Sed rate climbing.....told to restart MTX(long venting!)

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Well, I guess my doc finally found me. At my last appnt he did my bloodwork

and told me to call back in a week to get the results and to see if I needed

to restart the MTX.

I have been off MTX for over 3 months now because I had surgery and did not

want to deal with the side effects of the MTX post op. Well it appears my sed

rate has been gradually climbing. It was down to the low 30s and its now back

in the 40 ish range. So the nurse called me finally today and told me to

restart MTX injections at 0.6cc a week.

Well I have pretty busy plans this weekend. Usually friday is my dose day.

I am not happy about this. I went and looked and I am out of leukovorin. I

do have folic acid. When I stopped the MTX i stopped the folic acid. I am

wondering if I should wait a few weeks to get the folic acid in my ssystem

before

starting the MTX again.

Well the nurse heard that was I not pleased when she called. She told me to

call back next week if I don't intend to take the MTX.

I am running out of enbrel too. This whole meds thing is getting so

expensive. The pharmacy(mail order) is calling me to reorder...then at the same

time

sending me collection notices for the past due co-pays. I have been basicly

ignorring there calls. I really don't want to waste anymore money. I am

seriously considering a 3-6 month medication holiday. I have done it before and

it

all went well. I have not been taking any of my meds with any sort of

regularity anyway.

I am so sick of this whole medication, doctor thing. I am so ready to tell

them all to go to heck in handbasket and leave me alone!!!!

Toni