MCTD Support Group
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) or Sharp's syndrome is a human autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body. MCTD combines features of polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes joint pain/swelling, Raynaud phenomenon, muscle inflammation, and scarring of...
How long after cessation does it take for methotrexate to stop suppressing the immune system? I started taking it a couple of months ago. A few weeks into it got very painful mouth ulcers. My PC said it was caused by the methotrexate. In addition, every little paper cut and hang nail got infected and became painful. I stopped taking it about a month ago and I still have the same sores on my hands and arms. My ulcers in my mouth are almost gone, but now I am getting a sore throat.
Tammi
Tammi
I did not have the side effects that you did, but it causesd my liver enzymes to become very elevated. It took about a month to get everything back to normal.
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I just get a little triggered about the chemo drugs b/c so few people here have good experiences with them.
I'm beginning to question my own strong negative reaction to some of these drugs though.
I'm wondering if I'm losing my objectivity... if the illness, or it's secondary effects, is affecting my thinking. Like, I'm trying to find a certainty, an order that does not exist-- this drug good, that drug bad... thinking I know the answers, and making statements or assumptions about a disease I do not understand as well as I think I do.