Psoriasis

It seems to improve somewhat when I am taking vitamins. The B vitamins and vitamin D seem to do some good. Perhaps vitamin E. Since both D & E are fat-soluable, you have to be careful not to dose them too high, since they accumulate in fatty tissue and can, over time, lead to vitamin poisoning.

UV light helps... Omega 3 oil can also help. I had same kind of thing around 8 years ago and am still bothered a little by it, but really mild compared to back then. Same type too, which is strange as it's apparently more common in kids.

Bacterial throat infections can trigger it... Indeed, strep infections anywhere. Try avoid getting them; eat loads of strepsils when you've got a cold.

Funnily enough i do have throat infections quite often (a couple of times a year at least). hmmm.

Yes, the UV thing's not a lot of help in Scotland I suppose! Turns out it's only specific frequencies of UV too. Naturally, the occurs near the dead sea, which is a good way below sea level.

spreading the word

ok, so i have had the same bout i mentioned at the top of the thread ever since then and nothing would shift it, even tried steroid creams. anyway, a lot of docs think that psoriasis stems from liver problems and an online forum recommended taking milk thistle, so i tried it and the results are utterly remarkable. within a week of taking 3 doses of milk thistle in tablet form each day about 90% of the flakes were gone. a few more days and the red patches were paler and smaller. i'm on day 10 or so now and it's less itchy, less red and less scaley (in fact it's now completely scale free) than it's been since it first occurred. i now just have one largish patch on my leg and it's stopped itching. i truly believe this is a cure and hope that it will be gone fairly soon! try it!

I've had moderate guttate and plaque psoriasis for about 10 years. It effects my everyday life, especially when it comes to dating/relationships. It's really difficult to have that "talk" prior to the point in a relationship where your partner sees you naked for the first time and really sees how much and where you have it. And when do you have that "talk"? Before you ask them out or right after they ask you out? 1st date? Right before you put The Cocteau Twins on the stereo and hope to get busy? I mean I haven't met anyone where this was a deal breaker, but the feeling that the relationship isn't going to last till the end of that night, let alone for the rest of your life, gets unbearable.

Ywhat are you using to treat it?

Suffering from this at the moment.

One of the many (fairly) common ailments that medical science still has no explanation for and therefore doesn't know how to treat effectively.

Sometimes it seems like the more common a condition is the less likely it is that anyone knows what the hell is going on.

I have psoriasic arthritis, which is both of those things together, ultimately it's an immune system disorder but the specific trigger is a complete mystery.

Sorry to hear this, the only thing I know about psoriasis is that George Melly suffered from it quite badly in later life, so you're in good company at least.

I thought I had might have psoriatic arthritis when one of my toes swelled up to twice its size for about six months but I was assured it wasn't that, of course they had no idea what it actually was. Now the little toe on my other foot is swollen at the same time as this latest bout of psoriasis but I'm not even bothering telling any doctors about it and I'll just wait till it goes down of its own volition.

well that does sound like it, no idea how they would be so sure it wasn't.

Sorry to hear this, the only thing I know about psoriasis is that George Melly suffered from it quite badly in later life, so you're in good company at least.

The only thing I knew about psoriasis growing up was that it featured in the lyrics of 'Nude Spoons' by The Associates, for reasons I couldn't fathom.

well that does sound like it, no idea how they would be so sure it wasn't.

I went through numerous tests, scans, X-rays. The best they could come up with was that old stand-by, "wear and tear", and gave me some insoles for my shoes.