Word of warning about Abatacept availability - NRAS

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Word of warning about Abatacept availability

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I have found today that I cannot obtain Abatacept as both the epipens and the drug are in short supply or in my case unobtainable. No idea what next, I await my rheumy’s reply to my email,

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Neonkittie17

There have been loads of posts including many from myself re this in the past month, many of which are on the links below. Hope you can get sorted out very soon

healthunlocked.com/nras/pos...

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Neonkittie17

The drug itself isn’t in short supply, it’s the clickpen manufacture that is the issue.

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debjw

Had infusion on Thursday, all very efficient 👍

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Otto11

You will most likely be moved temporarily onto infusions like many of us.

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thelmar

I had my monthly infusion of Abatacept last week and they confirmed that they haven’t been informed of any shortage of infusions so you ma be offered this as an alternative.

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