The irony of living with rheumatoid arthritis.
For the longest time, each time I went in for my laboratory tests I always expected the worst results. They always came back normal, though, and I continued to move forward with my treatment plan of Arava, Plaquenil, and Prolertus.
So when I went in for my laboratory tests last [...]
FDA Adds Boxed Warning To Leflunomide For Severe Liver Injury
July 13, 2010 — The rheumatoid arthritis drug leflunomide (Arava; sanofi-aventis) has received a boxed warning about the risk for severe liver injury, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today.
The FDA added a boldface warning about severe liver injury to the drug’s label in 2003 but decided to escalate it in light of [...]
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One of the surprises I’ve experienced living with autoimmune arthritis has been how dismissive people can be. It’s just a little arthritis, people say. Well, here’s some tangible evidence of how a little arthritis changes a life.
Read More: http://lettersfromthebreach.blogspot.com/2010/06/week-in-life-of-arthritis-patient.html
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First of all, thanks for all of the comments and messages of support that I received in response to the post that I wrote yesterday.
Even though membership in this club isn’t always by choice (they weren’t kidding when they said “lifetime membership”, were they?!), it’s definitely nice to be able to speak with others who [...]
Art on the wall of the St. Regis suite where I spent my honeymoon weekend a year and a half ago. No, the photo is not blurred – note that sharp edges of the canvas.
Yesterday, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy experienced not one, but two, episodes of blurred vision – each lasting about half an hour. It [...]
Remicade Dream: Open Letter To Myself On Prednisone
Dear Prednisone Me,
You will be starting a high taper soon in order to knock down the flare you’re currently experiencing, and I know that you usually have trouble thinking clearly when that happens. Your energy will be running high, but you’ll also have a hard time focusing. So here are some thoughts that I hope [...]
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Did The Patient Fail The Treatment Or Did We Fail The Patient?
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But what caught my eye and generated my pre-caffeine ire was in the opening sentence, terminology used in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, words that I admit to have even uttered myself:
WASHINGTON–The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a new type of drug by Roche Holding AG’s Genentech unit to treat rheumatoid arthritis in patients who [...]
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Actemra
U.S. approves Roche’s Actemra arthritis drug
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) Actemra to treat rheumatoid arthritis, the company said on Friday.
The drug, made by Roche’s Genentech unit, is already approved for use in Europe and Japan and is expected by the company to become [...]
