SusieG
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- I am so upset even tho I knew it was a possibilty. Blood work yesterday. Call from doc today "dangerous liver levels-stop MTX immediately ". It was working! So now a month of nothing before another blood test. So MTX was working better and...
- Do any of you continue to take glucosamine supplements after diagnosis and being put on MTX or other med?
- I cannot even sit! Pain standing, but much worse sitting. Day after MTX, but this has happened before, usually two days after meds. Anyone else?
- I've been taking MTX for only 2-1/2 months. My next blood work is not even scheduled until January. Has anyone else experienced liver damage from MTX so quickly (or at all)?
- Thanks - I just needed to get that out of my system. Tough couple of days, each one worse than the last. Waiting for the "turnaround".
- Just venting/feeling sorry for myself. I know I am so much better off than many of you, but I know/hope you just let me cry a little? I sprained my wrist two weeks ago and am still doing everything one handed, but today cleaning the tub and...
- So doc did NOT put me on biologics after all! He also is no longer my doc ("dismissed" by the practice), so I'm unsure if he really gives a crap about me or my meds. Anyway - after my elation that day, life goes on with minor pain & swelling. ...
- Does minor pain and inflammation mean damage is occurring?
- So how often do I have to have blood work done? I just came from the lab and it's not getting any easier. My body just does not want to give up blood.
- So I don't look at the script for blood work, thinking it's the usual, only to find out the lab I go to doesn't have an incubator. For what I ask? A TB test. I'm not in the habit of questioning necessary tests and will not see doc until next...
- Ok so as many of us have said, you start paying attention to every little (or not so little ) thing going on with your body once diagnosed. With everything else in my life a constant, it's either RA or drug effect. I can no longer sit for any...
- I've only been on MTX for 3 weeks, but stiff neck getting worse with every passing day. Anyone else?
- Does anyone have any suggestions for options for meloxicam? I've been taking it for 6 days and I've gained five and a half pounds.
- If you never got a flu shot before do you get one now that you are on immune suppression drugs?
- Just diagnosed through blood work and rheumatologist on vaca. CCP 75 and RF 31. That's high, right? I have nothing to compare too except the ranges given on results sheet. This has all come on so fast! And seems to be progressively worse...