Has anyone had poriasis of the skin?
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Sorry about the spelling, but i was wondering if anyone had skin issues, with or before diagnosed with PMR?
I had this poriasis on my elbows, and I never had it before, it came on right before my full blown pmr was diagnosed.
Also I had some odd very small purple / mole size pimples on my upper chest area.
My face was always breaking out right before this diagnose too. Now all have disappeared from being on methylprednisolone
I was diagnosed on 10/1/14. reg pred did not seem to work for me . so my rheumy put me on 4mg 2x a day of methylprednisolone.
Now I am down to 4mg am, and 2mg pm., supposibly equalling 5mg.
He also told me to ask you all, ; What is the smallest tablet in the uk, is it 1,2,4,? He is from dublin, living here in the usa. A very nice older gent!
He said please ask the brits this question!
thank you all for your time, its just a pleasure reading all your discussions, as I don't feel so alone with this dreaded pmr.
Sincerley, Marie Louise
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christine_fay marie_loui19398
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barbara75814 marie_loui19398
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I am still looking at scars left from the weird rash invasion. I strongly suspect that they were the forerunner of the PMR which then came on, although as I say, no doctor has said so. However, I think it "would figure."
barbara75814 marie_loui19398
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Barbara
MrsO-UK_Surrey barbara75814
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The smallest Prednisolone tablet available in the UK is 1mg, and we are able to cut this in half to make 0.5mg doses when necessary.
constance.de barbara75814
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intake went down.
tina-uk_cwall marie_loui19398
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i personally did not and do not suffer from any skin conditions so I can help you there. But I have been told and consequently do use a lot of body lotion and skin cream to keep my skin nice and soft thereby preventing dryness and cracking. All best wishes, christina
marie_loui19398 tina-uk_cwall
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larchan marie_loui19398
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I have had Psoriasis on my elbow- just one side- since my Dx 9 years ago. I use a cortisone cream when it flares up and in between use lots of Philosophy Pure Grace lotion and it hasn't spread any further than just above my wrist. It is rough and the little hair on that area is not soft either. I have various skin issues that seem to come and go- like a bout of shingles, lichen sclerosis and the purple pimple like growths you mentioned in my groin area which also come and go. We have to look at ourselves a immune compromised, meaning that we are open to just about any opportunistic infection in all our body systems: be it respiratory, skin and other organs. We Tx them as they appear. Try to rest into the Dx as stress makes everything worse and further weakens our immune sysytems. By resting into it I mean that I try to accept it as part of the curse of PMR but I just treat each issue with the best dr./meds we can find as it comes and don't look to far ahead with dread- taking it all a day at a time.
This is how I go along each day and I hope it can help others.
marie_loui19398 larchan
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EileenH marie_loui19398
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For all of you out there with rash problems - particularly the ones who say it is like psoriasis: is your dx of PMR correct? Did you have the dramatic response to 15mg pred? PMR and psoriatric arthritis can present almost identically and you can have psoriatric arthritis without having had psoriasis before, it can sometimes appear at the same time as or even after the PMR smptoms. The primary difference is that PA doesn't respond as well to pred and responds better to other more conventional DMARDs which have different side effects and doctors are happier to leave patients on them for a long time.
On the other hand, the autoimmune component of PMR can lead to you developing allergies. In my case I developed an allergy to something in wheat - I had a rash that was very like that in dermatitis herpatiformis which is a form of coeliac disease. It does improve with high enough doses of antihistamine - and I only get it a few weeks after eating wheat. That was the problem - it didn't happen at the same time but realising a carb-freeweight-loss diet stopped it was the first stage! A higher dose of pred stopped it enough to allow me to indulge occasionally in wheat - but now I'm on 4mg it is back thought not as bad as when I ate wheat every day. Going without wheat isn't too awful though and anyway - very low carbs helps the pred weight gain!
christine_fay EileenH
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EileenH christine_fay
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Are you OK with hard cheese? Here where I live all cheese comes with info about lactose content and there are loads of soft cheeses made lactose-free - high rate of coeliac and lactose intolerance here in the mountains.
marie_loui19398
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I also tested positive for lupus, but my rhuemy said he did't think I had it???
we'll see what my new doc says~
EileenH marie_loui19398
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DMARDs - disease modifying antirheumatic drugs. They work for many sorts of inflammatory arthrtitis including rheumatoid arthritis but do very little (nothing) for PMR. If they work it was probably because it wasn't PMR...