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Jappy 06-22-2017 03:48 PM

Second infusion with ocrevus
 
This one was a bad one. While receiving the med I just didn't feel like myself. I just felt that it was just me not the ocrevus.

After 4hrs. of receiving the med you are to be checked for another hour to see if anything happens. I started feeling very warm and asked if they shut off the air, no they didn't, then feeling shaky and light headed. Nurses took BP and it was very high, feeling sick to stomach.

They hooked the IV back up and started giving me benedryl and more steroids. Went on checking me for awhile. My BP just went down a little, enough to say I could go home. Told me and my son that if my BP goes up to take me to the ER. Well about 8pm that night I started to feel like my head was going to explode, took Bp 183/103 called medics, went to hospital Was there quite long. Gave me med to get pressure down, went home. Next day face rashed up and got swollen.

Neuro said we will wait to see if anything else happens can't take the med out of system. The next treatment is to be done in Dec. I just don't know what to do.. Thinking of forgetting about this med.

:(:(:(:(

Jappy

Starznight 06-23-2017 02:00 AM

:hug::( sorry it's not going well at all for you. I personally, would probably say no more, sounds like you're having an allergic reaction and they don't tend to improve with more dosing. I would have a good loooong talk with your neuro before trying it again and be sure to ask if what you're experiencing is an allergic reaction or not. Hoping if you should have another dose things go much much better for you :hug:

Kitty 06-23-2017 11:11 AM

Oh, Jappy, I'm so sorry you had that reaction to it. If you said "no more" nobody could blame you. I hope things get better for you.
I just hate it that this is all we have to choose from.....and that these episodes happen. I begin Gilenya on the 29th of this month and have to be monitored for 6 hours after taking the first dose. It's a little scary, I have to admit, even though I'll be in a medical facility the whole time. MS is rough enough. Why do our only choices for meds have to be such a risk, too?? :mad:

Jappy 06-23-2017 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitty (Post 1245370)
Oh, Jappy, I'm so sorry you had that reaction to it. If you said "no more" nobody could blame you. I hope things get better for you.
I just hate it that this is all we have to choose from.....and that these episodes happen. I begin Gilenya on the 29th of this month and have to be monitored for 6 hours after taking the first dose. It's a little scary, I have to admit, even though I'll be in a medical facility the whole time. MS is rough enough. Why do our only choices for meds have to be such a risk, too?? :mad:

I feel we are just a bunch of of people that have a horrible disease that they use to try their poison on. The ER DR. said to me that all ms meds are poison.
You just don't know what to do, who to trust, especially when you find out that all the neuros get a cut for each patient that decides to try whatever med it might be.

ewizabeth 06-25-2017 12:31 PM

If I had a reaction like that, I wouldn't have another infusion. I'm so sorry. :hug:

Kitty 06-25-2017 04:42 PM

I'm sorry to say it but I think we're all just guinea pigs for big pharma. What else can we do?
I haven't been on any DMD for the past couple years and my condition has worsened terribly. Who's to say it wouldn't have even with a DMD? We'll never know. I try Gilenya at the end of the month and if it doesn't work I throw in the towel. I feel like giving up anyway.


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