Experiences with

Rituxan

I finished my two years of treatment with Rituxan and Venetoclax. After six months of being off the treatments, I have had a weight gain of 10 pounds. Eating habits not changed and actually started working out at the gym. Just wondering if anyone else has had this experience.

In Canada there where using Rituxan but now there patten is up. So now they are using. Ruxience made by Pfizer.. has anyone experienced any side effects with this new Bio similar drug Ruxience?

I have not had any treatments yet for CLL...Only for the WM which was is 2012/2013...bendamustine, rituxan and prednisone. I have Stage IIIA kidney failure and as a reminder, had my aortic valve replaced with a pig valve in 2016.

I have MS, rheumatoid arthritis and lastly Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, which started for me right after one of my infusions of Rituxan. It was in 11/2018.I said that was the last time I would take Rituxan. I have been off any I V meds of any kind.

Keep in mind, I was diagnosed in 2012 with Waldenstroms and had many rounds of bendamustine, rituxan and prednisone. In 2016 I had TAVR to replace aortic valve. Most recently diagnosed with CLL,

-I have been on large dose of steroids/methylpred (currently down to 10mg daily of prednisolone) - I have had 10x1g infusions of cyclophosphamide may 2023-March 2024 - I take tacrolimus daily for a tac level between 6-8 - I started Rituxan June 2024 2x1g infusions - I’m now approved for IVIG if

So if you are on any of the immune compromising drugs, like Ocrevus or Rituxan, etc., keep an eye on your skin!

Four infusions of Rituxan were administered. I was in watch and wait mode for 4 years. I then noticed several enlarged lymph nodes in my neck / collarbone areas. My CLL specialist ordered CT scans which showed many enlarged lymph nodes in the abdomen and neck/collarbone areas.

Rituxan infusion set for Tuesday. I have no what’s to follow since having an allergic reaction to one of the other drugs. I hope to learn more after I see the doctor next week about where we go from here. Can’t wait to go home and take a shower and sleep in my own bed! The saga continues…..

It was pretty serious before I got treatment of Prednisone and Rituxan by infusion. Now my CL it appears has come out of remission. I visited my Oncologist (who is not a CLL Specialist—more a Generalist and at the same time had blood tests.

I was treated with a combination of Rituxan and Prednisone (8 rounds of infusions) with three days of infusions each round. I had a really good oncologist who was a CLL specialist who has since left to go work at Princeton University.

I was taking Rituxan infusions for my RA. It has lowered my IGA, IGG and IGM. They are antibodies called immunoglobulins in your body. The antibodies are proteins that your immune cells make to fight off bacteria, viruses, etc.

7. 60% of time biopsy is not relevant to diagnosis/change of diagnosis and more https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551645/ I am refusing biopsy due to having been on high doses of prednisone for 3.5 years and have a healing issue already. 1000mg of rituxan every 4 months for total of 20 infusions

I have this occasionally, but generally my vasculitis is under control, thanks to Rituxan. However, from time to time (every couple months?) I get spots on my scalp. Does anyone else get this symptom? Is it connected to vasculitis? cheers

My treatment was Azathioprine, Prednisone and Rituxan. I went through about 4 months of pain and suffering before I was DX as doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me.

I had my first of four Rituxan infusions in the hospital and one outpatient thus far. Numbers are improving and no adverse reactions. I now have a CLL specialist, Dr. Scott Huntington, Smilow Cancer Center, Yale New Haven Hospital CT.

It has proven slightly superior to the first generation anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab (Rituxan, Mabthera), which was developed in the 1980s and approved for human use in 1997.

[/i] [i]Median progression-free survival (PFS) reached 14 months with pirtobrutinib, an oral non-covalent BTK inhibitor, as compared with 8.7 months with investigator's choice of idelalisib (Zydelig) plus rituximab (Rituxan) or bendamustine (Bendeka, Treanda) plus rituximab (HR 0.54, 95% CI 0.39-0.75

I am terrified to start new treatment because of afib due to Calquence (Alcalabrutinib). Thank you for any reassurance and bless you all. 🙏🏼💚

I actually went into remission 3 1/2 years ago and stopped Rituxan and methotrexate during that time. Then I get my second Covid and the Ra returned. I am back on Rituxan but it doesn’t seem to be slowing the Rituxan.