Tremfya for psoriatic arthritis Fred's journey

[Fred]

Time for an update. If you have been following this thread you will know that I was starting to think this past few months that Tremfya was failing, today I reached the point of make my mind up as it's time for my next shot.

I have an appointment in 4 weeks time and I have to decide to take the shot or leave it and see if I can try something else. If I take the shot I can't change for 8 weeks, if I don't take the shot I can try something else. 

Well I have decided to take the shot and I'm glad I didn't phone my dermatologist for an earlier appointment as I'm feeling great.

Psoriatic arthritis score has gone down from 3 to 1 and the one is only because I still have a little bit of inflammation in the right ankle (but that could be fluid) some mornings my right arm feels a little stiff, but it's always been dodgy and it soon passes. So as I'm taking Tremfya mainly for psoriatic arthritis I see no reason to stop.

Psoriasis score stays on 1 but that is just for a small patch on each shin, it's not flaky but you can see it is still there, my shins have always been to worse.

I still don't know what caused the flare-up and I will discuss it with my dermatologist to see what she thinks, but it's looking more and more likely that it was the Covid jabs after all.

Shot done, feeling good, next appointment in 4 weeks and go from there.