Cosentyx and some Side effects

[JohnB]

Hi Paddy and a warm welcome to the club. 
I'm god knows how many years into treatment and have just had to drop Acitretin, my first oral due to headaches after o my a year on them, so to go o to biologics so early is a real bonus for you. Love g may it keep you clear. 

[madpaddy]

Thanks for the kind welcome. 

Yes the Paddy reference is from my homeland of Ireland... 

I am Irish married to a kiwi living in Australia. My kids are very confused especially when sport is on the TV... One thing about being married to a Kiwi is that they dont take loss very well when it comes to sport... Us Irish...maybe we are just more used to it. 

And to Bill... when it comes to state of Origin I'm a blues fan all the way....Although i do notice they dont win as often

I'll dig deep into the forums and thanks for the welcome again folks.

[madpaddy]

I just wanted to add another thing...

For me taking medication was the final straw. For years i tried to clear it up using a good clean diet. I swore by the book "healing psoriasis" and i did have some great success. 

I have a very helpful wife (who was probably sick of vacuuming up my flakes) help me create the meals and stick with the diet. But i had my struggles on this....one week good, two weeks bad.

Going to see the dermo felt like i was giving up in a way, personally i still do. I sometimes feel guilty that i can get access to medication when so many other people cant. I suppose i always saw myself as a healthy person. Never wanted to be the one that ticks the "do you take any medication?" box on forms. 

But lets be honest. Psoriasis did wear me down mentally. Seen it as an alien invasion on my body that had to be killed. A parasite that could be removed.  I had some pretty dark days....

I live in a very hot part of Australia with a physical outside job. My affected knees would bleed on a daily basis and end of shift i would be removing the clothes from the dried blood on my skin. I could no longer play sport and never took my kids to the public swimming pools as the chlorine used to sting and drive me mad. 

Even writing this makes me upset and i dont really know what i want to say. I suppose it good to get these things out and probably without this forum i never would have. 

Anyway... thats my soppy shit finished.... and thanks again for setting up this page. I 'll dig into the forums and have a good read. 

Thanks

[Bill]

Dont feel bad, Paddy. You have a disease, and like type 2 diabetes or heart disease, or any other disease that threatens your health and wellbeing, you should seek effective treatment for it, and that is what you did. Well done!