Hi guys just after a little advice and wondered it you can help. All around me have been full of cold for a few days and up until now I've managed to avoid it. But late yesterday I started with a sore throat and headache and I'm on methotresate 15 mg. I'm sure I've read somewhere that you must ring your GP immediately if a sore throat develops (.. or did I imagine it?) Any advice on what is the correct thing to do, or whether to do anything at all, would be gratefully received. Thanks and best wishes, Brenda xx
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I am only speaking formyself. I am also on mtx along with other meds. When I start with a cold it always starts with a sore throat.
It normally goes after about 3 days for me then a stinker of a cold appears.
I personally don't ring doc just drink hot lemon drinks. But we are all different.
If you feel you want to for piece of mind, go ahead and ring him.
hope this helped
JuliePF x
I often get sore throats at the beginning of any type of infection these days, and at first they took bloods at the first sign of a sore throat (I have been on MTX for years, but had Leflunomide added in until last week) but fortunately for me, very few have proved to be problematic. However, it is never easy to tell one from the other.
now, they tend to get me to wait 48 hours before seeing them for bloods, but this is always based on how bad it is in the first place .... I've had so many that I know when one is 'different' but if I'm in any doubt I go straight away.
I NEVER have the MTX if I have a sore throat at the time of the dose being due. If I have only just recovered, then the dose is often delayed by a day or two, to give me time to heal fully.
one week missed might do you more good than harm if you are ill already .... the MTX would only make it harder for your body to fight the infection. IF in doubt - ring the rhumy nurse or your GP for advice ..... it's always better to be safe than sorry
good luck!
WOnky
Sorry I cant advise you, I just want to say I hope you feel better very soon.
Sending you lots of hugs ((((((())))))
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Barbara xx
Barbara
Good plan to chat with your GP when you go for bloods - better safe than sorry.
Thinking of you and hoping you feel better soon.
Love Tilly x
For you in the meantime
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Toni xx
Toni xxx
Sorry your not so good flower.
I am finding this all very interesting but a bit confusing.... I have a permanent cold and they tell me to keep taking the mtx... do have a sight sore throat but really just blocked up and have a very runny nose.
They did have me off it for 2 weeks while on antibiotics but then back on and at a higher dose.....
Talk to the gp flower and see what they advise and I think I have another question for the rumo. (((( )))) and a feel better soon draft Cris xx
Today my GP phoned and explained that MTX can play havoc with white blood cells and a sore throat can indicate this. But bearing in mind that I was audibly full of cold and bloods were fine 8 days ago he thought I should pass on MTX - not for white blood cells which would probably be fine - but because of reduced immunity which might mean that body unable to fight and cold turns chesty. So I'm having a week off thanks to reading this thread a few hours ago and realising I needed to speak to my GP about tonight's Metoject. First week off since I started on it 14 months ago and I feel like I'm on holiday! Going to hit the whisky later
If having a cold is going to feel like I'm dying each time then I'm very thankful that I still seem to have an extremely overactive immune system and am very rarely ill these days - or doesn't it work like that?
Glad you are back on it the MTX now. I wonder if I'll feel the difference at all? I'd actually rather have some pain than feel like a dying slug as I do. And that's after full whack of ibuprofen and paracetamol! Tilda x
I to had a nasty sore throat 2or 3 weeks couldnt get rid of it ,
so went to see my doctor he advized me to stop taking methotrexate
and put me on a 10 day penesillin course.
then saw my roomy and continued with methotrexate and up dose from 15mg to 20mg once a week.
must admit tho i did have a sort of remission off it, prob the prednisolone though. still better safe than sorry, keeping fingers crossed now..
hope it works 4 you mummyb..
mike26 :roll: :roll:
If its just a cold, then you could be okay, but please contact your GP if the sore throat continues.