Cosentyx - Week 1....and beyond....

[angel-1963]

My next Cosentyx injection is scheduled for first week in September.   Again, I finished my first 5 starter doses.    Unfortunately, I decided to eat a food that always causes a flare up.  Last week I re-introduced PLAIN Cheerios into my diet.  I love them in my yogurt, etc.   Well, you guessed it.   I flared right back up.   All nice and red and bumpy and itchy.   Hmm.  Seems kinda strange since I thought this Cosentyx attacked some IL-17 inflammation.   Just goes to show you....yes, you can still flare up if something in your diet previously affected your psoriasis negatively.  I threw out the remainder of the box.   Very disgusted.   Someone from Cosentyx called to remind me that I am set up on their 6 month program for free Cosentyx...nice.  And then reminded me at the end of the six months it is uncertain what will happen.   Yes, I know that too!!  Another reason I am probably flaring up....all this uncertainty and stress of worrying about a medication.   I cannot get my health insurance (that is provided by my company) to budge on their stance of covering this drug at all.  I have a stack of documentation about 2 inches thick already on everything related to Cosentyx.  I could write my own novel!  Trying to remain positive......