Fumaderm and hormone injections

[Caroline]

Hi Jim,

Surely a low white cell count represents an immediate and greater risk to your health than the return of a few plaques? A few months into treatment I started to get a cold but didn't take a break from the DMF. The cold got a lot worse and I ceased taking the drug for about a week. Now I stop the drug for a few days when I start to get a sniffle, though thankfully I have not been sick for several months. Stopping or reducing DMF does not carry the risk of an aggressive rebound of psoriatic plaques as do other treatments, and hopefully you can resume taking Fumaderm when your leukopenia resolves. Think of it as a strategic retreat before a further offensive.

All the best,

Bill

Hi Bill,
At my side I have a different experience.
As soon I am lowering on the dose, then in a few days I will get pain in mainly my feet and then some later the feeling as if someone sometimes is putting a needle in the joints of my fingers.
So the effect of not using DMF is quite strong.

On the other hand, I am almost never sick. The sniff/illness I had a few weeks ago was much less then others in my environment have had at about the same time. Basically only twice a year I have a little cold, that's it.

Are you keeping an eye on your lympho's by the way?