Posted Sun 1 Oct 2023 19.17 by mt382 (edited Sun 1 Oct 2023 19.18 by mt382)
Hi all,
Wondering if it's just me!
Whenever I eat for my gut (e.g. lots of veg, fish, fermented food - less processed food, white cards, meat etc) and exercise, my psoriasis explodes.
I quit drinking a few months ago - feel much better for it. I eat like 15 different plants a day, heavy on the legumes, whole grains, healthy fats. I run 3 times a week and have been weight lifting - am now the strongest I've ever been (250kg leg press - whoop whoop).
My psoriasis, since this change, has gone from diffuse blood red and sore plaques, to flattened plaques (yay).
But I have guttate psoriaiss EVERYWHERE. All over my torso, legs, arms. I've NEVER suffered like this, and this is against a 15 year history of the disease.
I always seem to get worse when I'm "healthier" - and I guess that makes sense at a very basic science level, as my immune system is better able to erroneously attack whatever autoimmune target its taken issue with. However, I would have thought at a more complex level the systemic inflammation might have dropped enough to see a clinical improvement - but no! I'm at my absolute worst and it's actually a very frightening new...
I'm also on acitretin at present, but this worsening was coming before I started, and I guess it COULD be hastening the decline, but at best it's just doing nothing to help!
Anyone else found this? Maybe something in sweat is triggering me.
The scientist in me wonders whether my personal autoimmune target might be a muscle breakdown product or something!
Posted Sun 1 Oct 2023 19.57 by Sharon J.
Hi, MT382. I have plaque psoriasis on both my hands and soles of my feet. I developed the gutate form on my shins when in California where it was really hot. Then this past summer, when it turned unusually hot here in Portland, the gutate got worse. In both cases, I do think the sweat caused the flares as nothing else has been different in my life. So, yes, maybe sweat does affect gutate psoriasis. I'm on Cosentyx and it doesn't do anything for it; however, I consider mine mild and therefore not worth pursuing a different course of treatment. Here's wishing you the best of luck finding a solution.
Posted Tue 3 Oct 2023 19.59 by Yacht
A 250kg leg press is the equivalent of lifting 3 or 4 grown adults at once. Some might say this is over-exercising. Too much exercise stresses the immune system and is a known accelerant of psoriasis.
If it were me, I'd moderate the weightlifting and running for a while, and see what happens. Don't stop, just cut back (slowly) by xx% for xx weeks. See what happens.
Not medical or training advice. And not a criticism. Just personal observation.
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