Tue-11-04-2017, 12:42 PM
(Tue-11-04-2017, 08:58 AM)jiml Wrote: Hi Chris and a big to the club, I'm glad you found your way here, and I hope you will enjoy meeting the members, Sorry to hear you are suffering with psoriatic arthritis, I guess the sulfasalazine is failing you and they are moving you on, Methotrexate does tend to work well on the arthritis, but many get difficult side effects ( not everyone) but I did, I know these days they offer injections on it so it may be what you will get
You will probably have to fail on Methotrexate before they consider anything else, I hope it works well for you and gives you relief
As Caroline has said have a good look around the forum and see what others are using , we are a very friendly club and are happy to answer any questions you may have, or if you can't find something just shout .....I hope you will join us in the off topic section some time where we talk about anything but psoriasis
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Cheers
i did look into the side effects when Methotrexate was first mentioned to me, i think i have been lucky with meds and not suffered with side effects so far, so hopefully it will be the same. I'm sure many of you will appreciate, the constant ache does get me down sometimes and i long for some decent relief.
On the Psoriasis side, i think i'm quite lucky... only mild in my scalp, but it has in the last few months started to appear in a very personal area which is not a great place to have skin dry out, the cracking can be very painful
Edit by Fred: Made quote work.