remicade or Humira

it is a little less effective than Remicade, but over time it may prove better. lots of people form antibodies to remicade and it stops working.

Remicade worked really well for me for almost 5 years, after it stopped working I then tried humira without any success, I tried different doses and frequencies but no luck.

It depends how sick you are, when I was steroid refractory and in the hospital I was given Cyclosporine and 6-mp.

If you are really sick there is also surgery, I recently had surgery and I am happy with it. I only wish that I had surgery earlier and hadn't waited 8 years suffering with severe UC.

Remicade. Better chance of success to start. The doses are adjustable and it works more quickly. Then Entyvio if we are voting,lol.

I think considering how long I've been sick with my IBD and the fact that it was untreated basically with RX meds for so many years (over 2 decades) the Humira worked pretty good and likely quickly for me (I just have to deal with my irritable bowel issues somehow) but even my RV fistula felt like it was better shortly after starting Humira.

When my GI asked me to decide between Humira or Remicade, he said they both work the same way and that the only difference was the protein used in each of them (Humira with human and Remi with mouse) so because it's impossible for anyone to personally know which would work faster/better considering everything else you'd have to factor in, I'd say you could never know which one might have worked faster or better the first time you used either one...

If remi didn't work for someone in a specific amount of time, there's no saying that Humira would have necessarily worked better for them in the same specific amount of time...cuz everyone responds to meds differently and those 2 biologics are considered the same med. My GI noted that's why it didn't matter which one I chose from the start.