Have you tried to call your doctor and see if there are others suggestions that they might have? I hope you find some relief soon.

MTX did not agree with me at all. More time in bed then out.
Although my doctor never suggested trying the injection. I'm no longer with her but I do wonder at times.
I agree it's worth putting a call in.
RA can cause destruction & misery in a short amount of time.
May want to consider calling. You have nothing to loose & if anything you may learn something about your doctor.
Hope you feel better,
Sammy

May I suggest you go read the post by gdsonn2 titled A Little angry. A Lot Sore. She also stopped her meds and now learning about the hidden inflammation of Ra in med school, longs to get back on ASAP.

hugs............Jen

I am on plaquenil and mtx - was pills, just started (sample) injections this past Sunday. I've had a diarrhea issue since I started adding the mtx pills (to note, also started an added heart med about same time, so hard to know what causes what, all side effect) and it is still going on - once I eat & take pills in morning, better be close by bathroom for about an hour or 2.
Hope you can get in to your dr sooner and find some middle ground; In the 1.5 years of diagnosed with RD, I have seen/heard over & over, you don't want to to "nothing" & need to be aggressive in the beginning to limit what damage is done early on. Hang in there! HUGS!

Injections are so much better for me, pleasantly surprised.

Definitely try the injections before you give up. The pills just destroyed my intestines. And there are other drugs. Get yourself on a wait list to get in sooner. June is too long to wait, with the side effects you are experiencing.

Did your doctor recommend taking folinic acid (not folic acid, or folate, but folinic acid) on non-methotrexate days? It's (supposed) to help with the GI side effects. I'm actually getting ready to get started on the methotrexate-folinic acid regime myself, so I can't speak from experience if it works, it's just what we were taught in our pharm class to supplement with methotrexate.

Don't give up hope. Keep trying different meds until you find what works for you. If your rheumatologist doesn't support this, keep trying different rheumatologists until you find one that works for you.

do you work 7 days a week? or do you have a day or two off on say the weekends or some other day? I had to learn to calibrate it to my days off which of course interferred with the kids activities on the weekends and the intermittent second job on the weekends but was better than nothing. all my ra drugs took a spell to reach therapeutic benefit. are you on folic acid daily and leucovorin and I assume you have also discussed injectable with the doc?

the very first year I started this I started very very very slow like at 2 and worked up every other week to an increase. this method worked pretty good for me.

what is your dose? you are a newbie to it - so maybe the doc could titrate it back to almost the baby dose so your system could get used to it.

how is your joint movement? your walking? your fatigue/ stamina? sometimes it's a cost / crap ratio. meaning the crappier you feel RA wise the more one can put up with adjusting side effects and stuff.

but if you feel pretty good and can wait til June while doing everything you always do anyway, then that's great!

depot

I didn't do well on it either. And found im doing just fine with remicacade only.
I know they say you should be on it if your on a biologics. But not the case for everyone.
Hope you feel better

did awful with tablets, went on injectable mtx and it was best thing I could ever do..have ben on it since 2004 and it seems to have kept the r.a. at bay so far.

I couldn't tolerate MTX (terrible mouth sores with both the pills and injectable), so my doc switched me to Arava. Different drug that achieves a similar end, and I've had no problem with it for many years now. Don't wait until June- there are other options out there!

Caren