Copaxone and thyroid
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hi Marizzy, and welcome to the forum. I can say that since this is your first post! I'm glad you have decided to join in the conversation.
I am also a heart patient - I had a heart attack last year at the age of 53. I am fine but do remain aware of all things cardio.
Have you called the Rebif hotline and talked to them about side effects? I am on copaxone and very know little about the other DMD's and their side effects, but I will look and see if I can find some answers.
I posted here a couple of months ago and never really posted an intro!
I was diagnosed with MS in Sept. 2006, I was put on Betaseron for a while, but had to discontinue because I never got over the flu like symptoms. I was then put on Copaxone which I did well on, but then stopped taking on my accord. My LP came back negative, but my MRI shows lesions in my cerebellum and brain stem.
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.
hi Mary--
I was very lucky -- at my first neuro visit, we discussed CRABs, and he sent me hope with tons of info on all of them, as well as books about MS. He recommended Rebif for me, but he also has patients on Copaxone.
I've been on Rebif 22mcg for 18 months -- no flu-y symptoms, no side effects (except a mild occasional morning-after headache). No relapses.
Hey there,
Not sure what brought me to this site just now, I have been living with MS for over a year now, and just thought I would google Copaxone and here I am reading your post. I had problems with blood clots before, and a year ago, I had a issue that every time I layed down my hands and feet would go numb, well them, one day my whole right side had no feeling in it for about 2 weeks I thought I was having a stroke.
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.
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 was in this bottom 3% and after two attempts, ruling out any other possible culprits (normal baseline, then no alcohol, supplements or any other medication for the trial run on Rebif), I went off Rebif at the advice of my neuro, who treated this all very seriously, and went on Copaxone June of 2008. My liver enzymes promptly returned to normal, and I am tolerating this med well ; it has no neg effect on the liver.
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