Copaxone reaction

[Lula5567]

Hi all!
I've been on copaxone for a little over a week. When I inject, I get the "typical" reactions- stinging, soreness, and a big red welt about the size of my fist that takes about 24 hrs to go away.
My rotation schedule has been stomach, right leg, left leg, left arm, etc.
Right after I injected my left leg, the spot I had injected on my RIGHT  leg (which had gone completely back to normal) swelled back up- dark red, hot, and a bit bigger than a quarter. When I Injected my left arm yesterday, my left leg did the same thing- red, hot, quarter sized swelling popped up where I had injected before on my left leg. The spot on my right leg also got bigger with my arm injection, and neither lumps seem to want to go away now! I wanted to see if anyone else has had this reaction- the injection site healing, then cropping back up a few days later.
Any info would be appreciated, thank you!

[BOK2Bjan]

I tried very dilligently to use Copaxone. My site reactions were just too severe. My welts itched so bad, and we're so large, when I got back to the site after a week, it was still terrible. I ended up looking like one swollen red spot. So I tried Beta Interferon and the same thing happened. I had to stop all treatment.

[aspen2]

I use Copaxone as well.  Your Shared Solutions nurse is your best resource (even more so than your neurologist) so I would give them a call and inquire.

[supermum_ms]

Hi and welcome,

I don't if there are any copaxone experienced users still posting but i know we've talked a lot about copaxone site reactions over the years, so i went looking for some past discussions that might be helpful for you..

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Copaxone/show/1585503

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Copaxone-site-reactions/show/1387310

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Copaxone-injection-site-reactions-anyone/show/1181818

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Copaxone---Awful-injection-site-reactions/show/1940298

Some helpful tips and advice from others in just those 4 but there was pages of other people asking for similar Copaxone advice. At the very top of the page, on your right you'll see a search window, if you type in 'copaxone reactions' you'll get all prior conversations cn the topic come up for you to have a look through.

One piece of advice i can tell you, is that its always a good idea to take photo that you can show your neuro or nurse, that old saying a picture paints a thousand words is definitely true for the things that come and go, and generally wont be visible when you need them to be...

Hope that helps.......JJ