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Wed-04-06-2014, 01:45 AM
I'm a 48 year old woman. I never had psoriasis in my past. My story starts out last July when I developed a sore on my lower shin that wouldn't go away. It kept peeling and the size slowly increased. It didn't even occur to me then that it was psoriasis. I had previously had rare occurences of eczema, but this didn't feel the same. I had always had ichthyosis vulgaris, with keratosis bumps and the celophane looking legs.
The sore got bigger and then another sore developed on my other leg just below the knee, then it spread to my scalp. This occurred over 3-4 months. I had been on a fairly restrictive diet trying to lose weight, and then around Halloween and into the holidays I fell off the wagon and went back to eating basically anything. The sores multiplied. By the first week of December I had approximately 14 sores over my body, mostly on my upper legs and a few around my elbows. These were very swollen and red and peeled almost daily. By Christmas they had spread to the backs of my arms, I had a couple of small sores on my face, many more sores in my scalp and ears, and across the tops of my buttocks. I was horrified. I started looking at images on google and determined that this was psoriasis.
I picked up OTC psoriasis creams. Nothing was helping. The end of January my mother told me there was a research study she had heard about for psoriasis. I told her I was looking for an holistic approach. I heard the commercial twice. The second time I thought, "Well, I'll just call. Maybe they can confirm that it's psoriasis and maybe I won't qualify." So I called and talked to the research assistant. She said that I needed to have had it for 6 months, that it needed to be predominantly plaque psoriasis and that it needed to cover 10% of my body. She explained that the palm of your hand represents about 1%. Did I have 10 of those? I didn't think I did. I thought maybe 5. She said I should come in anyway and they would take a look and determine if I would qualify. So, I went in that day. It was psoriasis, plaque psoriasis. And I had it on 8% of my body, so I didn't qualify. But, they had another program---something about laser treatments. Did I want to talk to the lady in that department? Sure, I'd talk to her. So Paula came and I followed her to her office. In talking to her, I felt that this wasn't the answer either. The psoriasis was spreading so quickly that I felt that doing lasers in one spot wouldn't stop it from spreading in another spot so I told her I'd keep looking for an holistic approach. She got up and closed the door and asked me if I'd ever heard of NAET. NAET? What is NAET? It's "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique". I was intrigued. Until that point, I had never really considered my skin issues allergy related.
I started researching NAET. This protocol basically reprograms your brain/body to not react to an allergen, to look at it as a friend rather than a foe. I found a practitioner with 18 years of experience and a couple weeks later did the testing to determine what allergies I had. I had quite a few. They treat one allergen each time. Because of the many allergies, I started going 3 times per week. The psoriasis continued to spread for a time and ultimately I probably had the psoriasis over 40% of my body, but I was seeing improvement in some of the sores. Some seemed to be clearing from the inside, giving a small circle of clear skin with psoriasis bumps around the outside, but none were going away completely. The overall swelling was improving as well and the peeling was lessening, but still the sores remained. But finally, the spreading had stopped. I wasn't getting new sores. I then read something about the benefits of turmeric and how it helps with psoriasis as it's a natural anti-inflammatory. I decided to add turmeric into my routine--1000mg 2x/day. The changes were very quick at this point. The rest of the inflamation went away, the redness started to fade. I began to think that maybe the turmeric itself was the trick, but when I had a reaction to dogs a couple weeks later, I knew that it was the combination because the turmeric didn't stop the reaction, but it helped me to get past it after the flare up.
I have now been through 32 treatments, and have maybe 3 more to do. My psoriasis is healing wonderfully. Most is completely gone. I have no red swollen areas, but just a few little hard bumps that are slowly receding. They don't even peel. They account for about 1/4 palm's worth. In addition, I can eat anything I want, I can be around dogs, and I feel really good. I'm even wearing short sleeves and short pants again.
The sore got bigger and then another sore developed on my other leg just below the knee, then it spread to my scalp. This occurred over 3-4 months. I had been on a fairly restrictive diet trying to lose weight, and then around Halloween and into the holidays I fell off the wagon and went back to eating basically anything. The sores multiplied. By the first week of December I had approximately 14 sores over my body, mostly on my upper legs and a few around my elbows. These were very swollen and red and peeled almost daily. By Christmas they had spread to the backs of my arms, I had a couple of small sores on my face, many more sores in my scalp and ears, and across the tops of my buttocks. I was horrified. I started looking at images on google and determined that this was psoriasis.
I picked up OTC psoriasis creams. Nothing was helping. The end of January my mother told me there was a research study she had heard about for psoriasis. I told her I was looking for an holistic approach. I heard the commercial twice. The second time I thought, "Well, I'll just call. Maybe they can confirm that it's psoriasis and maybe I won't qualify." So I called and talked to the research assistant. She said that I needed to have had it for 6 months, that it needed to be predominantly plaque psoriasis and that it needed to cover 10% of my body. She explained that the palm of your hand represents about 1%. Did I have 10 of those? I didn't think I did. I thought maybe 5. She said I should come in anyway and they would take a look and determine if I would qualify. So, I went in that day. It was psoriasis, plaque psoriasis. And I had it on 8% of my body, so I didn't qualify. But, they had another program---something about laser treatments. Did I want to talk to the lady in that department? Sure, I'd talk to her. So Paula came and I followed her to her office. In talking to her, I felt that this wasn't the answer either. The psoriasis was spreading so quickly that I felt that doing lasers in one spot wouldn't stop it from spreading in another spot so I told her I'd keep looking for an holistic approach. She got up and closed the door and asked me if I'd ever heard of NAET. NAET? What is NAET? It's "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique". I was intrigued. Until that point, I had never really considered my skin issues allergy related.
I started researching NAET. This protocol basically reprograms your brain/body to not react to an allergen, to look at it as a friend rather than a foe. I found a practitioner with 18 years of experience and a couple weeks later did the testing to determine what allergies I had. I had quite a few. They treat one allergen each time. Because of the many allergies, I started going 3 times per week. The psoriasis continued to spread for a time and ultimately I probably had the psoriasis over 40% of my body, but I was seeing improvement in some of the sores. Some seemed to be clearing from the inside, giving a small circle of clear skin with psoriasis bumps around the outside, but none were going away completely. The overall swelling was improving as well and the peeling was lessening, but still the sores remained. But finally, the spreading had stopped. I wasn't getting new sores. I then read something about the benefits of turmeric and how it helps with psoriasis as it's a natural anti-inflammatory. I decided to add turmeric into my routine--1000mg 2x/day. The changes were very quick at this point. The rest of the inflamation went away, the redness started to fade. I began to think that maybe the turmeric itself was the trick, but when I had a reaction to dogs a couple weeks later, I knew that it was the combination because the turmeric didn't stop the reaction, but it helped me to get past it after the flare up.
I have now been through 32 treatments, and have maybe 3 more to do. My psoriasis is healing wonderfully. Most is completely gone. I have no red swollen areas, but just a few little hard bumps that are slowly receding. They don't even peel. They account for about 1/4 palm's worth. In addition, I can eat anything I want, I can be around dogs, and I feel really good. I'm even wearing short sleeves and short pants again.
on here we are always open minded about different treatments .Whilst I read with interest your experience I am lucky as at the moment I am clear, so never say never but for now I don't need anything else
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