Why are there so many psoriasis and eczema commercials on TV?

OP is obviously a shill for big pharma, spreading chum in the waters of the DL. No one else would know, much less know how to spell, all those product names.

Psoriasis disproportionately afflicts people in Northern countries. Sun (UV radiation) seems to mitigate it. It's also a result of an overactive immune system so likely liked to several unhealthy dietary and environmental factors. There is no history of this in my family and it started in my 40s.

It’s because those drugs cost thousands of dollars per treatment and are among the highest earners for the pharmaceutical companies. It’s not that so many have those diseases, it’s the astronomical cost of those drugs and their amazing results that are a boon.

Big Pharma tries to make big-deal drugs, but then they figure out they only fix smaller problems like psoriasis, eczema or some other previously non-existent condition they can make up, like 'dry-eye disease'. Then they market the hell out of it.

My psoriasis cream tazarotene used to be available OTC for about 5$ a tube. Some rando pharm company bought the patent, repurposed it and renamed it Tazorac without changing one thing. Now it costs about $700 a tube and it has to be prescribed by a derm. Fuck them, I stopped using it and found other less effective but it’s basically free with my health insurance. The government, the pharmaceutical companies and the related businesses are criminal. I’m fortunate that it’s a minor case.

OP, me and the husbear ask this same thing every day! We’ve begun laughing at them. Especially the know where the woman is behaving all her dead skin flakes all the sheets!!!! Eeewwwwww!!!

R4 and R6 my skin psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis is a serious, debilitating autoimmune disease. I have been on several big pharma injectables and IV infusion treatments. Humira, Cosentyx, Taltz, Tremfya, Remicade. I have to switch to a different biological drug when my body builds antibodies to the drug and it loses its effectiveness. These drugs cost my insurance company over 100K a year. They are not cures but have been near lifesavers for me. Without them my body would be covered with psoriasis lesions (including my face) and my joints would have sustained permanent destruction in the areas where I’m affected: My neck, back, wrists, hands and ankles. I’m 48 yrs old and do not want to live my life indoors and in a wheelchair if I can help it. Would you? Try educating yourself before you and your partner laugh at others who suffer with psoriatic disease.

[quote]No one else would know, much less know how to spell, all those product names.

Unless they own a TV and have access to a search engine

There’s one commercial...not sure if it’s for a skin condition or what... where the voiceover discusses the perinimium, also known as the taint. We get a charge out of that.

R9, do you and your nasty partner shave your overgrown perinimiums?

For r9

That sucks R7. Im glad there are meds for your condition. I work in advertising and most of the focus is on curing the skin condition for aesthetic reasons. It’s such a strange disease that would affect your joints as well.

R7 Rheumatoid Arthritis patient here. My Rheumy wanted me to go on Remicade. I was all for it. Butt Medicaid turned it down saying we need to try Humira first. I just want to try something because Methotrexate is no longer working like it was.

I have eczema and my bullshit dermatologists have never prescribed me any of these fancy drugs. They write me a script for some expensive ass cortisone I can buy in Walmart for $2 and send me on my way!

Thank you R7. I was poo-pooing some of these meds too but you have opened our eyes. The pharmaceutical companies have given me a healthy life. Otherwise I would have died as a grade-schooler or teen. There are some problems with them, but we are lucky to have them.

I am SO SICK of these commercials targeting people with fucked up skin.

Cover that shit up like people used to do. No one wants to see your fucked up skin!

And go slap the shit out of your parents for giving you FUCKED UP SKIN.

R16 I’ll provide the grease fire and you know what you can do next.

Whatever happened to the focus on my Restless Leg Syndrome!?

Psoriatic Arthritis and psoriasis have fucked up my entire life. These drugs are very expensive but are lifesavers.

R5, have your tried Corium 21?

These skin disorders are more prevalent among the obese.

[quote]These skin disorders are more prevalent among the obese.

True. Fatties and topical corticosteroids. Stop shoving down food your body doesn't like, fat whores.