I’ve been having some good success reducing my psoriasis lately — and I believe it’s because of an increase in testosterone.
I require testosterone supplementation due to a pituitary malfunction, and started the regimen about 3 months ago. Since I started, I’ve seen about a 30% reduction in psoriasis plaques and the condition seems to get better each week. I wonder if I increase the supplements will the plaques decrease even more?
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Tom
That’s a contrast to my experience. I do not suffer normally but psoriasis is in my family and I did suffer as a child. Not too long ago I drastically increased my intensity of weight training at the gym to try to naturally increase my testosterone levels. I figured I had accomplished that because my muscles grew quite considerably during the short period I did it. Unfortunately this was accompanied by a small patch of what appeared to be psoriasis around my abdomen area. I dropped the weight training intensity down again and it eventually went away. Although not as quickly as the muscle unfortunately!
I had always figured that the psoriasis had been triggered by the hormonal change. Your comment seems to suggest otherwise.
admin
Thanks for the comment Tom.
I believe that a large part of the frustration with psoriasis is that a “treatment” will work for one person, but have either no effect or even the opposite effect for someone else.
I’ve seen tremendous improvement from suntanning, but a friend of mine avoids the sun like the plague because his symptoms get much worse with any sunlight exposure.
I strongly believe that a cure will be found one day, but at this moment, things don’t look too good for psoriasis sufferers…
ihatepsoriasistoo
i hate psoriasis too……..i have had it since 13……
melanie
i suffer from psoriasis and i have been battling for the last ten years. Frist it was tanning beds which had cleared me for entire year and still has kept me clear in some areas. then it was just heavily moisturizers which i still use. I have certain triggers like drinking booze, chocolate, smoking, drugs, over eating anything, red meat, coffee, and worrying to much basically everything i love to do. I also have tried perscription creams which works great but after to long it leaves little white marks on the skin. I also tried enbrel which was a no go for me over rated drug it really sucked the big one, bumbed it did not work for me because it was free for me. I am now using methotrextrate which saved me for a while but its so damn expensive with no insurance. I suffer on one knee my elbows, some random part of my body then strangley it goes away just on the radom body part. they are small but not the ones on my knee and elbow well maybe not as bad as others. this so refreshing to talk about i hate it though. I am pretty i guess you could say i am gorgeus and it even happens to pretty people as well. no one deserves this disease because its ugly and heart breaking to some but i am a fighter and will always fight for clear skin love to you all who suffers and continue to pray for a cure so we can live our lives to the fullest. please do not give up just keep trying to find the solution. for you we have help and dont take the dermotolgists shit either after all your the one paying them. speak up and tell them what the hell you want find a new one if they do not have answers take care and bless you all. melanie
melanie
i feel like talking more about it because i have never opened up about it know one has ever questioned me no one. its not as bad as some. But here is when it gets bad. The winter months suck, okay. Take luke warm showers not hot ones. If you love hot showers only take them once a week if that. Mostuirze all the time through the day and night damn it all the time. stay away from trigger foods. and make sure you budget for the expensive medications. its worth it, okay. Do not try feel bad about your self. Even though i dont know anybody who has posted. I love you and i am struggling with you. Good luck everyone hope you are in remssion. from larimore nd
Dal L. Gordon
Hello, well to those who think testosterone may effect psoriasis, I may, or may not agree.
I have suffered with psoriasis for more than fifty years. I recently started thinking that testosrone may have some effect on this hiduous skin condition. I am in the middle of a flare-up, and at time’s I start looking for new way’s of treatment. And believe me I have used all of them. Melanie don’t get to discouaged, our emotion run circle around us with problem, and no one really understand how, or what we feel, other than those who have experienced this condition.
admin
Dal,
Make an appointment with an Endocrinologist to get your hormone levels checked. When I got mine checked, I found out that my testosterone was near zero and my prolactin levels were through the roof. After supplementing with testosterone and taking medicine to drive down the prolactin levels my psoriasis improved dramatically–a side effect I did not anticipate, but welcomed…