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August 05, 2024

Matt Kiselica

Life as a young adult is hard enough with juggling school, friends, and planning for your future, but for some, like Matt, that also meant managing a visible, chronic disease.

In hopes it would “all just go away,” Matt avoided dealing with his disease and found himself among the 1 in 3 people living with psoriasis who developed psoriatic arthritis.

With the introduction of better treatments, and after a severe flare-up, Matt decided he needed to take psoriatic disease more seriously. Over 40 years since his diagnosis, Matt has found a treatment that works, and a community that he belongs to.

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