Psoriasis- any alternative medicines?

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I've suffered with plague psoriasis for over 20 years but has been manageable on the whole with steroid cream (Dovobet) and I've just generally learnt to live with it. However, every couple of years I have a flare up of guttate psoriasis and I find it so incredibly frustrating. It's small patches all over my body and this flare up has seen it all over my face too.

GP has given me Zerobase which soothes but doesn't treat it and Dovobet takes forever to put on each patch for very little progress. I've been referred for light therapy but current wait times are around 18 months!

Any alternative remedies- diet, vitamins, anything that has worked for others??

I have guttate and PUVA was a game changer. I've topped up in a sun bed, it's not the same but helps.

Also really surprised it's an 18 month wait, I've had it three times and the most recent was about a 3 day wait. Literally got a call asking if I could come in the next day.

The GP was very dismissive of doing the referral due to the wait time. That's great you didn't have to wait long, really hoping it's the same here!! Thanks for the info

High doses of Vitamin D3 (NHS loading dose then 4,000iu a day) and a water softener helped mine a lot.

We discovered the whole family was low on Vit D so that’s what led to the supplements.

As long as I’m very consistent with moisturiser it stays away now.

You need to treat it from inside OP. I was 90% covered after a traumatic birth and managed to clear it hugely with a five week juice fast, specifically carrots apple and beetroot (liver cleanser). I know that’s a truly radical thing to do but I was desperate. But definitely think about incorporating fresh juices.

also avoid nightshades and gluten where possible. Look up John Pagano - you can get his book of Amazon.

also - do you have any root canals? A naturopath advised me to have one pulled and I did - the rest of the P cleared up and never came back. This was 15 years ago.

Psoriasis isn’t a skin disease.

I realise this is an old thread but I'm hoping @FatAgain is still around! I have psoriasis and I believe it is directly related to a below gum filling I had in a front tooth 2 years ago. I have had pain in this tooth ever since that filling and a couple of months after it was done I developed a small patch of psoriasis on my scalp. The tooth kind of goes into remission for weeks at a time and when it does the psoriasis eases off. When the tooth flares up so does the psoriasis. I have been to an endodontist and a few dentists and they all look at me as if I have 2 heads when I suggest the tooth has a inflammatory problem causing the psoriasis.

I ended up having root canal treatment on this tooth but trying to remember if the psoriasis preceded this or not.

So I'm incredibly interested in your experience. Also any tips to persuade a dentist to extract the tooth. My usual dentist has said they won't as it shows no pathology on x-ray and CT. Having a bad flare up right now with tooth pain and psoriasis spread to my face. It's very distressing.

Ooh hello!

I just told them to yank it. I don’t think there were any issues - you might need to find a new dentist to be honest. Mine didn’t want to do it either but I really didn’t want a dead tooth pinned to my gums.

I knew it was partly dental because any niggle would resulting in a patch appearing above my outer ankle. It’s such an odd disease.

Oh hello to you too! Thanks so much for the quick reply. When I got this dry patch on my face I though fungal but after a week of clotrimazole cream it was spreading up the centre panel of my face. GP yesterday thought it was perioral dermatitis and prescribed a cream that is highly flammable!! I don't want to use it. Although it is used for psoriasis too.

I wouldn't mind the dead tooth if it was pain free but it's very bad at the moment. The day after the filling it triggered a migraine, something I never get, well maybe 3 or 4 throughout my life and I'm in my 50s. Got another few over the following months when the tooth was bad. I reckon prostaglandins from inflammation from the tooth whatever is wrong with it.

Mine is definitely not stress related. It was all in remission for several months at the end of last year. Had a colonoscopy and then 2 eye surgeries in the space of 2 months and not a spot of bother from the tooth or the skin. Got Covid in January and I think my immune system went a bit loco because the tooth and skin have been bad now for a few weeks since then.

So did your psoriasis only start up after you had the root canal?

Yes but I can’t remember how long exactly probably a month after the RTC?

Then I had my baby which was difficult in many different ways, not least we were living in the driest pace in the world - think it was a perfect storm really.

Honestly focus on tooth then diet maybe? I know gluten makes it worse for ne. I lived on chicken soup for a couple of weeks after tooth was out and he always thought it helped