currentbody skin led light therapy mask whilst on Methotrexate?

Shamsa786

I am 26 female with reumatoid arthitirtis early stages. I want to use currentbody skin led light therapy mask but can I whilst on Methotrexate? I have 15mg per week

noddingtonpete

Hello @Shamsa786 and welcome to the Online Community forum. We are a friendly and supportive group and I hope that will be your experience as well.

Would be sensible to check with your GP/Consultant as to whether it would cause any complications or not before you pay out.

Hope you get an answer.

Best wishes

Peter

Arthuritis

@Shamsa786 I am on 25mg/week and have used red light therapy, didn’t do much for me but no harm either. What you need to avoid is too much time in sunlight, as MTX reduces your defences based on dose. Yours is not a high dose, so my guess is your gp :

1) will have no clue about this as it’s outside their narrow training (they only get 7 hours on nutrition education in 7 years of medical training)

2) Will look it up and say try it.

Note that normal daylight contains the red wavelength from your red light mask already, your mask just excludes everything above red (orange to blue).

Hope that helps .

In my opinion staying hydrated, checking your diet for anything YOUR immune system doesn’t like will make a bigger difference. Seriously. What food that is healthy for others may not be for you if your immune system is intolerant to it and wants to trigger inflammation.

Checkout my other posts for more info.

Also until recently I had escaped RA & MTX, but made the mistake of eating something forbidden by my immune system (I had been normal so long I forgot about the forbidden list and the forms that were disallowed). Got a massive flare up and back on the RA train like everyone else here. Currently working on my escape plan!

Let us know how you get along.