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Originally Posted by Brianna
Are there side effects to Remicade, Gravdigr?
I'm not really versed on RA except know it is v. painful.
does your mom have fibromyalgia and RA??? horrors.
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I don't know if you'd call it a side effect, but, the Remicade keeps her immune system beat
way down, so she gets every little sniffle or bug that goes around, she catches
everything. Any little thing can become very serious, very quickly. They check her for TB, and do a bunch of bloodwork almost every time. They also keep a close track of her liver function and condition.
I'm not sure they know what she's got. They treat those two the same way sometimes. They looked at polymyalgia rheumatica at one time. I don't know
where we'd be if that was the case.
Oh, and
it's made from people. And mice.
Remicade side-effects.