Health Boards
Thu-06-10-2016, 11:28 AM
Hi all,
Just been reading through this thread and wanted to add my tuppence.
I resigned myself to never achieving completely clear skin decades ago... This was when I started reading up on the genetic and autoimmune casues for the condition (I refuse to call it a disease because to me a disease is something you can catch) and realised that without gene therapy being developed there would never be a 100% cure for it. All medications and treatments do is to treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause. So that part of the study doesn't surprise me.
As for depression... Well, I've often wondered about that.. Having had P since I was 4 I didn't really have any issues with depression because to me my task was to educate people as much as I could to to give them an understanding of what P was. I have, however, noticed a trend in those developing P in later life struggling to cope and developing mental health issues as a result (this is from other forums where you are smacked down for suggesting you bare all - I didn't stay long after that) and I can understand it. Often people isolate themselved due to embarrassment at the skaly, flakiness of their skin and we all know the negative impact social isolation canhave on your mental health.
The study munbers are surprisingly low when we consider the numbers of p patients worldwide, and I can't help but wonder if those figures would be clearer had they asked every derm to get their patients to complete the survey.
Krissie
Just been reading through this thread and wanted to add my tuppence.
I resigned myself to never achieving completely clear skin decades ago... This was when I started reading up on the genetic and autoimmune casues for the condition (I refuse to call it a disease because to me a disease is something you can catch) and realised that without gene therapy being developed there would never be a 100% cure for it. All medications and treatments do is to treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause. So that part of the study doesn't surprise me.
As for depression... Well, I've often wondered about that.. Having had P since I was 4 I didn't really have any issues with depression because to me my task was to educate people as much as I could to to give them an understanding of what P was. I have, however, noticed a trend in those developing P in later life struggling to cope and developing mental health issues as a result (this is from other forums where you are smacked down for suggesting you bare all - I didn't stay long after that) and I can understand it. Often people isolate themselved due to embarrassment at the skaly, flakiness of their skin and we all know the negative impact social isolation canhave on your mental health.
The study munbers are surprisingly low when we consider the numbers of p patients worldwide, and I can't help but wonder if those figures would be clearer had they asked every derm to get their patients to complete the survey.
Krissie
