Don't like the drugs, but the drugs like meeeeeee

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When I was about 9 or so I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (not to be confused with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) (More info here.) Anyways, I take methylphenadate for it, and it gets me pretty focused. Mix that focus with the fact that I'm a textbook Virgo, who is constantly striving for perfection in things, and there I am 4 hours later with a half-dozen different psoriasis medications/ lotions on. I'm far to impatient to sit and try one thing out at a time then report results lol. So sadly I can't put a finger on why my psoriasis looks fairly decent today compared to the last week. I'm still taking the Fu-fang-Qing-dai-Wan orally when I remember to. They ebay person I bought it from in china says to take at least 3 boxes (36 packets) in a month to see good results. Then to be sure I asked two others, one of which tried to sell me 6 and give me the 7th free, and the other one said I would need 5 boxes at least to see any difference. Well that's awesome.... I guess either way having taken it will at least help somewhat, even if I haven't bought 7 freaking boxes. Man 7 boxes a month?? I am not going to chug 3 packets of herbs a day for 40 days. Not only is it inconvenient, it ain't easy on my pocket, so I might have to abandon the Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan after I finish what I've got of it, unless I literally see some improvement. I've started taking a Centrum Multivitamin. I've heard that vitamins are just expensive pee, but some are probably better than none, right? I use lots of different lotions (whatever is closest when I'm feelin' dry, I have a lotion in every room/car/backpack I own lol.) I also decided to put some Neem on all my patches today, and poured some Indigo Naturalis into my body wash bottle. It turned the whole thing a midnight blue color, but it actually mixed quite nicely, much nicer than the Neem did when I did it with the last bottle. The Neem made it all chunky and it didn't spud as well when I put it on the lufa, but the indigo didn't change the consistency at all it seems. I'll keep using it until the bottle runs out, and see if it makes any difference. I also just bought a whole bunch of Vitamin D on Ebay, and plan on taking about 1000-2000IU a day, because I'm a pretty big guy. I'll do that for about a week and see if I notice any differences in how I look and feel. I found this pretty good page that talks about how much IU of vitamin D you should probably take if any of you are thinking about taking vitamin D, because I read it helped a lot of psoriasis sufferers. (I don't have the money for a blood test, so I'm just gonna keep experimenting like I have been lol)

If I wasn't such an alcoholic, this would be much more simple...

My skin is gonna hate me tomorrow...

So technically I should have been done with the Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan, but nooooo I had to go float the river like 5 times and get wasted and go to the bar and have chugging contests and shotgun beers and be a total asshole to my body instead. heh heh, well I finally got the other 2 boxes (24 packets total) and I want to really finish this stuff, but I'm going to a wedding this weekend and I know I'm gonna get totally plastered because the girl getting married is my old best friend girl next door Rachel. I've also been slacking with the Neem and the Indigo Naturalis. BUT I do like the neem and think it is really good with removing the scales, but honestly, the sunlight from floating the river those few days seems to have done more help than anything I'm trying right now. It's kind of hard to get defined results from anything when your doing like 5 different things at once. (check previous posts to find out whats going on) 

So I've still got about 3.9 ounces of Neem and same for the Indigo Naturalis, and I gotta find a way to blaze through this stuff because I hate wasting anything so I think I'm just gonna put it in everything, my shampoo, my soap, friggin' everything.

Somethin' else I just read about! Ok so in case any of you wanna know, I also have a TWITTER (http://twitter.com/Psoriasistance) about this blog, where I tweet about different things I hear about, I also follow a lot of people who tweet about psoriasis. I'm kind of surprised, I actually hear about a lot of good stuff by just following anyone who tweets about psoriasis.

Click here to read about it...

This person (I forget who it was now, sorry!) tweeted about making a red clove and lavender healing salve by infusing both of them in olive oil (or they suggest apricot kernel oil) and mixing with beeswax so it's easier to apply. I think I'm gonna try this out when I get a chance. Both of those things grow naturally around where I live. (Pacific Northwest) If I get around to harvesting the stuff and actually doing it (I really hope I do) I'll take photos and let you all know how it turns out.



