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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / February 2007Enbrel and the flu
Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due to everyone getting sick?. I am starting to ache and have a cough. My youngest has a 103.5 temp and I am trying to get it down by alternating tylenol and ibuprophen. My 15 year old is running a 100.6 and is coughing and achey. 17 year old has no problems because he has had the flu shot..hes asthmatic. I went to get mine and was told they were out.. now I might be getting this junk. My chest is getting really heavy and feels congested and I have been feeling really tired too. I am not sure how to get ahold of my RD after hours so I am kind of stuck. Any help or advice is welcome..:o) > Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here > at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > get ahold of my RD after hours so I am kind of stuck. Any help or advice > is welcome..:o) Hi Rhonda, I can only tell you what I would do. I would put off the shot until I could talk to my RD. It reads as though you are coming down with everyone else is having. Do not get overly tired and drink plenty of fluids. A little fever is your body fighting this off and a good thing. If the fever increases it is time for some aspirin and hit the bed. Harv >> Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here >> at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > fever increases it is time for some aspirin and hit the bed. > Harv I should have read your post first Harv. I ended up repeating your advice. Regarding aspirin, maybe tylenol would be a better choice? Aspirin is an antiinflamatory and inflamation can be very useful during times of infection. On the other hand, if she's postponing a dose of Enbrel perhaps a little stop-gap anti-inflamatory would be best? You've got more personal experience with these meds than I do. Regards, Ari  Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ >>> Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here >>> at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Ari Oooh, I do not know about that but doing nothing until it has you is a serious mistake when a person takes a dmard or anti-tnf. There was not a thing I could do that would of made these two rounds of bronchitis but let the medicine to its work, stop all the medicines I take and hope for the best. The best almost put me in the hospital and I am not out of the woods yet. If I were to die today, they would not say it was because I had RA or the medicines I take. By the way, a flu shot gives me a serious bout with the flu and both my doctors agree that I can take a shot if I want it but they are not taking responsibility for it. Makes a person think, huh. Harv >>>> Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here >>>> at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > they are not taking responsibility for it. Makes a person think, huh. > Harv So your reaction to the flu jab is an immune response and not an allergic type reaction? That's a tough one: take the chance of having a worse reaction to the flu itself, or go with the definite sickness that comes from the flu jab. Ari Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ > Hi Rhonda, I can only tell you what I would do. I would put off the shot > until I could talk to my RD. It reads as though you are coming down with [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > fever increases it is time for some aspirin and hit the bed. > Harv I agree with Harv whole-heartedly. Hold off and get a call in to your RD. In the future - call ahead to your doctors' offices and have someone hold a flu shot for you. Being on enbrel puts you in the high risk category. In fact, I make sure Mike gets his shot too - I don't even want flu in our house if we can avoid it! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here at > our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due to > everyone getting sick?. I am starting to ache and have a cough. Enbrel will make it harder for your body to resist the secondary infections from bacteria. The flu will tear up your respiratory epithelium as one part of the infection. > My youngest > has a 103.5 temp and I am trying to get it down by alternating tylenol and > ibuprophen. My 15 year old is running a 100.6 and is coughing and achey. 17 > year old has no problems because he has had the flu shot..hes asthmatic. I > went to get mine and was told they were out.. now I might be getting this > junk. For future reference, get the flu vaccination early, not when people around you start getting sick. If one place has run out, go to another. Flu kills people who are young and healthy with good immune systems. You are on immunosuppressive medications, so it is very important to get the flu vax each year and make sure you get it done. You know this, I'm saying it for other people reading this who may not consider it to be 'necessary'. > My chest is getting really heavy and feels congested and I have been > feeling really tired too. I am not sure how to get ahold of my RD after > hours so I am kind of stuck. Any help or advice is welcome..:o) When are you due for your next dose? if you're due today, if I were in your shoes, I'd put it off until I could speak with a doctor. So many people here are asking this same question, and it surprises me that doctors don't tell patients what to do in these very common scenarios after placing their patients on immunosuppressive medication. Regards, Ari Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ I had an appointment for the shot back in November but they were out then.. I kept calling and they were still out. I tried the health department but they told me if I had health insurance I couldn't get a appointment there.. I should have gone up to the drug store when they had their clinic and had it there.. oh well I will know next year and I will go early.. see I made sure my oldest had it because of his asthma..but I wasn't persistent enough for myself. >> Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here >> at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Ari > I had an appointment for the shot back in November but they were out then.. > I kept calling and they were still out. I tried the health department but [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > sure my oldest had it because of his asthma..but I wasn't persistent enough > for myself. We get ours at a pharmacy and inject each other :-) >>> Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here >>> at our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> >> Ari Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ Mike and I were just talking about this...I haven't had one in a few years....Last year they were having such a shortage and I am not at risk...But Mike is Asthmatic also...and it is important...but somehow...this year...he has just not done it...Maybe he could go by his doctors this am and get a "Jab"...In Oklahoma we are up to the epidemic stages...They said it isn't as bad as it could be since we had all that really bad weather that had the schools shut down for a week and people were just staying indoors...But this last week with the break in the weather...I know we got out and went to the Golf Expo one day and the Boat Show the next...Can you say ...Cabin Fever.... Well...Rhonda...Saying a prayer for you and your family... Hugs Cindy > Oh boy do I have a doozy here. Everyone is coming down with the flu here at > our house. My question is.. should I skip my weekly dose of Enbrel due to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > feeling really tired too. I am not sure how to get ahold of my RD after > hours so I am kind of stuck. Any help or advice is welcome..:o) |
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