lol, maybe read it again ...".... rather than from the moderators who tend to downplay the side effects of the Big Gun meds".
Always having a dig at our great moderators.

Who’s angry about your thread? I read all of the posts and I didn’t find anyone who is mad that you posted this. I disagree with the headline and the article could have added and subtracted some other info.

Many people are scared to start biologicals and immunosuppressants which is a very normal human reaction. I remember looking at my 6-mp pills for 5 days before I took my first dose. The headline written for the article scares people and that was what it was designed to do in order to get people to read it.

I admittedly have a problem with antivaxxer trolls and I refuse to be polite to someone who has a history of being a troll and high jacking people’s threads with their antivaxxing conspiracies and grievances.

It was a scary article to post when many of us don’t have a choice. I refused oral Mesalamine in the beginning because I was so anti medication. I was terrified when I first found this forum and read some of the posts regarding how serious this disease can be. I spent a fortune on many supplements, acupuncture, diet tests, and special diets. I took any alternative advice offered on this forum, BUT it was the support I got from the mods and others on here that helped the most when I had no choice but to go on biologics. I loved flowers and CC’s posts and I wish more people gave support comments instead. Many come out of the woodworks to comment on subjects like this. How about commenting on the posts of the people who are flaring? I think I had 3 people comment on my last post. Yes biologics pose risks but I had an incredible 2019 traveling, eating, being a great mom and friend that made it worth the risks! Life is meant to be lived and then you die so you might as well live WELL while you can.

That is NOT why the article was written, Keith. Think what you want though and continue to repeat it over and over and over to try to get other people to not believe the article either.

Countess -- I was one of those people who commented on your flaring post and I comment on tons of people's posts, always trying to be supportive. Sorry you didn't like reading about this article. I like to have the truth about topics, even if it scares me.

ambling said...
The article is interesting and useful.

The woman they mainly profiled was 77, and had a brain aneurysm a couple years earlier. It is revealed that she had only two doses of remicade. No one seems sure whether or not that was the reason for net not fighting off infection that got hold of her.

I hate this illness. It is devastating for me, and has been for years. They asked once if I'd try four times the normal dosing of remicade, and honestly I would have tried anything. It didn't do much, nor did it cause any problems fro me. I was pondering whether, of someone asked me to take a drug that had 50 per cent chance of cure, and 50 per cent chance of being fatal, would I try it? In my case, the answer is not a hard one.

I wish there was an easy fix to the horror of chronic illness, especially ones with no known cause or cure.

Plus she was on 2 other unnamed drugs at the same time, i would guess one of them would be mtx, hence double immunosuppression, which would increase risk of infections over remicade alone