This worked for me!

[Kat]

No offence, jimi, but who would want 'treatment' if 'cure' was possible? Just my personal stance but I have always looked only for 'cure' and not settled for anything less. I have had some pretty serious conditions and it was very tempting to accept 'treatment' only but I was totally determined and all are now things of the past. Hopefully this small manifestation of psoriasis will also prove to be a thing of the past and if it doesn't return I sincerely hope that others will take note and try it for themselves.

I don't think it's wise to use the word cure.  Just my opinion.  It's worked for you and that is GREAT!  But even you say it would be nice for others to try it (and I will as I use coconut oil and am currently only using moisturizers so I'll add calamine lotion and see if it helps).  We are all different and I don't blame anyone for sticking with what is working for them.  It took some people a long time to find what worked and I can totally see why they don't want to risk coming off a treatment that is working for them.  Plus if their treatment is working and they are clear, they have to wait for psoriasis to appear to see IF your method will work for them.  And you may stay clear... and you may not it really is too soon to say don't you think?  and even if you do stay clear there is no guarantee that this will work for everyone.  But I do thank you for sharing and like I said, I'll give it a try.

[Closed]

Yes, thanks for your view, Kat. I'm not trying to say what others should do but we all have a attitude about our condition and what we choose to do about it and I'm just sharing my attitude and experience that when I have held out for 'cure' then that is what I have eventually received. Yes, it would be a big decision to come off a treatment and wait for the symptoms to reappear in order to try something else and it's absolutely not for me to say that somebody else should do that. In my case, of course, it's far too soon to say whether the calamine/coconut oil has fixed the psoriasis for good and I'm not saying it has....but it's looking good so far! I wish you all the best for a good result when you try this.

[jiml]

No offence, jimi, but who would want 'treatment' if 'cure' was possible? Just my personal stance but I have always looked only for 'cure' and not settled for anything less. I have had some pretty serious conditions and it was very tempting to accept 'treatment' only but I was totally determined and all are now things of the past. Hopefully this small manifestation of psoriasis will also prove to be a thing of the past and if it doesn't return I sincerely hope that others will take note and try it for themselves.

No offence taken. Indeed who would use drugs if a natural remedy worked, but I don't mean to be offensive when I say I have read of so many "cures" but non as simple as yours. I am a user of coconut oil as a moisturiser as are many members here.
After over 50 years having bad psoriasis, covering large parts of my body, I have tried most things apart from diet ( which I don't have the willpower to do) even rubbing the plaques with banana peels.....  and the only thing that has worked for any period of time is my current medication, which has kept me clear fo around 5 years. So you will have to understand that I am not going to change to a "cure" that you have only recently found.
Now if you were to keep posting and telling how you are still clear regularly, as I do in my journal here. I might be more inclined to give it a try. But as this has only recently been found to work on you ( and I hope to read it keeps working ) I will continue to use tried and trusted treatments
Jim

[Closed]

Interesting that you mention banana peels as they have definitely been a cure for another skin condition I had. They were solar keratoses which are quite harmless and don't itch but they are very unsightly crusty brown growths. I had a lot of them and a skin specialist said there was no effective treatment. I had a hunch to try banana peel and put pieces of peel, inside facing down, over the growth and held them on with sticking plasters which I replaced every so often. After a few weeks the growths fell off leaving a clean shallow wound which healed over leaving no scarring. I am still working on eliminating some more of these from my torso and plan to take photos at each step of the process. The skin specialist says he sells tiny 25ml dropper bottles of a medication made from something extracted from bananas but it doesn't remove the lesions entirely and it costs $200! The ones I totally removed with the banana peel haven't come back and it's it's been 4 or 5 years now.

[Bill]

Hi,

So you've had a small spot of psoriasis on your leg which you ignored for several years and finally managed with a simple moisturiser. As a result of this you believe that you have found a cure for psoriasis. Well, you have chosen the most appropriate part of Fred's forum to tell your story. And to think of all the people wasting their precious time with silly, complicated and exorbitantly expensive treatments, when all they need do is mix up a bit of coconut and calamine. Well well well. What a remarkable discovery.

Cheers,

Bill

[Kat]

Hi,

So you've had a small spot of psoriasis on your leg which you ignored for several years and finally managed with a simple moisturiser. As a result of this you believe that you have found a cure for psoriasis. Well, you have chosen the most appropriate part of Fred's forum to tell your story. And to think of all the people wasting their precious time with silly, complicated and exorbitantly expensive treatments, when all they need do is mix up a bit of coconut and calamine. Well well well. What a remarkable discovery.

Cheers,

Bill

Thanks Bill for being direct. The word "cure" isn't something to take lightly and your post is spot on as to the reaction I felt when reading it.

