@A MyPsoriasisTeam Member 》I used OTC 1% hydrocortisone cream periodically for itching on the arms. Otherwise, I just moisturized with CeraVe cream and mostly dealt with the itching.

My itching was actually never what you could call real bad, which I mention in the book. And based on what I've read anyway, psoriasis tends to itch less than eczema at least usually.

Itching for me would be at it's worst for the most part when laying down to go to sleep, probably just because I was relaxing and became more aware of itching that was already there. Again, though, I just dealt with it.

But the best way I found to "scratch the itch" without seriously damaging the skin was to use a stiff nylon hairbrush and gently scratch it. Fingernails tend to damage the skin and don't really work to contain the itching very well at all, but for me the stiff nylon hairbrush worked good.

I would also sometimes get severe itching in my toes, at the instep of the feet, and at the heel area. However, that was not psoriasis and was peripheral neuropathy. I did have psoriasis on the backs of my hands, but it never progressed to the feet.

My peripheral neuropathy problems are also mostly gone now, but once in awhile I will still get severe itching in different areas of the feet. And using a stiff nylon hairbrush to vigorously scratch the feet has always worked very well. The skin at the bottoms of the feet is tougher than other skin and handles vigorous scratching without any damage to the skin, at least in my case.

But if I'm driving, or for some other reason can't take my shoe off to scratch the itch, then the itching can get so bad that it literally makes my eyes water. And it only gets worse until I can get the shoe and sock off to scratch it like crazy. After scratching, the itch goes away in the feet, but it can sometimes take awhile.

As for the flaking and scaling, which again was largely at the outer arms, I had a hobby of sorts where I would stand in the bathroom and use the nylon hairbrush to brush the dead skin off onto the floor. Then I would sweep it up. It was both amazing, and disgusting at the same time, at how big the piles of dead skin would be...😳

@A MyPsoriasisTeam Member 》I hadn't heard of the Clobetasol before. But I researched it and see that it's a powerful steroid.

My overall psoriasis, including the inverse, took about 5 to 8 months to fully clear depending on the areas involved. I never used any drugs or steroids with the exception of periodically using just the 1% OTC hydrocortisone cream. Other than that, I only took Omega-3 fish oil supplements and started eating a lot more fish to cure my psoriasis...🐟

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I get under my breast
Groin folds. Specially if I sweat a lot. Clobetasol clears it up 48 - 72 hours.
Yes the crack takes longer. Thank for the information.

I arguably had inverse psoriasis along with also having plaque psoriasis. As described here by the AI answer, I had smooth, shiny, bright red patches under the breasts, the armpits, behind the ears, the belly fold at the waist, the insides of the thighs, the top of the anal crack, the belly button, and also throughout the genital and scrotum areas.

While it didn't itch like the plaque psoriasis on my outer arms, wrists, and backs of the hands did, it was the most problematic and painful of any rash symptoms I had, where instead of itching it would burn. It was necessary for me to slather petroleum jelly over those areas on mostly a daily basis.

The symptoms of inverse psoriasis vanished along with all other symptoms some six months ago, never to return.

In my case, there were some indications that the overall psoriatic condition was rapidly escalating into a case of what is called "erythrodermic" psoriasis, which is one of two psoriasis types that may be considered a medical emergency and life-threatening. The other type is "pustular" psoriasis.

Pictures of my inverse-type rash are included in my upcoming book, "My Psoriasis Journey." The book does NOT contain pictures of the genital area rash or the top of the anal crack...🫣