Hello from soosieb99

[Fred]

Hi all
Hope you are all ok.

Sorry for not being on here for a while.  Been a little hectic!  Had some good news, my daughter gave birth to my beautiful grand daughter (hence the hectic) 1 week early.  All ok        

So in update.  I have seen dermatologist who prescribed me 10 mg per day of Acitretin.  5 weeks in and not much improvement.     No side effects to speak of either apart from a little dryness of skin and eyes. so that at least is a positive.  Am now awaiting the follow up appointment but am not holding out much hope because of the delay last time and I am fast running out of tablets!

However, I have now developed terrible tennis elbow and what seems to be onset of arthritis in some of my toes, my left main toe joint, fingers and neck.  So now have another appointment with gp to sort that out as the pain has been awful for the past few days.  It doesn't help that it is my left arm and I am left handed, not to mention gear changing in the car! Had physio, had pain killers, done exercises so not much left really.

Any thoughts anyone???

SoosieB

I'm not sure but I think Acitretin takes a while to get going.

Re the pain in your elbow, toes, fingers, and neck. I would ask them to check you out for Psoriatic Arthritis.

Also it may be worth asking about Biological Treatments For Psoriasis