Doug's Personal Blog

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (well, on my other blog) I mentioned I have Psoriasis and that I probably wouldn't mention it again, but I reckon it's ok to pass on some good news that might help someone.

I'd been thinking about the effect of my diet (if I can call it a diet) on my skin and had mentioned it to Mads. One day she came back from the pharmacy with a tub of fish oil capsules. They're a particular brand that she'd read about in some magazine or other but I don't want to get into advertising. Anyway, I took them just to humour her and was quite knocked out when my skin cleared dramatically in a matter of 2-3 weeks. The patches are starting to disappear and, if you'll excuse the detail, they're not really flaking off any more.

First, I'm not a doctor.

Second, psoriasis is a tricky chronic skin condition with so many individual factors at play that it could have absolutely no benefit to most.

Third, I am always very sceptical about miracle cures but, what can I say, this has blown away all of the creams and ointments I've ever used and is up there with UV treatment, at least for me. Less chance of developing skin cancer in the process, too!

Fourth it could be something completely different that's causing my skin to clear up but, frankly, it's unlikely to kill you taking a little fish oil for a few weeks. If it doesn't work for you, fair enough.

If you have it though, you'll know why I'm so happy about it and wanted to pass the information on. Bizarrely, I seem to have cheered up a lot too, but that could just be because I can get away with wearing T-shirts again

OK, so this is the experimental personal blog. I wouldn't expect it to live for long, but I could be wrong.

The existing personal and Oracle postings and all of the future Oracle postings will continue living here because I don't want to have to move blog URLs again (a year after the last occasion) and have aggregators and other websites have to mess about with their links.

The biggest thing you're likely to notice is that the 'Housemate of the Month' feature now belongs to the Personal blog. I mean no offence to the Housemates with their removal from the Oracle blog and I have nothing to hide. They're still here and they're reasonably excited by the prospect of the Personal blog being more popular, thanks to their inclusion, and having the chance to post occasional dispatches from the comfy seat. In fact, some of the American contingent (Randy, Mike and Bobby-Dan) are growling something about kicking my ass.

No doubt they'll start a campaign shortly to use a more informal layout design rather than the boring but efficient one they've had to live with for the past year.