Hello Fellow PsA Sufferers
I’m hear to read your stories and hope to learn more about this disease and how you all cope with it and treat it.
I am currently taking Enbrel injection’s weekly.
I started taking the injections and just as the medicine started to help me I had an outbreak of shingles and had to stop.
Months later after the shingles let up and another couple months to make sure I was over it and I took a Shingles vaccination.
I had to wait a couple more months before I could start Enbrel again. When I did that set off another round of Shingles BUT I trusted the vaccination and kept taking Enbrel and thankfully the shingles went away (neither time did the shingles break the skin, it stayed in the nerves, again thankfully).
I was left with some nerve damage but that has also gone away.
Enbrel is finally kicking in again and I’m starting to feel better finally.
It’s a struggle and I feel for everyone that has this. I’ll be glad to share more of my experiences with anyone (treatments, access to the high drug costs etc)
I pray for your recovery 🙏
Bob
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Hi @Texasaaa welcome to our lively online community where you will connect and share your experiences.
You are taking Enbrel injections every week but had a break for a couple of months due to having shingles, which caused nerve damage but has now gone away. You are feeling much better being back on Enbrel. It’s a struggle for you. You are happy to share your experiences with our members.
I have attached a link from our website for you to have a look at, whilst you wait to hear from the members:
Thank you for being able to tell us what has happened to you.
Best wishes.
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