How does finding the right medicine work?

Your health care provider will suggest a treatment plan based on your symptoms, how bad they are, other illnesses you have and other medicines you take.

When you begin a new psoriatic arthritis medicine, you're likely to see your care provider regularly. These appointments often include lab tests. Talk to your provider about changes in your symptoms since you started the medicine.

As you learn more about how the medicine works for you, your provider might change the amount you take. Some psoriatic arthritis medicine doses can be adjusted, if needed, to help the medicine work better for you and keep side effects down.

If the medicine isn't working the way you want or if your side effects are bad, your provider might change the medicine or the dose.

The goal is to give you the most relief from your symptoms, also known as minimal disease activity.