doctors won’t give light treatment

My GP won't refer me to the dermatologist again and I never managed to persuade them to give me light treatment. I've got a bit desperate recently as none of the normal creams are helping - so came to this forum for advice and have just started trying various products from Lush. Superbalm for my scalp for a start - which seems to be working after 1 day! It's worth having a look through the forums about what Lush products are good for which types of psoriasis - if you can get them where you are. Only problem is obviously they won't prescribe them from the GP so you have to fork out your own cash......

Dream Cream from Lush is a wonderful moisturiser in general, but it's really helped me and some friends with our psoriasis. Seems better on plaque than guttate but worth a go. If you search for psoriasis on the Lush website you'll get all the reviews that mention it - there's heaps! I'd also suggest your mum changes her GP. Not all doctors are created equal - some have no experience of P and will try and tell you they know more when you've been suffering longer than they studied. My skin flared up last year and the only GP who actually helped was a woman who's child has it. She was so wonderfully sympathetic and had done her own research for her son. She sent photos to the derm dept for me, showing how quickly it was progressing and I was her 'guinea pig' for Enstilar foam as she'd never prescribed it before. The other doctors just told me to moisturise and to try going to yoga :-/ Basically, don't let your mum get disheartened but she will need to fight her corner because it's not a well understood condition. Also please don't let this make you feel bad. There's literally nothing you can do, and I hate to say it but a lot of P is genetic - keep your stress levels down! The last thing you want is to get a flare up and have to deal with these issues yourself (speaking from experience this will devastate your mum - my mother feels hugely guilty that she passed P onto me because she just gets tiny dots on her elbows and I've been getting covered head to toe every few years for the last decade).

thank you guys so much, i’ll take a look at lush and i’ll also suggest that my mum change doctors, she’s got an appointment next week though so we’ll see how that goes first.