u/CupboardFlowers

I'm not sure how best to word this, I can post photos but I'm not looking for medical advice, more just people's experiences and what those with more experience do. So I've been diagnosed with "psoriasis" and even though no one has ever said the word, I'm quite confident it's guttate psoriasis. It's been about four months and I'm about half way through a four week course of a couple creams that make me feel and smell like a slug that lives in an abandoned coal cellar.

Anyway so they told me to use the creams until the spots are "completely healed" but I'm autistic and I don't know if MY definition of completely healed is the same as theirs, and I don't really want to go and pay for an appointment just to look at hundreds of individual spots and tell me if they still need the cream or not. I will if it's really needed, and I intend to go back at the end of the four weeks to ask more questions anyway, hence not asking for specific medical advice. There are definitely some that still look red, raised, dry or scaly. Obviously they still need it. But others are flat and feel smooth although are still slightly discoloured. Some are almost entirely faded but are still visible.

How do I know if it's leftover hyperpigmentation, residual inflammation or something else? If I stop the creams and it's not healed will it come back just in that spot or spread elsewhere? Do I just keep going until the skin looks completely normal and clear? I'd really like to hear from people that have dealt with this longer than I have, how do YOU know when it's okay to stop using the creams?

It's 4am and I'm freaking out a bit here (quite possibly unnecessarily) but I'm pretty sure one of my wisdom teeth has been playing up the last week or two and it doesn't feel like it's going to settle down on its own this time. I've got a 5 month old who's never had a bottle, I don't pump, I'm worried how everything might work if I need surgery to get this tooth taken out. Just wondering if anyone has had this done in the past and what you did?

I'm going to discuss with my husband in the morning, see if I can get in with my dentist and talk options with them too. I'm not so much worried about medications, if I find out what they'll use for anaesthesia and whatnot I can look them up and see what's safe. I'm worried about potentially having to be separated from my baby for an unknown length of time when she's never known any other way of feeding. I've also never had dental surgery so the idea of that in general is upsetting. Brains don't work great at 4am, especially neurodivergent ones, so would love to hear about other experiences if there are any!

I finished my first ever knitted sweater recently with a DK weighted yarn. If I follow the same pattern with the same size needles can I assume it will behave the same way but with a lighter, more airy finish? Or will I definitely have to do a gauge swatch and adjust the pattern from there?

Or am I better off trying to find a more mesh-y type pattern that specifically uses a thin yarn