I ALSO FOUND THIS PAGE which I fully plan on coming back to soon to do some more research, so I'll just put it here for anyone else who wants to check it out: http://hubpages.com/hub/Psoriasis-Herbal-Remedies

Things I'm trying out, Neem powder and Indigo Naturalis powder

I'm just gonna post some pictures of a few things I will be trying in the next few months...

Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan

I don't even remember where I heard about this stuff, I think I was just googling psoriasis treatments or something (I'm constantly researching over and over /reading articles randomly for new clues) I actually got a box of this in the mail yesterday and started taking it. It doesn't really taste like anything, well kinda just a little gritty like herbs... the lady I bought them from on Ebay told me to eat 3 packets a day er well drink 3 packets a day just drink them down with water. It's kinda hard but I'll get used to it. I ate 3 packets then decided to go to a birthday party out in Seattle and drank some liquor (I know, I'm terrible!) so I'm gonna wait a day or to to pick it back up and do it right. I bought 3 boxes, (12 packets each) so essencially I have enough for 12 days worth if I'm totally loyal to it and dont skip etc, and the lady said I'd need AT LEAST 3 boxes, I will try to take em all faithfully starting in a few days to see how if it works and if it does, see if 12 days worth is worth the like 22 bucks it cost to buy all 3 boxes.

Oh yeah thats right, now I remember how I came across that Fu-Fang. I typed Psoriasis in Yahoo answers and started just reading away and I heard of a lot of people who were using Champori to get rid of their psoriasis, but i didn't feel like spending like 66 bucks on a 4 oz thing of it so I was looking at the ingredients of Champori and I guess the main ingredient is Indigo naturalis which is a Chinese herb which is also known as Qing dai. according to http://indigonaturalis.com/  so I decided to google that and see what I could learn about it and thats when I stumbled upon this: 

http://eastearthtrade.com/indigonaturalisqingdai4ozpowder.aspx

I just decided to up and buy it (4 oz for about 23 bucks) because I got into a little bit of a self-medicating spree. While looking at that I ran across Neem powder. (Also on the same site, so I also bought 4 oz of that for about 6 bucks shipped) They got to my house in about 4 days.. not bad!

http://eastearthtrade.com/neem-4ozpowder.aspx

Now, although that vid doesn't really say anything about psoriasis victims, It came up right next to the indigo naturalis on the east Earth Trade site as a potential item for psoriasis. It's not directly for psoriasis but it does say it's very impressive for acne and other skin problems, and this site (http://www.neemgenie.co.uk/psoriasis.html) does say a lot about it working for psoriasis. I did some research into how I could maybe use all this powder I'll be getting and some sources suggested it can be mixed with pretty much anything. (shampoo, body wash lotions etc.) A long time ago I was doing random research about something (I forget what) but I ended up buying some DMSO Gel (Dimethyl sulfoxide) because I'm weird I guess and maybe thought I would find a way to try to make it work for psoriasis. Supposedly anything you mix with it will get carried through the skin really well or some shit... heres some better info if you wanna read:  http://www.dmso.org/articles/information/muir.htm

Fuck it, maybe this will work?

Well it's been pretty much sitting in my bathroom closet for 2 years and now I have all this powder with nothing to mix it in! BLING! haha ok so I figured I'd use it to mix with the powder and make a kinda lotion/gel thingy to spread on my arms.

Hoover M.D. tryin' new stuff haha!

I just poured a little bit... it's all an experiment at this moment... not exactly sure how much of what to use... but I'm sure this is how all the best inventions start out right?

So I mixed up these little bitches and there was thunder claps in the background and a hard rain started coming down... haha just kidding.

This is after the mixings, the Indigo was kinda hard to mix, it didn't take very well at first and was very gooey, also be careful, this stuff is what they supposedly used to dye blue-jeans with, so it stains pretty bad I hear...

The Neem mixed up pretty well, and was generally overall more salve-looking.

I'm kinda tired and I'm gonna go to bed, but my next post will have some actual pictures of what my psoriasis looks like and before and after pics of the first two days of applying this stuff!

Theres a lot of other things I plan to try later, only because I already paid for FuFangQingDaiWan and and the powders that i need to use up before I buy anything else.