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we are both early thirities. He was fit and able bodied when we got together 2 years ago. he now is crippled with psoriasis arthiritis. He is in constant pain and is ratty and snappy. i understand and do love him and I am pushing his specialisit for methatrexate. The thing is that our social life is gone, sexlife gone, which im okay about, i do all housework now as he is in pain, he doesnt work now and I work full time. I am not going to leave him, i understand sickness and in health part of love, but , god its so hard. Any advice about how to cope better? or treatments?

I have eczema on my hands and on spots on both feet and am willing to try some other treatments. I have already been to the doctor and used MULTIPLE creams, lotions, and foams but nothing has cleared up the problem. I know it is not psoriasis, I actually had a biopsy done.
Thanks for all the great tips. As far as the flair ups go, it has been a constant problem, no flair ups just always there. Especially on my hands…I have changed everything from lotions, soaps, detergents and even my husband now washes the dishes! As for the stress, I am hoping the summer off (I am a teacher) will help that as well. Again, thanks , I will be trying these tips!

I’m re-asking this question from earlier because it was probably just a bad time.

For the past few years I’ve somehow developed these really awful hard dry patches on my toes, specifically my big toes on the knuckle. I have never seen anybody else who has this. It doesn’t hurt or itch, just looks nasty.

NOTHING works. No body lotions work, no foot creams, vaseline doesn’t work, scrubs don’t work, cortizone cream doesn’t work, corn/callus treatments don’t work.., even olive oil and deep conditioner (no joke) doesn’t work.

Pretty much all of the above work temporarily… even then, if you touch the area you can feel the skin drying up. Sometimes I’ll soak it in hot water, and scrape the skin off with a PedEgg, and even then you can see mild pink patches where the dry skin used to be. Of course it just returns a day or two later.

My other toes have it too, but nowhere near as bad as my big toes. I can’t imagine what causes it, since I don’t wear closed toed shoes and I always resort to using lotions and wearing sandals

What the hell is this?? Is this some form of psoriasis that I only get on my toes?