Taking meth? If so please read this.
dreamdaisy
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It's that time of year when the days grow longer and the sun is getting stronger so now is the time to start applying your SPF Factor 30 regardless of air temperature. Meth can cause the skin to become more photo-sensitive - this can lead to a rash which is not pleasant so it's best to be proactive, yes? I have trouble with this so I am covered up but the jollop is underneath - I've enough on my plate without adding more! DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
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Hi DD thanks for the reminder. Hope you are well.
Ritwren0 -
Hello DD
i'm not on meth I just wondered how you are.
take care
joan xxtake care
joan xx0 -
Now this is strange.
I have been on Meth for years and have never noticed this until now.
The rash is down below and not very nice!
Need to watch this when I am going to Majorica in the summer.0 -
Hello Ritwren and Joan, thank you for asking after me. How am I? Well, I could be better and am glad I'm not worse.
Debra? Please get that rash checked out - meth doesn't affect everyone with sun rashes but if you mean what I think you mean with 'down below' then please go and see your GP, just to be on the safe side. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
Thanks for that dreamdaisy
i didnt know about this ill be more aware now
when im out and about more so this summer. 8)
thanks mike26.0 -
Thank you DD.
I'm taking three meds now that cause photosensitivity so I'll be layering on the sunscreen because I had a slight MTX burn last summer. Very painful :shock:0 -
It is indeed painful. I am prone to it so, when the hot weather comes I'm out there in my long sleeves and scarf, which is unbearable heat-wise. During mid-winter over here people were trotting around in layers whereas I wore a Tshirt plus a cotton jacket. And was still melting. :roll: DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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Thanks DD, a good reminder.How am I gonna be an optimist about this?0
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I can't even fathom what that is like, DD. Thanks to Raynaud's, I remain bundled up even in summer. It does mean I go through less sunscreen though0
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It's tough, yes? Whatever we have to deal with we are rarely happy about it. I love being cold because something can be done to warm up (I send my apologies to those who never warm up, my late Ma being one of them) but being too hot? Nuh-uh: to my peculiar mind that is far worse. I am pleased to read that you still maintain the sunscreen routine, it is essential, methinks.
One of Bea's features is air-conditioning. I swore I would not use it ( thanks to the added cost in fuel and maintenance); that resolve lasted until the first reasonably warm day once I resumed driving. :roll: DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
Very useful reminder, I think that most of us forget that even if its cold outside/cloudy we still need skin protection this time of year right up until around October.
I have been unlucky enough in the passed to become burnt on a cold but sunny April day.0 -
Thanks DD - just back on Meth but no chance of hot weather where I live - pigs might fly! Up until RA I used to burn and steam and have always hated the heat rashes I inevitably get when I very rarely go anywhere over 28 degrees. So like yourself I've always disliked being anywhere hot.
Now, with newly arrived Raynauds, I find the cold quite terrifying too - so I'm damned whichever way the weather goes but Spring is GOOD
I found out for myself that my Vitamin D levels were low at the end of this summer so pushed my GP for the right amount of supplements which he reluctantly agreed to because, if I was at the very bottom end of "insufficient" at the end of a good summer, then there wasn't much hope for improvement with our very northern winter on it's way.
Interestingly he refused to test my Vit D this time last year because he said that everyone will probably be low up here and healthy people (like me 8) ) need to adjust our "lifestyles accordingly and just get out more in the summer sunshine and eat plenty of sardines"! I reminded him that people on Methotrexate are advised to cover up and he admitted this hadn't even occurred to him. So perhaps, as well as keeping out of the direct sun, people taking MTX/ Meth should also push to get their vitamin D levels checked regularly too?If you get lemons, make lemonade0 -
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I love my sunshine
I've recently started on injected meth. Was on 15mg but they have just increased it to 20mg with sulphasalazine added in.
We go to Spain on the 31st of May too...
LolMe-Tony
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Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP0 -
tjt6768 wrote::roll:
I love my sunshine
I've recently started on injected meth. Was on 15mg but they have just increased it to 20mg with sulphasalazine added in.
We go to Spain on the 31st of May too...
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Please be careful Tony, I never had a problem with the sun while I was on Meth tablets, but last year, my first summer on the injections! well let's just say it wasn't pleasant!
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Thanks numpty
I will be careful I promise
XMe-Tony
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Yes, I didn't heed advice once last year either and thought 'sunburn with mtx?' how bad could it be.....It was very bad and different than a normal, old sunburn. More painful and much more skin damage. I found out the hard way .
Mat, good for you for keeping your doc on his toes regarding sunshine, vit D, mtx and covering up. This is just the kind of thing docs say that confuses patients. Maybe this should apply to all mtx patients? Taking additional vit D because we keep covered up?0 -
Well generally, as you know Anna, I hold all my gps in high esteem but ultimately they are generalists and I feel that it should be the responsibility of all rheumies to make sure that their MTX patients aren't low on vitamin D. Mine just joked and said he agreed with my GP that the world has gone a bit overboard about vitamin D and told me some story about his student niece?! :roll: I think all people with autoimmune diseases should be routinely checked for vitamin deficiencies - very much including vitamin D. Mat xxIf you get lemons, make lemonade0
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Good advice Mat. I'll ask my gp next time I go. I'm still on fortnightly bloods so it shouldn't be a problem to add an extra tick in the form.Me-Tony
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Good luck with that Tony - I'm on weekly bloods just now but vitamin D is an expensive test and some practices, mine included, won't do it unless a patient is housebound. Hope yours is more willing though. MatxIf you get lemons, make lemonade0
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I was never told this but am suppose to be careful in the sun anyway due to having lupus, better start slapping the sun cream on then , am off to the Caribbean next year again, but this time am taking an umbrella to shield me from the sun0
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Or a nice wide brimmed hat perhaps?If you get lemons, make lemonade0
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