Sometimes you may experience non-skin-related symptoms as part of living with psoriasis. It’s important to make the connection, if possible. Is this part of a common related condition? There are many common conditions related to psoriasis. New symptoms could mean you are also experiencing one of these related conditions.

It’s self-empowering to put together a health care team you can rely on for personalized care. Your team could include your dermatologist and other providers outside dermatology to help diagnose or treat related conditions.

There are common and rare side effects with many psoriasis medications. Your quality of life during treatment includes the proactive management of side effects (that may appear as new symptoms).

Be as detailed as possible when you tell your doctor about the new symptoms you’re having. That can give them a complete picture of what you’re going through.

Your doctor will try to figure out whether your new symptoms came at the same time of some change you may have made (a new topical or supplement, etc.) or some other kind of trigger.

If you feel a new symptom coming on, don’t wait to go to the doctor. It might be tempting to see whether it’ll go away, but you don’t want to wait weeks or even months when you could be feeling better instead of just wondering.

Joint pain and stiffness are among the most common new symptoms people may have.