than a month and stopped it abruptly upon moving to another country! ever since i stopped it, i had all of the corticosteroids side effects, acne on my face and upper back, excessive hair loss, great fatigue, blurry visions and probably also high blood sugar as i used to be very shaky after i consumed a low amount of sugar in a cup coffee or tea! I suffered from trauma! both mentally and physically! which made me quite that country i moved to in only three months time! i had suicidal thoughts because of my health and couldn t understand why all of that happened. Anyways, i went back to my country and again used the herbal medicine, at the time i didn t know what i now know about the medicine! i used it again but this time i tampered it while stopping! two years has passed now and i m still suffering from its side effects! I lost weight rapidly after three months of stopping it! my hair became fragile and never stopped falling out during this two years time especially in my crown and temples when i am only 23 years old! my eye sight worsened! and i suffer of a great fatigue to the point i can t wake up easily after i sleep! it takes me a while to be able to stand up! and i suffered of deep depression which evolved to panic attacks everytime i see my hair loss getting worse and worse! I don t eat much! and when i eat i easily feel full! my life for the past two years has been a complete mess! I need your help doctor because i am on the verge of losing it. Thank you.
Tue, 24 May 2016
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dear patient.i am really sorry to hear about your ordeal. Regular steroid use is known to give psychiatric abnormalities with time, i am sorry to say,but you are suffering from moderate to severe clinical depression and its treatment needs to be started right away.As your depression gets treated all your other symptoms of fatigue,hairloss,panic attacks will be gone. You just have to be patient and take the complete dose of the antidepressant treatment prescribed by your psychiatrist after complete evaluation.
Forget about what happened in past.Whatever damage happened because of that herbal preparation will revert back to normal, because you are still very young.
therefore i advice you to get a consult with the psychiatrist. You will recover soon.
hope i answered the question.
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What Causes Acne On Face And Upper Back On Taking Weight Gain Tablets?

dear patient.i am really sorry to hear about your ordeal. Regular steroid use is known to give psychiatric abnormalities with time, i am sorry to say,but you are suffering from moderate to severe clinical depression and its treatment needs to be started right away.As your depression gets treated all your other symptoms of fatigue,hairloss,panic attacks will be gone. You just have to be patient and take the complete dose of the antidepressant treatment prescribed by your psychiatrist after complete evaluation. Forget about what happened in past.Whatever damage happened because of that herbal preparation will revert back to normal, because you are still very young. therefore i advice you to get a consult with the psychiatrist. You will recover soon. hope i answered the question.