Cosentyx for psoriatic arthritis Fred's journey

[Fred]

This will be my new thread about my journey on Cosentyx.

As some may know I've been on Stelara for just over six years now and it's time to move on to something else as it's not working as well as it used to for me. You can read my journey on Stelara in these two threads if you're interested:
Stelara 16 Months On.
Stelara round two

But this about Cosentyx.

My main concern is keeping the psoriatic arthritis under control as this is the thing that causes me the most problems, so I'm going to be monitoring how well Cosentyx can help me for that.  



It comes in injections of 150mg, and one dose is two shots = 300mg

The starting dose is 300mg for 5 weeks and then a maintenance dose of 300mg and I shall be starting on the 1st October 2016 (this Saturday) Don't ask me why, but they gave me 4 doses today and I have to phone for #5

#1 1st Oct two shots of 150mg = 300mg.
#2 8th Oct two shots of 150mg = 300mg.
#3 15th Oct two shots of 150mg = 300mg.
#4 22nd Oct two shots of 150mg = 300mg.
#5 29th Oct two shots of 150mg = 300mg
From there I will be taking two shots of 150mg = 300mg every 4 weeks.

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.



Like I said the psoriatic arthritis is more important to me and I shall be using the score systems on Psoriasis Club to keep track of my progress.
https://psoriasisclub.org/psoriasisscore.php
https://psoriasisclub.org/psoriaticarthritisscore.php

I do currently have a little bit of psoriasis on the front of my leg that has popped up so I'll put an image here. This is usually at the end of my 12 weeks run on Stelara and it's been 13 now.


Now to check my scores:

Psoriasis: 3

Psoriatic arthritis: 5

The biggest test will be when the weather changes, at the moment we are still having good weather so the psoriatic arthritis isn't too bad.

Now I just wait till Saturday and will report back when I've taken the first two shots.

*You are welcome to post in this thread, but please try to keep it On Topic.

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If you want to read my experience without other posts I have a locked copy for easy reading in Members Journals, but you need to have made 10 posts to read it.

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Since starting this thread I have now finished with Cosentyx. It stopped working for the psoriatic arthritis, you can skip to my post here to find out more: RE: Cosentyx for psoriatic arthritis Fred's journey