PUVA Treatment

Hi. i have had psoriasis for about 20 years but recently have been doing PUVA treatment and it has been working very well so i thought i would mention. This involves taking a medicinal herb called psoralen and doing UV treatment twice a week. it’s really effective i have found. it has cleared up all the small plaques on my arms and chest, and while it has not totally cleared the big patches on my legs it has thinned them out to the point where they are no longer itchy, which is a massive relief. I previously tried cyclosporin which cleared up some psoriasis but it gave me hypertension (ie high blood pressure) so i had to stop taking it after 5 weeks or so. before that i used all the various steroid creams with limited success, (i think enstilar is the best one but it runs out too quickly. ) The only drawbacks with Puva are that you have to wear uv sunglasses for 12 hours each treatment day (many strange glances on the train in november ha) and sometimes you can have very hot and dry skin the next day, and need to use a lot of cream to moisturize your whole body. also the tablets are a bit heavy on the stomach but not too bad, nothing compared to cyclosporin. Well worth it overall i would say.