January 2026
The Mavenclad
26/01/26 23:45
It’s taken a while for the delivery to be sorted, but finally it has now. I’ve now got the new stuff: ‘Mavenclad’ (aka Cladribine) at home. I started them today (Monday). Just got five days of them, then another five days four weeks later. Hopefully the next delivery will go okay.
Hopefully all will go okay. Very different drug to my last one (Tecfidera). A one in ten chance of getting shingles while on it. It’s funny the way 1 in 10 sounds very likely but 90% chance of not getting it says very unlikely. Presentation of data and fears, hey.
Was a bit different when it arrived with the bright banded “Handle with care—CYTOTOXIC” label on the over large box. Instruction from the delivery company: if the tablets are damaged (i.e, if any are broken and partly powder) you don’t take them and have to inform them and they’ll pick up said broken tablets and bring a tablet to replace it. Of course you can’t check them in advance so if I open the last tablet and find it’s broken then it gets messy in terms of taking the full dosage. But I guess everything will be okay. I hope so…
The instructions on taking the tablets out of the container seem a little more complicated than they should be. But I took my first two day’s doses okay. And so far I reckon there’s a 90% chance I wont contract shingles.
Hopefully all will go okay. Very different drug to my last one (Tecfidera). A one in ten chance of getting shingles while on it. It’s funny the way 1 in 10 sounds very likely but 90% chance of not getting it says very unlikely. Presentation of data and fears, hey.
Was a bit different when it arrived with the bright banded “Handle with care—CYTOTOXIC” label on the over large box. Instruction from the delivery company: if the tablets are damaged (i.e, if any are broken and partly powder) you don’t take them and have to inform them and they’ll pick up said broken tablets and bring a tablet to replace it. Of course you can’t check them in advance so if I open the last tablet and find it’s broken then it gets messy in terms of taking the full dosage. But I guess everything will be okay. I hope so…
The instructions on taking the tablets out of the container seem a little more complicated than they should be. But I took my first two day’s doses okay. And so far I reckon there’s a 90% chance I wont contract shingles.
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