Enbrel - site reactions?
jabster
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Well I had my day ward review and switched to Enbrel clicky pens from that awful Humira. He agreed the SE I was having from Humira was too much-relief!
Anyhows I've took 2 injections, 3rd due on Tuesday. I do feel slightly better already (slightly I will say!) but boy!.... The hives at both injection sites are massive. Maybe 10x5cm on one leg and the other has lots of smaller ones.
I'm going to take anti histimines today and will use Eumovate type cream until I can speak to nurse on Monday.
So what I'm asking did anyone have this reaction and did it go away?
Thanks
Anyhows I've took 2 injections, 3rd due on Tuesday. I do feel slightly better already (slightly I will say!) but boy!.... The hives at both injection sites are massive. Maybe 10x5cm on one leg and the other has lots of smaller ones.
I'm going to take anti histimines today and will use Eumovate type cream until I can speak to nurse on Monday.
So what I'm asking did anyone have this reaction and did it go away?
Thanks
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I don't take enbrel so I've no advice but I think your plan of asking the rheumatology nurse is a good one.If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
Steven Wright0 -
I never had any site reactions from enbrel but it did try to explode my liver - it was so busy doing that it did s*d-all for my PsA. Your plkan is a good one and I hope she can help. When I changed to metoject I had a site reaction on the first week (I watched it spread) then on the second week I applied a histamine cream after. A few weeks in and all is well. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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hi jabster
the reaction is caused by the preservative in the drug , some like myself have a lot of pain from it & had to come off it but found the drug worked very well & alot better than golimumab which I am on now
what they did not tell me was that you can have enbrel without the preservative in it & you wont get the reaction , talk to your rhummy nurse/consultant about the problem & maybe asked if they can change it to the presevative free enbrel0 -
Hi, I had a reaction like that. My nurse made me stop and had to switch injections to a powder one that you mix yourself. Still get the occasional reaction but very small. Also, it tends to react less in the leg than in the stomach so I never do my stomach these days.
A piece of info I found out recently from a trip to Guy's & Tommy's Hospital's allergy clinic for another thing - you can get treatment to desensitise you to Enbrel reactions. Might be worth pursuing for people who can't tolerate any form.0 -
Thanks so much for all the replies. Good to know I can hopefully switch to the syringe if needs be.
We all just want the drugs to work eh!
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