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Mon-14-12-2015, 16:06 PM
Hi and welcome!
I did not have psoriasis until I was 18 but I did have childhood eczema. It isn't nice hearing you have a condition that you can't cure, it felt suffocating for me and I panicked a bit - but not for very long. You do get past that feeling and the psoriasis becomes just a part of life.
It varies so much as to how bad it is, so people do have times where it is worse, and at the front of their minds and affecting life but also there are years where you might not even think about it much at all. Other times there might be remission - I had about ten years between my first outbreak and my second, with no psoriasis in between at all.
I have known people with it who never got arthritis too. And even if it is diagnosed, again it varies widely as to how badly you get it.
Try not to feel too worried, there are plenty of effective treatments to try out and you are in company, there are many more people with it than you even realise.
I did not have psoriasis until I was 18 but I did have childhood eczema. It isn't nice hearing you have a condition that you can't cure, it felt suffocating for me and I panicked a bit - but not for very long. You do get past that feeling and the psoriasis becomes just a part of life.
It varies so much as to how bad it is, so people do have times where it is worse, and at the front of their minds and affecting life but also there are years where you might not even think about it much at all. Other times there might be remission - I had about ten years between my first outbreak and my second, with no psoriasis in between at all.
I have known people with it who never got arthritis too. And even if it is diagnosed, again it varies widely as to how badly you get it.
Try not to feel too worried, there are plenty of effective treatments to try out and you are in company, there are many more people with it than you even realise.