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Anonymous
hey /fit/, this is more health related.

Does anybody here have psoriasis? I don't have a huge case of it. The main areas are on the inside of my foot, near the ankle, a little on my knees and a little on my elbows. There used to be a good amount of my head, but it's gone away. Also, there are the little red dots in random places on my body, which are also psoriasis. I also have a question, though. Does psoriasis have any negative effects on the body other than the feeling of quality of life? I read somewhere that your body has some trouble with fatty acids, but I'm not entirely sure.
>> Lil Dreamer !UYwMl8CsAs
i haven't heard of any huge detriment to your health by having psoriasis aside from the quality of life, as you mentioned. i suffer from mild psoriasis as well, mainly on the heels of my foot and a little on my face.

just go to the doctor and ask them to treat it. they'll probably prescribe you with a nystatin & triamcinolone topical.
>> Anonymous
I have psoriasis arthritis.

At one point of my life, it was incredibly bad. It was all over my legs, arms, scalp, and belly (which is like, what, my whole body?) I was shedding skin flakes everywhere and all the affected red areas were inflamed, itchy and scaly. I was literally a snowing with every step, and I my skin was all bloody and cut up.
There was this one time where I woke up with ants all over- they were harvesting my skin flakes.

Anyways,I've been prescribed a lot of topicals over the years- skin thinners, corticosteroids, vitamin D creams etc. They kinda sucked as they were smelly, thick, and oily and the affected skin areas never really went away. They did stop getting worse though.

The one I found the most useful in treating my skin problems, which I'm using now, is called 'Taclonex'. It's been able to make most of the affected areas actually disappear! The only place I really have it on is my legs now, at this point while I'm typing this.
>> Anonymous
The downside is that it's extremely expensive so if you don't have decent health insurance coverage, it'll be near impossible to acquire. Also, you can only use it for about 2-3 weeks and you have to get off it, since it's part corticosteroid or whatever. I'm really afraid I'm going to OD on it or something.

I know that stress exacerbates
psoriasis, when shit hits the fan my skin problems flare up.

The worst aspect of it is that it's never going to be cured. I'm going to have live with this god damn epidermic monstrosity all my life. Applying potentially toxic greasy ointment all my life... Not to mention SO RONERY FOREVER BAWWWWWWWW

As for the arthritis part, I'll be brief since It did affect the treatment I received. Some of my joint were swelling to the point it was hard to walk up and down stairs. So along topicals, I receive an infusion of REMICAID every two months, which may or may not affects the skin at all.

In the theme of /fit/ though, I've always wondered if exercise and diet would help the condition at all. I've taken up a rather mild routine (because of the arthritis) and I didn't really notice any changes with my skin. But at least I look decent in winter clothes :(
>> Anonymous
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OP here. I'm sorry to hear about that, sounds terrible. My dermatologist is a pretty cool guy, and he recently gave me this new cream that costs like $400 without insurance. I don't have it, so he lets me go and get the samples that he gets for free and use them. Pretty awesome guy.

But it sucks that they won't ever find a cure, or at least try. It's all about aids and cancer these days... oh who cares, at least for aids, since it is mostly avoidable. fight a damn cure for psoriasis damn it.
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
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My dermatologist is a pretty cool guy. Eh scrounges cream samples and doesnt afraid of HMOs.
>> Anonymous
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i lol'd