ask: Has anyone tried QuickRelief for psoriasis?

Hi Anon

Thank you for your question and welcome!

I don't personally know anyone who has used QuickRelief before. If the psoriasis is covering 70% of your body, I really hope you can find something that lasts.

We talk about lots of treatment options to consider on our Psoriasis page :

Treatment is based on:

The severity of the disease
The extent and location of the areas involved
Responsiveness to the treatment

Topical Treatment
Many patients respond very well to treatments applied directly to the skin. Topical treatments include:

Corticosteroid creams and ointments (most common treatment)
Synthetic forms of vitamin D and retinoids (calcipotriene ointment 0.005)
Retinoids (tazarotene gel 0.05 and 0.1%)
Coal tar preparations
Bath solutions and moisturizers
Tacrolimus and pimecrolimus (especially for inverse psoriasis)

Photo (Light) Therapy
If psoriasis covers more than 30% of the body it is difficult to treat with topical medications alone. Daily, short, nonburning exposure to sunlight clears or improves psoriasis in many people. Sunlight is often included among initial treatments. A more controlled form of artificial light treatment (UVB phototherapy) is often used in more widespread cases. Althernatively, psoriasis can be treated with ultraviolet A (UVA light) and psoralen. Psoralen is an oral or topical medication that makes the body more sensitive to light. This treatment is known as PUVA.

Phototherapy can be very effective in controlling psoriasis but it requires frequent treatments. It may cause side effects such as nausea, headache, fatigue, burning, and itching. Both UVB and PUVA may increase the person's risk for squamous cell and, possibly, melanoma skin cancers . It is unclear whether UVB increases the risk of skin cancer.

Systemic Treatment
For more severe types of psoriasis, doctors may prescribe a number of other powerful medications, which can be effective, but are associated with more serious side effects. These include:

Methotrexate—should not be taken by pregnant women, women planning to become pregnant, or by their male partners.
Cyclosporine—suppresses the immune system to slow the turnover of skin cells.
Hydroxyurea—less toxic than methotrexate or cyclosporine, but may be less effective
Systemic retinoids—Compounds with vitamin A-like properties taken internally (such as methotrexate) may be prescribed in severe cases. Retinoids can cause birth defects, and women must diligently protect themselves from pregnancy for several years after completing treatment. Systemic retinoids are often combined with phototherapy for increased effectiveness and for their property of being protective against squamous skin cancer.

Newer systemic immunomodulators, or biologicals—so called because they affect some aspect of the body’s natural immune response—may also be quite effective. These treatments are generally the most expensive, though, and some can cause serious toxicity when given systemically (intravenously or by injection). Topical preparations of immunomodulators are currently being tested and seem to have benefits. Other drugs called thiazolidinediones may show promise as future treatments for psoriasis, but are not currently recommended.

You can read a lot more here: http://www.empowher.com/media/reference/psoriasis#definition

Unfortunately, the sun is a great treatment but along with that comes sun damage and possible cancer risks.

Anon, have your tried any of the treatments talked about above?

I do hope other readers who have used QuickRelief see your question and respond. In the meantime, we hope to hear back from you soon!

Susan

Anon - You may want to connect with others who have psoriasis through the National Psoriasis Foundation and ask them if they have personally tried this product and what else has proven helpful. Pat

National Psoriasis Foundation: http://www.psoriasis.org/

I have tried the quickrelief at quickrel.com. IT IS A SCAM! The moneyback guarantee is a hoax.. no money back .. ever. They force you to try it for 6 months so that your credit card company cannot come back on them. THEN.. the guarantee.. after 6 months.. they will continue to send you the product for free until it works for you - that is their guarantee. Oh, yeah, dont forget the $12.95 per month shipping fee for your FREE product. DO NOT FALL FOR THE SCAM!

I would have to give Quick relief a thumbs up. I out of the blue was afflicted with severe psoriasis .tried everything on the market ....quick relief was the only thing I didnt waver from, combined with apple cider vinegar spiked baths with a healthy does of salt brought me out of the severe zone and cleared up in a few mo. for just maintenance I use regulaar baths with a coal tar shampoo and over the counter cortisone for spotting and early stage break outs. saw a visable change in skin when gone off after 6mo. on quick relief, so I gotta get some more ..gotta go... good luck all

I also tried QuickRelief and it MAY work for some, but definitely not me. Where it IS a scam is that they say it is "guaranteed to work or it's free." I could not locate the actual guarantee wording on the website prior to ordering, so I assumed "THAT" statement meant what MOST of us would expect...a full refund if it did not work. When I questioned procedures for getting a refund, I was THEN e-mailed a copy of the exact guarantee, which as mentioned above involves paying shipping monthly to get more "free?" product. My psoriasis actually got noticeably worse while using this product so WHY would I choose to spend MORE money to put questionable products into my body that may be making matters worse? Since when does ~$200=free? This is false advertising by the company and I wouldn't want anyone else to be misled by it. I was and still am unemployed, so there just is not money to try something else if this company fails to stand behind the words as they are written openly on the website...not the HIDDEN words you see when you try to utilize the guarantee. They state they are more accommodating than other companies for this situation, but I can tell you that another product I used failed miserably and made matters worse. THAT company was only charging about $40 for their product, with similar effectiveness "statistics" and when I brought it to their attention, they refunded my purchase price and covered my dermatologist bill, 12 laser treatments, and some prescription topical products that were needed to resolve the problem to the condition I was in before the use of the product. It's a TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN OPERATION and THAT is why I have a problem with QuickRelief. I wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy.