Started Inflectra in September 2019 and have had 4 infusions, the last one being around Thanksgiving. I'd say sometime in late December, I started developing what seemed like a more severe heat rash (I usually get some minor ones in winter) on my left shoulder/upper arm. Then it just spread all over my back. Very itchy. Mostly uniform size red bumps. It's all over but more heavily concentrated in certain spots (like my deltoids/traps), but it's pretty much limited to where a t-shirt covers my upper body. It's also spread to my chest although way more heavily concentrated on one side for some reason. Also all up and down my side/rib cage area.
I've seen two dermatologists, both times leaving very disappointed because they didn't see to have an idea of what it was, nor did they seem very interested in trying to find out. I actually did a biopsy, which apparently brought up many different possibilities, ie it didn't help me much in figuring out what this is. I've used both types of steroid creams, and after a week of the clobestal? it seemed to get better, but then fresh bumps would appear in other areas. The older areas would kind of scab over or just flatten, but still leaving a visual mark, which I'm hoping goes away after some time. I've switched all my soaps and all that. Researching online, it seemed like "fungal acne" matched up with a lot of what I was experiencing and seeing, but the biopsy didn't reveal any fungal activity.
I have to believe it's been caused by the inflectra, the correlation is just too much. So I've decided to stop the inflectra, which is unfortunate because it's actually working, and switching over to entyvio.
Incredibly frustrating (and itchy) since this breakout happened right when I felt like the inflectra was starting to work. Has anyone experienced something like this and had to stop the biologic they were on? And were you successful in stopping the rashes and continuing on another biologic?
I've seen two dermatologists, both times leaving very disappointed because they didn't see to have an idea of what it was, nor did they seem very interested in trying to find out. I actually did a biopsy, which apparently brought up many different possibilities, ie it didn't help me much in figuring out what this is. I've used both types of steroid creams, and after a week of the clobestal? it seemed to get better, but then fresh bumps would appear in other areas. The older areas would kind of scab over or just flatten, but still leaving a visual mark, which I'm hoping goes away after some time. I've switched all my soaps and all that. Researching online, it seemed like "fungal acne" matched up with a lot of what I was experiencing and seeing, but the biopsy didn't reveal any fungal activity.
I have to believe it's been caused by the inflectra, the correlation is just too much. So I've decided to stop the inflectra, which is unfortunate because it's actually working, and switching over to entyvio.
Incredibly frustrating (and itchy) since this breakout happened right when I felt like the inflectra was starting to work. Has anyone experienced something like this and had to stop the biologic they were on? And were you successful in stopping the rashes and continuing on another biologic?