Copaxone and diarrhea
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Was diagnosed with MS on April 9 of this year and immediately prescribed Copaxone. Two days after starting Copaxone I began having stomach pain/nausea/diarrhea, and it has continued for weeks. I recognize my symptoms in some of the comments -- worst in the morning, sometimes better during the day, but sometimes not. It has not been a long time for me, so I am wondering if I will get used to it? But I am losing weight rapidly and feel horrible.
Hi and welcome,
As far as i'm aware IV solumedrol and Copaxone are often being done together, i've never personally heard of specific interaction problems, usually the choices you get is to stay on Copaxone and do the IV Steroid (with or without oral taper) or stay on Copaxone and skip the Steroids if it's not a major relapse.
Ive been on Copaxone for 5 months now and 2 months in had a mild flair of symptoms then it went away. It was trigeminal neuralgia for 3 days then it went away for 3 days then I was hit with extreme fatigue for 3 days where I had to sleep. I developed jumpy jerky arms and legs but medication helped this.
In Feb 08 I began taking Copaxone for MS. Shortly after I began using Copaxone, the right side of my tongue went numb. I initially stopped taking the Copaxone to see if it would resolve itself. It didn't and I continued with the Copaxone. The right side of my tongue is still numb, the numbness on the right side of my mouth has resolved mostly but now I have the most horribly dry mouth. I have tried everything--even so much as sucking on a mouth full of vinegar.
Hi ess
It seems like we have similar issues with the meds. I was dx in 2011 and was on copaxone for 2 yrs and then I developed an " allergic reaction" to it which manifested itself as swollen and somewhat painful inguinal lymph node. Did you have the same problem? After that I was on Avonex for 8 months and tolerated the medication fairly well, but had hard time injecting long needle into the muscle (I used the injectors for both copaxone and avonex).
I'm curious how long it took for those on Copaxone for the welts and redness to lessen.
I've been on Copaxone since June and it seems they are getting worse. The first two or so weeks I did not have much of a problem. Then I started to get large red patches/lumps on my arms. They can run the length of my back arm where I give my shots. Weeks later they started to get large on my legs (the size on my entire hand at times). Eventually they started to get large on my hips and abdomen.
I have MS treated with Copaxone. It has been suggested that I try a product called PROTEIN 7 SYNTHESIS...
Jenny,
Count me as a yes! I think I am the post that Mand was talking about (the Avonex user). I am losing hair by the handfuls each day and the nurse that calls to check on me said that 4% of people in the trials reported hair loss as a problem, yuck.
I am sticking with it for the time being as I have already been on copaxone and it failed to stop my progression ( I didn't lose my hair on that one).
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