The medical papers which follow give you more information about all of these drugs, how well they work, how long you need to take them, how their effects are monitored and their side effects. A web search of a drug brings up a variety of sites providing information and most rheumatology departments provide patient information leaflets when they prescribe these drugs.
These may be useful:-
- To persuade you to get yourself to a specialist who will oversee your treatment, if you are not under the care of one already.
- To help you see the benefit of taking what seem to be very scary drugs in order to preserve your sight.
- To help you make sense of your own initial web searches which may have scared the life out of you, depending on what your searches threw up.
- To give you some idea of the treatments which work, treatments in the pipeline and the exciting world of ophthalmology research.
- To provide some information on alternative therapies which will work in combination with medical treatment.
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