Health Boards
Sat-23-07-2016, 21:58 PM
Mary and Sam,
I am going along with Jim in his idea's. If you are already so far with the coverage, you inevitably need to see a dermatologist at least. There are several good systemic treatments (pills) like e.g. Acetretin, that may work. Try to stay away from methotrexate (personal opinion) it is quite toxic and you do not want to start with that at the age of 22 (I made that mistake myself, but it only took me a month to find out that it was not so good for me).
Unfortunately the DMF's are not available at your side of the ocean as far as I know, though Biogen is the producer of Fumaderm.
The biologicals are expensive and can only be covered by insurance.
Over here in the Netherlands they are working with a combination of biologicals and systemics.
And certainly there is the possibility of Natural treatments. See [post= 62294] and the comments of alan540 for that. Natural is quite difficult, but I really think it could work.
And of course very welcome to Psoriasis club. I hope we can be of little help for Sam.
Caroline
I am going along with Jim in his idea's. If you are already so far with the coverage, you inevitably need to see a dermatologist at least. There are several good systemic treatments (pills) like e.g. Acetretin, that may work. Try to stay away from methotrexate (personal opinion) it is quite toxic and you do not want to start with that at the age of 22 (I made that mistake myself, but it only took me a month to find out that it was not so good for me).
Unfortunately the DMF's are not available at your side of the ocean as far as I know, though Biogen is the producer of Fumaderm.
The biologicals are expensive and can only be covered by insurance.
Over here in the Netherlands they are working with a combination of biologicals and systemics.
And certainly there is the possibility of Natural treatments. See [post= 62294] and the comments of alan540 for that. Natural is quite difficult, but I really think it could work.
And of course very welcome to Psoriasis club. I hope we can be of little help for Sam.
Caroline