What about genes?

[D Foster]

Yes .l sure can...

I had P but only very low level now and again but I can remember what started it really badly off ,or at least I think it did.

And what was it that you think what started it?

I had very low level over the years but just in one small place however after we had Clare I decided that two was enough so I had the snip , from this point the P started  and within 6 months I was covered in the bloody P.

So you think it was that tiny operation that may have been the cause/trigger?
Was it because of the stress around it?
Or do you think you may have picked up a bacteria during the operation?

No not the operation but the imbalance of testosterone levels until the body gets balanced I think was enough to just trigger the P which was already there .

[Fred]

Can anyone remember  anything that happened  about the time that their  Psoriasis  first started  .

Yes I had a great job, I was earning large amounts of money, I was very fit and healthy, I was in a good relationship and to be honest life was great.

I too had the snip but that was after having psoriasis for 5 years, so I can't pinpoint anything that brought it on for me.

[Caroline]

I had P but only very low level now and again but I can remember what started it really badly off ,or at least I think it did.

And what was it that you think what started it?

I had very low level over the years but just in one small place however after we had Clare I decided that two was enough so I had the snip , from this point the P started  and within 6 months I was covered in the bloody P.

So you think it was that tiny operation that may have been the cause/trigger?
Was it because of the stress around it?
Or do you think you may have picked up a bacteria during the operation?

No not the operation but the imbalance of testosterone levels until the body gets balanced I think was enough to just trigger the P which was already there .

Eh....Dave, there are no changes in testosterone level after a vasectomy, the medical term for the snip. Only if you have your balls removed, which I doubt , those levels will change.
You will have to come up with a better explanation...

[Caroline]

Can anyone remember  anything that happened  about the time that their  Psoriasis  first started  .

Absolutely yes
I was on holiday in Turkey and suffered the mother of all upset stomachs while in Istanbul then when we moved on to Icmeler I got bitten by something very tiny with teeth like a T-Rex. My first Ps plaque started around a month later from the bite mark

Well John, that again is pointing to something like bacteria as being the trigger.
This makes me suddenly start thinking again about my own situation.. I always believed it was stress..... but maybe it was different ....
This thread is getting more and more interesting.

[D Foster]

Can anyone remember  anything that happened  about the time that their  Psoriasis  first started  .

Yes I had a great job, I was earning large amounts of money, I was very fit and healthy, I was in a good relationship and to be honest life was great.

I too had the snip but that was after having psoriasis for 5 years, so I can't pinpoint anything that brought it on for me.

I don't think that it was stress as I also had a very stressful job which I had for a long time ,times were good, salary was good, home life was good , travel by private jet was good , in all life was excellent but the only change that happened at that time was the vasectomy.

[Caroline]

Can anyone remember  anything that happened  about the time that their  Psoriasis  first started  .

Yes I had a great job, I was earning large amounts of money, I was very fit and healthy, I was in a good relationship and to be honest life was great.

I too had the snip but that was after having psoriasis for 5 years, so I can't pinpoint anything that brought it on for me.

I don't think that it was stress as I also had a very stressful job which I had for a long time ,times were good, salary was good, home life was good , travel by private jet was good , in all life was excellent but the only change that happened at that time was the vasectomy.

Basically that is a tiny operation. There exist no operations that can be done totally sterile, it is often that it is close to sterile conditions. So the involvement of bacteria is not to be excluded.

[Kat]

I took the poll awhile back but just now commenting here.

To my knowledge, there is no other family member with psoriasis.  However, there are three people who married into my husband's family (myself plus 2 others, none of us related) who have been diagnosed with either psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.  One is on Methotrexate and the other is on Humira.  I found that a bit weird or interesting.

I also can't really remember what was going on when I first had psoriasis.  It would have been around my mother's illness so it's possible it could have been stress, but I don't really remember.

[Caroline]

I took the poll awhile back but just now commenting here.

To my knowledge, there is no other family member with psoriasis.  However, there are three people who married into my husband's family (myself plus 2 others, none of us related) who have been diagnosed with either psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.  One is on Methotrexate and the other is on Humira.  I found that a bit weird or interesting.

