Dexamethasone and Lincomycin Injection

[JimmyTheMook]

Local clinic gave me a combined shot of these two compounds , it's like a wild feel better potent compound that had me waking up with morning wood you could swing off of.

Reading up on it online it is seems like a cocktail (no pun intended) given to swine and not doled out to humans that commonly.

Anyone else have experience with this ?

[Sheryl]

Dexamethasone is a potent steroid and there are only very limited situations in which it is appropriate and very few of those would also entail giving an antibiotic.

I can't comment on use in agriculture/animal husbandry, but in humans:

Steroids are not infrequently given by poorly/untrained persons in 3rd world settings because of their tendency to make patients temporarily feel better and they do not understand the longer term negative consequences. I see it a lot in private Cambodian clinics (strictly forbidden in government facilities). this is the first time I have heard of it in Thailand. Just what/where was this "local clinic" ?

Lincomycin is an antibiotic effective against only some very specific bacteria - it is not broad spectrum and also not usually a first line treatment. As with most antibiotics, it has to be given at hourly intervals for several days to be effective in treating an infection. A single dose will not do anything other than possibly contribute to antibiotic resistance.

Incidentally, if you had an infection, then steroids would usually be contraindicated. In other words there is virtually no circumstance in which this combo would make medical sense.

What on earth were you being treated for?

[JimmyTheMook]

Sheryl :

the shot was administered for "malaise" at a walk in storefront clinic here in Pattaya =

Steroids are not infrequently given by poorly/untrained persons in 3rd world settings because of their tendency to make patients temporarily feel better and they do not understand the longer term negative consequences.

I expected an incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable answer such as you provided.

Thank you,

[Sheryl]

Total (and dangerous) quackery of the worst sort. Avoid this place in future.

[Sheryl]

Total (and dangerous) quackery of the worst sort. Avoid this place in future.