I have psoriasis. When I first got it I was 17 or 18 years old. I didn't get the old fashion psoriasis I was lucky and got Guttate psoriasis. My doctor told me that it with treatment it would either go away or would developed into regular psoriasis. I got the spots all over my body which was painful, ugly and bad. Even though the spots where everywhere I only got one spot in my face and nothing on my fingers. So I could mostly hide my spots. Gradually the spots went away but they still remained on my elbows and in my scalp. When I was 20 I went backpacking for 4 months in South-East Asia and Australia. It was properly the sun but the last patch of the psoriasis went away.
I thought that I would never have to think about psoriasis again. In 2009 my husband and I moved crossed the Atlantic sea and settled down in North-Carolina. It was stressful time, learning new culture, language, making new friends and living again on student's stipend. The psoriasis came back but this time it was different. I didn't get Guttate psoriasis but the traditional psoriasis. I got patches on both my elbows, in my scalp and one tiny spot on my foot.
I was not happy, not happy at all. I was also a little bit afraid that this time I would get big patches because it's quite painful to have psoriasis. Your skin is sore, it sometimes bleeds and you leave behind white skin (I don't know how to say it in English, hopefully you get what I'm trying to say). My patches got bigger and bigger. They where though relatively small compare to others that have it really bad. I think it was last October that my husband noticed that my patches where almost gone. Time went by and after two more weeks they where hardly visible longer. You could imagined how surprise we were. I have tried so many things in hope to get the psoriasis under control. I have found going to a hospital in those special lights lamp do some work and using steroid cream. But even though I go and do some time in the lights lamp and use the steroid cream the psoriasis patch doesn't shrink. Not only was my psoriasis patch shrinking but it seemed like a normal skin where the psoriasis patch were before.
Next weeks my husband and I went through all of our habits. What could have made the psoriasis patch shrink, what were we doing differently that could be having this effect on my psoriasis? Was it the new lotion that I bought, the Epsom salt that I just recently bought, was it something I ate, we even thought that I were pregnant. Finally after a lot of research we thought it could be the green tea I was drinking at my friends house. So we did a experiment I stopped drinking the tea and do you know what happened the bloody psoriasis patches begun to grow again.
I know it sounds like an awful commercial but I get nothing for promoting this product. I'm just saying what it did for me. It's such a relief to just to have small patch that aren't sore that I want to spread the word.
However just to be clear the tea doesn't cure the psoriasis and the effect aren't long term. In the beginning I drank one cup every day but now after the patches shrunk I have a cup every other day, maybe three days apart. When ever I stop drinking the tea for long time the psoriasis starts to grow again. Maybe it only works on me, after all we're different and even though we have the same diagnoses it doesn't mean that what works for me is going to work for you.
No comments:
Post a Comment