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Lozwo

Copaxone

Hi all! I have been off meds for 5 years due to pregnancies and Breastfeeding. My neuro was keen to get me started on tysabri, however I was no comfortable with this (I am pretty uncomfortable with all drugs to be honest)... I had a second opinion today from a neuro who wanted me to start on copaxone instead. While I don't like the idea... I feel more comfortable with this drug than some of the others. My original neuro felt copaxone was outdated and it was silly to take. The second neuro felt it was a safer yet still helpful drug. I am wanting to continue Breastfeeding my 15 month old and he is happy for me to do this on copaxone. I just wanted everyone's thoughts on copaxone ? Effectiveness? Side effects ??? If anyone has breastfed on it etc etc etc. I just read it can cause cancer !!!! Ugh. I just want to ignore medications forever. Help !
@f3ng5hu1

In my own case, I suffered the extreme (pretty rare) occurence of having pretty much every side effect described happening all at the same time directly after a shot. This was back in 2013 & i did post about it on here though I am not going to link it up I don't feel what happened to me was a common ooccurence, & i would not want to scare anyone from trying it however it did & still has, put me off dmd's. What does annoy the heck out of me though is how the 'extreme end' of things gets not much blurb in the accompanying documentation. They should at least give a better warning of the possiblity than just small printing it. This in itself puts me off doing further dmd's. I am advised it is better to take some form of dmd than to miss out & have the fall back later but literally my experience was so bad that i am still not convinced. Ive probably attracted some reply posts to this which will give you more hope in them, of people who have felt they have relapsed less etc, this is all well & good but some part of me feels that by not writing of what happened to me, albeit rare, is just not opening up truthfully about it & someone could end up with same acute reaction, bit of a dilemma there... Concluding... short of an actual cure, i will never do dmd's again ever. This will be my only post on this subject for this topic, i'm not wanting to get into a debate about it with other people who take them. Whatever decision you make, it's yours & yours alone, I really hope I haven't made this a tougher decisions for you though i guess also it could be said that a truthful telling of a bad (almost fatal actually) of one persons experience on it could actually save you same. Even the paramedic who came for me thought i was a gonner. The companys who make them, They really need to make people more aware of these possible reactions, even if was 1 in a billion, for me the 1 still matters.

@Lozwo

No thank you for your reply I appreciate it very much !! I asked the question to hear real responses!! I'm so sorry you had such an awfully frightening experience to the drug :( and I can completely understand why you would not want to be on drugs given your experience :(. Can I ask what happened ? While I believe modern medicine is amazing I also feel concerned taking them. Also not said to make others fearful, but rather just expressing my own feelings. I'm sure these are pretty common feelings to experience...