Recently been approved for Cosentyx

[Fred]

Good news Alex. I was due to go on it this week but the funding isn't in place yet.

Can I ask why you said "maintain my smell and taste" ?

Hi Fred, 

I hope the funding comes through for you soon. 

The reason is, Humira, although wonderful for clearing my skin, made me lose my sense of taste and smell within a month.- I mean 100% gone. I could only taste sweet, sour and salty but not any flavours. I had no smell at all either.   I didn't put two and two together (I had made other lifestyle changes at the same time too, such as exercising and quitting smoking) so I went a round a year without 2 senses! I had various tests and investigative procedures to try and figure out what was going on but by chance we discovered it to be an adverse reaction to the Humira (hence the change to Cosentyx!)

That's interesting, I lost my sense of smell a couple of years ago. But they have confirmed it was nothing to do with the Bio's and was due to a bad bought of the flu. Unfortunately for me they have also confirmed it won't come back, though I still do have some taste.

I thought there may have a link, but your situation looks different to mine.

Yes the funding will get there, but I'm not to bad on Stelara for now and hadn't planned on changing till the end of the year.

I'll be watching your progress with interest.

Good luck.