I want to talk about Briumvi & my recovery from it.
You know I love Briumvi. It fixes up my MS symptoms like nothing else ever has, and seems to be successful at preventing more MS damage.
BUT. MCAS does not like Briumvi. It flares as soon as Briumvi hits my system. It's usual to prep with steroids and a single benadryl. I prep with double the steroid amount, two benadryl, a cetirizine, a fexofenadine, a famotidine, azelastine nasal spray, and allergy eye drops. Then I take home a 5 day course of steroids. If we don't do this, I will be hospitalized.
Recovery is a combination of fatigue from getting the procedure itself, recovery from the MCAS flare the getting med put me into, and recovery from all the various things that flared while in the space Briumvi had ceased working because there was little left in my system.
This time according to my labwork I also have a massive infecton right now. It could be any of the infections Spouse had or a brand new one for me.
I have to sleep 16-20 hours a day right now and this can go on for 2 full weeks. Briumvi recovery is hard. It isn't pleasant. I am very ill.
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