Hi, new to this forum, but

[jiml]

I've had psoriasis for 16 years. I've never been to a doctor for it at all due to a doctor phobia. I'm now about 75% covered. My knees to my feet are covered. My scalp is covered. My torso is covered. My arms are covered. My face is clear, hands are clear, feet are clear and that's it.

Just this summer, I've started getting new symptoms that are extremely terrifying.

Extreme burning on my legs. Almost intolerable. I started to pay close attention to area of my calves. I used some treatments to get all of the scaling off of my lower legs but the burning even got worse. Below the scaling is just thick redness so I started to try and peel that away. I uncovered something that doesn't look like psoriasis. It looks like white little dots and they are extremely painful. I sprayed some hydrogen peroxide on them and it foamed big time and burned like crazy. Eventually it started oozing puss. The pain just won't go away. At first, I was afraid that it was general pustular psoriasis which can be fatal...but the fact that the hydrogen peroxide foamed makes me think it's just some time of subcutaneous skin infection caused by the fact that I scratch constantly.

Is it possible for psoriasis scaling to scale over a skin infection? Has anybody had something so strange happen to them? I'm currently panicking due to the extreme pain. Sorry to make my introduction a complaint but it is desperation that drove me to find a community so that I could share my experience.

Thanks for your time and any responses.

Hi Kanidana  to the club it's good that you have found us, ....... do ask questions here,  as you have already found out we are a friendly group and the advice you have had so far is good, I don't like doctors, although with me it's not a phobia, I just don't like waiting around  
It will be better for you to face your fear now, as you say it's getting intolerable....it's unlikely to clear on its own and to be honest it may get infected and then you won't have a choice.....

Don't worry about coming here and complaining, we are just glad you joined us  and most of us have had a rant about something on here .....that is the beauty of the site, you can come and moan and no one will mind in fact you will always get positive advice back.

Do let us know what you decide and come back often and talk with us, and let us know how the psoriasis is progressing