TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal)

[Caroline]

I haven't used any topicals at all for the last 2 weeks. Coincidentally, my skin is significantly clearer. I don't know if it's from the Acitretin, from not using steroid cream or a combination of both. I'd be interested to hear from others what their experience was like when they stopped using topicals.

I won't ever put that on stuff on my body again. EVER. I'm thankful that my exposure to the stuff has been pretty minimal compared to others. This really makes me angry - my doctor wanted me to cover myself in topicals twice a day and when I asked him about stopping after two weeks he told me not to. Grrrrrr...

Kelly (& Kat),
This is indeed what I conclude time and time again, with all new members. They all go through the same path at the dermatologist. And those dermatologists, or other doctors, don't seem to learn.
The path via Steroids, creams and e.g. also MTX, is "wrong", just plain wrong, but they don't seem to know. And also don't seem to learn this in school, I explicitly call it school, as it can hardly be called University by making so much mistakes. (my frustration)

What I understood of Steroids is that they increase the making of new skin. Am I correct?
BUT Psoriasis is already an immune problem with expresses in ……. right, creating increasingly more skin-tissue. So while we already have the problem of increased skin production, we increase this again by using steroids
Now am I stupid or not, but this is going into every logic I can imagine.

Dr. Kunst, the improver of my type of medication, has said it to me, and it is also known in practice, if you stop with a psoriasis treatment, normally the psoriasis comes back in increased form. Unfortunately