[jiml]

Hi,

So you've had a small spot of psoriasis on your leg which you ignored for several years and finally managed with a simple moisturiser. As a result of this you believe that you have found a cure for psoriasis. Well, you have chosen the most appropriate part of Fred's forum to tell your story. And to think of all the people wasting their precious time with silly, complicated and exorbitantly expensive treatments, when all they need do is mix up a bit of coconut and calamine. Well well well. What a remarkable discovery.

Cheers,

Bill

Thanks Bill for being direct.  The word "cure" isn't something to take lightly and your post is spot on as to the reaction I felt when reading it.

Kat I agree with you and Bill calling anything a cure is misleading at best, it's particularly irksome when told that the method has only been used for a few weeks....while I'm pleased that it has worked for Macarthurdent and hope he continues posting his progress ...I think saying it's a cure is misleading and certainly premature

[Fred]

The dreaded CURE! word

 

As you can see we are not keen on using that word on Psoriasis Club. We have seen it so many times on here and 99% of the time it is used by people that I have to throw out of the door. Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting for one minute that is what I will have to do with you, and I fully understand what you are trying to do.

But Bill is right to use that tone in his reply and if it was indeed that simple none of us would be here talking about psoriasis.

Indeed it may have worked for a small patch, but you are very lucky to only have a small patch that a drop of coconut oil and calamine can help with. However it is not a cure and what you are suggesting to use would not help probably 99% of people with psoriasis. Psoriasis comes in various different forms and is very difficult to treat, also it can be as small as the size of a pea to total body coverage.

I have experienced full body coverage and also suffered severely with psoriatic arthritis and I can assure you that your Cure would not work for me.

I do hope you continue to cure manage your tiny patch of psoriasis with some moisturiser, and indeed you could be one of the lucky ones. But please don't make it sound like you have an answer to the 99% of people with psoriasis that have lived with it for years and experience sever pain, discomfort and in some cases very bad depression.  

*The more I look at threads in this section, the more I think it should be moved to the members only boards as I would hate to think our guests are following some of the stuff in this section.

Even Alan's thread How I Cured My Psoriasis By Diet has a long way to go to convince me, but he is backing up what he is saying and keeping updates. (I only say a long way to go because he has not had psoriasis very long)

[alan540]

The dreaded CURE! word

 

As you can see we are not keen on using that word on Psoriasis Club. We have seen it so many times on here and 99% of the time it is used by people that I have to throw out of the door. Don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting for one minute that is what I will have to do with you, and I fully understand what you are trying to do.

But Bill is right to use that tone in his reply and if it was indeed that simple none of us would be here talking about psoriasis.

Indeed it may have worked for a small patch, but you are very lucky to only have a small patch that a drop of coconut oil and calamine can help with. However it is not a cure and what you are suggesting to use would not help probably 99% of people with psoriasis. Psoriasis comes in various different forms and is very difficult to treat, also it can be as small as the size of a pea to total body coverage.

I have experienced full body coverage and also suffered severely with psoriatic arthritis and I can assure you that your Cure would not work for me.

I do hope you continue to cure manage your tiny patch of psoriasis with some moisturiser, and indeed you could be one of the lucky ones. But please don't make it sound like you have an answer to the 99% of people with psoriasis that have lived with it for years and experience sever pain, discomfort and in some cases very bad depression.  

*The more I look at threads in this section, the more I think it should be moved to the members only boards as I would hate to think our guests are following some of the stuff in this section.

Even Alan's thread How I Cured My Psoriasis By Diet has a long way to go to convince me, but he is backing up what he is saying and keeping updates. (I only say a long way to go because he has not had psoriasis very long)

Hi Fred

With hindsight, maybe cure was a bit premature for my post title. Kat and Bill have both alluded to this. Thanks to you all for your patience in humouring my enthusiasm. Seriously. I do hope that I am demonstrating something that comes close to a cure, I feel that I am cured or damn near cured. At worst I've now got very good management of the disease. But if I've learned anything about psoriasis over the last year and a half, it is that complacency is not an option with it. I truly hope that I've got it licked but as you point out, it's early days. I hope that I don't have any set backs. It certainly isn't the sort of chronic problem which can be taken lightly. The more we can all share our own experiences the better. The only reason I've posted here is to share my experience of it and also because your board was a source of information for identifying my current course of action and treatment of choice i.e. diet.

, great to read your improvement. I too tried all sorts of creams and oils, none of which helped me. Just goes to show psoriaisis isn't a one size fits all problem I guess.

[Kat]

I'm really glad you shared what worked for you as that is what brings people to reading forums, trying to find things that work for them.  There are so many places that offer expensive "cures" when all they want is to make money and I know that isn't the case here but it's made the word a touchy subject.  It's a bit like diet pills.  A picture on the box says "Lose 10 pounds in a week" and then in tiny letters somewhere it says "results not typical".   As Alan says, it's not a one size fits all problem.

I really am going to try it out though and I hope it helps with my small patches.  I have to buy some calamine lotion this weekend when I'm out.