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Wed-26-04-2017, 15:08 PM
Thank you for the welcomes!
To give a bit of history about my situation and why I asked the high blood pressure medication correlation question-
I believe it was 16 years ago I was afflicted with psoriasis and was eventually directed to clinic trial studies. My experience there was mainly with biologics and some with great success however the studies all have their time limit and eventually overtime without treatment the psoriasis would come back. At this time there is nothing available for me and I'm in a high moderate (severe?) state and have very recently started methotrexate which got me on the computer quite bit researching. Interestingly enough it was around the same time when the psoriasis started so many years ago that I prescribed an ACE inhibitor class of high blood pressure medication and have been on it ever since. Prior to that I was administered limited shots of prednisone for medical situation at that time. I had asked the doctor why I never experienced any psoriasis in my younger years (thank goodness) and there was no family history of it. It was explained to me that it was something always genetically in me but only presented itself later in life. Over time I occasionally thought it it might have been the prednisone that kicked things off but now have run across some studies suggesting that ACE inhibitors and Beta Blocker types of high blood pressure medication may have played a part so I was curious if any out there had similar experiences/thoughts about this. Thanks mataribot for narrowing in on the term 'drug induced psoriasis' to help with my research on this. Thank you all for your comments, I look forward to more feedback and being part of the psoriasis club.
To give a bit of history about my situation and why I asked the high blood pressure medication correlation question-
I believe it was 16 years ago I was afflicted with psoriasis and was eventually directed to clinic trial studies. My experience there was mainly with biologics and some with great success however the studies all have their time limit and eventually overtime without treatment the psoriasis would come back. At this time there is nothing available for me and I'm in a high moderate (severe?) state and have very recently started methotrexate which got me on the computer quite bit researching. Interestingly enough it was around the same time when the psoriasis started so many years ago that I prescribed an ACE inhibitor class of high blood pressure medication and have been on it ever since. Prior to that I was administered limited shots of prednisone for medical situation at that time. I had asked the doctor why I never experienced any psoriasis in my younger years (thank goodness) and there was no family history of it. It was explained to me that it was something always genetically in me but only presented itself later in life. Over time I occasionally thought it it might have been the prednisone that kicked things off but now have run across some studies suggesting that ACE inhibitors and Beta Blocker types of high blood pressure medication may have played a part so I was curious if any out there had similar experiences/thoughts about this. Thanks mataribot for narrowing in on the term 'drug induced psoriasis' to help with my research on this. Thank you all for your comments, I look forward to more feedback and being part of the psoriasis club.