Have lately been trying a new drug to get my psoriasis under control, psoriasis has plagued me now for about 15 years, most of the time I suffer with over 70% of my skin effected by psoriasis, I have probably spent around 8 months worth, or more, of the last 15 years as a hospital inpatiant because of it.
Well, all’s changed, recently I have been allowed access to a new drug, this new (to me) treatment is just brilliant, its self injected, every two weeks, which is a little disconcerting at first, but easy enough to do, a course of the drugs lasts 16 weeks, and I was pretty much clear of psoriasis by the 8th week, and by the 12th week I would say I only have a few small patches of psoriasis, and all this is almost without using topical treatments like Dovabet, 50/50 and the rest of the crap that just ruins your life, which I could quite easily use a tub of 50/50 every other day previose to this new drug.
So I am just starting my second 16 week course, and I have my fingers X’d that all goes well, and that the psoriasis can manage to stay away.
Of course the drug, which I forgot to mention is called Humira or ‘adalimumab’, has some pretty serious side effects, so that even the top few lines of the drug companies own website says
"Serious infections have happened in patients taking HUMIRA. These infections include tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by viruses, fungi, or bacteria that have spread throughout the body. Some of these serious infections have been fatal."
Its that last word, ‘Fatal’ which worries me loads, Humira seems to have side effect issues which allow certain cancers to develop? I suppose with the many lifetimes worth of PUVA and UVB/A that I have had over the years, I should be quite wary of skin cancers, but to be honest, it feels so great to just have some normal skin again, I reckon Its worth the risks.