Cosentyx and some Side effects

[madpaddy]

I just wanted to add another thing...

For me taking medication was the final straw. For years i tried to clear it up using a good clean diet. I swore by the book "healing psoriasis" and i did have some great success. 

I have a very helpful wife (who was probably sick of vacuuming up my flakes) help me create the meals and stick with the diet. But i had my struggles on this....one week good, two weeks bad.

Going to see the dermo felt like i was giving up in a way, personally i still do. I sometimes feel guilty that i can get access to medication when so many other people cant. I suppose i always saw myself as a healthy person. Never wanted to be the one that ticks the "do you take any medication?" box on forms. 

But lets be honest. Psoriasis did wear me down mentally. Seen it as an alien invasion on my body that had to be killed. A parasite that could be removed.  I had some pretty dark days....

I live in a very hot part of Australia with a physical outside job. My affected knees would bleed on a daily basis and end of shift i would be removing the clothes from the dried blood on my skin. I could no longer play sport and never took my kids to the public swimming pools as the chlorine used to sting and drive me mad. 

Even writing this makes me upset and i dont really know what i want to say. I suppose it good to get these things out and probably without this forum i never would have. 

Anyway... thats my soppy shit finished.... and thanks again for setting up this page. I 'll dig into the forums and have a good read. 

Thanks