Some years ago, I worked for a while in a state university research hospital, where most patients had "rare and exotic conditions." There are many rare and/or exotic medical conditions; such that, taken as a whole, "rare and exotic medical conditions" are hardly rare.
Until such time as the physician community gets wind of this thread and devises ways to distinguish the results of ethyl alcohol injection from the rest of what produces similar effects, it may be wise and useful to merely mention that something seems to have happened, show the evidence, and leave the diagnosis to the physician(s).
The urologist who told me the way I might be able to get an orchiectomy as part of cancer risk minimization died of old age a while ago. He told me that there would be no record in my chart of our talking about my cancer risk concern or my view of what to do to minimize my risk. And he said he would emphatically deny ever having talked with me, no matter what. However, the method he suggested did work, and I was able to finagle a safe, no complications, orchiectomy, though it took some "pretty awful" tactics on my part to get the job done to my full satisfaction.
What worked for me is something I guess few people can use. I have known and understood far more about biology than any physician I ever met, since I earned my B.S. in bioengineering. When I encountered a physician who seemed to have some ability to listen, I merely demolished the physician's arguments by demonstrating to the physician his or her ignorance. Most such physicians ordered me to never, never ever, come back. It took a while to find the right, willing and able, doctor. I simply never quit searching until I found the doctor who did the deed.
I hold that the advice about talking with police may be relevant. Talking with police? Except as is legally mandated, never, never never, never never ever, talk with police.
And never give a physician information that obviously will impair receiving appropriate medical care.


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