Guest guest Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 I took methotrexate oral and then switched to injections. I did not have any hair loss. I was however on 5 mgs of folic acid a day and leucovorin on my MTX dose day. I eventually had to stop the MTX because of the side effects, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, mouth sores, eye sores, throat sores, and gentilia sores. I also got drug induce pneumonitis as well when I was on oral MTX. I had to stop immediately take a rest and then started back on injections. The side effects improved very slightly...but still the side effects were not worth the little bit of good it did. I also had serious anemia and white cell count supression on MTX. As soon as I came off all my side effects went away and I felt much better. When I was on methotrexate it it was like having morning sickness from heck the whole time. Toni In a message dated 1/20/2005 5:39:54 PM Central Standard Time, Rheumatoid Arthritis writes: Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:00:36 -0000 From: "beacon348" <beacon348@...>Subject: Re: hello new to group in PA-Hello, well I guess I will have to try the MTX.But what else can I do? I don't want to windnot being able to do anything. I see my rheumatologistnext week and I will ask about the Leucovorin and thefolic acid maybe that will help. Did you lose anyhair or any thing like that? Take care Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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