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Question: The drug reactions I have site injection reactions and I was diagnosed 5 years ago. Will they ever go away????
Answers: The drug reactions I have site injection reactions and I was diagnosed 5 years ago. Will they ever go away????
Injection site reactions are a common side effect of the injected MS drugs. They're most common though among the sub-cutaneous injected drugs -- Copaxone, Betaseron, and Rebif. This is because with these drugs, the medicine is injected just below the skin and therefore it is most likely to make a reaction. One of the MS drugs, Avonex, has a much lower incidence of this side effect because it is injected intra-muscularly -- meaning deeper, into the muscle. Because Avonex isn't injected near the skin, it's much less likely to cause a reaction. Some patients still get ISRs with Avonex, but normally only if their injection technique has gotten confused, and they are accidentlly injecting it sub-cutaneously. Also, Avonex is only injected once a week, while the sub-cutaneous ones are injected more often, again heightening the chance of a reaction.
The best approach to avoid injection site reactions if you're on one of the sub-cutaneous MS drugs is to rotate your injection sites regularly (your doctor or nurse should explain this).
Once you develop an injection site reaction, some of them can go away over time -- but not aways. If you get skin necrosis, for instance, it doen't go away.
If you have bad injection site reactions, you should talk to your MS nurse. Neurologists sometimes don't take the skin reactions seriously, but your nurse will take it seriously and should be able to check your injection technique, and advise if there's any benefit from trying one of the other drugs.
Good luck with it.
Multiple Sclerosis in short MS is a disease of the nervous system which is a myelin disorders and the plaques cause deficit both on the sensory and motor side and can effect any part of the brain, the disease usually comes in acute attacks or relapses in space and time and every time leaves some residual effects, you must closely follow with your doctor and the neurologist
Do you mean site injection problems or medication side effects?
If you have site injection problems with scar tissue forming under the skin, making in painful to inject, you might want to look into laser treatment, which supposedly can treat this quite effectively.
Medication side effects...I still have side effects after almost 5 years and while it happens slightly less often than at the beginning, I doubt they will ever go away. If this is what you mean, you can perhaps try out another inteferon treatment than the one you are currently using. Avonex, Rebif and Copaxone work differently on different people and you might find that one of them do not give you any post-injection discomforts.