Ocrevus and my immune system

[redbird]

I got an automated message via MyChart yesterday, saying "you have a new test result". I logged on, and it was a "miscellaneous lab test," with lines for "result" and "test name," and columns for "Component, Your Value, Reference Range, Flag" -- all entirely blank.

I looked at the date and followed up with my neurologist, who replied, saying "This is the B-cell measurement and it came back zero which is the goal while you take ocrevus." So, good I guess, but it's hard to be entirely cheerful about the way the medication, doing what we need it to, is squelching my immune system. (And three years ago I would have shrugged at this.)

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[switterbeet]

Yeaaaah, that is a bit disconcerting in this *checks notes* global pandemic. Glad it's at least doing what it is supposed to.