alcohol and psoriasis

[jiml]

Hi! Am new and appreciative of finding this site via google.
Think I am lucky to have only lived with psoriasis since I turned 40, am 44. It coincided with job difficulties and heavy drinking. I have it on the palms of my hands and soles of my feet, also my lower legs. A week ago the scales which often split turned into puss blisters and my diagnosis is now palmer-plantar pustular psoriasis, I was still prescribed dovobet. I had to go a walk in clinic rather than my GP. My  knuckles are alsoswollen.
Previously I have pretty much used under foot blisters to ease the pain of the cracks on my feet, which helped. But this time when I changed the blisters to keep them clean, the skin peeled off too leaving raw soles and making it impossible to walk on one foot and painful on the other. Does anyone have any suggestions how I might relieve this pain. Am used to thick scales with cracks, not large patches of raw skin?
Also has anyone's psoriasis disappeared when they have stopped heavy drinking (and not come back)?
Excuse  me for asking questions on my very first post.
Hope this finds a lot of you well and coping.
Kind  regards

Hi ele, sorry I wasn't here earlier to    welcome you but unfortunately I had to go to a wine tasting night.

Now I like the title of your thread.

I am sorry you are suffering at the moment with this awful disease, which I have persevered with since I was seventeen. I have been through most of the treatments as they became available, all with short term relief if I was lucky. Your PPP psoriasis I have never had but one psoriasis is much like another, in as far as treatment is concerned ( Im not saying yours is not worse than plaque psoriasis as I'm sure it is and painful with it )
With relation to heavy drinking and psoriasis it has never affected me I have had an overindulgence of falling down water on several occasions and it makes not a scrap of difference to my psoriasis.
It's more likely triggered by the stress of job difficulties

I'm thinking you are being let down by your doctor and you need to get a referral to a dermatologist, creams and potions are ok for mild psoriasis but what you describe sounds as if you need systemic treatment and your GP cannot prescribe those ...
So my advice would be have a drink and go and see your GP tell them that you want a referral to a dermatologist as creams have failed  ( don't take no for an answer) it's your right to be seen by a dermatologist not just a GP .
I wish you much luck and hope to see more of you on the forum ...
Ooooh and despite what anyone tells you its me not grizzly with the common sense as you will see if you venture into the off topic section