Quick update

Just to let y'all know I still plan on writing in here, I've just been kind of busy with school. Getting through winter with psoriasis is a chore all by itself. Especially in Washington. It was randomly sunny a few days ago and I went outside and just sat in the sun for a half hour. It wasn't easy either because it was about 40 degrees and windy. But sun is like gold for my skin. It's the only thing I can get my hands on that does anything. I hate that I'm unemployed, and have no health insurance. It really sucks with a skin disorder like psoriasis to not have any kind of medical help. Not to mention no money even if I could get the help. A friend of mine has been telling me to look into trying to get free health care. That just sounds like an oxymoron to me, but I'm definitely willing to try it out if someone knows where to put my first foot. I'm in a pretty stubborn part of my life. There isn't much I can do to work on my P aside from just coping daily and getting through it until the weather gets better I guess. I have no way of telling if anyone even reads this blog, but I'm primarily writing it for myself anyways, so I guess it's okay if nobody does, but I wish I had some people who had suggestions. I'm always looking for new ideas to help fight p.

Hey winter, fuck you!!

WUT UP SOMEONE SAID THERE WAS CAKE

I've never been a fan of winter. The cold, depressing, dark-most-of-the-time, lazy, psoriasis goblin that winter wakes is among the worst of the psoriasis demons for sure. Mine won't say put in his cave! He keeps tormenting my forehead, to which of course I wear a hat, and that just makes him even more happy. That dirty rat-bastard will learn his place someday, but until that day he's having the time of his life using his loaded dice of havoc all over my defense. I've got nothing on him! I try to stay hydrated, try to keep the lotion-a-flowin. Try to eat good and drink lots of water but he's always a step ahead, cackling like the madman he has become over the years, not even a twinkle of pity as I stand in my hot shower every morning, rubbing off the new days scales. People don't understand how much work psoriasis is. The few people I've allowed to get close enough to see it at it's worse, think eh it's not that bad, it doesn't look that bad at all! Just like a lil sunburn or something that sometimes gets dry and crackly. Then they go and bitch because I spend 45 minutes in the shower and another 20 after doing god knows what (to them) and they call me high maintenance. They call me a girl. They call me names. Hell yeah I'm high-fuckin maintenance! My skin is like taking care of a newborn baby full time! It needs it's moisteners, it needs tender love and care. It needs to sit in the back seat when I go places in my explorer for health and safety reasons. The lil' bastard grows daily, and someday that lil bastard is getting adopted to a land far far away mark my words. It's like court-mandated mexican rolex. I can't go to far doing dumb shit (drinking/smoking) or it gets outta hand and starts whining till I pamper him back to order. Hell yeah I'm high maintenance, but not by choice. I yearn for a life where I can go camping for a weekend doing all the shitty things to my body other people do without coming home to a 48 hour skin recovery session. Sigh... someday.

Staying positive is important!

This obviously isn't me, but it's a lovely reminder for myself, and others that... life goes on. :) 

Well as my last post said, I received the BELL psoriasis natural pills and sadly I feel like they don't work. They might work, but after about 2 weeks of taking it, I was getting acne on my back and it got really bad. Personally I would rather just deal with the psoriasis I have then create acne, because messing with acne can give you (well me anyways) new psoriasis patches. I tend to use as little in the way of cleansers and stuff like that, and find that just washing my face with water often does more good then using acne pads or anything like that. They tend to just make things worse. So back to the drawing board I suppose, but at least I'm staying positive. This girl is cute and she has it, maybe I can just meet someone else who has it? haha :)

Found a new product to try, still not sure about it.

I managed to have another sad hiatus of blog posting. My apologies. I really do hate the winter. It's stressful, dry, and coooooooooooooolllllllllllldddddddd! I tend to slow down when it gets cold, and lately I've completely stopped. I've always been a fan of the sun, even before I got psoriasis at 16ish. I got a Pell grant (about $4800) for school, so life has taken a turn for the best, but I still don't have any health insurance, (of course) so the struggle continues. My mother started drinking this tea she found to help her with a problem she has, and it says guaranteed to work or your money back. Well thats cool, it works for her, and thats nice, but what's really nice, is she decided to order 2 more boxes, and with it came with a brochure and in that brochure they have a psoriasis product that also says "guaranteed or your money back!" So you can bet I bought that thing an hour later, and it got to my house just a few days ago.

I've been trying it (heres a link and no, I'm not an affiliate or anything either) It's been 4 days and I haven't notices any changes, other then I seem to have gotten some acne on my back :\ but I'm not sure if thats been the extreme amounts of sleep I've been getting or the product. Sadly, as much as I want to believe this works, if it doesn't, it's hardly worth even returning because it's really not all that expensive, so plz plz plz plz plz work! lol

Interesting New Finds :)

CURRY POWDER: Turmeric

"The main ingredient in curry powder, this spice is also a dye, and provides curcumin, which is now touted with near-miraculous effects"

Thai curry? YES MAM!! NOMNOMNOMNOM!

