Same medicine; different delivery

[jlk9498]

I was on Betaseron and had no side effects (except for infection at the injection sites on my stomach).
I switched to Aubagio.

What are your thoughts that I won't have any side effects with Aubagio given that I didn't have any side effects with Betaseron?
Is it basically the same composition of meds, just in a different delivery method (liquid/injection vs. solid/pill).

Any thoughts?

[Kimba22]

Is it basically the same composition of meds, just in a different delivery method (liquid/injection)

Betaseron and Aubagio are two different medications, but both are considered Disease Modifying Drugs. It can be confusing

Betaseron® and Extavia® are brand names for interferon beta 1b, a medication manufactured by a biotechnological process from one of the naturally occurring interferons (a type of protein).

Aubagio (teriflunomide), a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor, is an oral compound that inhibits the function of specific immune cells that have been implicated in MS. It is related to leflunomide, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Aubagio can inhibit a key enzyme required by white blood cells (lymphocytes) – which in turn reduces the proliferation of T and B immune cells that are active in MS and also inhibits the production of immune messenger chemicals by T cells.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Tre...ions/Betaseron
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Tre...ations/Aubagio

Hope you do well on Aubagio, just know the side effect profile is unique to the drug.

https://www.aubagio.com/side-effects

Good luck

[jlk9498]

Thank you for the response! :-)

[jlk9498]

Curious, WOuld you be interested in explaining what is below is more lay man terms? Like simply, what makes the two make up different? Is one better than another? Am I missing out on something now that my drug isn't an interferon?

Betaseron and Aubagio are two different medications, but

both are considered Disease Modifying Drugs. It can be confusing

Betaseron® and Extavia® are brand names for interferon beta 1b, a medication manufactured by a biotechnological process from one of the naturally occurring interferons (a type of protein).

Aubagio (teriflunomide), a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor, is an oral compound that inhibits the function of specific immune cells that have been implicated in MS. It is related to leflunomide, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Aubagio can inhibit a key enzyme required by white blood cells (lymphocytes) – which in turn reduces the proliferation of T and B immune cells that are active in MS and also inhibits the production of immune messenger chemicals by T cells.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Tre...ions/Betaseron
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Tre...ations/Aubagio

Hope you do well on Aubagio, just know the side effect profile is unique to the drug.

https://www.aubagio.com/side-effects

Good luck