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Tue-02-06-2020, 21:52 PM
Hello, thought I would check out a forum as I am starting a new med.
First I will recap my journey to this point:
I was diagnosed as having Psoriatic arthritis around 1992.
I was told that by the time I was 55 I would be in a wheelchair. I took just about everything imaginable between then and 1998. Methotrexate, sulfa, don’e even remember it all. Nothing made any difference.
In 1998 I was ready to give up and my primary care Dr recommended a hand specialist in the area that had done surgery on people from all over. I told him I was at the end of my rope. He said “There’s a new med out called enbrel, let’s try that”. I started enbrel and it saved my life. A miracle drug.
In 2011 we moved to mexico. I stopped the enbrel as my insurance would not cover it there. It took several years for it to wear off. When it did both the psoriasis and arthritis came back with a vengance.
In 2018 we moved back to the us and started enbrel again. Much better but not as effective as it once was. They switched me to humira. It did nothing. Just recently I was switched to otezla. Bad trip. Stomach problems, nausea, diarrhea, nausia, migraine, trembling inside and out.
Now they are going to send me taltz. I am curious of experiences people have had with it.
So thanks for having me. Should I have posted this in the pa forum?
First I will recap my journey to this point:
I was diagnosed as having Psoriatic arthritis around 1992.
I was told that by the time I was 55 I would be in a wheelchair. I took just about everything imaginable between then and 1998. Methotrexate, sulfa, don’e even remember it all. Nothing made any difference.
In 1998 I was ready to give up and my primary care Dr recommended a hand specialist in the area that had done surgery on people from all over. I told him I was at the end of my rope. He said “There’s a new med out called enbrel, let’s try that”. I started enbrel and it saved my life. A miracle drug.
In 2011 we moved to mexico. I stopped the enbrel as my insurance would not cover it there. It took several years for it to wear off. When it did both the psoriasis and arthritis came back with a vengance.
In 2018 we moved back to the us and started enbrel again. Much better but not as effective as it once was. They switched me to humira. It did nothing. Just recently I was switched to otezla. Bad trip. Stomach problems, nausea, diarrhea, nausia, migraine, trembling inside and out.
Now they are going to send me taltz. I am curious of experiences people have had with it.
So thanks for having me. Should I have posted this in the pa forum?