I am now going into my 5th month on Tremfya. It may be helping some.
I do have a new side effect from it that I have not had from the other biologics. I have “athlete’s foot” showing up on places it doesn’t belong. I had it in one armpit and my doc said Tremfya was a bit worse about that than others. Standard athlete’s foot creams took care of it, but it has popped up in a few other delicate places.
Be on the watch for bumpy red skin with follicles very inflamed. At first, I thought it was the folliculitis we get with the biologics, but then the skin started shedding.
Yikes! I didn’t know that there was anything athletic in nature about PsA! It seems @tamac that you are just running around putting out fires in your body, sorry to hear! I think I heard of a “clothing optional PsA colony” somewhere in Europe that allows us special people to expose those “where the sun don’t shine” areas to the sunshine…UV can be healthy for some things. BUT only under doctor’s care! The mosquitos are too bad in our area for such therapy.
Bad luck Tamac. It isn’t always an easy judgement between benefits vs downsides. I have something similar with my biologic, Cimza. It has helped a bit and the side effects are bearable but I now have recurrent thrush in my throat and mouth. Antifungals clear it but it comes back so I now require a continuous low dose (once a week) to fend it off. By coincidence I had it back this weekend because I missed a dose. Ironically it is because the biologic is doing its job, ie suppressing immunity that the problem exists. Same for you.
So try not to get Covid…
The antifungal took care of it, but it spread too much before I figure out what it was. Just keep an eye out for it on places it doesn’t belong if you are on biologics! Keep a tube of a Tanactine or something similar on hand.
I do know that there is a certain region around Tennesse/ Ohio Valley, Kentucky, and the Appalachian areas are fungal infections can occur in immunosuppressed persons. I wish you the best.
BUT only under doctor’s care! The mosquitos are too bad in our area for such therapy.