Continuing Updates July 2021

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   casmere Member

   <p>Add on <br/>Apparently Rinvoq is not a Biologic although the read sounds just like a biologic. It&#39;s a JAK inhibitor, and has all the same side effects, and possible things that could happen.<br/>Casmere </p>

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   L rick Phillips Moderator & Contributor

   <p><br/>This is true for all JAK inhibitors. I also tend to call JAK inhibitors biologics. I was corrected loudly once by a patient who was using Xeljanz. But it might have been any of those medications. Oops, lesson learned. &#128512;<br/>rick<br/></p>

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   Pamelampendley Member

   <p>that didn&#39;t really work for me either I had to have that onica injection and I took that for about a year 6 months to a year and that there was some relief much like enbrel, with it but the biologics to take orally I think Methotrexate works just as good.</p>

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   casmere Member

   <p>That maybe, that methotrexate works just as well. But, at the 6 month mark of taking it I broke out all over body with a burning, itching rash. This took awhile to clear up with a special mixture RX cream. It wasn&#39;t fun. I realized then I had a couple subtle signs earlier. 2 months in I suddenly reacted to the eyelid gel I had used for years. It started burning my eyelids. I stop using it. The a couple months later I had a couple small blisters shiw up on my lower abdomen where I would do the injections. I thought I had done something wrong with an injection that caused them. I cleared them up. Then 2 months later the terrible rash. I leared to be very aware of things from then on.<br/>Blessings Casmere </p>

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