Anyone take Simponi?

I just saw a commercial on tv for Simponi for RA.  It is a once per month drug.  I was wondering if anyone uses it or heard anything about it.  Thanks

Hi, I was part of the clinical trial for what is now called Simponi (golimumab). I have Psoriatic Arthritis. I was recommended to the trial by my rheumatologist before I was approved for medicare because nothing else was working.  Because it was a double blind study we were not told if we actually received the drug, but I could tell the difference right away, however, it only lasted about 2 weeks before the pain came back. Later, after I got on Medicare I was able to get on Humira and they started me off on 1 injection every other week with methotrexate, which made me very nauseated. Finally I was put on Humira, one 40mg injection once per week and that worked very well. This was my experience and of course everyone is different and needs to find what works best for them. Happy to share my own experience though. Good luck.

My New Rheumatologist suggested it when I saw her yesterday.  I have been taking Enbrel and its lost its efficacy.  But I ended up choosing to go on Remicade instead.  I have Psoriatic Arthritis and people with that diagnoses do well with it...Also I thought my insurance company might not pay for Simponi because its new...You never know how thats going to turn out.

I am starting in next week.  I just got the call yesterday that my insurance is willing to pay for it.

I am not switching for the conveince but because nothing is working on my psoriatic arthritis (PA).  I have tried methotrexate, plaquanil, sulfasalazine, gold salts, celebrex, voltaren, lodine, remicade (almost died, turns out i am alergic who knew?), humira, imuran, others i can't remember the names of right now, and most recently Enbrel.  According to mu rheumatologist, I have tired everything on the market for PA

i hope it will work well for me because the next step is a wheel chair, I really don't want to go there at 37.