For those of you who may not know what psoriasis is, please allow me to elaborate.
Psoriasis is a long lasting autoimmune disorder which causes inflammation of the skin. Not contagious at all. Usually, skin takes around 28 days to go through the full process of growing new cells and shedding the old ones. With Psoriasis, this growth of skin cells can take as little as three days, but without shedding the dead skin. In other words, your immune system is working too hard to create new skin cells, causing a pile up which can be flaky and irritated.
There are several different types of psoriasis. For example, the kind I have is called Guttate, which is more often seen in children and young adults. There’s also Plaque, inverse, and a few other variations of the same disorder. Mine covers my chest, stomach, back, upper thighs, and my scalp. since it covers more than 10% of my body, and is beginning to affect my joints, id be classified as severe. Psoriatic arthritis is fairly common among psoriasis patients. It is an earlier onset arthritis caused by inflammation of the skin near joints, leading the joints themselves to become inflamed.
With different types, there are also different causes. We know already that it’s your immune system… but what sets it off? Well no one really knows for sure, but there are certainly some key factors; one of which happens to be genetics. People with the disease often are also seen to have family members who also have it. 2-3% of people who inherit the genes for psoriasis actually develop the disease. lucky me, I’m in the 3%. Other factors include injury, stress levels, and various environmental factors.
Unfortunately, there is no proven cure for psoriasis. However, there are many effective treatments that one should consider. people have tried everything, from cold showers to lotion to injections. I personally have been seeing some improvement with a dollar store lotion, and black soap, so some things will work better for some than others.
I hope this will be useful to someone. If you have psoriasis, just know youre amazing and beautiful, and worth more than just some blotchy skin. Some people tell me to think of them as dragon scales :)
If you see someone on the street or in a public place who may have psoriasis, please don’t make a big scene. Don’t point it out to your friends or stare awkwardly. We see every stare and hear every snicker, and it just gets old.
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