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Mon-22-05-2017, 13:33 PM
Welcome Angela! Sorry for being late but life has been a bit busy for me lately.
Indeed once you have psoriasis it is life changing, as Jim said it even affects the clothing we wear! I remember going on vacation a couple years back and the grandkids were wanting to play laser tag. I walked in and saw how all the "white" was glowing due to the blacklights and decided to wait for them outside as I was afraid I had scales that would "glow"
There is a lot of treatments available and the great part about being here and that members are willing to share what worked and didn't work for them. I agree that a lot of them are scary. My treatment was UV and Acitretin which worked but I'm still wasn't fond of taking something that said it could damage a fetus and not to give blood for 5 years - I think it was - until after stopping treatment. Even though I'm past the having kids part of my life, it was like if it can be that damaging then what the heck am I really taking here! So once I cleared up (although my scalp has never totally cleared) I came off the Acitretin and so far, so good.
Moisturizing helps with the flaking and dryness but it doesn't make it go away.
Glad you found your way here!
Indeed once you have psoriasis it is life changing, as Jim said it even affects the clothing we wear! I remember going on vacation a couple years back and the grandkids were wanting to play laser tag. I walked in and saw how all the "white" was glowing due to the blacklights and decided to wait for them outside as I was afraid I had scales that would "glow"
There is a lot of treatments available and the great part about being here and that members are willing to share what worked and didn't work for them. I agree that a lot of them are scary. My treatment was UV and Acitretin which worked but I'm still wasn't fond of taking something that said it could damage a fetus and not to give blood for 5 years - I think it was - until after stopping treatment. Even though I'm past the having kids part of my life, it was like if it can be that damaging then what the heck am I really taking here! So once I cleared up (although my scalp has never totally cleared) I came off the Acitretin and so far, so good.
Moisturizing helps with the flaking and dryness but it doesn't make it go away.
Glad you found your way here!