copaxone joint pain

When I was in Arizona, I found craniosacral therapy to give me the most relief. I was extremely apprehensive about it initially. A friend of mine is a practioner and kept hounding me to give it a try. Then, I was working in an Emergency room and had a patient pull my arm during a procedure and separated my AC joint. After 4 steroid injections I still had limited motion of my arm and intense pain. Surgery was my only option.

It seems my MRI has not changed in five years. That along with odd joint pain is causing me to doubt my diagnosis. I asked the neuro if It was possible that I had something else. He never gave a legit answer . . . Just kept saying he had to go by the diagnosis my previous neuro gave. I am not sure what I think, and I do not want to start copaxone (was on betaseron for a year) if it won't make a difference. All advice is welcome and needed.

I was leaning more towards copaxone, as well as my doctor.Has anyone been on this medication? What are the side effects like (if you had any) and did you notice a difference being on it? Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated!!

and watch some Telly with the hubby, it really helps with the pain. I am 1.5 months into copaxone and it does get better. It hurt alot in the beginning and my legs are the worse. They would ache all over for like 1 hour after the jab. It's a lot better now. I can inject, ice alittle and pretty much move on. Magsmomma don't give up yet! Give it at least 1 month!

Well, I started copaxone again today. I hope it works well. The shot isn't too terrible which is good. And thank God, no huge welts. So here's hoping I can continue for quite a while on this stuff.

The last month my finger pain has really gotten bad and has now started in on my right hand too - and that started with a bout of SHARP pain in the pinky finger joint but is now in the middle, ring, pinky on that hand too - still worse on the left. what gives?

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 took Copaxone for five years, injecting every day, and recently switched to Rebif after a very long flare-up and lingering damage. It took a 20-day taper burst of prednisone to knock me into a plateau. Copaxone seemed not to be doing what it was supposed to do. For me, Rebif is very painful to inject, and is causing insomnia, chills, and back and joint pain. But I'll give it time.

I AM HAVING EXTREME PAIN IN BOTH LEGS. SEEMS TO BE MORE IN CALF AREA. RIGHT LEG WORSE WITH SHARP PAIN BACK OF LEG BEHIND KNEE. TAKE BACAFLEN BUT DOES NOT SEEM TO HELP. IS THIS MS RELATED OR COULD IT BE SOMETHING ELSE.

I just gave myself an injection of Copaxone. As I rotate shots, It was time to inject in my arm. I felt nothing as injected. About a minute afterward I felt this excruciating pain (saw more than stars) and an arm muscle began twitching uncontrollably. An hour later and it still hurts pretty bad. I assume I hit the wrong spot? The nurse that trained me never mentioned anything like this.

Also, though it is not listed as a side effect, I have had joint problems that came on just since starting gilenya. My knee, then my neck, then my back cause me problems now and I have had terrible sciatica for the past 3 years. But again, I can't guarantee this is from the gilenya. I loved switching to it. It is very convenient. ONe other thing, when I started was that I would wake in the night drenched in sweat, but that stopped within the first year, probably. Good luck!

Started my Copaxone on May 24 and it was fine and had no pain to speak of injecting.

I have been on copaxone for 12 days now..expect for a few site injections and some stinging -pain a little while after the injection it has been going really well. I have noticed my fatigue is soo much better since I started on copaxone...I have so much more energy ...is this common with copaxone??? Has anyone noticed there fatigue to be so much better?? I even went back to yoga---which I love but was always to tired to go---so far I took class sunday and went back today.

I have been on copaxone for 4 years and everywhere I take a shot a knot forms and is very sore. but when the pain go away I still left with knort. I need to find out if anyone that gives injections to there self in the thigh havee extreme pain at site then radiated though whole leg. Causes mussles hunrt and cramp all night.

I can understand if they meet at an MS support group, but that is not the case with us at all. We are both due to start copaxone together at the same time hopefully very soon. I would appreciate any and all feedback.

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.

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