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[Fred]

What do you all do to control psoriasis? I'll do more reading on the forum here but just curious, do most people use and have success with biologics? Ive just always been against big medicine and very skeptical but im starting to feel more like seriously considering it.

I'm a big fan of the bio's they have given me my life back, you can read more about them here: Biological Treatments For Psoriasis but others do better on the tablets, see here: Oral Treatments For Psoriasis

I understand being sceptical but most of our members use either the bio's or tablets as they have learnt that not much else will keep it under control

I don't want to give up on a natural solution but its gotten difficult, im already very strict and disciplined and have been for years now. Im not sure I want to start trying really obscure diets, cleanses and treatments honestly.

Alan's thread may be of interest: How I Cured My Psoriasis By Diet

Don't know other people with psoriasis, it was always pretty mild until it got severe and it just makes me wonder what its like for others who suffer. How psoriasis progressed or regressed for them and just generally their experiences.

There are times when I feel like I understand psoriasis but mostly I dont, lol. Its just a strange thing. Is it mostly genetic in terms of how it manifests and the severity? How much of an influence is environment, diet, exposure to chemicals/irritants/other factors.

We are all different but I would say stress plays a big part in starting it off and what makes it flare up. Some say it's hereditary but none of my family had/has it.

I've never found any exposure makes it worse, but you do want to keep the skin well moisturise, Coconut Oil is your friend there.

Makes me wonder if its a gut thing like you see many naturpath people claim. Or if its a genetic thing and gut and immune issues at one point triggered it.

Some say, it's a gut thing, but I'm not so sure.

As you can see it's difficult to treat as like I said we are all different, personally I would suggest get an appointment with a dermatologist, but I'm sure others may say different.

Tips to help you on the forum: As a member you can use the Search facility with things you think may interest you to find others threads, or you can start new threads asking your questions and someone will usually reply.

Also if you click a members name you can check out if they have mentioned what they use or see what threads they have started, also on the right of each members posts you will see those that have chosen to put their treatment in their profile.

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