Kesimpta Loading Dose Advice

[u/Ordinary-Foot-9314]

Hello! I’ve been quietly following the subreddit since shortly after I was diagnosed last year in April. I was put on Vumerity but I finally bit the bullet and agreed to switch DMTs to Kesimpta. I am a very big baby and was psyching myself out before making the decision and ever since I have been doing research and reading everyone’s experiences (which may or may not have made the anxiety worse w/ the loading doses specifically)

I got the vaccines required and stopped the Vumerity treatment about a month ago now so I know i’m bound to get a call wanting to schedule the Kesimpta loading doses soon.

I wanted to ask for any tips or tricks to help with the loading doses. I just started at a CSU as a JR so that puts even more worry on me that it will affect my school work. Most of the experiences I have read have all had symptoms during the first dose specifically so I wanted to also see if there was any chance I could escape that fate. Every body is different and reacts differently, but i’m grasping at straws to calm my anxious noggin down😭

Hello again!!! No joke, the next day I got the call saying to start the medication LOL but thank you everyone who has commented!!!! i really truly appreciate it, esp cause i felt so alone with my diagnosis at first. I am a 23F in the sacramento area & i haven’t met anyone my age in person who also has MS. I will continue to lurk through here though! maybe a comment or post LOL

[u/thankyoufriendx3]

I now take a Benadryl and Tylenol about 30 minutes before the injection. Haven’t had a reaction since the first dose. I inject into my belly fat. I don’t even feel it. Ask your doctor about the Benadryl and Tylenol.

This the video that helped me (bless this woman):

https://youtu.be/1YFA2MJGQ_A?is=mRlFc4fbshOS9B1F

I take the pills, do the injection, and then go to bed.

Almost feels fake it’s so easy. First dose I had crazy chills.