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The same thing happened to me, I wrote a post about my excruciating stomach pain and how I had to stop taking it. My neuro restarted me at 120 twice a day for two weeks, then 120 in the morning and 240 at night for two weeks the the full dose there after. Whenever I took the 240 pill I also took a z...

Update: Since my last post I have restarted tecfidera and I am still on it. Rather than carafate, my neuro prescribed zantac and said try it first to see how I do. I can honestly say that it had been a world of difference for me. Twice a day I take the 240 tecfidera with 150 mg of ranitidine (the ge...

I have, and I have taken it with fatty foods like the tecfidera reps suggested. I was told at that tecfidera dinner i went to that if I could just make it past the first eight weeks then it should be fine as the sideeffects greatly decrease at that time, so if carafate takes me through the rough ini...

Hi all. When I started Tecfidera, the first week I had itching on my arms, legs, and back of my neck and flushing that was all pretty much bearable and subsided after an hour. Right at week 3 the stomach pain started. It wasn't a minimal pain like Tecfidera said it would be, it was excruciating and ...