Cosentyx

Last night was my final 'build-up' dose of Cosentyx. Now it becomes a sub-cutaneous injection once a month instead of once a week.

With all biologics, I am finding that I am particularly irritable shortly after an injection and usually the entire next day. Mainly I try and keep myself busy reading or watching random tv shows in the bedroom... if I try and do too much or socialize too much, I find myself to have a rather short fuse. Not that I act on it necessarily, but I just feel less patient.

It could be the medication itself, as that has been my previous experience with other biologics, or it could also be the lack of sleep. More than any other medication recently, I am suffering quite a bit of insomnia since starting this medication.
Frankly, my sleeping habits have always suffered... either I am sleeping too much or too little or can't stay asleep or have to get up 10 times in a night to go to the washroom. (Okay, maybe only 3 or 4).
I still get hot flashes in the night and usually, 4 hours after I take my meds, I experience end-of-dose failure and wake up completely wired.
Not to mention the lack of rest when it is a medicated sleep, the cramping burning pains of IBD from either eating too much or too little, and the constant itchiness brought on by certain other medications - ones that contain a small amount of caffeine that makes me itch like CRAZY!!!

See?
More irritable than usual.

I think if I had restful sleep more often when I am supposed to have restful sleep (like right now, for instance) it might improve.
I am hoping that now that my injections will be once a month, these unfortunate side effects will lessen.

Since I am so very obviously awake, maybe I will just get up now to do my Berinert injection. That one also gets me all wired and shaky and stuck being awake for an hour or two, but then knocks me out for the remainder of the day. Maybe if I do it now - earlier than usual - I might wake up earlier than usual too!!

Wish me luck!
More needles.
Good thing Berinert makes such a difference in my swelling episodes. I have yet to see much (if any) improved results from Cosentyx, but sometimes it takes 3+ months before seeing results.

Fingers crossed!!