Guest guest Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 I'm wondering whether anyone on this list is using methotrexate as well as minocycline for RA. I've been on minocycline for six years now and when I was having it with plaquenil all was well. But I had to stop the plaquenil a year ago and now I'm getting deformities. I have the horrors about going on to methotrexate but the minocycline doesn't seem to be working well enough any more and am at my wit's end. In the past year I have gone from 100mgs 3 times a week, then to five times a week, and am now on 200mgs a day but nothing is making any difference. I'm not herxing as far as I can tell. Everything is just getting worse and I've been on the wonderful/horrible prednisone since November, only 2mg by now but lots of pain. I'm doing all the diet and supplement things that I can afford (no income but age pension). My doctor refuses to do IV's or other antibiotics and I'm lucky that he will prescribe mino for me as I'm not near a city so don't have much choice of doctors. I wondered about using doxycycline instead for a while but it's apparently worse for candida which I have chronically and am always on candida diet and medication (Diflucan and nystatin). Any other experiences of what to do would be welcome. Ros in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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