Methotrexate Injection

[Fred]

Well this is it time to bite the bullet and go onto the poison Methotrxate, I didn't want to do this but I'm left with no option as Stelara has now failed on me. You can read my old threads about using Stelara here: Stelara 16 Months On. and Stelara round two I will still be keeping the latter one going as I'm still using Stelara, but I thought I would start a new one about Methotrexate.

If you look at some of my comments about methotrexate you will see I'm not a fan, but I'm stuck in a place at the moment where the psoriatic arthritis is taking over my life again and it's no fun. There are no other treatments available to me at the moment and even if there was I couldn't take them as I've just taken 90mg of Stelara, so I need something to try and slow down the onslaught of psoriatic arthritis.

Last time I tried methotrexate was around the mid 80s when living in the UK, the way you was treated for psoriatic arthritis in those days was appalling. I was told to take 8 methotrexate pills a week all in one go, they just kept on throwing them at my via repeat prescription and I can only remember having one blood test. After about six months of being as sick as a dog all the time with constant headaches and weird feelings going on that made me feel so grumpy I stopped taking it, I continued with loads of pain killers and ant-inflamatories for years until one day I was completely locked up and couldn't move.

By now I was living in France and was sent to hospital where they put me on the bio's and I got my life back, but now the bio's have failed. so as they know I'm against the use of methotrexate, we are trying a low does 5mg every week for 3 months to see if we can get the psoriatic arthritis down.

So this my journey:

I've had a blood test and all is well, so today the nurse came and made the first injection. I've also been told to take 5mg folic acid tomorrow (I'm not exactly sure what that does as I haven't researched it yet so maybe someone will now?) Friday the nurse will come back for another blood test. From there we are going with 5mg methotrexate every Monday, 5mg folic acid every Tuesday, and blood test every Friday for three months.

I will update as I go if there is anything to report.

Psoriasis Score: 9
Psoriatic Arthritis Score: 33
Feeling shit and miserable.