Stelara - On Way!

[Angie]

Hi All  

Two years this week on Stelara.

Still working great.  Slightly less effective than first year & half but I am still very happy with it.

Same persistent plaques do not clear completely anymore and grow in size in run up to injection.

Bloods all good, no side effects as such.  I have mentioned a couple of times to Derm regarding
healing of my skin if I burn myself with Iron , oven etc (Not intentionally, may I add, just always in a hurry!)
The skin never returns to a normal colour, she mentioned hyper- pigmentation or something but this is not
thought to be a side effect of Stelara.  Maybe just a coincidence then as I still have a lot of pigmentation
on my face.  I do not know if this is what would be classed as staining as when I was covered almost 90%
in P my face was pretty bad.  Each time I reduced dose of cyclosporin back then, the skin on my face & hands
would burn.  The shape of the pigmentation would match this.

One other thing is Dark circles, I have this written on my Stelara Diary at Week 2.  They got worse as the months
went on and now I spend a bloody lot of money on lotions , potions & make-up to cover them. (Now no-one mention
I'm getting older) ha

Staining on legs much the same.

So all in all, I am happy to put up with the pigmentation issues and live with the amount of P I have, thanks to Stelara.

Maybe buy myself a pair of wide rimmed specs to cover the circles!! ha    

Hope you are all well.

Angie