Thread by @near_north_side

@chuck247 @goddeketal You can't, Chuck. This is why one doesn't take part in pointless clinical trials.

You know that saying, "you can't unscramble an egg"? You're the egg. Sorry, buddy. Taking an experimental medicine is not like changing your clothes. You can't just un-take it.

@chuck247 @goddeketal Nobody, not even doctors, comes close to fully understanding how the human body works. You let somebody put an untested foreign substance into your own body, changing how it works in ways that nobody can fully understand.

This is why clinical testing is inherently risky.

@chuck247 @goddeketal If you then try to find a cure for what the first experimental drug did, what is the "cure" going to be other than another experimental drug?

Sometimes, you have to quit while you're behind. Just because things are bad, that doesn't mean they can't get worse.

@chuck247 @goddeketal Please ignore the inevitable crazy folk medicine solutions, including that of soaking your feet in bleach. I wish that was a joke, but no, I really saw somebody suggest that, somewhere else.

@chuck247 @goddeketal Physicians don't know everything (as they will tell you, themselves), but they still know a lot more about Medicine that do the randos on a social media site.

Please don't take their advice. At best, it's useless. At worst, it will end your life, horribly.

@chuck247 @goddeketal With any number of bad possibilities falling in between. No, find a reputable doctor, and be prepared for the possibility that this problem can't be fixed.

Sorry, but a lot of people did work very hard, trying to warn you to not do what you did. I wish you had listened.