MTX Update!!!

sciqueen
sciqueen Member Posts: 21
edited 23. Dec 2011, 09:33 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi

Sorry I haven't been blogging, been quite poorly with that cold virus that's been going around. I have just cleared it this wk after having it for 11/12 days.

Saw the rheumy today, and I have been put onto injectable mtx to start in the new year after I attend the training sessions. Hopefully this will stop the awful sickness/diarrhoea side affects I have been sufferring.

In the meantime I am to continue with 15mg mtx tabs, increase folic acid to 3x5mg (hopefully that will decrease sickness/diarrhoea), over the christmas period and continue with 10mg of steroids, until I start injecting (20mg mtx), whereby I must step down steroids 1mg each wk.

Disappointed that I will have to reduce and eventually stop my little miracles (steroids), anxious about starting the injections, but looking forward to no more dreaded sickness for 3-4 days after taking the tabs.

My das score has dropped from 6.3 to 3.63 in 8wks, but rheumy did not know how much the steroids are masking, as I still have tenderness and heat in hands/wrists.

Would like to this opportunity to wish everyone a happy chrimbo and new year!

Cheers Sci xx x:lol:

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  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I hope the injected meth does the trick, SciQueen, and the pred drop is as easy as possible. Happy Christmas to you too.
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