I tried to edit by post above but it got lost.
This post is to respond to the incorrect things being posted about Irina and her medications.
To whoever posted about Irina being able to skate med free for most of last year, you are correct. She was able to skate until early January before she had any symptoms or her CS reoccur. Her illness is not curable only managed with medication and can be in remission for months at a time.
I read this "pulse dosage" "intranasal pumping of steroids" being put out here by someone who knows nothing about how Irina is being treated or even IF she is remission at this time.
I'd caution that unless you are a member of Irina's medical staff (and if you are you would not be posting her confidential medical information) or are in a position to know these things (which you are not,) then you have no business posting these things "as fact" on any message board or boards. Posts such as these are carried board to board and the next thing you know the big lie is snowballed. I really believe that this posting is intentional too, to try to make people think Irina is trying to pull something over on people. I'll remind you that Irina was putting out great skates a long time before she ever got sick and was diagnosed with vasculits and CS.
Irina is doing nothing illegal and she is not using anabolic steroids. She is not sniffing or pumping performance enhancing steroids up her nose. She's been asthmatic all of her life and like many Olympic athletes controls her asthma with approved medication that might include USE of an inhaler. My husband uses an inhaler and it sure never gives him any burst of energy, it does help him by allow him to get a full breath into his lungs..
Any medication Irina has used has been approved by the ISU, RF and IOC. Irina is doing nothing illegal nor is she using performance enhancing anabolic steroids.
This post is to respond to the incorrect things being posted about Irina and her medications.
To whoever posted about Irina being able to skate med free for most of last year, you are correct. She was able to skate until early January before she had any symptoms or her CS reoccur. Her illness is not curable only managed with medication and can be in remission for months at a time.
I read this "pulse dosage" "intranasal pumping of steroids" being put out here by someone who knows nothing about how Irina is being treated or even IF she is remission at this time.
I'd caution that unless you are a member of Irina's medical staff (and if you are you would not be posting her confidential medical information) or are in a position to know these things (which you are not,) then you have no business posting these things "as fact" on any message board or boards. Posts such as these are carried board to board and the next thing you know the big lie is snowballed. I really believe that this posting is intentional too, to try to make people think Irina is trying to pull something over on people. I'll remind you that Irina was putting out great skates a long time before she ever got sick and was diagnosed with vasculits and CS.
Irina is doing nothing illegal and she is not using anabolic steroids. She is not sniffing or pumping performance enhancing steroids up her nose. She's been asthmatic all of her life and like many Olympic athletes controls her asthma with approved medication that might include USE of an inhaler. My husband uses an inhaler and it sure never gives him any burst of energy, it does help him by allow him to get a full breath into his lungs..
Any medication Irina has used has been approved by the ISU, RF and IOC. Irina is doing nothing illegal nor is she using performance enhancing anabolic steroids.
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