[Split] Hello from GordonAdshead

[GordonAdshead]

Welcome to the Psoriasis Club Forum. We started in 2010 with a free hosted forum and now we are pleased to launch our own hosted forum.

The idea of the forum is to give people who have or know someone with psoriasis a place to share information. We pride ourselves on running a friendly forum and we act quickly on spam/bullying/etc to protect our members.

Please come and join us and be part of a friendly community with others who understand what it's like to live with psoriasis. Maybe you can help a fellow sufferer? Or just want some answers from people who have lived with psoriasis. We are all in it together and sharing can help us all.

I trust this is the correct place to introduce myself and my problem as a new member of this forum.

My name is Gordon Adshead and I have experienced Psoriasis for over 45 years (since I was ~25). I have never really let it bother me and I rarely apply any medicines. As keen mountaineer I just get on with living. I had 5 weeks of intense radiation before a bowel cancer operation and my psoriasis (which then covered ~30% of my body) completely vanished for over 12 months ! but as expected it gradually came back again and is now mostly confined to my nether regions.

I have since had two operations on my spine in an attempt to relieve a trapped nerve that was limiting my ability to walk. So for 4x fairly serious operations, there was no problem with my psoriasis or any worries from the surgeons concerned.

My difficulty now is that I am due for a hip-replacement operation (don't laugh) and I have a small psoriasis patch on the relevant buttock. The hip surgeon is very concerned about possible infection and has point blank told me that if there is any trace of psoriasis within 15 inches of the point where he needs to open me up, that he will absolutely refuse to do the operation.

I am reasonably confident that I can clear up the relevant patches of psoriasis with Dovobet. However I have no intention to use such strong ointments for any longer than neccessary. My real question to the forum is whether anyone is aware of any infomation (printed or web) that has authoritive information about the actual risks associated with psoriasis and operations, and hence whether or not my hip surgeon is correct or over-cautious in his concerns of infection.

Best regards Gordon +Z