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I took my first injection of copaxone (a peptide that will, hopefully, arrest the progress of my MS) last night. Since I haven't had an injection since last August (when I stopped taking Betaseron because of my reaction to it), I'd forgotten how much that damned needle stings (but others, I know have to tolerate that several times per day). I didn't have any of the possible short-term reactions (tachycardia, shortness of breath, etc.) to it. Now, save for a couple of days of flu-like symptoms, I didn't have any of the short-term reactions to Betaseron, either; but I did have the (known) long-term reaction of severe clinical depression to it (which is why I stopped taking it). Copaxone ought not to produce any long-term reactions; I'll probably know for sure in a few years. John "Akatsukami" Braue Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
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