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This week I found myself stood in the middle of a shop almost naked. Twice. As a person with psoriasis, public nudity is usually very low on my list of...

The other day my wife, Lori, and I needed to make a last-minute trip to San Francisco. With San Francisco about ninety miles away it already takes almost two hours...

Does anyone else find the major regime of products and treatments endlessly tedious? Do not get me wrong, I really want to feel better, but oh my goodness does it...

Idioms are those phrases that mean more than the sum of their words. We hear this terminology a lot, and the meaning is normally when something appears to be easy...

The sun is out and I am itching to travel! There is something about nice weather that makes me want to hop on a plane and start scouring through Airbnb...

Having dealt with psoriatic disease for about 14 years, I have learned a few things that tend to make my psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis all crazy: too much junk food...

Of all things that I think I have lost along the way with my psoriasis, I have gained so much more.  When you tell most people that they give you...

I am very careful about what I expect of others. Especially when it comes to my psoriasis and my psoriatic arthritis.  More than anything, all we want is love and...

No, my dry flaky itchy skin is not eczema.... It's not bug bites... and it's not ringworm. I found myself saying this often to people who were not familiar with...

Psoriasis is a condition which is linked to stress. For those of us with psoriasis, we are more than aware that stress worsening psoriasis is a stressful event! If you...

The scalp is one of the most common places on the body to be affected by plaque psoriasis. In fact, around half of people with the condition have symptoms located...

We have always heard that we are what we eat. I grew up in a time where we got up early in the morning and picked our dinner for that...

If you check my calendar, it seems like I’m running from one doctor’s appointment to another. Rheumatologist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist. And don’t forget all the labs! Back when I was responsible...

Scalp psoriasis, what is the deal with this anyway. I mean how are you supposed to get there to apply anything anyway. Here is my experience down to the root...

I have spoken to several of young adults over the years who have psoriasis. The one thing that seems to be creeping up in the past few years is people...

Do you think your psoriasis treatment is good enough? If your psoriasis coverage is more than 3%, then it is possible the answer is no. The target response for treatment...

Meet Reena Ruparelia. Diagnosed in her teen years, she was scared, confused, and lonely. She's come a long way - now one of the most influential advocates for psoriasis awareness...

When one of my successful treatments stopped working, I was in denial. It was my second attempt at a biologic. I didn't want to accept the fact it was time...

When I'm looking for an over-the-counter (OTC) product for my psoriasis the first step is to elicit suggestions from friends living with psoriasis followed by my own research. Next, I...

There was a period of time, when my skin was at its worst, in which I had to visit urgent care three times in as many months for infected ingrown...