Am I going insane?

chaotickat
chaotickat Member Posts: 1
edited 25. Feb 2025, 16:23 in Living with arthritis

Hello all,

I'm new to the community but not to the disease. I was diagnosed when I was 15 with RA, which has recently been rediagnosed as JIA (you say tomato, I say JIA...). I had been happily living with remission (apart from horrendous fibromyalgia), for the last 20 years but had a flare last year that left me nearly crippled - my knees were the 1st joints to display the reactivated disease. All of this means I have restarted on MTX and yesterday I had my first Adalimumab injection yesterday.

My question is has anyone else found they have had feelings of psychotic anger after starting biologicals? I was so angry earlier today I was literally throwing things around my kitchen and my husband and son were in fear of their lives.

I'm only marginally joking, any advise would be welcome.

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  • Naomi33
    Naomi33 Moderator Posts: 540

    Morning @chaotickat and welcome to the online community.

    Sorry to hear your concerns about side affects, with MTX.

    I personally would keep a record of your side affects and contact your doctors for advice.

    l was taken off MTX after a few months due to raised enzymes in liver.

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,241

    If you genuinely think the medication did this too you I would be speaking to my rheumatology team ASAP @chaotickat

    This is not good.

    Sending concerned supportive hugs to you

    Toni x

  • Buzz10
    Buzz10 Member Posts: 27
    https://community.versusarthritis.org/discussion/64026/am-i-going-insane

    Hi

    I had a flare up a few years ago after quite some time in remission, and was put on MTX … whilst i didn't have any anger that i realised during that time, (or looking back) but if i do think about it, i can recall saying to my partner i don't feel like me and i feel angry, but i was pretty fed up with daily pain and it did take a while to settle and help, both physically and mentally. During this time i was with a rheumatology nurse every 2 weeks for blood tests, is this the case for you, and you could speak to them about it? Could it potentially be due to the fact the pain is just really affecting you? Did you have this experience when you first took MTX?

    Hope you manage to get sorted and under somewhat of a remission again. MTX did help with the flare up but still in pain and think it has set off Fibro so i totally get how you're feeling.

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