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Hi everyone! Hope you are all well
So I am a 25 year old from London, and for three years ago i came up with a really small patch of psoriasis. At the time I didn't think anything of it. It went away (lived quite a healthy lifestyle etc).
This year i have come up with psoriasis quite badly- at first it was only on my elbows (plaque) and a think patch on my leg and lower back. I started using dovabet, but I also started getting guttate spots all over. Now it has spread to my face, scalp, arms, legs, back and is even on my...well yeah sorry for too much info!!
Currently having photothreapy three times a week but its still coming up so probably going on Cyclosporine in a couple of months after the photothreapy (which is scary so any experiences would be appreciated!!)
I guess the reason I am posting here is that I am finding it difficult to come to terms with - I know there are so many worse things out there and I should consider myself lucky, but I can't help feeling very UNlucky - i just look around at all my friends, colleague, people on the tube, and wonder how come everyone else is fine and I've got psoriasis - i cant even really cover the scars on my face that well! I haven't always treated myself well, and I have been a smoker for years, so I guess I feel like it is my fault and i deserve it - none of my family have it and i just can't understand how has happened. I feel really sad but I am embarrassed to talk to much about it because I feel like my friends do not understand and think i am just being a self indulgent, vain, narcissist - does anyone else feel like this??
Any tips on how to come to terms with the fact I will be living with this forever, or any treatment suggests/ experience would be really appreciated
thanks!!
So I am a 25 year old from London, and for three years ago i came up with a really small patch of psoriasis. At the time I didn't think anything of it. It went away (lived quite a healthy lifestyle etc).
This year i have come up with psoriasis quite badly- at first it was only on my elbows (plaque) and a think patch on my leg and lower back. I started using dovabet, but I also started getting guttate spots all over. Now it has spread to my face, scalp, arms, legs, back and is even on my...well yeah sorry for too much info!!
Currently having photothreapy three times a week but its still coming up so probably going on Cyclosporine in a couple of months after the photothreapy (which is scary so any experiences would be appreciated!!)
I guess the reason I am posting here is that I am finding it difficult to come to terms with - I know there are so many worse things out there and I should consider myself lucky, but I can't help feeling very UNlucky - i just look around at all my friends, colleague, people on the tube, and wonder how come everyone else is fine and I've got psoriasis - i cant even really cover the scars on my face that well! I haven't always treated myself well, and I have been a smoker for years, so I guess I feel like it is my fault and i deserve it - none of my family have it and i just can't understand how has happened. I feel really sad but I am embarrassed to talk to much about it because I feel like my friends do not understand and think i am just being a self indulgent, vain, narcissist - does anyone else feel like this??
Any tips on how to come to terms with the fact I will be living with this forever, or any treatment suggests/ experience would be really appreciated
thanks!!