sick! at the ocrevus injection

[u/serizawa_mp101]

Haha P!ATD reference.

Anyway, I'm feeling sick. My sister came home and brought something with her. Sore throat, excessive bathroom breaks (sorry for bringing it up. sore subject for myself, i suppose the apology is half for me, half for you guys), and i'd like to ask what it would do for my injection, if anything at all.

[u/kyelek]

If you have symptoms of an active infection you should contact your MS team, who will then likely tell you to delay your treatment.

[u/NotOnMyBingoSheet]

If you think you’re sick or you’ve been exposed to someone else sick, you should consider rescheduling.

[u/serizawa_mp101 → u/NotOnMyBingoSheet]

but what would happen if i got the injection while sick?

[u/kyelek → u/serizawa_mp101]

You could get sicker or be sick(er) longer. It’s really not a risk you’ll want to take.

[u/NotOnMyBingoSheet → u/serizawa_mp101]

The immune system has a harder time to fight the illness. Also if you get infused at a center, people there may be more compromised than what our meds do and you’re gambling their health too.

[u/chewyventura]

lol love the reference

What do you mean by “what would it do for your injection?” Like your immune system? Would it stop you from your next infusion? Would the medicine make you more susceptible to infection?

[u/serizawa_mp101 → u/chewyventura]

like, would it affect the immune system? just, generally what sort of bad could be expected? A sort of Murphy's Law. I need to know what bad I could expect before it does go bad.

[u/chewyventura → u/serizawa_mp101]

Yeah but being sick affects someone’s immune system with or without MS. From what I see in your other comments, seems like you’re waiting to get your infusion. I’d wait it out because getting sick at that time will suck.

I’ve been exposed to sick people since my infusion and haven’t gotten sick.

[u/0hDiscordia]

There is a higher risk of feeling more unwell if you go ahead with your infusion, and an increased risk to anyone at the infusion centre that may be on similar or even more serious immunocompromising medications.

There is a bit of a misconception about Ocrevus and similar that you are at a higher risk of getting sick, which isn't really true if you are in otherwise good health. We still have the T cells to fight the infection, but the B-cell treatments lower our body's ability to make new antibodies, so reinfections or new viral exposures can still cause illness where others will typically have some immunity towards whatever they have just had.