Pityriasis Lichenoides

As a published author, I thought my third book might center around living with PLC (or pityriasis lichenoides chronica) — a diagnosis I received in my teens and have lived with ever since. The chronica implies that I will have spotted skin (seasonally reddish or white) as long as I am alive. As I began researching again, [...]

“If you were a fish, you’d be a speckled trout!” my stepdad told me one day while fishing together on our boat. I was mortified as an adolescent. I was 14 years old the day I was diagnosed with pityriasis lichenoides chronica. I was in seventh grade the year prior, and had visited my share of [...]

When I was just 4 years old, I was diagnosed with pityriasis lichenoides (PLEVA, in short). I woke up fine in the morning, but as I got home from school, my mother noticed I was covered with red spots from head to toe. My parents took me to countless doctors and dermatologists, only to be told [...]