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Out of curiosity I'm curious why it scares you?

For context, I had been on Taltz before for psoriasis, and it worked very well. It seems like il17 inhibitors specifically are extremely targeted in what they affect.

In comparison, I was also on otezla at one point (tnf-a inhibitor) and it didnt work for me either, and the side effects were terrible.

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It's the few instances of new onset IBD and generally the GI side effects. I'm lucky enough to have a pretty solid GI system that I don't want to risk messing with. I get very anxious with medicine, and my ankylosing spondylitis is sufficiently slow moving on MRI and tolerable enough that I prefer not to use the medicines. I had too many strange side effects whilst on Humira/Remicade such that it scares the crap out of me.

Understandable. I'll just say that for a sample size of n=1 I've seen no GI side effects with il17 blockers.

Which was not the case with otezla. But tnfa blockers - yeah those are bad times.

In any case, good luck with your treatment!

thank you and thanks for your n=1, wish you the best with your treatment as well

You had a skin fungal infection dumbass not some unknown mystery condition psoriasis they came up with

Wow, kid, you really have no clue about the world.

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