Loading Dose?

[cmci]

Hey everyone. I just started on Humira on Tuesday and was just curious about laoding doses. My gastro only prescribed me 80mg as my loading dose followed by the fortnightly injections of 40mg. I've been reading online though that the standard loading dose is 160mg followed by 80mg and then 40mg. Now I'm stressing myself out that it's not going to work properly or something because I only had 80mg as my loading dose! Has anyone else had a loading dose of 80mg?

 

[bambam]

I started with a loading dose of only 80mg too.

 

[cmci]

That's good. How is it working for you? Does it take a while to kick in?

 

[bambam]

I noticed a difference in how I felt right away when I started it. But I did start it during one of the worst flare-ups of my life, so to me, how I felt could really only go up from where I was.

It's working fine for me now. My doctor just recently had me start doing my injections once a week because of a flare-up I got due to stress, but considering it's the only thing I take for my Crohn's, I think it's doing a good job.