From Remicade to Humira
Apr 15, 2009I’m making the switch from Remicade to Humira for my crohn’s disease.
The muscle aches, which we attributed to an allergic reaction to Remicade, went away mostly. However, after my 3rd Remicade treatment, the achey joints returned (maybe some slight muscle pain, but mostly just joints). It was my elbows, fingers and wrists, ankles and knees. For the most part, after about 5 weeks, all that remains of the aches are one elbow and both knees - consistently anyway.
Doctor today seemed like he was thinking about suggesting another round of Remicade… but then just said, lets just do Humira, I think that’s what we should do… Are you ok with it? Oh, yes. Definitely ok with it. I certainly don’t want to feel these aches and pains… not feeling confident to carry laundry up from the basement for fear my knees will give out.. or carrying a couple bags of groceries makes my arms feel like they’ll fall off.. while I am happy to not have the abdominal pain, I didn’t plan to trade it for other pain.
The tail bone pain I was feeling before the holidays is completely gone. I actually wouldn’t have given it any thought, except he asked about it today. So, I’m assuming the abscess was small and insignificant enough it just went away.
So, humira. I will go to the doctors office and a nurse will show me how to do it.. from then, I will adminster the shots myself at home. They assured me it’s easy to do - but I also don’t want to mess it up, as it’s so expensive. No pressure. But really, I think giving myself a shot will be a cake walk compared to going and sitting for hours at the hospital while they give me an iv of remicade.. yeah, I really don’t mind the switch.
Now, keeping fingers crossed Doc can push the change through my insurance.
