The very first treatment I was on was Betaseron. Betaseron
is an interferon which is given every other day.
While I was on Betaseron I felt like I was on the edge of a
nervous breakdown every waking minute of the day. I also
contemplated my suicide everyday. It was awful. The funny
thing was I couldn't distinguish if the feeling and thoughts I
was having were my own or not because it was all so real for me. It took me six
months to read the drug information paper that came with the drug. In that
paper there was information about what happened when the drug went through
the drug study. I had found out that a very small few of the people who were
given the drug had taken their life and I think one person had attempted to but
thankfully failed. After reading this I realized I was having a side effect to the
medicine and I called my Doctor to let him know I would be getting off of the
medicine. In about two weeks of being off of it I had returned to being myself.
After this I started to read the drug information before any drug went into my
body. Posted by Jesse
Labels: Betaseron (Interferon beta-1b)
