Re: ? for - Do patients with RA established on MTX and folic acid 5 mg daily

[Guest guest]

I was on mtx for 3 years, and it dropped my white platelet count. We

believe thats what gave me the itp in the first place (idiopathic

thrombocytopenia pupura)

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> > Rheumatology 2000; 39: 1102-1109

> > � 2000 British Society for Rheumatology

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> > " Do patients with rheumatoid arthritis established on methotrexate

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> > folic

> > acid 5 mg daily need to continue folic acid supplements long term? " :

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> > http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/39/10/1102

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