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Sun-25-09-2016, 05:20 AM
Hi Sam and a warm welcome to the forum Loads of good people here to help.
Sounds like you had a tough couple of months to say the least. I am not an expert but many say that psoriasis is/was triggered by an event, traumatic or otherwise. Whether this was the sore throat or the stress of splitting with your GF.
Nobody is going to preach to you but the cleaner your life style many find helps.
Your GP is the first port of call and will prescribe first line drugs like Dovobet. If you are at all unhappy with the way that is working out get referred to a dermatologist, you may need to wait a little while under the NHS. The visible signs are what you can see and what is often more difficult to deal with is the emotional side of low self esteem etc. Particularly difficult when you are younger but as Jim said now is a good tome to have psoriasis with so much that can be done.
I had psorisis for 35-40 years and was constantly just given Dovobet until I sought a referal and with the new drugs and therapies available a lot of people can have considerably better results than the GP prescription drugs.
Good luck.
Sounds like you had a tough couple of months to say the least. I am not an expert but many say that psoriasis is/was triggered by an event, traumatic or otherwise. Whether this was the sore throat or the stress of splitting with your GF.
Nobody is going to preach to you but the cleaner your life style many find helps.
Your GP is the first port of call and will prescribe first line drugs like Dovobet. If you are at all unhappy with the way that is working out get referred to a dermatologist, you may need to wait a little while under the NHS. The visible signs are what you can see and what is often more difficult to deal with is the emotional side of low self esteem etc. Particularly difficult when you are younger but as Jim said now is a good tome to have psoriasis with so much that can be done.
I had psorisis for 35-40 years and was constantly just given Dovobet until I sought a referal and with the new drugs and therapies available a lot of people can have considerably better results than the GP prescription drugs.
Good luck.