New to Fumaderm

[Caroline]

Hi I am new to Fumaderm (I started on 01.04.14) for those of you unlucky enough to experience any of the side effects how long was it before they started? I'm wondering if my imagination has gone into overdrive!!

Hi Looby,
Welcome to the Forum.
It may be smart to introduce yourself in the Welcome part of the forum, so we know who you are and how you found the forum.

I am not on Fumaderm, but on Psorinovo, which has the same active substance dimethyfumarate. Difference is that Psorinovo is stomach resistant and slow release. Therefore i never have stomach problems.

Side effects for me started immediately with the lowest concentration. With Psor.. the schedule is to go up 30 mg/day each week. So first week 30 mg/day, second 60 mg/day, etc
I am now on 5x 120mg/day, which seems apparently the right dose for me. I know people with lots higher doses.

Side effect in the first weeks were the flushes. Harmless but bit weard. It starts with a tickling in your head, you become utterly read, first the head and than all down your body. It takes about 20-30 minutes to finish and occurs about 1 time a day.
Second side effect, with higher doses, may be a bit of unstable intestines. No real problem to my opinion.

My skin is totally clear and my PsA is very well under control.

Recently I read that an interesting side effect is that the flushes that appear with using DMF, seem to also be very good for Meunieres disease. That is a disease of your stability organ in your ears. The effect of the flushes, a much better blood transfer to the very tiny bloodvessels (?) , appeared to be very healing for this specific patient who also had psoriasis.

Caroline