- "Psoriamiming" - What my wife calls it when I
wear my white cotton gloves to bed every night. I like to pretend I
am a mime. The gloves help keep my ointments on my hands and not on
the bed. -Adam G.
- "Pso Bored" - When you
create beautiful art on your desk from the flakes you have
masterfully accumulated throughout the day. -Adam G.
- "Psymmetry" -
the symmetrical development of plaques in the same place on opposite
sides of the body. -Rob T.
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"Globehead"
- A scalp flaker with a shaved head. And we're talking about a
great globe with 3D topography! -Mars B.
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"Flake Flurries" - Rubbing at a dry, flaked spot on the scalp while the
desk fan is blowing.
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"Cruel
irony" - fingernail loss (due to ... P) -Teenie
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"Manually
exfoliating" - scratching -Teenie
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"Flake
waste management" - manually exfoliating over a wastebasket -Teenie
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"Rock
candy" - Red blood crystal from a new scalp pustule -Teenie
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"Spiderflake"
- Thick, white, circular scalp flake attached to at least six hairs. -Teenie
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"Sleepscratching"
- Explanation for bloody, flaky sheets if you can't remember
scratching. -Teenie
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"Deflake"
- brushing off one's shoulders. -Christina W.
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"Snow
storm" - vigorous hairbrushing. -Christina W.
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"Goop
me!" - please rub my ointment on the places I can't reach.
-Christina W.
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"Scratch
fest" - what you were doing to create that pile of flakes
surrounding you. -Christina W.
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"Super
Spotty" - when I flare up. -Christina W.
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"Strip 'n'
zap" - UV treatment. -Deanna N.
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"Mining"
- looking for a fresh patch of P to scratch when the current area is
"all flaked out." -Paul M.
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"Psis"
- pronounced "sis": A fellow female flaker, as in
"Psister."
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"Flame,"
"flaming" = when a lesion turns blood-red and is generating
maximum scale. What we would like to say but usually
can't: "I'm taking the week off because I'm flaming."
-Ed
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"Domes"
= thick, hard patches of scalp P that are puffed up like a football
stadium (like the former Kingdome in Seattle) -Alison S.
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"Psoriasis
Shimmy" = the dance we do to shake the flakes from our shoulders,
characterized by a shaking of the shoulders and twisting of the upper
body -Alison S.
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"Beauty
Mark" = a small patch of P on your cheek where Cindy Crawford's
mole would be -Alison S.
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"Backscratchers"
= kitchen spoons, hangers, rulers
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"Crunchy"
= skin when it's painful and dry, thick with flakes
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"Psoriasis
soup" = Insert one flaker into a tub of hot water for 45 minutes
or until flakes soften. Slough flakes with abrasive cloth 'til
water is opaque. Serves plenty if you can find anyone that
hungry.
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"Bread
crumbs," "Potato Flakes," "Oatmeal" =
descriptions for relative sizes of P-flakes
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"Jelly
head" = flaker with scalp occluded under clear plastic shower cap
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"Lube
up" or "grease up" = the daily act of applying topicals
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"Shake and
Bake Flake" = don't wash sheets for a week, lube up before going
to bed, this is what you are the next morning
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"Tachyphlaxing"
= (pronounced tack-uh-flaxing) what you do for a few weeks when
your topical steroids stop working (i.e., stop using them until your
skin forgets)
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"Flake
Bake" = using a UV box
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"Flake Bake
Stink" = the smell inside a UV box
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"Bake'n'Bleed"
= a UV session followed by a blood work-up
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"Scratch
eye" = universal expression worn by flakers while they scratch a
lesion
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"Pig
penning" = flaking up an area (apologies to Charles Shultz's
"Pig Pen")
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"Blister
Fire" = generalized pustular psoriasis
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"Acid
Burn" = erythrodermic multiform psoriasis (EMP)
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"Psoriatic
trudge" = the arthritic walk you get in the middle of a bad flare
