Health Boards
Sun-05-03-2017, 21:59 PM
Hi
I've not been on here for a while. I had terrible side effects with acitretyn. Bad hair, very brittle nails, bad flushes and it didn't really clear the psoriasis. The derm took me off it because there were too many and it's taken 6 months for everything to get back to normal. I found the whole thing made me depressed on top of everything else. He offered me another med beginning with c (can't remember the name of it but the side effects looked even worse so I declined. So am now back where I started albeit with hair and nails and no depression. Currently I am just using cream and putting up with it. Not easy but hey.
Went back to derm recently and talking of going back on acitretyn but I don't think i will. I can't face going through it all again.
Hope everyone is doing ok.
S
I've not been on here for a while. I had terrible side effects with acitretyn. Bad hair, very brittle nails, bad flushes and it didn't really clear the psoriasis. The derm took me off it because there were too many and it's taken 6 months for everything to get back to normal. I found the whole thing made me depressed on top of everything else. He offered me another med beginning with c (can't remember the name of it but the side effects looked even worse so I declined. So am now back where I started albeit with hair and nails and no depression. Currently I am just using cream and putting up with it. Not easy but hey.
Went back to derm recently and talking of going back on acitretyn but I don't think i will. I can't face going through it all again.
Hope everyone is doing ok.
S