Stories

I'm fair, fat, and 51. I developed psoriasis at age 48. Head, back, stomach, leg, groin. I even got psoriatic toe pain, diagnosed as psoriatic arthritis. The most recent place...

12 yrs ago my arm started to itch and turn red, then white plaques started to form from my elbow to my wrist on both arms. At night I would...

Hello everybody! Thank you for taking the time to read my story. So, at first, I didn't even know...I had never had a flare up. I had just turned 16...

I wish I had NEVER taken this antibiotic! It was the catalyst for my first flare and has destroyed my tendons, Achilles...

I’ve had scalp psoriasis for many years. Now that my hair is white, the T-gel shampoo that controls the itch ‘yellows’ my white hair. My dermatologist suggested a few other...

I have suffered from psoriasis for many years. At first, it was only on my elbows and knuckles - then a doctor changed my high blood pressure medicine - and...

I started with this in my mid-twenties. Went thru Goeckerman and was clear for a bit. Then it hit with vengeance. Creams, Ointments, Kenalog shots and Methotrexate which made me...

Hello, fellow psoriasis brothers and sisters! My name is Tiffany and I am an NYC native currently living in Union City, NJ. I was first diagnosed with psoriasis at the...

This is really not my story but my daughters...She has psoriasis on her scalp. I has formed a ring around the crown of her head we have tried many remedy's...

My journey with psoriasis began in 1972 at the age of 17, I was working 2 jobs going High School and attending Jr. College, volunteered at a hospital, trying to...

You're going to think I'm crazy but I have seen this work first hand. In 200, I moved in with a man who had plaque psoriasis on both arms. His...

Please someone help me. I'm covered from my neck to my knees. I itch like crazy. I'm on otezla for 35 days now. Its just getting worse. What will stop...

I had a good childhood in Bridgeport Connecticut: an A student, piano lessons, dancing school, church Youth Group. It was the summer of 1966, before my junior year at UConn...

Psoriasis can make us feel like pariahs - like no one understands what it's like to be us. Having a support system to fall back on can be a lifeline...

I was diagnosed with severe plaque psoriasis 17 years ago at the age of 13. At its worse, my disease covered 85% of my body with thick, itchy plaques that...

Growing up I always wondered why my skin was so dry and why I had dandruff so bad. No one in my family had dry skin or dandruff. I grew...

I have had psoriasis since I was 10. It only has gotten progressively worse over the years. I am now 64 and had it over 75-80 % of my body...

One day after lunch I felt an itch on my leg. I thought may be dashed. It started to spread then I saw a doc who said it was psoriasis and gave...

I have had plaque psoriasis for 6 years on the bottom of my feet. My feet used to bleed and crack it got so bad, I had to get FMLA...

I had eczema a a child and into my early twenties. Once in a while there would be a small spot on me but nothing to get upset about. I...