Experiences with

Canakinumab

unrelated to cardiovascular disease: arthritis, gout, and cancer. . . . canakinumab, an orphan drug that blocks a specific pro-inflammatory pathway called IL-1beta.

[/i] [i]Heart attack survivors given injections of a targeted anti-inflammatory drug called canakinumab had fewer attacks in the future, scientists found. Cancer deaths were also halved in those treated with the drug, which is normally used only for rare inflammatory conditions.

I am beginning to think both for an injection I get monthly, Canakinumab should take care of my range of motion and muscle issues. Prednisone still needed. Was down to 10 mg again & now back up to 13mg but suffering in the am. Do we have any experience with CBD oil on this forum?

There are other approaches to control of inflammation markers, & this is not a plug for Canakinumab [5]. In fact: "Fatal infections or sepsis were significantly more common in the canakinumab groups than in the placebo group." Here is the Mukherjee text: "Recently, I met a very unlucky man.

This one is called canakinumab, not sure if it's the same drug?

News today on canakinumab very interesting. Thought it might be of interest to some of you too. Shona

Canakinumab has been or is being evaluated in several conditions in which autoimmunity and inflammation play key mechanistic roles."

I have just been granted funding for this new and very expensive drug after a summer spent in hospital with a dangerous trip to ICU. Hoping for good things from it and wondered if anybody knew anything about it or had been on it themselves?