• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (fever/chills, injection site redness, migraine headaches, muscle aches)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Very hard to take

Dosage: 44 mcg/0.5 mL Weekly

Advice & Tips: A good treatment if you can take it without side effects

Side effects: fever/chills, migraine headaches, injection site redness, muscle aches

• Effectiveness

  Major (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (fever/chills, muscle aches)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 3 x 44 mcg/0.5 mL Weekly

Advice & Tips: You need to slow the progression of this disease. I have been on this drug for approximately 5 years and although my ms has progressed it has not done so nearly as fast as it has for those in my support group who are not on any of the ms treatment programs. Hope for a cure, but slow the progression while you are waiting.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: fever/chills, muscle aches

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (fever/chills, headaches, injection site redness, muscle aches, burning pain at injection site)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Somewhat hard to take

Dosage: 44 mcg/0.5 mL Daily

Cost: $50-99 monthly

Side effects: injection site redness, fever/chills, headaches, burning pain at injection site, muscle aches

• Effectiveness

  Major (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 3 x 44 mcg/0.5 mL Weekly

Advice & Tips: take advil or motrin with shot a bedtime to stave off flu sx's

Cost: $50-99 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Severe (for Overall) (fever/chills, injection site redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, migraine headaches, muscle aches, burning pain at injection site)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 1 mcg 3 times a week

Advice & Tips: Premedicate with tylenol, motrin, etc. before injecting. Try using cortisone cream, (tooth) numbing gel, or some other top of topical preparation before injecting. I didn't know about the topical things until my doctor recommended them to me. Icing down the injection site before and after injection may prove helpful. Heat helped me more.

Side effects: muscle aches, injection site redness, burning pain at injection site, fever/chills, injection site pain, injection site itching, migraine headaches

• Effectiveness

  Major (for multiple sclerosis)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (fever/chills, injection site redness, injection site itching, muscle aches)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 3 x 44 mcg/0.5 mL Weekly

Advice & Tips: I take naproxen and benedryl an hour before I inject each time.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: injection site redness, fever/chills, injection site itching, muscle aches