My wife has been on oral methotrexate (8 pills on Friday night) and Plaquenil for several years, and Leflunomide for a year. She has sero-negative RA, and the only blood indicators are sed rate and CRP. Those have been in the normal range for almost a year.
Due a problem with the rheumatologist (she dropped the ball on blood testing and had pushed her appointment back a month), the doctor wouldn't refill the methotrexate prescription until my wife had a blood test. As she'd already run out, she didn't take any for the second weekend in a row. She started having severe stomach cramps and diahrrea which Lomotil has not stopped.
Is this a side-effect of stopping Methotrexate cold-turkey, or something completely random that happened to coincide with stopping the methotrexate?
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I haven't stopped methotrexate but I thought I'd say hello and bump your post up. I hope your wife feels better soon.
You can get upset stomach from some arthritis meds yes - but I think its like that for all meds. If I were you I'd call your wife's rheumy doctor or nurse as soon as possible and let them know that they won't issue a prescription for her (presuming it is the GP that has refused?) ..... no medication should be stopped abruptly as you can experience a lot of unpleasant reactions - not to mention flare ups!
It should not take long to get the blood results back either - so don't let them fob you off with waiting, let them check and issue the prescription within 48 hours - unless they have a very good reason not to.
I hope your wife feels better soon.
Best wishes,
Charleeh x
Does your GP's surgery not do blood tests? I get mine done there so, if they want me to have one earlier than usual, they just put a note in with my prescription.
Please do check, as LV has said, about the wisdom of taking meth with a potential tummy bug. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to.
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