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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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I've been on Betaseron for 6 years and have had no new lesions or relapses. I'd like to get off shots but am afraid other medications wouldn't be as effective for me.
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Reviewer: 65-74 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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Been on 14+ years. Extremely satisfied. Only one new lesion in 14 years of treatment. Just notified by my insurance company they will no longer cover this drug and want me to switch to something else.
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Reviewer: smdoty, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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Been on Betaseron for nearly 4 years now. Still get chills / aches if I forget to take acetaminophen with it. Also still have redness / inflammation at injection sites for several months afterwards. Have had 2 severe injection site reactions resulting in small open wounds & brusing. I manually inject (the auto-injector clicks loudly & makes me jump) & self-injection gets tiresome /
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Reviewer: 55-64 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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flu like symptoms at first but doing very well. been on it for 8 years now. wouldn't trade it for nothing else.
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