That particular type of gaslighting, how the medical community at large has ignored off-label prescribing and how doctors will not allow IVM because it’s not “indicated for COVID” has certainly been at the top of my radar for a number of reasons. First, I was a nurse in a family practice and literally watched our providers prescribing me…
That particular type of gaslighting, how the medical community at large has ignored off-label prescribing and how doctors will not allow IVM because it’s not “indicated for COVID” has certainly been at the top of my radar for a number of reasons. First, I was a nurse in a family practice and literally watched our providers prescribing medications for off-label use for years. Second, as a patient of many chronic disorders, no less than 6 of my own medications are prescribed off-label by numerous specialists including primary care, gastroenterology, neurology, allergy, and my mast cell specialist. One of my meds was given to me to try simply because my neurologist had “heard it worked for one other lady”. A number of my disorders don’t have FDA approved treatments, they barely have had ICD codes for only a few years, so the medications I take for them are not “approved” to treat them. This ridiculous outright lie that because the insert doesn’t say COVID, or FDA hasn’t approved IVM for COVID therefore they can’t use it, is a stain on the medical profession and I don’t know how they can utter that drivel one minute and then continue to prescribe off-label meds to other patients the next without fear they will burst into flames.
That particular type of gaslighting, how the medical community at large has ignored off-label prescribing and how doctors will not allow IVM because it’s not “indicated for COVID” has certainly been at the top of my radar for a number of reasons. First, I was a nurse in a family practice and literally watched our providers prescribing medications for off-label use for years. Second, as a patient of many chronic disorders, no less than 6 of my own medications are prescribed off-label by numerous specialists including primary care, gastroenterology, neurology, allergy, and my mast cell specialist. One of my meds was given to me to try simply because my neurologist had “heard it worked for one other lady”. A number of my disorders don’t have FDA approved treatments, they barely have had ICD codes for only a few years, so the medications I take for them are not “approved” to treat them. This ridiculous outright lie that because the insert doesn’t say COVID, or FDA hasn’t approved IVM for COVID therefore they can’t use it, is a stain on the medical profession and I don’t know how they can utter that drivel one minute and then continue to prescribe off-label meds to other patients the next without fear they will burst into flames.
You nurses know. God bless you.