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What is Cellcept? Cellcept is a brand name for the drug mycophenolic acid, an immunosuppressant used with other medicines to prevent organ rejection following kidney, liver, or heart transplants. It may also be used off-label for immune-modulated conditions such as lupus. Read more...Click to read more below

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Roche's Cellcept site


Reasons Taken

58 patients in the community are taking or have taken Cellcept.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Slow my MS progress 32 55%
Other 8 13%
Slow my Devic's progress 5 8%
Weakness in leg 1 1%
Stiffness/spasticity 1 1%
Don't know 1 1%
Support another treatment 1 1%
Slow my ALS progress 1 1%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Cellcept.

  0 mg Daily 250 mg Daily 500 mg Daily 1000 mg Daily 1500 mg Daily 2000 mg Daily 2250 mg Daily 2500 mg Daily 3000 mg Daily
  4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 15 Number of Patients: 15 1 Number of Patients: 1 15 Number of Patients: 15 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Cellcept or how long patients were taking Cellcept before stopping.

Currently taking Cellcept

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
2
5
3
9
2
11

Stopped taking Cellcept

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
3
1
3
1
1
2
Why Patients Stopped Taking Cellcept (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 5 45% Doctor's advice: 45%
Did not seem to work 2 18% Did not seem to work: 18%
Other 2 18% Other: 18%
Personal research 1 9% Personal research: 9%
Side effects too severe 1 9% Side effects too severe: 9%
Not indicated 1 9% Not indicated: 9%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 8 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 25% 1
Can't tell 75% 3

Slow my MS progress

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 38% 3
None 63% 5

Top reported side-effects include: Nausea

Summary results are based on 8 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 8)

  • loisa
    Sex: F
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: None
    Cognition: mild
    Vision: mild
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: mild
    Walking: mild
    See profile
  • loisa
  • by loisa
    Sep 19, 2008
  • EfficacyCan't tell
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Slow my MS progress
Advice/Tips
my advice is... well I don't know. I felt nothing to be honest, and as I was getting out from a clinical trial because I had a relapse and felt scared, Cellcept didn't make me feel secure. For me, Cellcept didn't help because I felt... nothing at all only fear of getting worse!

See all evaluation results for Cellcept



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