copaxone dose

My friend reduced her dose of Copaxone to 10mg instead of 20, a day about a month ago to try and save money. I told her I thought that was playing with fire and she might come to regret it down the road. Will this hurt her in the long run or is half a dose sufficient? She's been on Copaxone for at least 5 years.

Just read that the FDA has approved Copaxone to be given at a higher dose 3 times a week as apposed to a lower does every day. This med is one that I was considering starting for treatment. Does anyone have any thoughts or informationabout the dosage or even the medication?

The Copaxone rep called me yesterday to discuss my refills. I have some questions that maybe some of you can answer. She asked me if I was was still taking Copaxone or a different MS drug with Copaxone, or instead of Copaxone. In the 8 months I've been on Copaxone, I've never been asked this question before. I know the new pill is out, but is anyone here taking the new medicine? and if so... does it work, do you like it? why did you choose to take this?

Well, my new Neurologist was sitting on the fence with the MS diagnosis (probable) -- until the rectal spasms, bladder spasms, paresthesia in both legs (since January 11 - 24/7, everyday until today but still hopeful that they will go away), fecal incontinence x 5 (short bout of it but it hasn't happened again thank god, and a crossed knee adductor response (wtf is that) he finally hopped off the fence and gave me the definitive diagnosis of MS.

I am not a Doctor but I have not heard of Copaxone doing this. Copaxone on rare occassions can cause the salivary gland under the tongue to swell. I had this but it did not effect my taste.

I had a serious flu like side affect from Copaxone after 8 injections. Stopped injecting and after 20 days had courage enough to inject again. Had another milder flu like reaction. Have not tried since. I am about 100 lbs. Would a smaller dose be helpful or is this an accumulative result? Copaxone doesn't even acknowledge a flu like side affect while the interferron drugs mention it quite easily. Would I be more likely to experience a maybe even more severe reaction to these?

I only made it as high as the half dose. I had no other side effects, no injection site pain. I switched to Copaxone and have been on it for the past 18 months or so. The first several weeks the shots were pretty painful, the stinging and burning lasted a long time and the big red dollar size welts were pretty bad. After a while all of this diminished greatly and I only occasionally feel a mild burning a few minutes after my shot.

I know they have looked at different way to dose Copaxone - including reducing the amount and another study that looked at going to an every other day injection. I was thinking that neither of those worked out in the studies, but I may be remembering that incorrectly. I'm going to a copaxone sponsored talk this week and will ask that question if I remember.

Well the Beta Nurse just left. I did my first dose of Betaseron today. More anxiety over possible side effects then teh shot itself, Shots dont really bother me as I am a nurse. But still have the anxiety over side effects. Shot itself wasnt bad, not itch or redness like I had with teh copaxone. I took ibuprophen, and hopefully I dont get any flu like symptoms. Will do next shot on Saturday.

I thought I would just check in and say hi though and see how you guys are all doing? Oh my other reason for posting is to say I am STILL waiting to start copaxone despite seeing the neuro back in early May! Basically, he's delaying things for some reason and I'm battling to find out what's going on.

I have to do a really small dose on my legs because with a full dose, I get lumps the size of softballs! I try to hang in there. Sometimes I give up and skip a week or 2 just to give my poor legs a rest. What was your reaction to copaxone? Having lupus, I can't do any of the interferons. My rheumie said with lupus my body makes interferon. My neuro suggested methotrexate, but that won't do because of my kidneys. Then he suggested tysabri.

Here is the question....however, please read the back up information that goes along with it. Has anyone missed or skipped their Copaxone shot.? And if so did you notice any return of your MS related symptoms or disabilities? I've been taking Copaxone 20 mg, one shot per day, every day since June and I haven't missed a dose. I do have horrible welts, the injections are sometimes rather painful as I have heightened nerve sensations in some areas, while decreased in others.

I am sorry things didnt work out for you with Copaxone. If it were not for all the injection site reactions, I think the Copaxone would have worked well for you.

Hi Sam, Well, I'm just not sure. I'll tell you, I went on Rebif not long after being dx'd and I'm off of it now for a short time (for other reasons), and I'm curious to see how I feel after I restart. For me, I could not tell the difference between MS feeling like ****, or Rebif feeling like ****. I really did not have enough time w/MS to know the difference. Now that I've had this gap in time, I feel I will know the difference too.

So I finally received my 2014 Copaxone planner in the mail, and it's different this year and I hate it! They only included one diagram page per month (the page with the layout of the different injection sites). Last year and the year before, the planner had one diagram page per *week*. That's how I learned to plan my injections, and that's what I'm used to. How am I supposed to plan my injections now??!?!?! D@mn you, Shared Solutions! Boooooo!

Overnight trip turned into 4 nights and counting. Highway is washed out. I brought two syringes of Copaxone, dropped and contaminated one, took the other on Weds and nothing since. Can't get any here. Hoping I'll be home tomorrow ( to my flooded city) so miss only 4 days. Has anyone skipped that long and run into any major problems?

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