rate of anaphylaxis to xolair is the same as it is for penicillin!

September 2, 2007

Hi!

In the interest of perspective, I looked up the xolair anaphylaxis rate and

compared it to penicillin which many ppl get scripts for and take, shockingly,

at home, alone without 12 epipens around. The rates of serious allergic

reactions are THE SAME for both medications. I can pull the reference when I am

less exhausted but I just want you know that the rules seem to be different for

xolair in this case.

Fran, perhaps you have an idea why?

ps I am one of the few Canadians with the drug because many of us do not have

private drug insurance and the provincial public plans do not cover it. There

are maybe 900 users in Canada by now. I am no. 12. I work in a hospital as a

nurse. There is an ICU down the hall. My doctor WILL NOT LET ME EVEN INJECT AT

WORK. I have to drag my butt into clinic. Half the time I don't even see him so

it's not that he likes to see my puffy pred face or that he gets cash when I

show up (the injection is given by a nurse who does research work and also

supervises the 10 of us who get xolair). Apparently, this is new stuff and what

is new is unknown and therefore possibly risky. Cows will fly before I am

allowed to do it at home.......Health Canada is silent on the topic so they are

" following " FDA rules (although no timer and I always sneak out early).

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