Psoriasis!

rossyamaha

Apologies for the people who get grossed out by this stuff but statistically, there has to be a whole bunch of people here who get psoriasis, myself included. 

Just wanted to share a super expensive, hard to find treatment for you that I've just discovered works a treat. Vaseline! Yep, good old regular vaseline. Read it's best used as soon as you get out of the bath which I'll try later but just straight on affected areas worked for me. Obvs not got rid of it but sorted the plaque out really easily. Going to see how it goes over the next few weeks but really happy with whats happened just since this morning. Also going to pick up some with cocoa butter cause it smells nice and stuff. 

nick79

I suffer a bit (well, a lot) with it, unfortunately Vaseline doesnt really do much for me, tried it a few times. 
I have found though that Coconut oil works well, cheap as chips and smells pretty good. 

The absolute best thing i have found is something called Estilar. Prescription only, comes in a can as an aerosol and it cleared up a load of psoriasis on my arms within 2 or 3 days. Brilliant stuff. Bit difficult to get prescribed though as its fairly new i think and not many docs are aware of it, plus it's expensive at about £70 a can...

BigBearKris

I don't suffer with it but I work I support one client who has quite a bad one.
Vaseline based products help, but only to certain extent (hydromol ointment even better). That plus light treatment at hospital, daily baths with oilatum additive and dovobet gel every day - and it still is getting worse with every week. 
Currently on methotrexate medication, but whilst it's dealing with psoriasis pretty well it's quite toxic medication and patient can suffer with all sorts of side effects. 
Nasty stuff, glad you can manage yours with Vaseline.

Axe_meister

My wife suffers and she Has the arthritis that goes with it.
Diet helps a lot, vegan is best but also avoid starch. But she likes food so suffers along.
The other thing is stress.
Likewise she is on methotrexate not do deal with the skin condition (it does nothing) but to keep arthritis in remission. 

nick79

The other thing that helps massively is vitamin D, aka Sunshine! Mine pretty much disappears in summer, winter is when it gets bad. And as @Axe_meister says stress is another trigger.

sgosden

I've never seen he word written before, and no idea it has a silent P at the beginning...

Octafish

Another psorsiaris sufferer here, albeit sparodic these days. I had the skin condition from about age of 6 and it was particlulalry bad on the palms of my hands which used to bleed when at it's worst. I was advised to try dairy free and various creams, made no difference. Then it cleared up when I was 13-14 for no obvious reason.

Then it flared up again when I was about 17-18, but this time in it's arthritic form. I had it the worst in my knees, which I had to have drained with a fuck off big needle . Then it cleared up again and I had no issue until 27-28 when it flared up again in it's arthritic form in my knees, then ankles and then most worrying as a guitarist, my wrists. This time was quite bad and I ended up seeing a consultant at my local general. He drained my knees again and looked at various hardcore medicines which I held back from.

After about a year it started to subside again and became managable. This time it only cleared up fully about 7 years later and 8 years on it's not come back, other than two very small persistent patches of dry skin. One thing that did coincide with the psoriatic arthritis clearing up was moving from living about 200 metres away from an estuary to half a mile away. Some old wive's tales about arthritis claim being in damp places don't help, who knows? Other than trying dairy free, I've not done much with my diet and could not handle going vegan - love my food too much.

rocktron

Try BETNOVATE.

BETNOVATE is available as a cream and an ointment. It is a topical corticosteroid, which is applied to the body surface (skin). It is used to help relieve the redness, swelling, itching and discomfort of various skin problems such as: eczema.

It is effective when other cream treatments have "stopped" working and are no longer effective. However, it can only be prescribed by a GP.

Nitefly

+1 for Betnovate - I had it for persistent eczema rather than psoriasis.  It turned out I was allergic to some component in the cream, so had to have the ointment version.

Be aware there is a version called Betnovate RD (can't remember what the RD stands for - possibly "ready diluted") but it is a weaker solution - my idiot GP thought it was stronger!  I had to correct him when he tried to prescribe it for me...

Funkfingers

Son of an itch!

Readers of a certain age will associate psoriasis with the Dennis Potter drama series The Singing Detective. At the time, many viewers were moved by the young Joanne Whalley as Nurse Mills.

monofin

Another sufferer but mine has been pretty mild for a few years, mainly flares up with stress.
My daughter started with it at about 18 months old and was literally covered. Got referred to all sorts of specialists and tried every cream going. All the Doc's said it was really unusual to have it so young and the final one suggested keeping her wrapped in creamed bandages.
As a last resort we started bathing her in dead sea salts and it cleared up in a matter of days. We keep using the salts in case it comes back - utterly horrific to see her suffering with it made worse by knowing I'd passed it onto her

viz

Another one to look at is diprobase from schering / MSD. 

kjdowd

all good stuff here thanks chaps. I have it fairly persistently, and psoriatic arthritis. Sunshine and seawater clears it almost completely for me, but in the meantime I manage it with Dovonex cream and moisturising cream. I've tried methotrexate - v effective but just didn't like the idea of it tbh. Enstilar sounds interesting. Will have a look

57Deluxe

try CBD oil - seems to cure and alleviate nearly everything - including my mate's Gouty toe...