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morning all ...as i have suffered for years ..the only relief i get from itching is to grease up.. i feel like a greasy chip .. liquid parafin is good also ..just had some more ointment ..called epaderm..its as eased it as long as i maintain it..but get sick of sitting in grease ....also found sitting in a bath with bath oil from avon.. called skin so soft..but i cant have a bath now .. due to other problems...

you would think some cure would have been found by now.. every time i see a doc ..they always asked if ive had a sore throat ..maybe a connection there ..

jgee

Sorry for not getting back earlier mind this thread isn't about me, just the infliction so to speak.
I so feel for all and so scared by it.
My Uncle has RA and is suffering bad, I to be honest didn't know which or what but I am learning.
I have always had early stage arthritis in my knees from my teens but never gave it much thought.
Heather I feel for your OH and admit that my knuckle joints I just out down knocking them, mutts nibbling, too much typing ..alas my beloved engagement ring and wedding ring are often off now.
With the psoriasis I don't know what to say like Jgee I can't get in a bath because I don't have one .unlike most I can't do the tar treatment they prescribe because my ruddy allergeric skin won't allow it.

At the moment though I am lucky if I don't stress the psoriasis may stay at bay and if I stay warm and active the joints are good. lol so why when it's warm are the joints swollen.

Still Good Luck to fellow sufferers and partners
take care x

A treatment I had years ago for RA. when it was at its worst. was for me to plunge my hand in an ice bucket and keep it there for a long as possiblre. V uncomfortable but it did give relief for swollen wrists and fingers.

I think they have moved on since then for RA but sadly it seems not a lot of progress on the psoriasis.

Regards

Vera

ty x

What you must remember is theres little treatment and its an auto-immune disease so not much can be done about it ......

My son is 20 and has it appeared one day and within 10 weeks it was full blown ...will need a new knee and hip by the time hes 30!!

BUT there is a treatment in the USA the coat the joints with gold!

Thanx Kemp thats given me a lift its just in the mean time while they find best course of treatment x

Are you suffering with this then??

yes was diagnosed last week though they still ruling out other types this is the one pending blood results and xray. Psoriasis have been out of control recently and classified chronic so I got referred to specialist to find connection to that and my asthma and this is the outcome. funnily enough I had put up with pain for so long it had stopped bothering me - now it bothers me again x

Why are they doing bloody test??

Mum has and her Mother had osteo arthritis and Grandad had rhumatoid so they need to rule them out and they done some bloods to see if lungs ok too as everything seems to be connected. He is confident its Psoriatic as affected areas all covered with psoriasis x

I,m totally confussed by this statement .............My son is under the leading hospital in this field and is one or the youngest person to be seen with this condition as it showed no signs of it until one day it appeared the next he had arthritis!!! usually takes 10 years to this stage his was 8 weeks ,.......and nott once has he been told theres a link to his lungs!!! Heart yes colesterole yes and kidneys yes!!!! But never lungs!

I have no idea Kemp he just said that everything is connected and trouble with my lungs was part of it. I'm not a medical person I just hear what I'm told. I know I have anti-hystermine to control rashes and psoriasis which are connected to hayfever and hayfever makes lungs worse cos asthma more chronic but hey I know not why the arthritis would be connected.

but asthma needs inhalers and you dont take them for hayfever!! so how are they connected?

I take inhalers for my asthma yes, I take anti-histermine for my allergies and my hayfever. They are connected in the respect that this season pollen levels have been extremely high and with high pollen counts comes severe hayfever and hence I struggle to breathe so lungs are weaken making asthma worse.

With due respect Kemp there seems to be a little bit of nit-picking happening here - forgive me for appreciating an helpful thread,