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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (40)
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@dadcue
Wow… what a story! I would have been freaking out.
I did call my rheumatologist and was told to stop kevzara 2 weeks before the surgery and continue two weeks after the completion of both. That leaves me with no kevzara for six weeks. Not sure how that’s going to affect me. I have no other choice except to delay surgery. I would prefer to get it over with.
They don’t seem too alarmed about discontinuing for that time so we’ll see.
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@caroljeand The half-life of Kevzara is approximately 10 days and it takes 5 half-lives before a drug is considered completely out of your system. That would be 50 days. You will only be without some Kevzara in your system for a very short time. True, the last 10-20 days the amount would be very low.
Not sure how delaying surgery would help since the timeframe would be the same, unless you believe you will be coming off Kevzara completely in the near future.