Psoriasis Anyone?

[HopeSprings]

This is something that I've developed in the past few years. It's really just one patch near my elbow - it's awful, so itchy and nothing seems to get rid of it. I had one spot on my forehead, but steroid cream took care of it and I had some ridging on my fingernails for the longest time that I'm pretty sure was psoriasis - that finally went away. It makes me wonder about a larger autoimmune issue because it just came so out of the blue a few years ago. Or it could be totally unrelated to POTS. Just wondered if anyone else has dealt with it and if it fits in at all with our situation.

Naomi

[louloutinks]

Hi Naomi

I have wondered if it could be linked. I actually started with dischidrotic eczema on palms and soles, then I acquired lovely perioral and periocular dermatitis . Before this, my skin was absolutley fine. Then all the potsy symptoms started to raise their ugly heads lol. Coincidence maybe??

[Godsgal]

Hi...I have it on my elbows, knees, inside my nose, and on both hands. Mine I have found is connected to my mast cell activation disorder. My husband has it and uses protopic and that helps him.

[julie_2girls]

my 15 y/o daughter has psoriasis and hashimotos and now dysautonomia. everything began to go downhill at puberty:(

[ramakentesh]

I had psoriasis on my scalp when I turned 19 for some reason. it lasted a while then never came back. Doc said it was probably related to Ank Spond which arrived years later. At the same time as my POTS that originally I was told was not connected to the autoimmune illness I developed within two weeks of one another LOL.

[issie]

Got to be autoimmune related Rama. Have you seen an immunologist?

Issie

[potsgirl]

If you want to try something other than a prescription cream, my sig other also has this problem and uses Cetaphil lotion out of the jar. It's really worked for him, better than the Protopic did, and it did so very quickly.

[julieph85]

I have always had psoriasis since I've had RA. (6 years). However, since I developed POTS it has gone into remission! go figure. My take is my immune system is now so busy attacking my ANS, why bother with the skin?

[abnel]

Hi Naomi, my mother had a very severe form of psoriatic arthritis for just under 2 years where her body's immune system went into hyperdrive and was attacking her. She's had psoriasis for years leading up to this but only developed the extreme form a few years back. In her 30's she got the exact same symptoms I did when I started sliding down the slippery slope towards POTS but for some reason hers never developed fully into POTS like mine did, and instead she's suffered a few of the aches/pains related to arthritis. Makes me wonder about the genetic and autoimmune implications for this disease. Interesting that some of us have the auto-immune flares separately to our POTS flares.