Re: Trying Methotrexate inj again

[Guest guest]

Hi Sandy - I pray the MTX helps you this time around. I've read where

others will inject at night so the side effects aren't so severe

during sleep. I inject in the mornings, but I don't have any side

effects other than being tired for a day or two after.

I'm so sorry about all the stress you are feeling with your

sister-in-law and mother-in-law's health issues. Is there anyone else

who could help to take care of your sister-in-law after the

transplant? My hubby's aunt had a valve repair and is doing

wonderfully now. I pray that a solution can be worked out and everyone

is on the road to recovery soon.

Take care...God Bless.....Doreen

>

> Hello, I just love this group, you guys help me through this tough

> time. My rheumatologist just started me on 0.3 cc. I was taking

> 0.6 cc back in the summer but I was so nauseated. But it was the

> first time I actually saw my knuckles in a long time. So we

> decided to go with a smaller dose and 2mg of folic acid. I am also

> on Humira every 10days. He also put me on Feldene and gave me

> something new, Voltaren Gel. I hope something will help. Also I

> take prednisone off and on for flares. We are at a very stressful

> time. My sister in law needs a liver transplant and my husband is

> a perfect match so we are waiting for Pittsburgh to move things

> along. But now her care giver, my mother-in-law, has congestive

> heart failure and may need a valve replacement. So when it rains it

> pours. That is very stressful which does not help the flares any.

> So now we are unsure what will happen with the liver transplant.

> I also have a question for those of you who inject and do get ill,

> when is the best time to do the injection? At night, morning?

> Thanks for listening and also any advice...Sandy in snowy Edinboro

> PA

>

[Guest guest]

Doreen, hello thank you for your concern, I think I will try the

methotrexate before I go to bed, maybe then I will not be ill.

Well I guess if we run into trouble with all the surgeries, I think

they may be able to get a visiting nurse.

Sister in law will have to stay in Pittsburgh longer than my husband.

So maybe it will give time for everything else to settle down.

And we are praying that the medicine my mother in law is on will work

at least until this is all over if be.

The sooner the surgery the better.

Thanks again..Sandy