Methotrexate
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Hi @Debby lovely to see you and welcome to the Online Community.
Sadly, it does sound as though methotrexate is not working for you. There is a great page on our website that gives information about this drug that you can read here:
There is also quite a lot of information from people who have or are taking methotrexate on the Community. You can check out the conversations I found as a result of a forum search here: https://community.versusarthritis.org/search?Search=Methotrexate
I will be interested to see what our members who have similar experiences have to say. Do join in across the Community, come for a chat and let us know how you are getting on.
All best wishes
Brynmor
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Are you on oral or injection? I ask because I had all sorts of problems with the oral option, I’ve been on pen injections for ages and much prefer them.
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I've taken meth for years and it has never reduced pain, just controlled disease activity; I think this is due to my starting treatmemt with too little, too late. C'est ma vie. DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
dreamdaisy correctly recognises R/A as a disease (Autoimmune), sadly it appears to be no more than a disorder to some of the medical profession. My GP laughed at me when I attempted to request a seat belt exemption, having been ‘trapped’ in my car for circa ten minutes due to my shoulder locking, making it impossible for me to release my seat belt.
R/A does not appear to be a ‘sexy’ branch of the medical profession, at GP level sufferers (I speak from my own experiences) are not taken as seriously as say, someone with a heart condition. This is very likely because of R/A being a favoured ‘sick note bandit’ ticket to benefits, IMHO all GP’s should take a blood sample from all patients claiming that they have R/A and send it off for expert clarification.
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GPs do not deal with the diagnosis or the initial prescribing of meds for RA, it is the remit of rheumatologists. Blood tests are not proof either of an auto-immune arthritis (I speak as one who has one of the sero-negative kinds) so it is not uncommon for patients to be dismissed by the GP as not having an auto-immune arthritis when in fact they do. DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
DD,
GP’s refer patients to a rheumatologist at their discretion, mine eventually did so after much insistence from yours truly. Both he and one of his partners did not believe that I has R/A, his partner to this day disagrees with the diagnosis of both a professor and consultant of rheumatology.
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Hello again, Debby, how are things going? DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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