“...Ican’t simply go to a hospital on an outpatient basis to receive the treatment. I’d have to wait till my situation gets worse ( or hope that I recover naturally and don’t have to need it ) before I can receive the treatment.”
Hence my efforts to find a doctor who would quickly diagnose and would have MABs in his or her treatment arsenal. I couldn’t even get my doc or immunologist to say what treatment protocols they would consider. I wanted to find a doc who would say “yes, we use MABs and send patients to Infusion Center X early in the course of the disease.” So far, no luck. Very frustrating!
See my post just above.
Rules for use of monoclonal antibodies have just been relaxed.
Doubt if you’ll ever get a doc to forecast what he’d do since it depends on how the disease progresses. And these days they still don’t know a lot, sadly.
Find the nearest infusion center to you, call them and ask for a recommendation for a doctor who is using their services. They’ll know who is sending them business.