Tremfya for psoriatic arthritis Fred's journey

[Fred]

This will be my new thread for my journey on Tremfya.

I've had 3.5 years on Cosentyx but it's now failed in it's job at keeping the psoriatic arthritis away. You can read that journey here: Cosentyx for psoriatic arthritis Fred's journey

Tremfya is only prescribed for psoriasis in France at the moment but it is going for approval to treat psoriatic arthritis soon and I will be one of the first trying it for psoriatic arthritis.

Unlike other bio's Tremfya doesn't have a loading dose as such, you take 1 shot of 100mg followed by another at week 4. Then the maintenance dose is 100mg every 8 weeks. I have been doing bio's for well over 10 years now so it will be a simple task doing the shots myself.

It comes in two types of shot. A pre filled Syringe and an Auto injector (Pen). I prefer using the syringes as seen in this image.



Psoriatic arthritis is more important to me but I shall be using the score systems on Psoriasis Club to keep track of my progress.

Pscore

PsAscore

Psoriasis score: 8

Psoriatic arthritis score: 14

Psoriasis on one of my skins:


Psoriatic arthritis middle finger:


Annoying red itchiness on forearm


Notes for reference: Before taking my first shot I feel like I have a mild cold and a bit of upset stomach. Also the annoying red itchiness has come back again. I'm putting this here so I know I had those problems before starting Tremfya.

I will do regular updates and you are welcome to post in this thread, but please keep it On Topic.

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I will also have a locked copy without comments for easy reading in Members Journals, but you need to have made 10 posts to read it.
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