Anyone had a biologic therapy?

ocean

something that is of interest to me is if anyone's had a biologic therapy infusion and what results they saw and how long did it take to see a difference?

jeddison1985

Hi @ocean thanks for the post.

This is something that we have a number of previous questions about, mainly in relation to Rituximab, one of the main biologic therapy infusions.

One of these threads is below:

https://community.versusarthritis.org/discussion/comment/661597#Comment_661597

Here is also a link to information on Rituximab.

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/treatments/drugs/rituximab/

I hope this helps.

Thanks

Joe

ocean

Thank you. Rituximab is the infusions i had but sadly seen no improvement in my symptoms. It's been 4 weeks since the second infusion and i had hoped things would improve more than they have.

Finola

Ocean Hi!

I’m a newbie here but have had RA for 40 years. I think my Rituximab took a while to kick in. I had just 7 months between my first and second rounds but a year since then and it has been effective.

And I know it’s horrible being left with the pain. I hope it works for you soon

Shell_H

Hi @Finola - welcome to the online community!

It's lovely to see your first post is helping another member 😊

Is there anything we can do to help you? If you would like to start a discussion in the Say Hello area to introduce yourself we may be able to offer you information for you. In the emantime, here are a couple of links which may be of interest to you.

For information on Rituximab:

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/treatments/drugs/rituximab/

https://www.versusarthritis.org/research/our-current-research/our-current-research-projects/vasculitis-vaccine-responses-in-anca/

For getting up off the floor, see this video:

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/exercising-with-arthritis/lets-move-with-leon/?fbclid=IwAR27qR3-OC53S_IhUcCCrxSlLzcvn1b7S5p8pqY2IKv14e4SrUfC88gP0tc#let's-move-with-leon_getting-down-and-off-the-floor

Do have a look around and see if there are any other discussions you find interesting and please do join in - we're very friendly and enjoy having new members join in!

Lovely to meet you!

Shell