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The four key challenges of living with scalp psoriasis (and what to do about it) Scalp Psoriasis is something I have had a lot of experience with – and in my 30 years i have concluded that there is a reason we find treating our challenges with scalp psoriasis so hard. Scalp psoriasis is in […]
Welcome to The Styling episode! This episode is designed to help us dress as our glorious psoriasis covered selves (instead of dressing like Aunt Doris). The focus is on how to dress so we can still feel great – even if our skin is misbehaving. The Highlights This episode is crammed full of strategies which […]
Psoriatic arthritis is a relatively common condition affecting between 15-30% of us with psoriasis (although rarely it can feature without skin involvement). The things that interest me most about psoriatic arthritis are: 1/ How often it is misdiagnosed (it’s much more wiley than Rheumatoid Arthritis) 2/ Whether immediate treatment with methotrexate is necessary So I […]
So you have psoriasis? Did you expect it? Whether you thought you had an infection, a form of eczema or had no choice but to accept it was something else – you probably have a lot of questions. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. This is the bare bones to get you started because there are […]
Have you ever had a brilliant idea in the shower? Its such a good place for inspiration because we give the logic part of the brain the space it needs to process our thoughts. Why we need brain space to heal I was interviewed this week on BBC Radio Sheffield, and I had to describe […]
Psoriasis has a tendency to flare as the season’s change. I write this as we move into springtime, and for me, this is my nemesis. I always see a worsening of my psoriasis at this time of year – and my two previous strep infections both happened in March. Russ Cowper has the opposite- he […]
Georgia has had psoriasis for 19 years. She shares her story, and while we both developed psoriasis at a similar age, listening to her story it really highlighted three things: We have the same medical condition, with similar presentations, but the cause of our flares are very, very different. Parents can have very different attitudes […]
Sharing psoriasis images on Instagram Georgia caught my attention because she lives her psoriasis out loud. At 21 she is much braver than I was at that age. I would show small sections of my psoriasis in public but never whole body sections, and certainly not record my flares in photographs for anyone to see. […]
Dating is tough. Whether you have psoriasis or not. When you have psoriasis…it definitely can be harder. Here are some of the anxieties I have had before (and during) a date- can you relate? are there flakes on the back of my jacket? I can’t go to the toilet because there a snowdrift on my […]
The challenges we face dating with psoriasis when we first start out “I just took what I could get, I didn’t think that anyone could ever love me with my skin at that point, so it was pretty hard.” Reena Reena and I both dated throughout our teens while living with psoriasis. One of the […]