Health Boards
Tue-13-03-2018, 22:04 PM
Hi all,
So I went to see my Derm today as my P has been flaring up again.
I've been on acitretin (35mg daily) for the past 4-5 months which did an ok job at clearing (despite taking a good 2 months to clear). Anyway, it started to fizzle out and I had to use creams to keep my P at bay, which, is fine when using the creams but as soon as I stopped it would come straight back.
So after reading many positive reviews on here, I have decided I want to make the switch to Fumaderm/Skilarence. I recommended this to my derm who also gave it glowing reviews (well Fumaderm, he wasn't actually aware of Skilarence). However, as I go private he said that Skilarence/Fumaderm is ridiculously expensive to be paying myself and would be in the thousands of pounds a year region. He said the best way would be to see a GP and get a referral (ideally to St Guy's) and get the prescription through the NHS. In the meantime, I'm bumping my acitretin dose to 50mg daily to see if that helps at all.
The problem is, I am not actually registered with a GP. To save myself the hassle of booking more time off work, registering with a GP, booking an appointment etc etc...which would take weeks, I am considering using an online GP to get the referral.
My question is, has anyone on here from the UK ever had experience with using an online GP for psoriasis?
So I went to see my Derm today as my P has been flaring up again.
I've been on acitretin (35mg daily) for the past 4-5 months which did an ok job at clearing (despite taking a good 2 months to clear). Anyway, it started to fizzle out and I had to use creams to keep my P at bay, which, is fine when using the creams but as soon as I stopped it would come straight back.
So after reading many positive reviews on here, I have decided I want to make the switch to Fumaderm/Skilarence. I recommended this to my derm who also gave it glowing reviews (well Fumaderm, he wasn't actually aware of Skilarence). However, as I go private he said that Skilarence/Fumaderm is ridiculously expensive to be paying myself and would be in the thousands of pounds a year region. He said the best way would be to see a GP and get a referral (ideally to St Guy's) and get the prescription through the NHS. In the meantime, I'm bumping my acitretin dose to 50mg daily to see if that helps at all.
The problem is, I am not actually registered with a GP. To save myself the hassle of booking more time off work, registering with a GP, booking an appointment etc etc...which would take weeks, I am considering using an online GP to get the referral.
My question is, has anyone on here from the UK ever had experience with using an online GP for psoriasis?