Health Boards
Sun-24-01-2016, 09:58 AM
To my idea, if you are in a certain specific situation and you change one parameter, and than the situation changes, there is causal connection between them.
So it's my feeling that your derm is not thinking logically nor scientifically.
If I were you I would challenge the derm to go back to Neotigason, and if that will not work again, that you can go on to other treatments. Make a bargain.
Yes, certainly at a certain point medications may stop working. That is not because the medication is not good enough anymore, but that is because your body found a way to resist it. A medication is also "strange" for your body, so it will try to get rid of it and try to find a way to resist it.
Therefore it makes sense to take medication intermittently, to give your body a bit of rest so it will not get used to the medication.
Remember. Methotrexate is a cancer treatment, I recently saw it again on tv where it mentioned as a chemotherapy. Sure it may help, but there are other better and safer treatments.
Also remember, it is you who should be in control, this is about your person and your body.
I hope you can come to the right decision/approach.
Caroline
P.s. What Mati says may be very correct, there may be a slight difference because if which it does not work anymore.
So it's my feeling that your derm is not thinking logically nor scientifically.
If I were you I would challenge the derm to go back to Neotigason, and if that will not work again, that you can go on to other treatments. Make a bargain.
Yes, certainly at a certain point medications may stop working. That is not because the medication is not good enough anymore, but that is because your body found a way to resist it. A medication is also "strange" for your body, so it will try to get rid of it and try to find a way to resist it.
Therefore it makes sense to take medication intermittently, to give your body a bit of rest so it will not get used to the medication.
Remember. Methotrexate is a cancer treatment, I recently saw it again on tv where it mentioned as a chemotherapy. Sure it may help, but there are other better and safer treatments.
Also remember, it is you who should be in control, this is about your person and your body.
I hope you can come to the right decision/approach.
Caroline
P.s. What Mati says may be very correct, there may be a slight difference because if which it does not work anymore.