Facial Plaque - 2 years (and counting) breakout

Posted Fri 18 Apr 2025 12.04 by jonc

Hi I wanted to share my experience with my most visible breakout and see if anyone has suggestions to help. I have suffered many breakouts in my lifetime, and like many of you have waded through the snake-oil like offerings of products and methods used to ease them. I have worked through dozens of diets and topical ointments, with limited success. I find that what helps best for many of my breakouts is a session of UV-B light treatment ( I bought my own lamp!) followed by coal-oil ointment poultice. This is not an overnight fix and takes many weeks of treatment, but it helps more than anything else. I have had a facial breakout which slowly started around 2 years ago, and the above treatments are not having any real affect. Presumably because the face is used to UV, being exposed more than any other part of the body. Here are som imgur pics of the average state of the Plaque, it can be angrier or lighter at different times: https://imgur.com/a/lVJKWEu I have found light acid skin peels can improve it as the skin heals, but it returns within a week with no real shrinkage. I feel the worse it gets, the more stressed i get (I think the most powerful of Psoriasis triggers) and so i am stuck in the feedback loop with this one! Can anyone speak to something that could get this under control? Thanks J

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