My Journey to halt/end my psoriasis

[Caroline]

I do respect your opinion. However, fixing the skin, doesn't fix what's going on inside my body. How does a topical fix that? How does it lower the white blood cell count so that my immune system isn't attacking my skin and internal organs.? Am I missing something here? I have no faith in topicals. I just got finished with dovobet, a steroid, which is only a short term use topical. Wouldn't this steroid be the same thing?? If it's a short term measure, then why start it at all?
Sincerely,
Wintrman

I 100% agree with you Wintrman but unfortunately a dermatologist has to follow protocol. We have seen it so often where people would rather go for something like a bio, but that rarely happens until you have failed on one or two oral treatments.

You could refuse the topical's, but I don't think many dermatologists would start a new patient on an Oral treatment. You could try asking for light treatment and explain that you refuse to use a topical, it's worth a try.

Failing that you are going to be left with self treatment with something like DMF or Natural. *If you wish to go that way these may help:

Natural Treatments For Psoriasis

Dimethylfumarates and Psoriasis

Fred,

Wintrman is in Canada. They don’t have DMF over there. (Well I think they will have it for MS, but don’t realise it can be used for Psoriasis)

I do understand the feeling of you, Wintrman, of the senselessness of going for another topical, which is bound to fail.
Your psoriasis is at a point where topicals do not work anymore. But.. indeed guidelines dictate (also idiotic, how guidelines can dictate, but it happens here too) that you have to follow a path.

I understand it also because I myself would never use methotrexate ever again, just like Fred, sometimes you pass stations and that is what you are doing too, I think. Haven’t read your letter yet, have to get to cooking right now, so that will be later.

Caroline