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This sounds like the list of side effects you'll get with almost any immune suppression drug. Odds are good that you'll never see any of those side effects, but
by zdragnar 4y ago
This sounds like the list of side effects you'll get with almost any immune suppression drug. Odds are good that you'll never see any of those side effects, but when you take a sledge hammer to something so foundational to how your body works to try to beat it into a different shape, you can expect the possibility for unpleasant things to happen.
I was on an injection for a different disease with a similar side effect profile (sans high cholesterol and a few of the others) and (fortunately) didn't have a single side effect other than some swelling at the site of the first injection.
Then again, I was taking it for something possibly degenerative (psoriasis with signs of psoriatic arthritis). I stopped around COVID time out of an abundance of caution, and the joint pain hasn't come back, so I haven't started up again.
On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't risk it for something like hair loss. Getting a wig and some therapy (or even skipping the wig!) is a whole lot safer than potentially permanently upending your immune system. I hate how insensitive that sounds, but doctors really shouldn't be treating vanity with drugs like this.
- BbzzbB 4y agoDepends on the dose too. My poor neighbor (late 20s lady, way too young for all her problems) had to take a "might-kill-you" dose of cortisol to survive, beyond the "max" her doctor initially told her (1150 of some units, max was 1000, regular dose is 100). She suffered the whole list of potential side effects, some of which are quite terrifying and gross. Thankfully she gets to live however, which wouldn't be the case was she born a couple decades earlier.
- mgarfias 4y agoAs much as I’d like to have my hair growing again, having heart disease makes me suddenly forget my vanity.