alcohol and psoriasis

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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 ele07
This is your thread and you have a lot of good questions. I will be happy to respond to you and share my personal experiences with the methods that have worked for me. I am glad you have found this forum and I hope that you can overcome this painful form of P. soon. Many here on this forum are here to share personal experiences. Help is always here in spades. I have lived with P. since a small child.

You mentioned you are a heavy drinker. Alcohol has a huge sugar content to consider with Psoriasis and the immune system.The liver also needs time to recover from long term use from alcohol as it can take a toll on the liver. This can be an important factor if you decide on taking a biological drug or MTX for P. Some bio drugs are hard on the liver. And monthly blood tests are required to check certain proteins from the drug that can show up in the liver.

Alcohol never effected my P. it was the sugar content in the alcohol that can cause a over abundance of yeast in the system over time, which in turn causes extreme itching of the skin, thereby causing the P. itching to become unbearable. There are prescription meds that go thru a different pathway than OTC Antihistamines which in my case has stopped the p. itching in it's tracks. Check with your doc. Or I will be happy to PM the med info to if you are interested. ☺️

There are many bio drugs that I personally have taken for P. & PsA over the years to help put p. in remission . I was instructed not to drink alcohol during treatment. Again I am sharing my personal experience. Every dr. is different as everyone who has P. responds to treatments differently.

PPP. is so very hard to cope with, it's stressful and very painful. Not to mention how time consuming just caring for it as well as bleeding from cracks and the risk of infections. If the topical steroids are not helping you,( not sure how long steroids have been used) , in my personal experience it may be time to find a Derm who specializes in psoriasis that can address this issue & help put P. in remission. It may take different drugs time or it could be the next drug that can treat your P.and do it quickly. Also a tip on the application of topical steroids over time can thin the skin, take care using it.

Also you mentioned your fingers hurt.It would be worth a trip to a rheumy to test for PsA. There are many good derms & rhumy's out there, its so much easier when you can be treated with meds that help put P in remission & control the disease. I hope this can become your case soon. In many cases it could be MTX which is generally the next med once steroids or other topicals have failed. Then on to bio drugs or combinations that have been developed in the recent years. There is a better way to get P. under control. Once you find the method that works for you it can be a blessing.


Take care,
Keep us posted on your progress.