IBD treatment can feel like a balancing act: the right medication may bring relief, but often with lingering symptoms or unwanted side effects. Many patients and their physicians find themselves caught between staying the course with something that only partly works, or switching treatments and facing new uncertainties. That’s where CurQD® comes in. Designed to work alongside your prescribed therapy, CurQD® helps optimize results, reduce the need for treatment switches, and improve your chances of reaching and maintaining remission.
Patient Medication–A Third Option
The world of which medication to take, which side effects to expect, and what can contribute to your overall remission and return to gut health is a dizzying experience, even for clinicians. While your doctor will ultimately prescribe what they determine to be the best course of treatment, it’s possible that treatment comes with a hefty price–lots of side effects to manage a condition that isn’t fully under control.
So what if there was a third option, intended to improve your chances of full medication response, remission, and long lasting relief?
We get this question much more than you’d think, especially with patients that have used our CurQD® protocol to successful remission and relief.
We aren’t anti-medication; we are pro-patient. We are familiar with the negative side effects of many small molecules, biologics, and common immunosuppressant medications that our patients take. However, we would also never ask them to remove a medication that is helping, even on a partial level. Rather, we would like to optimize their therapy, and improve the chances of successful treatment. That’s where CurQD® comes in–read on to follow us down the rabbit hole.
Partial or Non-Responders: The Value of CurQD®
Every patient is different. Likewise, what works for one patient doesn’t necessarily work for another, and part of the role of the doctor is to take as much of the health data of the patient and decide the best course of treatment based on their results.
When someone completely responds to treatment, they may be called ‘complete responders’. However, many IBD patients are on medication that helps a little; but doesn’t completely alleviate their symptoms. They may be called ‘partial responders’. In cases where a medication doesn’t work at all, patients may be called ‘non-responders’:
- Partial responders: Your current medication helps, but symptoms remain or inflammation is visible through biomarkers (such as fecal calprotectin) or through endoscopy.
- Non-responders: Your current medication isn’t helping at all.
As IBD patients adjust to new medications, there is a limited time to which their body responds to the treatment before the body adjusts. It is also normal for a patient who has responded to a particular medication for months or years to suddenly lose response. In such cases, it may be necessary to make a switch to a different type of treatment.
This isn’t a rare phenomenon, either. Different medications work towards different ends, after all. As a general rule, however, 30% of patients are non-responders to biologics. A further 30% of patients are partial responders–this makes increasing the odds of successful treatment a challenge that impacts the majority of IBD patients.
In Evinature Co-Founder Nir Salomon’s clinical experience, however, this change often precipitates a change in effectiveness in the medication. “As patients switch between medications, we often see a reduction of 15-20% in terms of the efficacy of the later treatment,” he says. “In this case, the question we have to ask ourselves is how we can improve the odds and elongate the timeframe of the first-line treatment?”
Benefits of CurQD® As An Add-On To Treatment
- Faster results: When starting a new IBD medication, it’s important to know that many IBD drugs take 8–12 weeks to show effect. Research demonstrates that adding CurQD® to your treatment plan can produce noticeable changes in 4–6 weeks and increase the overall chances of responding to the drug. It’s easy enough; if it works, you’ll notice a difference.
Summary
At Evinature, our mission has always been simple: to give you the very best chance at long-term, successful treatment. CurQD® was designed to work with your prescribed medications, not replace them — because your progress matters, and we want to protect it.
By adding CurQD® to your treatment plan, you’re not starting over or taking unnecessary risks. You’re building on the foundation you and your doctor have already put in place, aiming for faster results, longer-lasting effectiveness, and fewer switches that could limit your future options.
We believe IBD patients deserve a strategy that is safe, clinically-proven, and tailored to the reality of living with a chronic condition. That’s why we’ve never required patients to stop their medications, and why we continue to focus on optimizing the treatment you already have — so you can spend less time managing symptoms, and more time living your life.
So what are you waiting for? Take our free online assessment today to discover which of our CurQD® protocols are right for you!
Summer Pitocchelli-Schwartzman
