Gutted - just found psoriasis on dd2

[lovemyshoes]

I'm bloody gutted.

Just found a small patch of psoriasis on dd2's ankle

I've had it all my life and was hoping and praying that she wouldn't get it.

Bumping for you

thanks hassled, I feel so bloody guilty and hope she doesn't/won't gothrough what I have.

Hi Lovemyshoes,

Do you mind me asking how old your daughter is?

I have been told I have psoriasis (having been treated for about 10 years for something else!!) and my DS has something that looks just like my psoriasis did when I first got it when I was 12, but the GP says he's too young....

We've been given aqueous cream, which although is making DS's skin lovely and soft on initial observations doesn't seem to be making any improvement to the patches on his arms, legs and tummy. They look just like what I used to have: oval, not round, and they grow. I don't get the silver scales, and was told by the GP that mine psoriasis isn't the 'normal' one... When I was 12, I was treated for ringworm for six months before another GP intervened and I was sent to hospital where I was told i had a 'thing' which meant my body was attacking its own skin, then some 10 years later when i moved and was seen by another GP I was told it was psoriasis.... My patches did scar, although they faded after 5 or so years.....

Not sure what to do, do I give it a week or so and go back to GP again if i don't see an improvement? some of the patches are 2/3 of the way around DS arm.... Think I might need a second opinion.

Sallypoo

lovemyshoes - I take it you have quite bad psoriasis? My dad has it, and so do I, but it manifests very differently in us - Dad has the classic elbows, knees, large plaques, whereas mine is guttate and all over my torso and arms. I have been lucky, I guess, in that I don't find it distressing physically, and am at the stage now where it's very much part of who I am and, oddly enough, I don't think I want it to go away now - quite fond of it, if that doesn't sound too weird. I can understand that if you've had a bad time with it, you'll worry about your dd, but her experience may well be very different from yours.

Hi Habbibu,

Your psoriasis sounds more like mine - I only have it on the torso and upper arms. Smaller spots, that I usually only get when I'm stressed....

I've been loking for photos of psoriasis in children on the net but have only found a few, so am still trying to establish if this is what my DS has....

sallypoo

I'm sorry for you. I've got severe psoriasis (on and off but flaring at moment). dd is 8 and I find the occasional small patch on her but it hasnt flared like it did with me (first got it when I was 6). Each time I see it my heart sinks but I hope that she will never get it the way I do.