I started taking Copaxone in February also. I too experienced the horrible itching. I noticed that my stomach doesn't itch so I only inject there. I know I shouldn't do that but the itching is to bad. I tried ice, heat, benadryl but nothing worked. I also set the auto injector at 10. 7I noticed that the deeper the needle, the itching doesn't occur on my stomach. But every other place it does. Just horrible!!

QUOTE=bowdowntobri;970371]So I started Copaxone on Feb 22 and after I was on it for just under a month I started getting VERY intense itching at my injection sites on my arms, and to a lesser extent, my legs. Like, bad enough that I drew blood scratching at myself, couldn't sleep, chopped off all my nails in an effort to not scratch, and with little success.

I found that if I took Benedryl it didn't really stop the itching, but it did knock me outstarted would do that. I now am on Allegra and some prescription triamcinolone cream that lasts about an hour, plus the Benedryl at night if that isn't helping. I sometime put ice on them to try to confuse them, but that also has a really mild effect.

I feel like I'm going crazy! It is so distracting and come in waves where I just MUST scratch. I have what looks like tiger claw marks on my right arm from a couple days ago, and with Summer (hopefully!) coming sometime soon, I'm going to not want to be wearing long sleeves/pants for the rest of my life.

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