Today was my second Rituxan infusion in the first round of them. What are your pain levels like Cordy? Have they settled at all? Did you finally get some decent meds? Glad the infusion went well
Yay! Cordy this is GREAT news. I am so glad that you slept too. I love phenergan! I have some cough syrup with phen and codiene. Love the sleep! Let us know if your pain decreases this time. I really think it will...I have a really good feeling about this one! Hi, do you not get a pre med of an anti histamine before your infusion, I had this and had no allergic reaction at all :) Hope you start to feel better soon it took 4 months for mine to really kick in! I am really glad your infusion went smoothly this time. Anaphalatic shock is so frightning , i had that when i had a dye injected for a heart scan, I really thought i was going to die. Luckily I too had a great medical team on hand to deal with it. Its a worry when we go on any meds,, my rheumy nurse's mum is 80 and has been on meds for years and last month had anaphalatic shock from something she had been taking for 8 years.
Take care and hope you start to feel the effects soon Lisa
Last time as many of you know I had a anaphalactic (sp?) reaction and it was debatable whether they could continue for a while but eventually they went on and I complete it fine.
Today everything went well. They got the canula in on the second try and in solidly. I was given Phenergen in my pre med this time so I slept through the whole thing pretty much as it just knocked me out. No reactions. All went smoothly and very well.
YES!!!
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that this med is "the one".
As for it working, like LornaUK says, most of the other Rituxan users I have talked to say that the first round takes 3 - 4months to kick in so I don't expect anything to happen yet. I have heard that some people are quicker than that so like everything with RA it is a waiting game.
Believe me the minute anything changes, you guys will be the first to know about it as you will hear my cheers from AU.
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