Health Boards
Mon-31-03-2014, 21:44 PM
Hello Stacey,
At first welcome to the club!
Secondly, I am standing behind the suggestions of Jim.
Second-one: it's your body, and thus it has the right to be treated well.
Second-two: reading of what's happening to you it seems to me that creams and so will not help at this moment, currently you have passed that point.
And I think you need something systemic. Probably you have already read that psoriasis is an immune disease. Treating the skin has basically no use, unless patches are small.
Personally I think that starting with a DMF treatment is a good way to go. It is quite harmless and that is a 70% chance that it will work.
The flushes will be a surprise for you, but they are harmless.
Unlike Jim I don't have stomach cramps! due to a different type of DMF, but my intestines sometimes are somewhat unstable.
Be careful if they offer you MTX, again it's your body.
Good luck, hope to speak to you more times.
Caroline
At first welcome to the club!
Secondly, I am standing behind the suggestions of Jim.
Second-one: it's your body, and thus it has the right to be treated well.
Second-two: reading of what's happening to you it seems to me that creams and so will not help at this moment, currently you have passed that point.
And I think you need something systemic. Probably you have already read that psoriasis is an immune disease. Treating the skin has basically no use, unless patches are small.
Personally I think that starting with a DMF treatment is a good way to go. It is quite harmless and that is a 70% chance that it will work.
The flushes will be a surprise for you, but they are harmless.
Unlike Jim I don't have stomach cramps! due to a different type of DMF, but my intestines sometimes are somewhat unstable.
Be careful if they offer you MTX, again it's your body.
Good luck, hope to speak to you more times.
Caroline