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Was just looking at what is going on with my feet and hands and was reading it, and just feel so ashamed that they look like they do. The pain itchiness is unbearable!!!
Was just looking at what is going on with my feet and hands and was reading it, and just feel so ashamed that they look like they do. The pain itchiness is unbearable!!!
I don't even know how I got this stuff.
I don't even know how I got this stuff.
I don't know how I got mine either, really............and I often look at my body and feel so ashamed..........but in reality we don't have anything to be ashamed about. We didn't ask for this, we didn't do anything bad to get it............if anything, getting psoriasis has probably made most of us more caring and understanding towards those who are ill, no matter what the illness, because by God we know what it's like to suffer........
ask your dr about attarax it will help with the itching.i am right with you i am the only one in my family with p.
In the beginning and before we learn about this diesease we all feel as you do. It's important to remember that none of us just woke up one day and said hey "I'd like to have psoriasis", and that's the reason we are all here.
In these forums you will see and learn alot of information about the illness. You will meet people who have been dealing with it for over 30 and 40 years. You will hear alot about treatments and how we never stop striving for a cure. You will meet people who struggle...one day at a time to live with this and it's many different faces of debilitating effects. We all come together to give each other strength and hope, and to help each other cope. For now, until a cure is found, coping and each other is all we have.
THIS IS A DISEASE...and getting it was beyond your control-not any different than getting diabetes, heart disease or cancer. Some of us here have the accompanying arthritis and it has really taken a toll on our joints. I have had psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with Ankylosing spondylitis for 16 years now. Up until two years ago, I had no one who could truly understand what I was living with or dealing with, UNTIL I CAME HERE. Not even my own family could understand how I could walk just fine one day, and the next day be so crippled up I needed help to the bathroom. No one could understand why where or how these rashes were deforming my hands and feet because after all your not supposed to have althete's feet on your hands right? Or big blothes of red sores on your ears and chin?
Im not going to tell you that life is normal after living with the stigma that get's attached to this diease-but I will tell you that when you make an effort to understand this disease, learn about it, and share with the people here who have it-IT GETS EASIER. After coming here I was able to not freak about it anymore-I was able to realize that there were other's just like me and they were living and coping with it, and I could too. I learned that I liked myself despite the awkwardness and appearence of the disease, and actually started to feel that I was better in many ways as a result of having it.
I wish you the very best of luck, and please don't be shy about asking questions here, and remember we care. :)
Elaine
I'm not ashamed of my P, and you shouldn't be either. Yes, it's kinda gross...but even still it makes you who you are. God gave it to you for a reason, and you'll learn it sooner or later. P made me a stronger...gave me confidence...etc.
My great-grandmother has P...she doesn't like to talk about it though, so I know I have it (and exema in my system) from my mother's side. It seemed to have skipped 2 generations though...and only effected me. I'm the only one with PA. I'm also the only one with a lot of other problems in my family...so I don't consider it weird...plus since I was born with P it's always been apart of me, and became my normal.
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Was just looking at what is going on with my feet and hands and was reading it, and just feel so ashamed that they look like they do. The pain itchiness is unbearable!!!
I don't even know how I got this stuff.
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I don't even know how I got this stuff.
I don't know how I got mine either, really............and I often look at my body and feel so ashamed..........but in reality we don't have anything to be ashamed about. We didn't ask for this, we didn't do anything bad to get it............if anything, getting psoriasis has probably made most of us more caring and understanding towards those who are ill, no matter what the illness, because by God we know what it's like to suffer........
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ask your dr about attarax it will help with the itching.i am right with you i am the only one in my family with p.
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In the beginning and before we learn about this diesease we all feel as you do. It's important to remember that none of us just woke up one day and said hey "I'd like to have psoriasis", and that's the reason we are all here.
In these forums you will see and learn alot of information about the illness. You will meet people who have been dealing with it for over 30 and 40 years. You will hear alot about treatments and how we never stop striving for a cure. You will meet people who struggle...one day at a time to live with this and it's many different faces of debilitating effects. We all come together to give each other strength and hope, and to help each other cope. For now, until a cure is found, coping and each other is all we have.
THIS IS A DISEASE...and getting it was beyond your control-not any different than getting diabetes, heart disease or cancer. Some of us here have the accompanying arthritis and it has really taken a toll on our joints. I have had psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with Ankylosing spondylitis for 16 years now. Up until two years ago, I had no one who could truly understand what I was living with or dealing with, UNTIL I CAME HERE. Not even my own family could understand how I could walk just fine one day, and the next day be so crippled up I needed help to the bathroom. No one could understand why where or how these rashes were deforming my hands and feet because after all your not supposed to have althete's feet on your hands right? Or big blothes of red sores on your ears and chin?
Im not going to tell you that life is normal after living with the stigma that get's attached to this diease-but I will tell you that when you make an effort to understand this disease, learn about it, and share with the people here who have it-IT GETS EASIER. After coming here I was able to not freak about it anymore-I was able to realize that there were other's just like me and they were living and coping with it, and I could too. I learned that I liked myself despite the awkwardness and appearence of the disease, and actually started to feel that I was better in many ways as a result of having it.
I wish you the very best of luck, and please don't be shy about asking questions here, and remember we care. :)
Elaine
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I'm not ashamed of my P, and you shouldn't be either. Yes, it's kinda gross...but even still it makes you who you are. God gave it to you for a reason, and you'll learn it sooner or later. P made me a stronger...gave me confidence...etc.
My great-grandmother has P...she doesn't like to talk about it though, so I know I have it (and exema in my system) from my mother's side. It seemed to have skipped 2 generations though...and only effected me. I'm the only one with PA. I'm also the only one with a lot of other problems in my family...so I don't consider it weird...plus since I was born with P it's always been apart of me, and became my normal.
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