OK then

Right- have been having a bit of a rough time with the new medication.

The injection itself is easy peasy now have no problems.... until about 30 seconds later and then feel like I've been stung by the fattest wasp in the history of fat wasps from waspville (and I'm allergic to wasp stings)

It just seems a bit mad to me, the drug is supposed to set up an allergic reaction; well that's one of the known side effects anyway, surely that's not a good thing?? (well not in someone who's allergic to things like bee stings? I'm even allergic to plasters and any jewellery that isn't precious metal) I suppose it should have been me that thought about that before I started on the treatment but I just hoped it wouldn't be too bad in my case... should have known! Nothings ever simple in Jen's world! I have great angry red itchy marks and lumps wherever I've injected and it seems that every time I inject it makes the previous sites flare up again! I would just like to point out though that this doesn't happen to everyone and that some people swear by Copaxone® and it does them the world of good, but it isn't for me at this point.

So I've chickened out of doing the jabs for the past couple of days (I just did one today though) and on Monday, when my Nurse specialist gets back from annual leave, I'll try to sort out going back on to beta-interferon. It'll mean a weekly intramuscular injection but at least it's only once a week- with no injection sites reactions. Hopefully I'll even be able to get the nurse at my GP surgery or a district nurse to do it for me... we'll have to see.

Anyway rant over for now... until I think of something else to write :-)

Love
Jen x