My Psoriasis Is Evolving and On The Move...

[Caroline]

What about all the other newer drugs? Are they not better?

Biologicals are better in the sense that they target very specific points on your cells so that the expression of the psoriasis is blocked. They are also very expensive. But they work very quickly.
Therefore it is a habit to first try out the so called systemic drugs, that are far cheaper. It is in the protocol as they say.
E.g. Methotrexate is very very cheap. At the same time it is kind of a chemo therapy, where it was originally developed for. Some can handle it, many cannot.
At the same time there are a few systemica that work rather well and are way less toxic. Acetretin and dimethylfumarates belong to that. They are both slow burners, it takes time for them to start working.
If they are available in Canada you could go for them. In mine and others advice, try to avoid mtx.

It seems as if you have no choice but to move on as finally uvb will also not do the job and is quite heavy for your skin. Remember it is not a skin disease, so with uvb you are mostly treating the symptoms. Allthough of course the vitamin D that comes from it, is good for you.

The final point unfortunately is that we still are treating the symptoms, there is too little investigation and progress in trying to solve the problem at the source.