Better collaboration with rheumatology & dermatology needed in psoriatic arthritis

[jiml]

I agree they need to collaborate I had had six good years on fumaderm when I got a bit of arthritis and asked my dermatologist if I could up my dose of fumaderm he told me I needed to see the rheumatologist.....who wanted to take me off fumaderm and put me on methotrexate and said she knew nothing about fumaderm / DMF and said it was up to my dermatologist to increase fumaderm but said there was no evidence it would work on psoriatic arthritis or she would know about it .....
I told her I could show her evidence from the club of DMF working to control psoriatic arthritis ... she discharged me and I went back to the dermatologist who said I could try increasing the dose but agreed with the rheumatologist that it wouldn't work ... that was about two years ago ...
My point is the 2 departments do need to cooperate and share information for the benefit of us the patients