User Reviews for Rebif (with albumin) subcutaneous

I have been on Rebif since December 2006. I have been using the auto injector for aabout a year and a half and have had injection site reactions, and flu like symptoms every time. However, I have recently stopped using the injector pen and have found it SO MUCH BETTER! I think controlling the rate at which the meds enter in the skin makes a difference to the pain of the injection.It is virtually pain free injections now. I take two advils in the middle of the night when I wake up fluey, and then I'm fine from then on. Don't have any other other "side-effects" than that, and I am very appreciative. All in in all, I think it was a fairly easy drug to deal with. Don't let the needles bother you, you WILL get past your initial unease about that. It does get better. It is worth it.Read More Read Less

I have taken rebif since April 2007 and has helped my MS but the side effect has hurt me more. I have had a headache ever since I have been taken it and no migraine medicine has help. I have had to stop taking this drug. I did not have migraines before I had MS. I just want people to relize if you have headaches and you can't get rid of them it could be the rebif even though it is helping your MS.

I do not like the needles and have bad injection site reactions. I also feel flu like all the time and have headaches. I do not like it at all.

I have been on rebif since Dec 06. It has stabilized my ms according to my last mri. i do not have anymore active spots in my brain. still experience flu like symptoms and injection site redness. but i will take that over anything else.

I rarely like to stick myself but the needles are very small and they go in with ease.

I have done well with rebif, but now I have a funny oder that comes through my skin and I can take showers all day long and the smell still comes back. What causes that?

I love Rebif!! It makes me feel very safe and secure. I only wish that they would make a higher dosage that didn't require the frequent 3 x per week injections.

The auto-injector is a joke. I find it much easier to do it without. I'm tired of giving myself three shots a week. There's got to be another way. I have been on Rebif since Feb. of 08 and I still have the injection site reactions and feel like crap for the whole day after the injection. Then its time to do it again. I am considering changing meds.

I am a nurse and still I hate the injection of a needle into my body. Rebif, doesn't create the same site discomforts that I received with Copaxone or the side effects. I wish and pray for a cure for all MS. I hate that it's in my life.Some times I cry when I see the box in my refirgerator, then I remember Annette Funcacella, and the mom of the writer of Harry Potter novels and I thank God again and take my injection. It's not easy but I know that those ladies and so many other like them would've loved to have had Rebif, Avonex and Copaxone. I just want a cure. I'd like to run free again. I'd like not to get too hot in the summer months and have those symptoms. I pray that that day will come and come soon.Read More Read Less

Rebif has been great for me. I have been using Rebif for almost a year now, and it has been great, Rebif is the only medicine I have been on so I am very satified with results. I take two tylenols or advils 30 mins. before injections, then I rub injection area for 2 mins and go about my life. Even though sometimes I use an auto injector if that makes any differences, I see great results. Thanks Rebif

Rebif has been the best option of the three meds.(rebif, copaxone, betaseron) that I have tried in the past 5 years since diagnosis. It is the most effective for managing my symptoms- no more balance issues/eyesight has stabilized (gases test show no more glaucoma like issues!), I feel that in general I have more symptom and health stability while taking it REGULARLY and ON SCHEDULE (very important no matter how much it sucks!) I take 22 mcg. not 44 as I was initially prescribed - the 44 was too strong and the 22 seems to be easier on my system and just as effective. I had to insist on sticking with the 22 mcg dose to my Nuero.- He did not initially agree, but has since. Site injections suck; they all do. I have dimples, slight discoloration (not too awful but stick with the areas that only your family will see on your body) no problems at all with using the butt cheeks, much less sting and site reaction. they improve the ph each year and it gets easier after awhile with the auto-injector. The important thing is to get the stuff warm by holding the needle out of the packaging in your hand prior to injecting and use aloe vera gel immediately after- ALSO my husband massages the injection site with a hot washcloth prior to and right after injection- this has helped immensely. Read More Read Less

I find Rebif to be a very positive medication for my well being. I have had a couple of times over a period of five years relating to side effects, but were very mild and able to tolerate. Great stuff...

It gets hard to inject 3x per week. I do get injection site reatctions but manageable w/ heat or witch hazel. After 3 years I still have flu like symptoms but I am sure that is from not staying on preferred course of treatment... I find it hard to remember to take them and when I do it is too late at night... leaving my with flu like sypmtoms in the morning still. I have seen treamendous postive effects when I did follow treatment as written... I have also seen unfaborable MRI results after not followin treatement... Moral of the story.... STAY ON TREATMENTRead More Read Less

I have liked this treatment far better than Avonex which I began taking immediately after diagnosis. The needle's much smaller, so I don't mind giving myself the injection.

I have taken the rebif for a year and find it works well, less major problems then with the Avonex. The main problem is with the injection sites, my skin seems to be depressed in the area of the injection, its quite a large patch that seems to be affected. This has done a fairly good job for me

I have found that using this drug for about 1 year that it has damaged my immune system to where I find myself always getting sick.My DR. says that it isnt the MS but the rebif. So now I am at the point to where I have to decide whether its worth it. I find it difficult to hold down a job when I am always coming down with something. And that didnt even happen when the MS was at its worst for me.So my advice to those thinking about using it be careful and keep a journal loggging anything different with your overall health.Read More Read Less

I have been on Rebif for 3 years with either no or very mild flair ups. It sure has helped me and I recommend it. One thing though is that it stings when injected it has a ph of 3.8

Overall this med. isn't that bad. It does leave bruising after inject. I had my first relapse after taking it for 4 months and that IV was no fun. I like that the rebif is so easy, esspecially for those who don't like needles.

Either created or worsened depression to the point where I had suicidal ideas. After I stopped using it, these thoughts went away. My Neuro is changing my treatment to a non-interferon