What triggered your P and what triggers flare up's

[Tim_]

What triggered your P and what triggers flare up's

Are questions that are worth asking and keeping a record of here I think and to that end I am going to make this a sticky thread for the time being to see how the responses come in as after discussing the subject in the Alternative board I wonder at just what the variety of triggers are for both the initial arrival of P and the triggers for flare up's of P.
So what triggered your P in the first place if you know what it was?
What triggers your P to flare up?
Are they consistent for the individual?
Or do they differ i.e. does what makes your P flare up differ from the initial trigger?
What treatment(s) have you found work best for you, be they Med or alternative?

I am interested to see what the variety of triggers are and how our reactions to treatments vary with the types of trigger as over time it may give us a body of data that helps us decide which is the best way to treat P based on how it was triggered in the first place.

For example if your P was triggered by a dietary issue then it may be a diet based approach would work.
Personally I have found that as mine was triggered by emotional stress treatments that help me cope work better than just applying a steroid cream.

Tim

[MULLINDE]

Tim,

Gosh, this is like the 64,000 dollar question, or if I knew where I was going to die I would avoid that place like the plague!

My P started in 1998 when I was 46 years old. I have no idea why it started as nothing out of the ordinary happened at that time. It progressively got worse over the next couple of years until (through my GP) I made an appointment with a Derm. By the time I attended that appointment, my P had all but gone. Gosh did I feel stupid!

And that has been pretty much the roller coaster ride ever since. Here - gone - here - gone - but never gone as far as before and always comes back worse.

Flare-ups - treatment, but the order hasn't been logical.

If shares in P and Derms were floated on the stock market, then I would invest in the P. It has all the answers! The Derms are just still in guessing mode.

Regards,

D

[Breenger]

we moved from inner city to outer city suburb and  i had blotches very soon afterwards.
must be the change in the water

although i was in a bad car crash(got cut free with broken leg) about 5yrs previous and have often wondered it contributed

[arizona]

Mine started at aound age 39, never had skin problems before apart from being sensitive to some bath products.

Had virus, doctor thought was maybe shingles. I was put on strong antibiotics for two weeks. Somtime during the second week i woke up so itchy i had to get in the shower, i was covered in what looked like chicken pox but i guess was guttate.
Then plaque p
No history of p in the family 

[Laura8]

A bout of influenza triggered my immune system.

[beanie]

I had really bad eczema as a baby and was hospitalised, at the age of six i developed little patches of p. on my elbows, my mum thinks it has something to do with seeing my real dad for the first time. no change in p. until I went to secondary school and my scalp became covered everyone thought I had really bad dandruff ,  but the first flare up for me was at the age of 17 when I split up with a boyfriend and I became covered in p. I had my first dose of uvb which cleared it pretty well but steadily got worse again over the years, I have never been completely free of p. and I know for a fact that stress plays a very important part for me, I have always eaten the same kind of foods, smoked on and off for 19 years, I drink alcohol once in a blue moon and my p. is stable now, it isn't getting any better or any worse but as soon as stress comes along it will flare up again.

[nat1975]

throat infection did it for me this time round.  In my teens stress of exams started the whole ball rolling.  Totally cleared in both my pregnancies-so answer is don't get stressed, ill and get pregnant!!!

[cambio]

Mine all started about 11 years ago when I was 15, running around in my backyard, ran into a branch and cut my forehead open. months later was still there, got it checked out. Psoriasis ever since. I've found that 98% of my psoriasis has been from wounds failing to heal. I sliced my shin to the bone, month later, patch on my skin   got two huge tattoos on both arms, month later, tats were riddled with patches, got some acne on my back, kept messing with it, patches on my back. To this day I still have all of said patches. I have to be so careful it sucks because I like to LIVE LIFE. That unfortunately involves getting scrapes, my worst nightmare. Now I can't wear shorts without Under Armour leggings or pants, same goes with going to the gym, I wear Under an Armour shirt as well. It's just easier to cover... sigh... life with P is really not fun man. Not to mention I won't get a job that won't let me wear some kind of hat. So it's manual labor for me. Who goes to a job interview with a hat on?... and people (non p sufferers) wonder how psoriasis is so depressing all the time. It really does effect almost all aspects of my life.  So really, I just try not to get scraped up and when I do I try HARD not to mess with it. I haven't noticed anything in particular that has set it off, it just really sucks when I get hurt.

[riaY]

My p first appeared at a very stressfull period in my life and most (but not all) of my major flares were stress related. My last major flare (apart from this current one) came as a rebound after uvb/tar treatment. My flare at the moment (I think) can be attributed to post Cyclo/Acetretin treatment.

[Luvvi]

Chicken Pox about 6 or 7 years ago.  I flared, became covered very quickly and it never went into remission in the whole period until I went onto Fumaderm.  I flared the whole way through three UVB regimes, Ciclo and MTX.  At my clearest I was around 30% covered and at my worst around 95%

Never understood how I had it as no-one else in the family suffered from it until my father died and my mother took a small stress related flare which cleared quite quickly.