New diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis

[jiml]

We have a drugs route doctors have to follow called the NICE pathway, and it basically means you have to go along it trying every cheap, old and outdated drug before eventually getting to things you can actually live with.

It’s about time they stopped insisting everyone go on mtx it’s a horrible zombie drug and I’m so grateful it stopped working on me or they’d probably still have me on it going around feeling like Theoden in lord of the rings 

There are more bios to try, I got nothing from Taltz or Humira, but there are quite a few more. I have found here that the arthritis side takes precedence, so while they were originally prescribing drugs to improve my skin, once I got the psa they are only really interested in the drug working on that. I’m currently on benepali which is basically etanercept, it took quite a long time but I actually think it’s helping my psa now.

great you are seeing or feeling improvements TL