I also can't really remember what was going on when I first had psoriasis.  It would have been around my mother's illness so it's possible it could have been stress, but I don't really remember.

Interesting comment Kat.  
You or perhaps better your husband seem to be a Psoriasis magnet, you both attract people who get Psoriasis.

But anyway it would be interesting to find out how they got it, is it common in their family ? Or is it completely new?

Too bad that you cannot remember what was going on at the time you got it.
I am very sure that stress plays a role, but personally i think there is more going on and stress is the enhancer. And i suspect bacteria of different kinds to be the trigger or even cause.
I can remember from my Psoriasis “start” that absolutely was in a stressful time, but if I think of that time than e.g. I also know that in that time I have been bitten by one or more tics, and had at least twice an antibiotics treatment, just to be on the safe side. They always say that if you remove them within 24 hrs and have antibiotics in time, that then Lyme is not possible.
So after long years of thinking, I am gradually shifting to bacteria as one of the possible triggers.

[Kat]

I took the poll awhile back but just now commenting here.

To my knowledge, there is no other family member with psoriasis.  However, there are three people who married into my husband's family (myself plus 2 others, none of us related) who have been diagnosed with either psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.  One is on Methotrexate and the other is on Humira.  I found that a bit weird or interesting.

I also can't really remember what was going on when I first had psoriasis.  It would have been around my mother's illness so it's possible it could have been stress, but I don't really remember.

Interesting comment Kat.  
You or perhaps better your husband seem to be a Psoriasis magnet, you both attract people who get Psoriasis.

But anyway it would be interesting to find out how they got it, is it common in their family ? Or is it completely new?

Too bad that you cannot remember what was going on at the time you got it.
I am very sure that stress plays a role, but personally i think there is more going on and stress is the enhancer. And i suspect bacteria of different kinds to be the trigger or even cause.
I can remember from my Psoriasis “start” that absolutely was in a stressful time, but if I think of that time than e.g. I also know that in that time I have been bitten by one or more tics, and had at least twice an antibiotics treatment, just to be on the safe side. They always say that if you remove them within 24 hrs and have antibiotics in time, that then Lyme is not possible.
So after long years of thinking, I am gradually shifting to bacteria as one of the possible triggers.

Actually what I find weird is that the three of us all married into the family and none of us were related. Two people marry siblings and one marries the son of another sibling and all three then developed psoriasis. None of us had psoriasis until after marriage which makes it even more strange. Maybe people in my husband's family cause psoriasis??? (And for the record......No, I don't think that!!)

[Caroline]

I took the poll awhile back but just now commenting here.

To my knowledge, there is no other family member with psoriasis.  However, there are three people who married into my husband's family (myself plus 2 others, none of us related) who have been diagnosed with either psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.  One is on Methotrexate and the other is on Humira.  I found that a bit weird or interesting.

I also can't really remember what was going on when I first had psoriasis.  It would have been around my mother's illness so it's possible it could have been stress, but I don't really remember.

Interesting comment Kat.  
You or perhaps better your husband seem to be a Psoriasis magnet, you both attract people who get Psoriasis.

But anyway it would be interesting to find out how they got it, is it common in their family ? Or is it completely new?

Too bad that you cannot remember what was going on at the time you got it.
I am very sure that stress plays a role, but personally i think there is more going on and stress is the enhancer. And i suspect bacteria of different kinds to be the trigger or even cause.
I can remember from my Psoriasis “start” that absolutely was in a stressful time, but if I think of that time than e.g. I also know that in that time I have been bitten by one or more tics, and had at least twice an antibiotics treatment, just to be on the safe side. They always say that if you remove them within 24 hrs and have antibiotics in time, that then Lyme is not possible.
So after long years of thinking, I am gradually shifting to bacteria as one of the possible triggers.

Actually what I find weird is that the three of us all married into the family and none of us were related.  Two people marry siblings and one marries the son of another sibling and all three then developed psoriasis.  None of us had psoriasis until after marriage which makes it even more strange.  Maybe people in my husband's family cause psoriasis??? (And for the record......No, I don't think that!!)

Hihihi. In that case in my theorie, they would be a kind of bacteria.