Blogs are great, you can work on them whenever you want, or not. Therein lies the problem, you need to be a very committed blogger to keep your blog updated. I am trying to get better at this. So you all have an apology from me that I have not been so committed to keeping this updated. Back at the start of the holiday season of 2015 some of the side effects that I was beginning to experience from the medicine that I was prescribed, acitretin, were starting to take their toll on me, keep in mind that all of these can also be attributed to the PRP process itself, but I felt that my body was telling me that the medication was not helping me with these symptoms. I was miserable, my skin burned constantly, I was constantly peeling, I was tired, and my eyes were in terrible shape, I would wake up each day and have to wash my eyes out and I had no eyelashes which was terrible. I decided to try an experiment, I began to space the medicine out over several days, at first I would take it then skip a day, then 2 days, then 3 etc. I noticed that the day after a skip day I would feel much better. My eyes were better in the morning, my energy level was better etc. Eventually I asked the doctor if there was any protocol for stopping this medicine, I was told I could stop it at any time without issue. So I stopped it, and my skin started to get better, and I started to feel better. At the same time I started to really focus on what I was putting in my body as far as food and beverage. I stopped eating most processed food, but primarily focused on not eating wheat, not gluten mind you, I don't seem to have a gluten intolerance. But I dropped anything that contained wheat, difficult, but doable. I also started to drink black or green tea daily, I also began each day to drink 3 to 4 liters of water with fresh lemon squeezed into the water. If you are not hip to the healing that lemons can bring about in your body, you should definitely do some research. I also eat and drink fermented things, a lot. So kombucha tea, saurkraut, kimche,etc. You see I have come to believe that most if not all chronic medical conditions arise from what we put into our bodies and how these affect our digestive system. It just seems logical, and the fact that as I began to turn my focus to this, I started to get better. I also have noted that when I do cheat, because I do sometimes, everyone does, I may occasionally eat some pizza or some ice cream, I note how my skin reacts to this and it does indeed react. So it is actually quite easy to stay on track, I don't want to return back to that place, and hopefully this helps to not do so. As things stand today, I continue to heal from the horrid condition of PRP. There is really no way to determine if this would have been the course of the disease for me regardless of my efforts to heal myself internally or not. Another area that I do not want to discount is prayers, I have had a lot of folks praying for me about this and I know that God answers prayers, at least in my experience he does.
A few other items of note, I have begun to use cryotherapy several times a week. This seems to be helping. This disease is primarily an inflammatory process, so my thought is that anything that helps to reduce inflammation, which cryo does in spades, is good. The other is exercise. Since I now have regained the normal ability to sweat again, I have started to exercise and this is wonderful. While things are not perfect with the skin yet, I feel that I am on the way to remission, and I certainly feel 1000% better than I did for the majority of 2015, there is still some time left to go. I still have areas of blotchy red on my shoulders, forearms, and deltoids, and my scalp still "snows" some days, this is all very tolerable compared to where I was 6 months ago. May you have peace in your journeys, may you stay positive, and may you heal. Take it easy everyone. - Sean
Some Informative Links:
Healing Psoriasis Warriors Facebook Group
Healing Psoriasis Warriors
Benefits of Cryotherapy
Cryo Benefits
Benefits of Lemon Water
Benefits of Lemon Water that You Didn't Know About
Sports Cryotherapy of the Woodlands
Sports Cryo of the Woodlands
