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larajane1

Has anyone been on this?

I have recently had to stop a few treatments. When I first got diagnosed I was on Tysabri and was on that for a good few years and then I ended up becoming JC virus positive out of no where although I did have pneumonia and there is a link when becoming unwell it can switch from negative to positive. So I had to come off that as it was too much of a risk. Went onto injections at home kesimpta was on that for just over a year and had complications with my ovaries as there was concerns of cancer and as there was inflammation and problems there I had to immediately stop this drug. Then went onto 3 x a week injection of Copaxone and stopped that three weeks ago as I am on warfarin had a lot problems with blood clots on lunngs hence the warfarin and keep getting heamatomas all the time any knock, fall anything I get massive bleeding under skin. So had a fall before Christmas in 6 weeks four operations and now an open wound that being packed weekly or more for over 6 months then had hernia occur that obstructed so another wound on body that won’t heal and having problems with so they stopped my medication for MS as they may not be helping at all so they now want to put me on a drug called plegidy it’s a once a week injection they feel would be better for me as going in too many times is causing too much trauma and bruising and it was causing a reaction? Has anyone been on these medications especially the new one plegridy? Sorry for the waffle above.
@RC83

Plegridy is part of a family of drugs called Beta Interferons. They are low efficacy, like Copaxone, and reduced relapses by around 35% in the trials. The Kesimpta you took was high efficacy as it reduced relapses by around 70%. However my neurologist (I am also in the process of changing drugs and have been offered Plegridy) advises the side effects risk is considerably lower than Kesimpta.