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Mon-26-10-2015, 04:22 AM
Fernando,
Thank you for the message. I actually had to stop using Cosentyx starting in July. I caught a cold in May (was at a week long conference) that turned into an upper respiratory infection that turned into bronchitis, which has now turned into acute bronchitis. One of the potential side effects of Cosentyx is increased risk of respiratory infections. Since treatments for the bronchitis hadn't been working, my dermatologist told me to stop taking Cosentyx until it has cleared up. I am currently seeing a pulmonary specialist and we are trying some different things.
Although Cosentyx did work for me for a while (cleared up half my legs), the plaque came back just as bad as before after I stopped taking it.
Even when I do get my acute bronchitis under control (I'm hopeful that it will eventually clear up) I do not think I will be going back to Cosentyx. I've been relatively fortunate in the past to not experience too many side effects with the different drugs. What has made things even worse now is that I think I have sleep apnea (just took a sleep study) and that in combination with the bronchitis has impacted my day to day living enough that I would much rather have the psoriasis than the bronchitis.
I hope you fair better with Cosentyx, but for me I will keep looking after I get better.
-Daniel
Thank you for the message. I actually had to stop using Cosentyx starting in July. I caught a cold in May (was at a week long conference) that turned into an upper respiratory infection that turned into bronchitis, which has now turned into acute bronchitis. One of the potential side effects of Cosentyx is increased risk of respiratory infections. Since treatments for the bronchitis hadn't been working, my dermatologist told me to stop taking Cosentyx until it has cleared up. I am currently seeing a pulmonary specialist and we are trying some different things.
Although Cosentyx did work for me for a while (cleared up half my legs), the plaque came back just as bad as before after I stopped taking it.
Even when I do get my acute bronchitis under control (I'm hopeful that it will eventually clear up) I do not think I will be going back to Cosentyx. I've been relatively fortunate in the past to not experience too many side effects with the different drugs. What has made things even worse now is that I think I have sleep apnea (just took a sleep study) and that in combination with the bronchitis has impacted my day to day living enough that I would much rather have the psoriasis than the bronchitis.
I hope you fair better with Cosentyx, but for me I will keep looking after I get better.
-Daniel