Dumbest thing ever said to you about your psoriasis?

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Permalink Reply by Minneka Hayes on October 7, 2010 at 10:21am

Im 23 and Ive had psoriasis for 22 years! My father had psoriasis but was not in my life, so i had no one around the help understand..
At one point I thought I had heard it all, and then the comments and looks just keep coming, I have had ppl tell me as I was working as cashier,m they dont want me to touch their things, ppl ask if I like to roll in poison ivy, if i have been badly burned, the best question "what is wrong with you?" ppl have gotten out of a pool when i ve gotten in, they think I have chicken pox..... But I met my husband in high school, and I was the first person he had ever met with Psor, he told me he didnt even notice that I had psor until he knew me for like 2 months...(Psor covers 75% of my body, face included) we've been married for 4 years and have a 2 yr old son(no signs of Psor on my son yet!) and he says he still never notices unless he catches someone staring, or I mention it...<3

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Permalink Reply by Scott Meyers on October 8, 2010 at 11:23am

I did have a guy ask if I had ring worm and my brother in law asked if if was on my Genitals.........my wife was quick to hit her brother with a quick jab

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Permalink Reply by Nanci Bong on October 26, 2010 at 10:54pm

I have had a few different things said. One was from a little girl. She thought I must have been really sweet cuz it looked like the bugs really liked me. When children ask what it is I tell them it is because I didn't eat my veggies when I was their age. Adults get a short biology lesson and I try to use really big words. That way most people have to stop and think about it and I get away with no more questions.

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Permalink Reply by Betty Pannell on November 29, 2010 at 3:34pm

My grandmother would tell me when I was young, if I'd only cut my long hair off, so air could get to my scalp, it would go away.

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Permalink Reply by Ramon Nadal on November 30, 2010 at 5:48am

when my co-worker told me that i have a chicken pox and said to me " eeeewwww" stay away from me you might pass it to me"

wish its just a chicken pox that after a days or weeks it will be gone ...

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Permalink Reply by Sara Robb on December 2, 2010 at 3:56pm

My personal fave is..."why don't you just put lotion on it!"

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Permalink Reply by Glynis Pretty on December 2, 2010 at 4:55pm

Definately can relate to that one!!

Shelby said:

I say I leave a part of me every where I go!

jeff said:

well i had so much dried skin and it would fall on to the carpet and my room mate said it looked like i was falling apart

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Permalink Reply by Frank Garcia on December 23, 2010 at 4:32pm

I rented a car with a black interior from Avis.
When I returned the car, the Avis guy said
"have you been smoking in the car???
There's ashes everywhere!!" I said "No, that's
skin" - he was extremely embarrassed  and
very apologetic.

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Permalink Reply by Julie M on January 7, 2011 at 3:35pm

I actually say this to myself about my own scalp psoriasis: "I snow everywhere I go!" 

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Permalink Reply by mariposawisdom on January 17, 2011 at 9:04pm

My son had p when he was 5. The children's ministry people kept asking me week after week if it was ringworm. I told them it was no9thing to worry about, and left it at that- didn't feel like explaining. Once the director actually came and got me out of a church service, and had another church member who was a doctor tell me that he had seen the rash and that it "sure looked like ringworm" to him. I don't go there any more.

 

I took my son to get his hair cut at great clips, and the lady who cut his hair asked if we had animals at our house. I told her that we had cats and a dog. and she pointed to his p and said that "this is very contagious between animals and humans" and that we "should get rid of our pets" I told her that it was psoriasis... and she went right on explaining that it was a communicable disease caused by close contact with animals... just like I never said a thing!

 

I have pretty bad scalp psoriasis. too. one day I was waiting in line at the grocery store and I heard a lady behind me tell her friend " Ewww" and then whisper " FLAKES!"

 

My brother also has scalp p- when my son asked him for something, he said "No, but I can give you some of the potato flakes from my head!"

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Steven on January 19, 2011 at 8:46am

Someone told me once that it was from poor hygiene!!! I was mad!

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Andrews on January 22, 2012 at 5:59pm

I remember a time when I had Psoriasis really bad and had huge lesions everywhere on my body.

Generally I covered them up to avoid having to constantly tell people what it was and answer their stupid questions.

So anyway one night I was out drinking with a couple of mates and some random stranger came up and asked me about the lesions that he could see on my upper arm.

I had the usual spiel ready to go, and I guess it must have been a combination of alcohol and the fact that I was sick of people asking me about it, but I ended up telling this bloke that I had leprosy and that the wonderful drugs that I’m on now keeps it under control so I don’t start losing body parts. As I was telling him this, I moved closer and closer to him. Eventually he got really uncomfortable and disappeared into the crowd.

This had my mates in stitches.

I guess that sometimes you just have to have a bit of fun with it.

I’ve been on Enbrel for the last two years and am almost completely clear. There are just a couple of stubborn bits on my elbows and knees.

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