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Thu-15-10-2015, 21:24 PM
Hi Cathy,
I had started to answer earlier, but got interrupted.
Of course I do understand that you don't want to up the dose, because of your belly problems and the impossibility to train then.
Personally I do recognise it a little, I mean the reaction that it comes back. During the summer I lower my dose to 5 en some times even 4, but right now I found that my fingers and feet started to hurt again, so I had to go back to 6. It does not help immediately. It takes a few weeks before I am again freed from mostly the pain in my fingers.
I do know that in some, rather few, cases, DMF stops working, but in most cases people have to stop because of the side effects where you are suffering also.
You could try to follow the strategy of Bill, see his thread, in the sense that you concentrate in taking the dose higher on certain days and the skip one or two days. That has a better effect on the psoriasis and reduces the side effects to only that days. The other days you can follow your marathon training again.
As you perhaps know I only have very limited side effects, because I have a slow release version and no additives like in fumaderm.
Futhermore also Jims advice was correct.
Hopefully you this gives you some more insight of what you might do or discuss with your dermatologist.
Let us know how you go!
Caroline
I had started to answer earlier, but got interrupted.
Of course I do understand that you don't want to up the dose, because of your belly problems and the impossibility to train then.
Personally I do recognise it a little, I mean the reaction that it comes back. During the summer I lower my dose to 5 en some times even 4, but right now I found that my fingers and feet started to hurt again, so I had to go back to 6. It does not help immediately. It takes a few weeks before I am again freed from mostly the pain in my fingers.
I do know that in some, rather few, cases, DMF stops working, but in most cases people have to stop because of the side effects where you are suffering also.
You could try to follow the strategy of Bill, see his thread, in the sense that you concentrate in taking the dose higher on certain days and the skip one or two days. That has a better effect on the psoriasis and reduces the side effects to only that days. The other days you can follow your marathon training again.
As you perhaps know I only have very limited side effects, because I have a slow release version and no additives like in fumaderm.
Futhermore also Jims advice was correct.
Hopefully you this gives you some more insight of what you might do or discuss with your dermatologist.
Let us know how you go!
Caroline