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Tue-01-03-2016, 10:18 AM
Hi there 
I started with it on my elbows too, when I was 18. I used a cortisone cream and it all went away.
Ten years or so on, I got a patch on my leg. Later I got it on my neck. I went on like this, it wasn't very nice but it wasn't problematic.
Then when I was in my late 30s I got spots over my back, which was different to having it in just one spot at a time. I saw the derm, he gave me uvb treatment, I burnt like a lobster and went erythrodermic where my skin was bright red, very hot and I had flu like symptoms. I got over that with steroid tablets and from then til now I still have patches everywhere I got burnt and other places too.
There were other signs that I hadn't linked to psoriasis at the time but looking back I think they were, like sore edges to my nose and mouth in winter, sometimes behind the ear too, and very dry flaky face which wouldn't go no matter how much moisturiser I put on.
Each time I can link it to stressful times in my life, like going away to uni or more recently having builders in the house.
So, yes it can change from being in just one place at a time to all over, but I guess it could just as easily not happen. I think there might be many people with a small amount of psoriasis out there who never get an outbreak or 'flare up' and perhaps have it mildly enough to never bother getting treatment.
I started with it on my elbows too, when I was 18. I used a cortisone cream and it all went away.
Ten years or so on, I got a patch on my leg. Later I got it on my neck. I went on like this, it wasn't very nice but it wasn't problematic.
Then when I was in my late 30s I got spots over my back, which was different to having it in just one spot at a time. I saw the derm, he gave me uvb treatment, I burnt like a lobster and went erythrodermic where my skin was bright red, very hot and I had flu like symptoms. I got over that with steroid tablets and from then til now I still have patches everywhere I got burnt and other places too.
There were other signs that I hadn't linked to psoriasis at the time but looking back I think they were, like sore edges to my nose and mouth in winter, sometimes behind the ear too, and very dry flaky face which wouldn't go no matter how much moisturiser I put on.
Each time I can link it to stressful times in my life, like going away to uni or more recently having builders in the house.
So, yes it can change from being in just one place at a time to all over, but I guess it could just as easily not happen. I think there might be many people with a small amount of psoriasis out there who never get an outbreak or 'flare up' and perhaps have it mildly enough to never bother getting treatment.