Explains it all!

Saw this and thought of you all,.

[Tinat3]

Haha. Love it!

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I will be kind to Bill. I notice he's managed to keep his weight down!

It's a great message and a simple one. Might be worth mentioning that PsA doesn't always mean chronic pain, that's not how it is for me anyway. I know I'm lucky in that respect but hopefully there are many others like me. My PsA has given me plenty of pain in the past but the last few years have been pretty easy in that respect at least. I'd say I have chronic discomfort, a lot of odd sensations that are relatively easy to put up with.

[immyapple]

sooooooo true

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In the past many people who I worked with would say I was making to much a meal of my condition as I was in and out of Hospital having treatment and would need to go straight home after Light Treatment and the drugs that sensitized to skin, you need to sit in a shaded room or you could burn

BOB

[BonnieSue]

I've been getting off easy regarding joint pain but not so in regards to nails being distorted and requiring daily care, sometimes several times a day. And still sometimes my pointer fingers are very painful as the sides of the nail leave the quick exposed. The centers of the nails are concave while the rest is sticking up too high and not attached to the quick and this gets quite painful...like the Chinese torture I've heard of in the past if that's even true. There seem to be so many nerve endings in my fingertips this can really hurt because I use my hands all the time for so many things.

I constantly groom my finger and toenails to try to keep them presentable. I use the newer battery powered handheld "grinder" machine to wear away tougher skin around my fingertips and ankles, toes, etc. to keep all looking like decent skin and not calloused and white. I use a very strong hand lotion similar to pure lanolin to soften the tough areas after polishing or abrading them away. It looks more like soft wax than lotion.

This has allowed me to get back a lot of the feeling I'd lost when my fingertips felt like they had thimbles or callouses on them. I actually seem to be getting somewhat calloused material off in some areas or maybe just typical psoriasis-like overgrowth of cells and skin/nail. Years ago a podiatrist told me a very thick pinky toenail was actually a calloused toenail. So now I don't mind using my grooming device to bring that nail down to just the thickness of 1 normal nail. I'm getting rid of the calloused part.

My nails are paper thin and peel and tear daily in any direction or manner they want. They are useless for all the tasks I see other people use their nails for. It's very frustrating!!