g137556s intro Palmoplantar Psoriasis

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Hello All,

I have had Psoriasis in one form or another since I was about 5 years old.  Back then, it was on my ankles.  I went away after several years.  Then in my early teens, I got it on my knees for several years before it went away.  Then in my mid twenties I got it on my knuckles and have had it for several years.  I am not 57 and about 4 years ago I started getting it on the side of one of my fingers and now the palm of my right had, unfortunately I am right handed.  I have been dealing with it and hoping it would disappear after a couple of years but it has been getting larger and larger.  Up until a few weeks ago the fold lines of my hand did not have plaques.  But then they started getting it.  Now my entire palm and the skin will crack in those folds.  As some of y'all know, that is pretty painful.  I cannot do much around the yard anymore because of it.  Every time someone wants to shake my hand I really hate it.  I really wish that social norm would just go away.  So the past two weeks I started taing Glutamine and using Coal Tar.