Health Boards
Wed-03-02-2021, 20:58 PM
Hi Nancy and a warm welcome to our club 
it is so good you found us.
Wow you have been through the wringer. It takes a special person to go through all that and still work as a nurse.
Fortunately I can comment on the Otezla
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Oh the weight loss . . . . . I wish no such luck. I was rather hoping - I could do to lose a few tens of pounds, this working from home doesn't help the waistline.
I did suffer from loose to very loose stools for around the first 14 weeks or so, before returning to normal.
I also had a few dull 'cant be bothered to take any paracetamol' headaches for the first few weeks. I can imagine wearing full PPE for 12 hours wont help with those.
I also had a bout of very mild nausea for the second week once I had gone on to the full dosage.
I can't say I have had depression though, it's not something I have ever suffered from fortunately.
So does it work? For me yes. After some of the unpleasant side effects I have suffered from on other medications, this is a breeze. It did take an awful long time to kick in though. I was just starting to see substantial clearance when I had to stop for medical reasons for a fortnight recently and most of the hard work was undone in the first week. So I have been back on it for a fortnight and my PS has started to pink up and thin out. All in all I'm very happy with it.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, non of us bite
. I'll be hiding in a cold dark corner in the Bar
JohnB
it is so good you found us.Wow you have been through the wringer. It takes a special person to go through all that and still work as a nurse.
Fortunately I can comment on the Otezla
.Oh the weight loss . . . . . I wish no such luck. I was rather hoping - I could do to lose a few tens of pounds, this working from home doesn't help the waistline.
I did suffer from loose to very loose stools for around the first 14 weeks or so, before returning to normal.
I also had a few dull 'cant be bothered to take any paracetamol' headaches for the first few weeks. I can imagine wearing full PPE for 12 hours wont help with those.
I also had a bout of very mild nausea for the second week once I had gone on to the full dosage.
I can't say I have had depression though, it's not something I have ever suffered from fortunately.
So does it work? For me yes. After some of the unpleasant side effects I have suffered from on other medications, this is a breeze. It did take an awful long time to kick in though. I was just starting to see substantial clearance when I had to stop for medical reasons for a fortnight recently and most of the hard work was undone in the first week. So I have been back on it for a fortnight and my PS has started to pink up and thin out. All in all I'm very happy with it.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, non of us bite
. I'll be hiding in a cold dark corner in the Bar JohnB