Patient Success Story: Lee

Real patients. Real results.

Lee is just getting started with RAPTIVA, but he's come a long way. His first step into his doctor's office was a big one. "I didn't want to go to any doctor. I was afraid of whatever he or she might have told me." When Lee was first diagnosed with psoriasis, he was 75% to 80% covered.

Lee and his physician wanted to be careful in choosing the right medication for him. "I had a good enough physician where he recommended RAPTIVA first-we also talked about [another biologic] but I thought it was more geared toward psoriatic arthritis, and I don't have that disease. And I thought that RAPTIVA would be a more appropriate option for me.

When Lee first started RAPTIVA, he had a few side effects, but he got over them pretty quickly. "Initially, I did go through a period where I did get sick. And I dealt with that. It lasted 3 or 4 days of flu-like symptoms. And then I started noticing the itching go away. At about the 9th week, I started noticing that pretty much a good portion of my body just-it stopped being red. So that's how it moved for me. And since then, it's been progressively slow. But it's still progress. It's still getting less and less every time."

Now Lee's getting back to many of the activities he used to enjoy. "RAPTIVA has helped me a lot. Now that I have more time, I'm getting back to the weight lifting and the rock climbing." And that's just the beginning.

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