Yes, I have had a hard time with this whole psoriasis thing. I went to England and got really sick, my glands were infected. So after I got home, I broke out ,BAD. So now it has been a year and it seemed to get better until the weather got cold a couple of weeks ago. Now it is coming back and I have never been so down about it. I'm using dobavet and it helps a little bit, but will this ever go away???

I too find the winter does a lot to my psoriasis, it feels like it has been cut, or burnt...and peels terrible.

My psoriasis comes and goes - it clears a bit and then can be brutal. I'm finding the changes of the weather in Ontario is really affecting my skin this year.

I have recently been diagnosed with psoriasis on my finger tips and on the bottom of my feet. For the past year it has been present continuously to varying degrees. I have not had this problem long enough to get a handle on the possible effects of the weather, but I am pretty sure that dry air is a contributing factor.

I have taken dovobet ointment with very limited positive results. I have now been prescribed a pill called Soriatane.

Anybody have any experience with this drug that they would care to comment upon?

I used Soriatane and had some result, however I didn't like the side effects which were cracking and bleeding lips. Also because it does thin the skin that when I would knock my hands and fingers against something they would also crack and bleed.

The weather change during the past month in Ontario has made my skin react horribly. Thanks to UVB treatment i was clear for about 2 years until now. Moist, rainy, cool weather is bad for psoriasis. The winters are horrible. I feel if we all just keep at it with our current treatment and take good care of ourselves, it will all turn out fine.

I hate how cold weather has the ability to control my life. It controls what I wear, where and when I go places, how I feel, etc etc. The cold makes my skin crack and I've spent days in pain to the point I don't wanna move at all. Because of the cold people put heaters on in the car/home which dries my skin out and makes it more noticeable and flaky. So it's either be cold and in pain or be warm and hope that nobody notices me.

I live in Saskatchewan, where temperatures have a brutal habit of lowering to -40 with the wind chill, even during the day (and there's always a wind chill). The dry heat, along with that cold, makes my psoriasis ugly and very painful; blisters, followed by drying out, cracking, bleeding, and finally, peeling. When those blisters clear up, new ones form almost immediately, and the process begins again. I use a humidifier, and Dovobet cream, and take Vitamin D as well. I find that having Diabetes also complicates psoriasis, and has made it worse. Winter is the worst time for my psoriasis. I am now also experimenting with Neem Tree cream after showering, but it is expensive, and isn't very useful, either. Living with psoriasis is an interesting journey, to be sure!