Health Boards
Fri-31-07-2015, 19:15 PM
Well done for supporting your husband. 
The specialists and the studies that are trying to find the trigger are wasting their time, what triggers it for you may not trigger it for me. Their time would be better spent on trying to find what actually causes it in the first place as opposed to what makes it flare.
I was always told smoking makes psoriasis worse, yet when I gave it up (about 5 years now) nothing changed and to be honest it probably made things worse by giving up. I put weight on (which they now tell me is also bad) I had to get through the cold turkey which made me flare up, and I was a pain in the arse to live with for a while. I'm over it now but psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis is no better, and I'm a lot heavier than I was.
When you look deep into all the things that are supposedly bad for psoriasis, are the things that a lot of us enjoy. A lot of people with psoriasis smoke, drink, and eat things the professionals say are bad, but it makes them feel good which in turn must help their well-being.
As for grasping at straws: Yes you are, if there was a one suit fits all we wouldn't be here talking about it. Sorry I didn't mean that in a derogatory way, it's just my personal opinion.
The specialists and the studies that are trying to find the trigger are wasting their time, what triggers it for you may not trigger it for me. Their time would be better spent on trying to find what actually causes it in the first place as opposed to what makes it flare.
I was always told smoking makes psoriasis worse, yet when I gave it up (about 5 years now) nothing changed and to be honest it probably made things worse by giving up. I put weight on (which they now tell me is also bad) I had to get through the cold turkey which made me flare up, and I was a pain in the arse to live with for a while. I'm over it now but psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis is no better, and I'm a lot heavier than I was.
When you look deep into all the things that are supposedly bad for psoriasis, are the things that a lot of us enjoy. A lot of people with psoriasis smoke, drink, and eat things the professionals say are bad, but it makes them feel good which in turn must help their well-being.
As for grasping at straws: Yes you are, if there was a one suit fits all we wouldn't be here talking about it. Sorry I didn't mean that in a derogatory way, it's just my personal opinion.