Well, as I put psoriasis on the back burner the past 30 or so days, it's still stayed the same, damned ol' psoriasis but it's weird, I keep like, stumbling onto new information about it. I started my report on Psoriasis (still hardly started and it's due on Friday! : / but I've been doing lots of research, and research is great when your actually interested in the thing your learning about. I stumbled across this in a random report:

Copyright Philadelphia Tribune Aug 31, 2010

"Q. Six months ago, my doctor diagnosed me with psoriasis and prescribed creams and lotions. I searched the Internet and found that some people use the spice turmeric to treat this skin problem.

After one day taking turmeric, I quit the topicals, because my itching had stopped. Soon my psoriasis disappeared from my scalp, and my body has stated to clear. This stuff is the bomb!

It is natural and safe and so much better than the creams. Why don't doctors tell us about this remedy, instead of just prescribing topical drugs?

A. Doctors like evidence. While there are many testimonials on the benefits of the yellow spice turmeric or its active ingredient curcumin, placebo-controlled trials are inconclusive (Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, April 2008).

"My daughter had psoriasis on the soles of her feet with open sores that steroid creams and Dovonex did not heal. After two frustrating years, I made an ointment by mixing pure curcumin powder in Vaseline. I applied it thickly every night and covered it with bandages. Her feet were stained yellow from this mixture, but we didn't mind because her psoriasis was healing. Within three months, her feet were clear and have remained so for six years. Curcumin pills now keep her condition under control."

Although this probably isn't the cure-all for my psoriasis, I found it very interesting because I did find the Neem/vaseline mixture I made to be somewhat effective. It just seemed like I needed to give it more time, or it was maybe missing a little something, and although I have heard/read about Curcumin (curry powder) I've never tried it yet. Obviously being a spice/herb it's pretty darn cheap, and that makes me happy. You can get it on Amazon.com for $5.48 if you can't find it in your local food store.

 I also got some really good info about Turmeric from this site:

http://www.lionsgrip.com/curcurcumin.html 


"Turmeric extract (called curcumin) does not work as well as turmeric powder for the purpose of fighting intestinal pathogens. Use the plain root powder...Curcumin does not appear to have as much effect as plain turmeric against pathogens. Usual dose of turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp bulk powder or two capsules"

Fun Fact Time!:
"In India, where foods are loaded with turmeric, just 1 percent of people over 65 contract Alzheimer's the lowest incidence of the disease worldwide." - discover.com
Thanks to http://www.turmeric-curcumin.com/

What the f?

I have no idea what happened. I'm trying to pinpoint exactly where I went wrong, and what caused it. I was doing great with this blog for a while, then I completely just stopped doing anything. I think when I moved my room, or maybe once I started going to school? Well whatever it was/is I gotta find a way to change it. I need to make some kind of full-blown change to get back on track! My psoriasis hasn't really gotten any better or worse, but my life-style has turned in to a series of routines... that aren't very proactive anymore. Seasonal depression? I've always hated wintertime, and being cold. It practically stops me from moving! haha I think if I just put one foot in front of the other and get moving starting immediately I can get back into the ring. It's not over yet! I won't be bogged down!!

Stress.

Why do mac's only have one mouse button!?

I'm USUALLY an extremely stress free person. I'm very good at handling stress, by focusing on what isn't stressful about a situation, and keeping my cool. Well, like I said, I'm back in school. I'm taking a health and wellness class and for the final I decided to to an essay on Psoriasis. I figured, it was the perfect thing to do an essay on, since I already know the most about it, I have it, and it would be CAKE, right? Well It's due in about just under 2 weeks and I started to think, about how once I'm up there in front of my entire class, talking about it, everyone will know what I have and then go home and google it maybe. Not sure if you ever googled psoriasis but that shit ain't pretty. Considering my psoriasis looks 200% better than ANY of the pictures that come up, it's still stressful for me to think all of my classmates seeing all of these horrifying photos and immediately thinking about me. That is pretty much the exact opposite of what I want anyone to think about me. So this kind of stress is getting to me. I could just focus on the clear fact that there is like a 95% chance I will never see any of these classmates again in school, considering the particular class I'm taking isn't really part of any bachelor or AA degree, it's kind of a niche class, that doesn't exactly fall under elective choice, or required class for any degree. So pretty much everyone whos taking it is taking it because all their other elective choices were full, or they are taking one of the rare few certificates that require it, like the Wilderness skills certificate, the one I'm taking.