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Hi there, I'm pleased to find this forum as I've been missing chatting with others about P. I haven't really had P until fairly recently in my late 30s, I did have an outbreak when I was 19 when I went off to uni but we thought it was eczema and treated it as such. Since then I've only had small patches occasionally but in 2012 I had an op on my leg under general anaesthetic and also embarked on a very stressful house extension and my P suddenly got worse.

Derm sent me for uvb but had to stop after four sessions on lowest dose as I had bad sunburn from it, which then turned erythrodermic, was a horrible flu like experience and took ages to get help, first dermatologist I saw dismissed me with steroid cream and didn't want to even see the offending skin. My own derm finally saw me, put me straight on prednisolone for about three months. Came off that onto mtx which was great for a while, I was almost entirely clear and tried to wean off it but P cam back rapidly so stayed on mtx, which no longer works so well. Can't cope with the higher 25mg dose so now coming off and going onto Humira.

I'm looking forward to coming off mtx and hoping my energy might return, the side effects seem to get worse with each dose, but scared of Humira!

Looking forward to chatting with you all