240 patient evaluations for Glatiramer acetate

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Aug 31, 2010 (Started Jul 06, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Cost: $25-49 monthly
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Dec 28, 2010 (Started Jan 15, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I am signing up for a study for a new oral MS medication. This requires that I be off of any modulating therapies for three months before the study begins. I think it's worth the risk. If I can help get new options on the market, I'm gung-ho!
Cost: $50-99 monthly

Jun 28, 2010 (Started Jan 15, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: The Shared Solution team is fantastic, very knowledgeable and helpful. I recently had my auto-injector break, and called my insurance to get a new one with my new month's supply of Copaxone - - they had no idea what I was talking about. Calling Shared Solutions let me talk to a very nice lady who sent me a replacement auto-injector free of charge.
Cost: $50-99 monthly
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Jan 18, 2011 (Started Oct 01, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

May 26, 2010 (Started May 19, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I do not know that I was on this treatment for an adequate amount of time to determine it's efficacy.
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Apr 20, 2000 (Started Apr 20, 2000)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (anaphylaxis)
  • Adherence
    Never taken as prescribed
  • Burden
    Very hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Every other day
Advice & Tips: Had anaphylactic shock
Cost: $200+ monthly
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Dec 20, 2010 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site reaction, redness, lumps and bumps, injection site pain, injection site itching, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: am so tired of taking this medication. But seems to be keeping my lesions at a stable level. And it reduced the inflammation due to mosquito bites
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps

Mar 15, 2010 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site reaction, redness, lumps and bumps, injection site pain, injection site itching, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Welts less bothersome. Last MRI showed no appreciable increase in lesion load ?it's working?
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps

Jan 20, 2010 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site reaction, redness, lumps and bumps, injection site pain, injection site itching, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: while my symptoms are getting worse, my MRI shows scant changes. Now I jsut need to figure out how to pay for it.
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps

Aug 18, 2009 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site reaction, redness, lumps and bumps, injection site pain, injection site itching, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: it takes a while for the copaxone to kick in. I was in the depths of despair after about 7 months on it with no progress except downwards - but suddenly things seem to be picking up (knock wood!)
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps

Mar 24, 2009 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site reaction, redness, lumps and bumps, injection site pain, injection site itching, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: use autoinject, rotate sites, don't use arms or leg sites when are going to be using these areas a lot that day.
Cost: $200+ monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps

Dec 7, 2008 (Started Dec 05, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site pain, injection site swelling, injection site red itchy bumps)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: injecting slowly is the key, I think - still new at it.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: injection site swelling, injection site reaction, lumps and bumps, redness, injection site pain, injection site itching, bruiselike feeling under skin, injection site red itchy bumps
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Oct 1, 2010 (Started Sep 01, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Every other day
Advice & Tips: This treatment does not work for me
Cost: $25-49 monthly
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Dec 10, 2010 (Started Sep 01, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (injection site bumps, itching under skin)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Somewhat hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: After taking this for a year, it was determined that this was not working well enough - I still continued to develop lesions. Although I must add that things have improved a little since stopping it so its going to be a case of wait and see to find out how much better I will end up feeling.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: injection site bumps, itching under skin

Oct 23, 2010 (Started Sep 01, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (injection site bumps, itching under skin)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I have had problems with having lost weight and finding new loctions to inject as it needs to be injected into fatty tissue. On top of that, where I have been injecting on a regular basis, the area is beginning to harden and is making it difficutl to actually inject the needle. I have been told that heating the area prior to injecting will help with the hardening (which seems to be helping) and also to massage the area much later to ensure that it disperses the drug.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: injection site bumps, itching under skin
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 29, 2010 (Started Sep 01, 1980)

  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I was on copaxon since 1990 or there abouts. I had no side effects in all these years. After speaking in depth with my Doctor we decided to change our course of action and try this new drug.
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Nov 4, 2009 (Started Jul 03, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for General health)
  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for multiple sclerosis)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I found this medication to be very comfortable to take. Even though it involved daily injections, all went well. I only stopped the treatment because my diagnosis was up in the air...between MS and Small Fiber Neuropathy.
Cost: < $25 monthly
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