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Hi Shaight. I'm on Avonex. I chose because its only one shot a week. I have/had a severe needle phobia. It took a lot of working through to learn to self inject. But I got there.....Smokey

Update: I've had four jabs now and the "advertised" side effects are all there. 8 to 24 hours after the treatment I get headaches, high temperatures and chills and shivering, lasts abot 8 hours followed by a couple of days of feeling completely wipped out. The good news I suppose is that ...

Update: I've had four jabs now and the "advertised" side effects are all there. 8 to 24 hours after the treatment I get headaches, high temperatures and chills and shivering, lasts abot 8 hours followed by a couple of days of feeling completely wipped out. The good news I suppose is that ...

Thanks Cheer. I was puzzling over the results. I read the paper and just couldn't make sense of the conclusion. Very strange logic here.

Fingers crossed for you!! Let us know how you go.....

So you were on placebo?

Be sure to let us know! All the best.

Hi, it took a few months for the side effects to settle. Shivers, feeling seriously BLAH, and intense stomach aches. When I first injected, the side effects lasted about 12 hours. They still do but are a lot less intense. Usually. Occasionally I still get a bad reaction. I use Panadol.

Salvatore24 wrote:It must be placebo or a remission, your neuro must be blind, deaf and dumb

hehe Oh Salvatore!!

Thanks for letting us know Salvatore. Great news. Yep. The tide is turning. Although that's a bit of an unfortunate metaphor in Australia right now.

Did the MS nurse have a nice haircut?? HAHAHA!!
Would you recommend the hairdresser???

Thanks for the replies :) In the injection instruction DVD they day to use the middle third of the thigh, is the upper thrid easier to do it in or do you guys use both to allow more variation of sites? Also, has anyone experienced nausea as a side effect? I seem to get constant nausea, not intense ...

Hi everyone, I've just started taking avonex, I've had 2 injections so far & only half doses to wean me onto it. The nurse said the top outer quadrant of the buttock is a good place and the most comfortable, the 2 injections I've had so far were on each buttock and the next 2 will be the thighs...

David1949 wrote:Smokey may I ask if you have any history of blood clots, embolisms, or Factor V Laiden and Protein C deficiency?

Hi David....no, none of these. I've been pretty healthy, well, as far as I knew, until the MS diagnosis. Smokey.

Hi Dania, Really really sorry to hear what's happened. I guess we are in the unfortunate minority of people who go on to develop thrombus and/or our veins collapse. I had 2 stenosis in the left IJV high up. Good response to the first angioplasty. The effects lasted about 2 weeks. With the second ang...