My journey through the biologic DMARDs  began with infusions of Rituxan. I had no relief from my RA with Rituxan. Next in line were infusions of Orencia. Orencia gave me about 20% relief. At the time it was better than nothing. Orencia worked for over nine months and then stopped working. At the time I had a worse than normal flare and developed a horrible flu. Up to that point I hadn’t had a cold or a sinus infection for 3 years. After about six weeks I was started on infusions of Remicade. Remicade has three loading doses scheduled 2 weeks apart. I completed the loading doses and then became terribly ill. I felt like I was in ‘a failure to thrive’ situation. Absolutely no energy, listless is a good word. I moved into a bad flare which overshadowed the side effects of the Remicade. I was in a bad way for over a month. Remicade is a TNF inhibitor (TNFi). The recommended suggestion is that if a TNFi is stopped because it doesn’t work, another TNFi …