@nattyskylark 

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nattyskylark

Travel after Lemtrada

Hi all. Recently diagnosed with relapsing remitting and considering treatment options. My favoured option at the moment is Lemtrada. I'm just wondering what experiences people have had with travelling and getting travel insurance afterwards. I love backpacking and don't recessarily want this to stop because of treatment.
@Stumbler

Hi @nattyskylark and welcome. Well done for taking on the diagnosis and planning to continue your life. Lemtrada would seem an ideal treatment to fit in with your travel plans - nothing to take with you. However, you would obviously have to ensure that your schedule allowed your immune system to regenerate before laying it open to any holiday risks. You would need to declare your diagnosis on any travel insurance, which may make the selection of policy/company more difficult. And, on a side note, the DVLA and any car insurance company needs to be advised too, if not already advised.

@lottie

It's easier to travel as you dontnhave to stock up and bring cooling AIDS etc however you do have to calculate in the risks of all the necessary vaccinations you might need for traveling abroad. I tried to find information as I'm a traveler too, my ms nurse said l/guessed there needed to be six months between vaccines and treatment but now I read it is six weeks. Some places will be of the list perhaps for some time not just due to the greater risk of infection but vaccines working by injecting small doses of live viruses could cause issues as far as I understand especially yellow fever is a no no. Most vaccines you can now get that give life long cover or 10yrs cover so my plan is to get them all done now before the start of lemtrada ( I mainly travel in Asia so sort of know what I need ) and deal with the rest as and when it becomes relevant (like a safari in Africa when our lg is old enough to apreciate it) Good luck, good travels xx

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