Mtx and flare up

salamander
salamander Member Posts: 1,906
edited 3. Feb 2010, 18:50 in Living with Arthritis archive
Taken mtx on Monday after a two week break and have bad flare up over past two days. I'm trying to remember whether the nurse said that might happen when I first went on it. Has anyone else had this? Had to go up on steroids to 7.5 mg last week as bad then too but they should have kicked in by now. Ankles and wrists v painful.
Sally

Comments

  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Sally.

    Sadly things take time sometimes to work. I just take sulfa and the side effects to that got me for a good 6 weeks and the benefits........ well ....... not sure really :wink: I hope things soon settle for you and you get rid of some of the pain. ((( ))) Cris x
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I usually find that if I miss a dose of MTX I can certainly tell, and If I have to miss two then it does take a while for the joints to recover.

    MTX is lost from the body fairly quickly so there is not so much floating round your system in the week that you miss .... so for me the second week is always worse.

    Sorry I can't be any more help other than to say take it easy and wait and give your joints time to improve.

    annoying, frustrating ... I know ...... but it hopefully will get better as the MTX builds up again.

    good luck!
  • salamander
    salamander Member Posts: 1,906
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks everyone. The only thing I would say is that had only two doses of Mtx before I had to stop, not long enough to have started working by all accounts. Or maybe it was starting to work.....a bit soon though.
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Sally - I got a bad chest infection a couple of weeks ago and everything has flared up!

    Improving now and I am back to my 20mg MTX this week.

    Things can only get better (I hope).

    Annie
  • salamander
    salamander Member Posts: 1,906
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    annie_mial wrote:
    Hi Sally - I got a bad chest infection a couple of weeks ago and everything has flared up!

    Improving now and I am back to my 20mg MTX this week.

    Things can only get better (I hope).

    Annie

    Hi annie, just asked you about that in the caf. Glad you are on the mend.
    xx

Categories