Dry lips on Acitretin

[JohnB]

Hi elyl and welcome to the club and to the Acitretin gang   . Yup I'm with you on the dry lips thing they are a bloody nuisance. I've been on Acitretin since April and have the dry lips. I just use Nivea and put up with it. But I can understand why you are thinking of ditching Acitretin. Are the dry lips your only side effect?
JohnB

No, I also have hairloss (I'm pushing 40, so I can deal with that... would shave it off if I didn't have psoriasis on my scalp!), strange greasy skin on my face (almost like it's sticky, rather than greasy), and dry eyes and my nose dries out easily too.  All bearable apart from the lips.

Mmmm hair loss probably isn't a good one  . I think I've managed to dodge that one.  I get the sticky skin thing but it comes and goes. It has been so bad in the past that a party trick of mine was to lift a sheet of  paper up with the palm of my hand. The worst  thing with me is the peeling feet. Now that can be amusing peeling big hunks of of skin of the soles of your feet   . Not a pretty sight mind  .

Feel free to join in on the off topic section the bar is generally open but the stock levels may be a bit low if Jim has been slacking after New Years