Hello everyone,
One year has passed since starting plegridy, my very first DMT. My RRMS is not active, and I am so used to the treatment that I hardly think about it.
It wasn’t easy when I started this treatment. I recall the first 3 months, the fatigue, the headaches, the flu symptoms I experienced for a couple of days after injecting. Luckily, now, all I get is less than 20 hours of these symptoms, and they are normally mild. I get a migraine almost every time after injecting. It starts about 10 hours after the injection. I control it with paracetamol. Of course I get the red injection site (erethyma), but I apply some gel on it (witch hazel gel) and I can easily manage this problem. I have found out that eating porridge in the morning makes the erythema less itchy. I have no idea why, but it certainly helps. Apart from plegridy, I also take a high dosage of vitamin D.
Anyway, plegridy is definitely not the nightmare I though it would be. I may eventually swifch to something else, more effective, in a year or so, but for now, so far so good. I will see my neuro in March. Let’s see what happens.
Sending you all positive energy.
Maria