I knew it couldn’t be a birth mark. Aren’t you BORN with birth marks? This was sent last year after I saw a rheumatologist who believed it was something else. I believed HER so I sent this to my cousin telling her that I thought I might have found the correct diagnosis.
I really did try scrub it off many, many times. I even used various creams, like my steroid creams..nothing got rid of the patches. But I knew it wasn’t birthmarks. Why both ankles?
When my female rheumatologists (I can’t say all do this kind of exam because the first one didn’t) examined me, they both pounced on the patches and asked me what it was. I told them each that I had been confused too as they had appeared decades ago and I thought maybe I had not been washing properly🤣🤣 then realised it wasn’t dirt but nothing would get rid of them. They each immediately said “Psoriasis. And if it’s psoriasis, we will know when you start biologics as biologics can treat psoriasis.”
Treated? I’m going to put this on my YouTube as well. The days I spent online when I didn’t believe the dermatologist, searching for psoriasis and unable to find my type on Black skin, thereby convincing myself that it was not psoriasis…This one needs to be shared in case someone else has a case like mine. Not because psoriasis on its own is bad. But if she had diagnosed me with it, and then asked me if I have joint pain, we might have then at least diagnosed something like Ankylosing spondylitis which can come with psoriasis, or even psoriatic arthritis. We’d have been closer to the truth and I’d have seen a rheumatologist sooner.
It matters. Knowing what it is matters.
So yes, this is my Public Service Announcements. Psoriasis can look like this. Both ankles are clear. Been on and off biologics since July and fully on since January 25 this year.
Thank me later😉
They said I should write a book 