Question about Cosentyx

[jiml]

I agree with Fred ....welcome to the club by the way Martin . But tell them you've failed on these treatments and demand something better...I thinks its highly unlikely you will get Cosentyx as a first biological....in fact I think they will try you on systemic oral treatment first, have you had Methotrexate ...that's the usual starting place, or acetretin that works well ...or the treatment I am on Fumaderm have a read through these Oral Treatments For Psoriasis they are all treatments that you might not have been on before ...but if you have there's all these biological ones Biological Treatments For Psoriasis

Have a look and see what you haven't been on .....ask questions here but remember they are unlikely to start you on Cosentyx......I hope I'm wrong but phone them and tell them the creams are useless for severe psoriasis and you have read the standards that fred gave a link for ... tell them it's not good enough and you demand better

Hope you like the club by the way  
Jim

thanks jim, im back at dermatology 14 june, so hopefully things will get moving , this is a great forum

Good luck going back ....but I would start making noises on the phone to them now ....that the current treatment is a joke and you can't believe that they think it will work now when it never has in the past ...tell them it's getting you down it's difficult to deal with life while plagued with the disease and no effective treatment ...lay it on thick and you might get what you want ...but be prepared to try other things first .Fumaderm has been good for me for over 5 years and helps with my psoriatic arthritis as well

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