Steroid Withdrawal - suppression
"I’m getting all kinds of flakiness and redness when I stop using
hydrocortisones"
This is evidence that the hydrocortisone is not addressing the
cause; it simply suppressing the symptoms. I cannot express to you
how dangerous this is. You really need to address the cause of the
irritation in order to receive true healing. Your skin is
manifesting those symptoms to warn you of the dangers taking place
within your body. Silencing the symptoms gives a false sense of
security. It is like taking the battery out of a smoke alarm so that
you no longer hear the annoying beep. The purpose of the smoke
alarm’s high pitch ring is to alert of impending danger and to save
life. Silencing that warning signal is dangerous. This is the same
thing that you are doing with the hydrocortisone; you’re shutting
off the body’s warning signal. Your body is warning you of the high
toxicity that exists within it. The inflammation, redness, etc. is
evidence of the fight existing between your immune system and those
toxic invaders. Hydrocortisone (steroids) suppress the immune system
and impedes their ability to fight and defend against those toxic
invaders. Hydrocortisone is an anti-histamine. A natural anti-
histamine is vitamin C; thus, you can achieve that type of relief
naturally without the harmful side effects of your cortisone
treatments.
Nonetheless, the most important thing that you need to address is
the identification of the toxic allergen/irritant that is promoting
your distress. When you get rid of the thing that is promoting your
distress than the body can truly heal. Hydrocortisone is not
addressing the cause; its simply suppressing your body’s warning
signal to alert of the danger happening within the body. In
addition, and because the body sees the medication as an additional
foreign allergen/irritant it is causing further damage to the immune
system and promoting the longterm suffering.
My same recommendations still apply. You need to rid your
environment of the allergen/irritant promoting the irritation, feed
your body the nourishment needed to replenish the deficiencies that
are represented with the flareup (beta carotene, zinc, selenium,
essential fatty acids, vitamin C, D, & E) through your whole food
intake, and feed your skin the nourishment (through natural/organic
product) it needs to promote true healing. Healing and symptom
suppression are not the same thing. With the steroid/hydrocortisone
treatments, you’re simply covering the problem; thus the problem
remains. You need to remove the problem so that the healing can
complete its course