Re: Switch to another drug ? - currently on Enbrel

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry you are having a rough time, Dawn.

Yes, RA patients can benefit from switching to another TNF inhibitor.

Not an MD

> [ ] Switch to another drug ? - currently on Enbrel

>

>

>

> Hi?Everyone ! -?

>

> ???? I find that the unpredictability of the disease very hard to deal

with not only

> physically but emotionally.??I have days or weeks when I am?

> functioning at a higher level and then I will spend the next several weeks

experiencing

> flare after flare.??I find that stress (my bipolar husband

> and son recently in the hospital) has heightened my flare.??After visiting

the

> emergency room with my son yesterday, I spent the entire

> day in severe pain (mostly feet) and slept for many hours.??

>

> ???? Yet, I have a question please.? I feel like my disease is progressing

yet my

> doctor has not switched me off of?Enbrel.? Enbrel is the?

> only medicine I take.? (I take it 100 mg.?a week - double dose)???I cant

take

> methotrexate anymore.??Has anyone felt a?worthwile

> improvement when switching from Enbrel to say Remicade or Humira???I am

feeling

> sicker these days, loosing tremendous sleep and I

> feel taking care of my basic?needs is enough of a challenge.??Im tired of

being sick

> !!?

>

> ???? I would be grateful if anyone has?insight on the experience of

switching

> medication from Enbrel to another drug??

>

> Thanks Blessings for less pain free days.

> Dawn.?

[Guest guest]

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wrote:

>

> I'm sorry you are having a rough time, Dawn.

>

> Yes, RA patients can benefit from switching to another TNF

inhibitor.

>

>

>

> Not an MD

>

>

> > [ ] Switch to another drug ? - currently on

Enbrel

> >

> >

> >

> > Hi?Everyone ! -?

> >

> > ???? I find that the unpredictability of the disease very hard to

deal

> with not only

> > physically but emotionally.??I have days or weeks when I am?

> > functioning at a higher level and then I will spend the next

several weeks

> experiencing

> > flare after flare.??I find that stress (my bipolar husband

> > and son recently in the hospital) has heightened my flare.??After

visiting

> the

> > emergency room with my son yesterday, I spent the entire

> > day in severe pain (mostly feet) and slept for many hours.??

> >

> > ???? Yet, I have a question please.? I feel like my disease is

progressing

> yet my

> > doctor has not switched me off of?Enbrel.? Enbrel is the?

> > only medicine I take.? (I take it 100 mg.?a week - double dose)???

I cant

> take

> > methotrexate anymore.??Has anyone felt a?worthwile

> > improvement when switching from Enbrel to say Remicade or

Humira???I am

> feeling

> > sicker these days, loosing tremendous sleep and I

> > feel taking care of my basic?needs is enough of a challenge.??Im

tired of

> being sick

> > !!?

> >

> > ???? I would be grateful if anyone has?insight on the experience

of

> switching

> > medication from Enbrel to another drug??

> >

> > Thanks Blessings for less pain free days.

> > Dawn.?

>

Hi Dawn,

I, too started out with Enbrel (I was on it for about 6 months - more

trouble for ME than it was worth) but I had to go off it for many,

many reasons, so my rhuemy switched me to Humira. Unfortunatley, for

me, I had a lot of the same problems with Humira that I did with

Enbrel. Now, that was ME - a lot of other people don't have the

problems that I do. I didn't stay on the Humira but for about 2

months. I then went on to try Rituxan. That was, at least for me, a

very easy drug to take. You had to have an infusion for it - probably

a lot like getting Remicade, although that is a drug that I have NOT

had. I didn't mind taking the Rituxan, but I never saw one day -

period - of any relief from my symptons, so my sweet doctor is

referring me to a new rhuemy next month at a medical university.

Good Luck! I think we would all give something to have some less

pain free days!!