Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shame. SHAME. sham (bosh, to be ashamed, bosheth, shame, qalon; aischune, ignominy, atimia, dishonor, and other words): An oft-recurring word in Scripture almost uniformly bound up with a sense of sin and guilt.
I was on Orencia for about a year and it took 5 months before it worked and never worked as well as humira, so I stopped it and went back on humira. I found finding time to have the infusions a bit of a pain.
They are usually administered for 6-8 weeks. Before parenteral therapy is discontinued, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) should have dropped by one half to one third, the patient should have no pain on ambulation, and there should be no neurologic deficits (see Complications and Long-Term Monitoring).