Health Boards
Wed-25-02-2015, 10:52 AM
Hi Caroline
Thanks for that. I am enjoying my trips into this forum. Never done it before for anything but this is quite important to me and I needed to get more information. I always think that people who have gone through or are going through something are much more informed and much more inclined to tell you how it is than so called professionals who haven't! Not that I am maligning anyone at all but I don't think you can possibly know what it actually feels like until you have been there!
I have one of my questions to put out there. Please don't think I am being dim I just want your thoughts/knowledge. As you know I am currently awaiting appointment to get started on Acitretin. I have had light treatment and I am currently using Diprosalic ointment once a day - which I now know I shouldn't be as I have been using this for 9 months and is why I am heading for Acitretin. However, last year I had a problem with the sun and was told in a Spanish hospital and at our local hospital on my return and my GP, that I had cellulitis and was treated for it, resulting in my first sick note for 43 years!! That aside, I know when I go onto Acitretin, if that happens before my holiday in June, that I will be sensitive to the sun. Does this mean factor 50 sun cream and covered up from head to toe and not out in the sun at all or factor 50 sun cream and taking care in the sun????
I really wish I had known about all of you before now because I think I would have made different choices than I did. Part of the problem is that I don't know which questions to ask in the first place and therefore just go with what I think. I maybe need to reassess that!
Anyway, I look forward to your replies.
Thanks again, Caroline for the welcome. I look forward to speaking to you more in the future.
S
Thanks for that. I am enjoying my trips into this forum. Never done it before for anything but this is quite important to me and I needed to get more information. I always think that people who have gone through or are going through something are much more informed and much more inclined to tell you how it is than so called professionals who haven't! Not that I am maligning anyone at all but I don't think you can possibly know what it actually feels like until you have been there!
I have one of my questions to put out there. Please don't think I am being dim I just want your thoughts/knowledge. As you know I am currently awaiting appointment to get started on Acitretin. I have had light treatment and I am currently using Diprosalic ointment once a day - which I now know I shouldn't be as I have been using this for 9 months and is why I am heading for Acitretin. However, last year I had a problem with the sun and was told in a Spanish hospital and at our local hospital on my return and my GP, that I had cellulitis and was treated for it, resulting in my first sick note for 43 years!! That aside, I know when I go onto Acitretin, if that happens before my holiday in June, that I will be sensitive to the sun. Does this mean factor 50 sun cream and covered up from head to toe and not out in the sun at all or factor 50 sun cream and taking care in the sun????
I really wish I had known about all of you before now because I think I would have made different choices than I did. Part of the problem is that I don't know which questions to ask in the first place and therefore just go with what I think. I maybe need to reassess that!
Anyway, I look forward to your replies.
Thanks again, Caroline for the welcome. I look forward to speaking to you more in the future.
S