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So, needless to say, I feel we SOOOOOO deserve this, and now I have to travel with all my drugs, and the Copaxone... ( any suggestions) .. I know not to let them x-ray it, but anything else that I should know about. I'm so not thinking right now, kinda like I am in space....

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?

If so, and the encouraging results are repeated in future studies, then it really would be great news for Copaxone users. Anything that may change the course of the disease for the better, is something we would all welcome! www. medicalnewstoday. com/articles/148146.

Hello, I am sorry that I am saying this, I was pre-diagnosed with ms that was recently confirmed not ms. I am sorry that I had the news that most of you reading this will not hear. However I had accepted the diagnosis and was prepared,to move forward with my newly found life. And as a result almost a year of injection copaxone treatment ms that I don't know what to do with. I hate to throw it away but am not sure if I have another choice. Does anyone know of any other options?

Good news about the lack of lesions. You're taking Copaxone?

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

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.

That's great news from the optho.... bad news about the copaxone. I am going to assume that you know all the injection tips of heat and ice and Tucks/witch hazel on the injection site to help with pain and swelling. But those are more for the lumps that form. I am trying to remember if I heard conversations about bruises - that is different. Are you using the autoinjector? If so, perhaps the settings are wrong (I would guess too shallow, but I'm no medical person.

Yes!! When it happened to me I thought I was going crazy. I'm sure it was the Copaxone though. The good news is that it stopped after maybe a month or so. Hopefully it'll stop for you too! It's unnerving to run your hand through your hair and have 20 strands come out with it.

I went for my 6 month followup on copaxone and post dx. The good news is that the copaxone seems to be "doing its job" cause no new lesions. Bad news is that I was dx'd pretty advanced with a bunch of lesions. They told me the damage I already have isn't going away. The rheumatologist wants to figure out a drug that will cover both the lupus and the ms. My neuro started talking about tysabri. It scares the **** out of me. I just looked it up.

I was diagnosed with MS about 5 years ago and have been on copaxone for almost all that time. Could the Copaxone be causing my platelets to drop? I went off the copaxone when I went into the hospital and have been off of it for almost 2 months now. How long does the copaxone stay in your system after you stop taking it? Anyone have low platelet counts?

I have only been on Copaxone for a couple months. Does anyone else have hair loss? I had very thick hair and now it is thinning, I am pulling out several handfuls a day. My hairdresser was shocked at how thin it has gotten. I had heard this could be a side effect of the Copaxone. I am hoping it is temporary!

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!!

I was on Copaxone for 4 years and it was not effective . During that time I had many major flare ups and suffered per permanent mobility damage. 2 years ago I switched to Gilenya plus a steroid infusion routine and I have been doing great! No flare ups at all. I have felt well the entire time I was on Gilenya. Unfortunately my latest blood test just came back. The results showed my liver enzymes rose off the charts. My neuro had me stop talking the Gilenya immediately.

I've been taking is copaxone, and it hasn't been working so I'm switching medications. I'm not really sure which medicine I should take next does anyone have any suggestions?

The MS Society is calling for the scrapping of a scheme set up in 2004 to provide Betaferon, Copaxone, Avonex and Rebif to patients at an approximate cost of £8000 each a year. The price paid by the NHS was supposed to fall if the drugs proved not to be cost effective but htis has not happened even though research haws shown that 10000 recipients would have been better off with a placebo.

They will accept what the insurance gives, and will not expect any more from the patient. The nurse said, the rest of the injectables will follow (Copaxone, Rebif, Avonex). They "always" follow each other to stay competitive. That is a GREAT thing.I hope she was/is right.

I have started the bureaucracy to obtain Copaxone. It wound up being done basically by email, in which I included ME--------- I do have a couple more questions for the doctor about the status of my diagnosis: --Since the VEP was abnormal without a good medical explanation, would it make any sense to redo the evoked potentials? They are 2 years old at this point. --Same about the LP, and also spinal MRIs. These were last done in '06.

Thanks for all of you concerned about me and eager for news. Kinda good news/bad news, but at least its news, and not same-old - same-old!

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!

Ive been on Copaxone for approx. 4 weeks now. It is going well and for the first couple of weeks after I injected the red lump that developed would be gone by the next day. Recently though this red lump is staying around and becoming very itchy, Im now 5 days since injecting in one area and still red lump. Ive also started to have waves of feeling really clammy and hot,this passses after 4 minutes then it comes again. Usually starts an hour after I inject.

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