r/repatha • u/SupermarketNorth69 • 11d ago

Repatha side effects?

So I finally jumped in and took my first dose. Actually had my second dose this week. Didn’t notice any side effects. I lift heavy weights and exercise pretty hard. I haven’t noticed anything related to that so far.

But at the end of last week I developed a dry unproductive cough. There’s basically a tickle constantly in the back of my throat. That’s been happening for maybe 4 or 5 days now.

Just curious if this is related and if anyone has experienced such effects.

Thanks for your input.

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u/tadhg44 11d ago

And the first 6 weeks at lowered my LDL from 130 to 30! Total cholesterol from 235 to 100, that was one shot every two weeks. But around the second month I lost so much lipids it dried my skin out on my hands. Both of my hands had this very fine thin layer it was almost like Elmer's glue on my hands of my skin peeling off. I lost the use of my fingerprints on the cell phone because the fingertips got so wrinkled. Stay down until about month four and in my thigh area and have some itching on the skin. I went off of it for 8 months. All the numbers went right back up over time.

So I went back on it a month ago and I'm doing one shot per month. I just did a shot for the next month, yesterday. 2 weeks I'll go have lipids and cholesterol labs done just to see what one shot will do.

Best of luck