From Stelara To Taltz

[JRW80]

What I do know is that in the US, Texas is the US right?   Doctors tend to be very careful because of the high claiming attitude in the US, so they easily may be “over”-careful.

We don't always like to acknowledge this, but yes   Yeah I've heard that excuse in my day, but the reality is the doctors here aren't always sure themselves of what to do, and then they get sued....so they tend not to do anything unless they have to. I assure you, I'll end up telling a Physician's assistant what we are doing, because I can't even get in to see the doctor... which is why I'm here   

And the only thing I was ever told was that I had to wait till the last dose had finished it's time. So for Stelara it would be 12 weeks after your last shot before you can move over to Taltz.

Welcome to Psoriasis Club by the way.  

Thank you! Sounds reasonable. I did a 10 week injection recently, so I may get to wait until the new year.
 

Welcome to the club Jay .

Very interesting to know you have been on Stelara for the longest time I have come across , the area that never cleared for me was my ears , I always thought that it did not help much with my PsA however after a mess was made of my last but one delivery I was 4 weeks over my injection day in fact 6 weeks really as they had just dropped it to 10 weeks and my PsA was chronic.

Thank you! There was an old message board in the US, I was able to interact with people involved with the trial on it, and could tell it was a game changer. Those are the only people that have been on it longer than me. I'm thinking September or October of 2007. Time is fun when you are having flies! It is interesting to find out that they have now tied PPP to the TNF-A blockers. That's what triggered my jump to Stelara...never even considered it was the drug. I guess I'm somewhat relieved I won't ever have to worry about that nightmare again.

Thanks all!
Jay