Well, I live in Canada. And from the time my GI doctor said were gunna start remicade to my actual first infusion was like 1 month. It probably could have been 3 weeks if I was bold enough to call the right people. Here in canada there is a lady called the 'remicade coordinator' who checks to see what is covered of your remicade, then gets the Dr. to prescribe that much (or more if you want to pay extra), then sets up the infusion. I think it also took me longer since I live in a rural town, one hour away from my GI doctors office. So they had an extra step in contacting my family doctor here in town to set up an infusion appointment at the local hospital in ambulatory care. If I woulda drove in for my infusion to my GI's doctors office, I'd imagine it would have only been about
a 2 or 3 week waiting process. Also, I did get a TB skin test done, so that process took about
a week for my doctor to see the official results.