Hello, I am from from Vancouver,BC Canada and I am a support person

April 9, 2010

I have never had psoriatic Arthritis though I do get some form of roscea

occasionally on my face and psoriasis. My childhood and teen excema comes back

if I get overheated or too stressed out. I was called scabby by all the kids as

I was covered in it and it was quite painful. So I can relate to disfiguring and

discomfort of a skin disease.

I have so many things wrong with me I cannot count including osteo arthritis. I

have MS so I have an immune system run amuck. So I can related to when stress

gets too high, so does symptoms.

However, this is not about me. I want to learn more about psoriatic arthritis as

my caregiver and room mate who helps me with my illness has this psoriatic

arthritis and I have watched it progress over the last 8 years. I have been

researching it over internet and some of the traditional medical treatments

scare the hell out of me. I , myself start injections this month that are pretty

drastic and not something I wish on anyone. However, I do not want to see

harmed by the side effects of these drugs. So far she is only on Celebrex which

helps alot but her Dr has been strict with nothing else. She is in pain with

joints. She exercises twice a day but it hurts. They say she has not progressed

bad enough for light treatment.

I keep thinking why must she progress far enough to have light treatment, should

she not have light treatment to prevent it getting that bad. I wonder if its

part of social medicine and paying for it. I have been thinking about buying our

own light treatment and her using it at home. What do you think?

I start her on 500 mg of chewable Vit D. I take it for my MS and read that it is

also good for this disease.

Well, that is my introduction. I am glad to be here. I hope perhaps I can be of

some help since I have every disease , you name it (grin) several

operations...my friends call me Dr.

However, this one is new to me. So I am seeking your help.

We are having our first sunny day of a few days of storm and even hail. Waving

at everyone from Canada.

R.

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