Sunday, 6 April 2014

The Morning Routine

7am- My alarm goes off after another uncomfortable nights sleep, struggling to keep my eyes open I wander to the bathroom to get on with my daily ritual. I set the shower so it's warm but not to hot, jump in and begin covering myself from head to toe with double base shower gel, I have found this most effective when it comes to relieving the strong itching sensation Psoriasis brings. 

  I wash my hair with a coal tar shampoo that I massage in and leave in for a couple of minutes, its washed out then repeated. I always wash twice, otherwise the Dovobet and other products from the night before leaves my hair incredibly greasy. After I Towel dry and apply a thin layer of Dovebet to the Plaques on my body, I leave the Dovobet a while before getting dressed and dab it down with a towel to take any excess that may get on my suit, unfortunately I cant afford to ruin suit after suit. I leave my hair to dry naturally as much as possible and quickly blow dry it with a hair dryer set to cold, I find this the best way to rid my hair of a lot of the flakes. Scalp psoriasis for some reason is what bothers me the most but this way I can keep on top of it, the best thing i have found is keeping my hair short! No matter how much it bothers me, that extra sunlight it gets with my hair short does it the world of good, it took me an awful long to time to go to the barbers and ask them to use the clippers but I have never looked back!I don't use any hair products such as gels and wax's as I find they irritate my scalp to much and i find myself struggling not to itch.

Once dressed I grab a light breakfast and I'm off to work by 8pm.

Double base gel
http://www.nhs.uk/medicine-guides/pages/MedicineOverview.aspx?medicine=Doublebase%20shower%20gel






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