It is actually 1.00am on the 1st of January 2014 as I type this so let me be the first to wish you all a
HAPPY NEW YEAR and a safe and healthy 2014
Hi All and sorry for not posting for a few weeks.
The Tecfidera has been great, all the side effects have settled down and I haven’t had any trouble what so ever with taking it for the last 2 or so weeks. I am taking my morning dose after peanut butter and honey on toast and with a cardiac dose aspirin as some fat and protein and the aspirin have been shown to reduce the side effects and it certainly is doing the trick for me. At night I just take it after dinner but take another aspirin then as well.
So although the Tecfidera has been fine and is now just another of the many pills I pop I was off the Boards for a bit because I have had a really bad relapse. Unreal timing, I just start the newest and one of the best drugs on the market and BANG! I have the worst relapse I have had in 2 years. I was in hospital and needed IV steroids for the first time in two years. This is not the fault of the Tecfidera, I haven’t been on it long enough yet for it to be therapeutic, just rotten timing. And also rotten timing as I only got out of hospital 2 days before Xmas.
Anyway, all is good (apart from the relapse which is cr*p) but I am a happy camper with the Tecfidera. I won’t bother doing regular updates from now on as it would be pretty boring hearing that “Yep, Tec is fine” each week but I will fill you in when I have my blood tests done and my 6 month MRI. Which just reminded me… I was supposed to get the blood done the week before Xmas but the blinking relapse wiped it from my mind completely until just now!!! Right, signing off to put that in my calendar
Cheers all,
B
