Chronic diarrhea with Arava?

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In a message dated 3/17/2009 7:55:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,

rascalsniche@... writes:

Hi...I had my rheumy lower my dosage of arava from 20 mg to 10 and it seemed

to help a bit. Now I am off of the arava altogether because I was losimg a

lot of hair. >>

I tried Arava in addition to Mtx. My hair was falling out and I got terrible

acne. We switched to Remicade after my GI recommended it for Crohn's. My

hair is coming back in (curly -- my hairdresser says). The acne is gone. But my

fingernails are trashed. Some of them peel down way below the line -- the

others just won't grow out. I guess I can live with that side-effect, but of

course, I want to have none at all.

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Anyone?

Trying to figure out if this is what is the cause of my frequent trips to the

bathroom..... It has gotten worse over the past month and even Imodium is not

helping. I am going to see my family doctor today to see if perhaps I have

picked up a virus but my symptoms pretty much have me convinced it is the Arava.

I dose every other day and well... I have diarrhea on the day AFTER I dose....

Hmmmmm......

*~ Kami ~*

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KAMI...the diarhea got progressively worst..he even lower the dose and it seemed

to work than the d came back and lasted month after stopping it..

paula....I am not have the d with mtx just hair lost...I had the d with the

arava....

I also had elevated triglycerides and that acne type rash with the arava..I was

on mtx pills at first than we changed over to the arava..now I am back on the

mtx but doing the shots. I rather give the mtx a second chance but I am also on

the plaquanil this time...

thanks diane in ohio

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY....

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Diane,

My rheumy said if I had diarrhea with the Arava to stop immediately because

it would not get any better and possibly get worse. I also had hair loss

with both the MTX and the arava, so I see a dermatologist and get steroid

shots in my scalp for hair regrowth, which works. The MTX gave me loose

bowels, but nothing I couldn't live with. The pills were worse than the

injections. I may go back to MTX. I am stopping Arava because I think

(though my rheumy disagrees) that it was shooting my blood pressure up. My

rheymy thinks it is the Cymbalta. My regular MD agrees with me and thinks

it is the Arava and the prednisone. They (the two docs) are having a phone

meeting later this week to determine the next course of action. _

Happy St. Patty's Day and many spoons to us all!

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kelly...I am glad your getting some answers from one of your docters that it is

the arava...I have heard of it causing high blood pressure...i work on psych

floor, i haved never heard of cymbalta causing high bp...you know if you stop

the aarava and comes down,he knwo the arava was the coperate(sp)..

my rheumy when I starrted having the d word, immediatly said it was the

arava...so, when he told me to decrease the dose, he said not to wait to call if

the d persisted..so, when called he wanted to decrease it again..I was thinking

to myself how much more can you decrease..because when he decresed the arava the

first time I flared...so. I decided to try the mtx again but in shot form..it

took like a month for the d to totally go away..now I just had my 7 shot of the

mtx and every week the nausea and stomach pains our getting better..

It has taken me 10 months to get wgere I am now..

diane in ohio