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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Lupus / September 2004Cellcept
does anyone have any experience or know anything about treating SLE with the medication Cellcept? > does anyone have any experience or know anything about treating SLE > with the medication Cellcept? Hello Susanna, I saw your post on sci.med and wondered why you weren't asking here. So welcome :-) So here you are and yes there's several (if not more) on cellcept. Hopefully you'll get replies on that Several have just posted recently about that. What would you like to know? Do you have SLE? http://www.rheumatology.org/public/factsheets/sle_new.asp?aud=pat More aggressive therapy is required for life-threatening and more serious manifestations such as kidney inflammation, lung or heart involvement, and central nervous system symptoms. Treatment in these circumstances might involve high dose corticosteroids such as prednisone (Deltasone) and other immunosuppressive drugs such as azathioprine (Imuran), cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), and cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune). Recently mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept) has been used to treat severe lupus kidney disease. Sometimes several medications must be combined to control the disease and prevent tissue damage.[end quote] J > Hello Susanna, > I saw your post on sci.med and wondered why you weren't asking here. > So welcome :-) Thanks J. > So here you are and yes there's several (if not more) on cellcept. > Hopefully you'll get replies on that > Several have just posted recently about that. I have been reading the thread. Very informative. > What would you like to know? Do you have SLE? Yes, I have SLE and recently diagnosed with NP-SLE. I have been struggling with lupus and all sorts of medications for over 16 yrs now. I do get some breaks but flares seem to be worse each time. Last visit to the hospital, my dr decided to switch me over to Cellcept. That's why I was asking. :) Susana > http://www.rheumatology.org/public/factsheets/sle_new.asp?aud=pat > More aggressive therapy is required for life-threatening and more serious [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > prevent tissue damage.[end quote] > J > >> Hello Susanna, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Last visit to the hospital, my dr decided to switch me over to > Cellcept. That's why I was asking. :) Linda (my DW) was switched from cytoxan to Cellcept a couple of years ago. She is now off of both. She had a DNA-antibody test two or three weeks ago and it came back negative - first time in many years. Other test are also better than in a long time including the most important test of all; she feels better. She still is a walking drugstore though (I'm sure you know what I mean). HTH and YMMV Timothy I found some information on cellcept at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Living/lupus_cellcept031027.html it's an interesting piece to read i jsut started on it, so i'll let you all know how it goes susana |
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