Re: enbrel effectiveness/Kami

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Kami,

What did your doc say about the softball size reaction? Did he say why that

probably happened? The reason I ask it because the first 2 weeks I didn't have

not even a sign that I gave myself an injection. The last two injection sights

have made a big red whelp about the size of a 1/2 dollar but not painful. I see

my doc the end of next week so one more shot before I see him. I feel like they

never want to discontinue stuff just tell you to suck it up and keep going. So

frustrating.

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> Please call your doctor.

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> I had a great experience with Enbrel until week 6 when I started having

softball sized site reactions. I had to stop medication immediately.

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> Have you tried Cimzia?

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> Kami

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> From: ktandtm

> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:14 AM

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> Subject: [ ] enbrel effectiveness

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> Hi I haven't posted in a while but had a question. I started enbrel 4 weeks

ago. It was wonderful the first 2 weeks. Week 3 the pain started getting worse

and now I just took my 4th shot yesterday and my hands, wrists, elbows and knees

are back to the severe pain. I have also had fluid on my elbows for 1 year now

and was hoping the enbrel would cause that to go down but it hasn't.

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> Has anyone else had this happen? I can't add Methotrexate to it. Its a drug I

can't take. I had to stop the Arava due to low white blood cell counts. I am

just frustrated. I have heard of these TNF's not working after a period of time

but never this fast.

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> Any info would be great.

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> Thanks,

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[Guest guest]

I still have what kind of looks like a bruise from the injection 2 weeks ago.

Its gonna look terrible if I have these all over my body if its going to take

several weeks for them to go away.

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> > What did your doc say about the softball size reaction? Did he say

> > why that probably happened? The reason I ask it because the first 2

> > weeks I didn't have not even a sign that I gave myself an injection.

> > The last two injection sights have made a big red whelp about the

> > size of a 1/2 dollar but not painful. I see my doc the end of next

> > week so one more shot before I see him. I feel like they never want

> > to discontinue stuff just tell you to suck it up and keep going. So

> > frustrating.

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