Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
Brilliant DT!
Mike, I inject bucket loads of Kenny Loggins as I call it. (Trade name for triamcinolone is Kenalog). Ain't never induced a Gerry-Stompin', Rice-Muncher Mashin' Ragin' Fury in anyone yet!

But you are right. One of the very rare side effects of any steroid medication is induced psychotic reaction or worsening of pre-existing mania. This is powerful medication. Its use within a TUE is a challenging one to debate. And I note some people are calling for the whole TUE thing to be removed.
Clearly I saw different patients from you, and if their GP had given them a triamcinolone injection I would almost certainly not have known about it. But all the inpatients I saw who needed steroids for asthma or any other reason were given prednisone or hydrocortisone; I never saw anybody given steroids by injection or by mouth for hay fever, though they may have sniffed it. Asthma patients who had steroid injections were admitted for regular nebuliser therapy, they were certainly not up to anything that involved exertion.
I can see that if you are competing to be the best in the world at something, you might regard any symptoms from hay fever as unacceptable, but does that mean you should be allowed to take a drug that would usually be regarded as overkill, and that also happens to enhance performance. So the playing field is not being levelled, it is being tilted in the drug taker's favour.