I spent the last month learning and getting comfortable doing the injections with copaxone. This week I switched from auto injector to the manual. All is cool until I get to today with is hip day. When I injected, the needle bent, and as I couldnt see it, the injection got juust under the skin, and I tore the skin pulling the needle out. How do i make this work without the auto injector. My ...

Tables are Turned: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries mostly makes generic drugs, but now finds itself acting like Big Pharma — defending the patent for a brand-name drug in order to stave off the threat of generic competition, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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I am in my 3rd week of copaxone, and the first week and a half or so I had absolutely no problems. within the last week, every injection site hurts like hell starting a few hours after injection and lasting for up to a week. It is sore like a bruise, and I dont know what the deal is. Any advice? Could it be that the needle is set too deep or something? I have ...

After 8 years of being on Avonex, my system can no longer tolerate and my neuro prescribe Copaxone last week. I was diagnosed in 2001 with R/R and I have seen progression in the last 4 months as my right leg tightens very quickly.
I have not filled the copaxone script as I am debating daily needles or the possibility of relapses.
Any comments?

Hello all - long time lurker, sometimes poster here, its been awhile.

I had on/off symptoms of ON, Lhermitte's for many years (early to mid 1990s I had episodes of both, but neither led to an MS Dx). I had Xrays, etc. and ON was written off as a virus-fluke, Lhermitte's as a neck disc issue. I was finally Dx'd RRMS in 2003 when I had my first definite "full body" relapse which finally led ...

Hi there,
I'm new to this forum and hope someone can help me with an unusual question... :? I am a German postdoc and wondering whether to apply to a postdoc position in the Republic of Ireland. I have MS and have taken Copaxone for nearly 8 years; it seems to work very well and I have had only one acute episode since. So I wonder whether ...

Adding the investigational, oral drug teriflunomide to glatiramer acetate (GA, Copaxone) in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis substantially decreased the MRI lesion burden, although the effect on relapse rates was less clear, a researcher said here.

In a 48-week, phase II trial, patients receiving 7 mg/day of teriflunomide in addition to GA had only about one-third the average number of T1-gadolinium-enhancing lesions seen in patients taking placebo plus GA (P=0.03), said Mark Freedman, MD, ...

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When my wife first started taking copaxone in 2006 it was described to us as a 'protective coating' the mimics myellin and protects the damaged nerves from the immune system. Even the Teva website uses language like "COPAXONE is believed to..." which really makes me wonder.

Is there any real scientific evidence somewhere that I'm missing that can explain how this drug works and what it is supposed to be doing?

I'm not a believer ...

i posted a similar question elsewhere with no results. therefore, i am going to post this same question in the specific drug rooms.

was it your Dr's recommendations or was it due to your own personal preference. if it was your own preference, why this one?

thank you