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I always wondered how far off the mark I was being when I thought, or even wrote or spoke, about the fact that I had had one or two patches of psoriasis and wet eczema that came and went 10-15 or more years ago, and questioned whether the CNV I had developed might do the same, only leaving more permanent damage behind.

Recent reading seems to confirm that these conditions may be related. Interleukin 17 (IL-17), it seems, is very involved with the development of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, and it seems CNV:

nature.com/articles/nri3459-c1 (2013)

researchgate.net/publicatio... (2014)

iovs.arvojournals.org/artic... (2014)

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl... (2019)

Now a little worried cramps and skin tingles and so on aren't MS!

Wondering how much drugs like secukinumab, ixekizumab, and brodalumab might cost.

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The whole system - or rather set of systems - of interleukin and related mediators of inflammation and neovascularisation is so complex, I don't think it would be possible to cram much useful into a forum reply even if I completely understood it, which I don't, I can understand each of those papers, but no idea how they fit into the wider picture of current understanding of interleukins,

There would seem to be a number of correlations, particularly with other conditions affecting capillaries, but I don't think the genetics and physiology are yet understood.

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Yes, it's all terribly complicated and not nearly all fully understood and got together. I remember some years back, I read about all that is involved in developing cancer – it seems a lot needs to happen for it to develop (and a lot needs to be done to get rid of it, of course), but I'm really needing to start again to understand this interleukin stuff.

Nonetheless, looking at this diagram:

researchgate.net/profile/Ta...

from the paper here:

researchgate.net/publicatio...

I'm beginning to think that the reason we don't get IL-17 blocking drugs might just have a tiny bit to do with cost.

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