power cut and Imraldi

[Mozart150]

Hi guys we have a power cut - it went off at 5am. My husband has his Imraldi injections in the fridge -how long are they ok in there without power please ?

Thank you.

[Runrig01]

once they go above the 2-8 degrees they should be stored at, they can be kept at room temperature for 28 days. They shouldn’t go back in fridge once they have reached room temperature

[Mozart150 in reply to Runrig01]

thank you 😊

[Mozart150 in reply to Mozart150]

We’ve taken one out and put it in an unused drawer in dark and left one in. Haven’t got a fridge thermometer. Power has been off for nearly five hours now. These things seem to happen when advice lines closed !

[Knip in reply to Mozart150]

Trick is to leave the fridge door closed to retain a low temperature.

[Mozart150 in reply to Knip]

we took both injections out of the fridge in the end as power was off for almost 10 hours. I’ve just spoken to healthnet and we can use one of the injections but was told the other had to be used within 14 days once out of fridge and they are picking that one up with next delivery.

[Neonkittie17]

Glad you’re getting a new delivery. Makes you wonder what we are to do if we get power cuts enforced this winter. 😑 (Don’t think for one moment that’s twigged with “the powers that be”, yet. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. )

[Mozart150 in reply to Neonkittie17]

yes -no what you mean !!! My husbands been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I felt really upset to start with as I have rheumatoid but thankfully he takes everything in his stride. And I really hope the injections help him. He is now under the same consultant as me - you couldn’t make it up 😂. I tried two lots of TNF’s and they did nothing for me but as we know everyone responds differently. Thankfully, Baricitinib is helping .

[Neonkittie17 in reply to Mozart150]

I am sorry to hear that 😢 and hope he is steady on medication soon. Both Enbrel and Humira didn’t help me. Enbrel worked within two hours like a miracle then stopped five weeks later and Humira did nothing at all in 16 weeks. That was 2012/13.