Should I come off Fumaderm?

[Fred]

Hi Fred

Thank you for the advice. Should I stay on fumaderm for life so? (well until I decide to have children). I just thought that because my psoriasis is clear that I should consider coming off the fumaderm (in hopes that it would stay clear). The thoughts of taking fumaderm forever is scary, and expensive :(

Ruth

As for being on it the rest of your life, it may stop working one day. Psoriasis treatements can do that, but I would say you will be taking something to control it for the rest of your life so better the devil you know. I don't know of anyone that has completely stopped all treatment and never had it come back, it's a matter of controling it, accepting you have it, and accepting you will have to take something for the rest of your life (be it light treatment, pills, creams, injection, etc)

I'm 100% with you on your thinking that as you are almost clear you may as well stop, but in my opinion it will come back and probably worse than it was.

As for expensive don't you have NHS in Ireland like the UK?