Bill's pure dimethylfumarate thread

[Caroline]

Caroline, I am one person with one illness managing one medication for the past five years. Your dermatologist manages many people of varying compliance and understanding with many skin problems and co-morbidities with a multitude of medications which have their own idiosyncrasies for each patient. Further, there is the difficulty and frustration of dealing with health systems and insurance companies, not to mention difficult patients corked by illness. It sounds like a very difficult job.

Hi Bill,

You are absolutely right about a dermatologist having more on his head than one specific DMF user who has his own way of dealing with his problem and thus finds all kinds of additional approaches.

On the other hand, dermatologists have done a study in dermatology. Psoriasis is a solid part of that study. Still I personally had to go to a non-dermatologist in order to receive the correct treatment over here in the Netherlands. And I have found out that even handing over efficient information to dermatologists on the use of DMF, a medication they certainly know, is very difficult. They don't have the attitude to accept information that comes from other sources, except for a few good ones of course, but the average.... is not yet so open for hints, but maybe that may be changing as the patients are getting more and more knowledged.